28 CDs + 1 DVD: The Verdi Collection

Description

Riccardo Muti is the greatest living interpreter of Verdi’s music, applauded by the critics and audiences all over the world. This collection includes 11 complete operas, the Requiem and the Four Sacred Pieces offering an immersive experience of Verdi’s repertoire. Drawn from the EMI catalogues and covering more than 20 years of cooperation between Riccardo Muti and the historical English label, each recording included in this boxset is a legendary masterpiece and an example of the interpretation of Verdi’s music. The DVD documentary is a special companion to the CDs as Riccardo Muti himself leads us, in his own words, through rehearsals, works and concerts, in a fascinating journey into the depths of Verdi’s music.

28 CDs + DVD

1-2 NABUCCO (Manuguerra; Scotto; Ghiaurov; Luchetti; Obraztsova)
3-4 ERNANI (Domingo; Freni; Bruson; Ghiaurov)
5-6 ATTILA (Ramey; Studer; Shicoff; Zancanaro)
7-8 MACBETH (Milnes; Cossotto; Carreras; Raimondi)
9-10 RIGOLETTO (Zancanaro; Dessì; La Scola; Burchuladze; Senn)
11-12 LA TRAVIATA (Scotto; Kraus; Bruson)
13-15 I VESPRI SICILIANI (Studer; Merritt; Zancanaro; Furlanetto)
16-17 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Domingo; Arroyo; Cappuccilli; Cossotto; Grist)
18-20 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO (Domingo; Freni; Zanzanaro; Plishka; Bruscantini)
21-23 DON CARLO (Pavarotti; Dessì; Ramey; Coni; D’Intino; Anisimov)
24-26 AIDA (Caballè; Domingo; Cossotto; Cappuccilli; Ghiaurov)
27-28 MESSA DA REQUIEM (Scotto; Baltsa; Luchetti; Nesterenko)
28 QUATTRO PEZZI SACRI (Augér)

DVD RICCARDO MUTI CONDUCTS GIUSEPPE VERDI (documentary) ℗ © 2013 RMMusic Srl
Also available in a single packaging here

Total running time: 28 hours and 35 minutes

℗ © 2016 Warner Music Italia Srl