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Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (1985)

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Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (1985)

Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 209 Mb | Total time: 54:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI | 7 47278 2 | Recorded: 1984

‘Muti can suggest a sensibility driven to the edge of sanity by its nightmare,’ wrote Gramophone of this intense interpretation of Berlioz’s visionary Symphonie fantastique, judging it among the finest recordings of the work and praising the conductor’s mastery at ‘holding the thread of argument together firmly, while never minimizing the incidental excitement’.

Riccardo Muti, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano - Gioacchino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell (2010)

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Riccardo Muti, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano - Gioacchino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell (2010)

Riccardo Muti, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano - Gioacchino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 921 Mb | Total time: 03:47:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | 480 4697 | Recorded: 1988

In many ways this is a magnificent achievement… Muti conducts with real assurance. Pacing the drama magnificently, it is on performances like these that the controversial Maestro has made his well-deserved musical reputation. Tell emerges as a masterpiece from first to last. Rossini's compositional confidence in his craft is never once in doubt, and there is no trace of any longueur anywhere.

Riccardo Muti - The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings (2021)

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Riccardo Muti - The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings (2021)

Riccardo Muti - The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 20.1 GB MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 11.4 GB
80:51:26 | Full Scans Included | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Limited 91 CD box set. Passion, precision and fidelity to the score have always been hallmarks of Riccardo Muti's interpretations. After studies in Naples, where he was born in 1941, and in Milan he rapidly built a major international reputation. His 1967 victory in the Guido Cantelli Conducting Competition soon led to an appointment as Music Director of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. In 1971, at Herbert von Karajan's invitation, he made his debut with the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Salzburg Festival, and 1973 ushered in his decade as Principal Conductor and Music Director of London's Philharmonia Orchestra (known as the New Philharmonia Orchestra when he assumed the post). Lengthy tenures as Music Director followed with The Philadelphia Orchestra (1980-1992) and the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano (1986-2005). This collection bears witness to all these notable musical relationships, and to Muti's status as an honoured guest with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. His illustrious career has encompassed both concert hall and opera house, but this landmark 91CD set focuses on his recordings of orchestral, choral and vocal works. Spanning the years from 1973 to 2007 and encompassing a rich and varied repertoire, it also features an audio documentary, made in 2020, celebrating his outstandingly productive period with the Philharmonia.

Riccardo Muti, Chicago SO, Soloists - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique & Lelio, ou le Retour a la Vie (2015) 2CDs

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Riccardo Muti, Chicago SO, Soloists - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique & Lelio, ou le Retour a la Vie (2015) 2CDs

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique & Lélio, ou le Retour à la Vie (2015) 2CDs
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Muti; Gérard Depardieu, narrator
Chicago Symphony Chorus; Mario Zeffiri, tenor; Kyle Ketelsen, bass-baritone

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 424 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 262 Mb | Scans ~ 45 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: CSO Resound | # CSOR 901 1501 | Time: 01:54:42

Recorded in 2010 during Riccardo Muti's first subscription concerts as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's tenth music director, this new double-CD release pairs Hector Berlioz's beloved Symphonie fantastique with its sequel, Lélio, ou le retour de la vie (Lélio, or The Return to Life). Berlioz intended Symphonie fantastique to be followed by Lélio in concert, as the artist returns to life to comment anew on music and art. Maestro Muti and the CSO are joined in Lélio by the acclaimed actor Gérard Depardieu as the narrator, tenor Mario Zeffiri, bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus. With the "conclusion and complement" of Symphonie fantastique, as Berlioz referred to Lélio, this recording increases listeners' familiarity with the music of a daring and revolutionary composer.

Riccardo Muti, Orchestra e Coro Teatro alla Scala - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2007/1987)

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Riccardo Muti, Orchestra e Coro Teatro alla Scala - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2007/1987)

Riccardo Muti, Orchestra e Coro Teatro alla Scala - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2007/1987)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | 179 min | 7,41 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Opus Arte | Sub: English

This acclaimed La Scala performance of "Don Giovanni" instantly took its place among the most important Mozart productions. Thomas Allen, hailed as one of the best British baritones ever, gives an engaging and seductive performance as the famous lover. Under the baton of Riccardo Muti, this La Scala production highlights all of the tragic grandeur of this masterpiece without sacrificing its lighthearted moments. Director Giorgio Strehler's staging has been lauded for its subtle psychological treatment of the characters.

Riccardo Muti - Debussy: La Mer, Chausson: Poeme de l'amour et de la mer, Ravel: Une barque sur l'ocean (2005)

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Riccardo Muti - Debussy: La Mer, Chausson: Poeme de l'amour et de la mer, Ravel: Une barque sur l'ocean (2005)

The Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti - Debussy: La Mer, Chausson: Poeme de l'amour et de la mer, Ravel: Une barque sur l'ocean (2005)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 63:26 | 260 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 7243 5 86621 2 2

Recorded at the end of Riccardo Muti's tenure with the Philadelphia Orchestra, this 1993 disc of late nineteenth and early twentieth century French orchestral music on the subject of the sea is far better than Muti and the Philadelphia's earlier recordings together. After 12 years of sharing the same stage, Muti and the Philadelphia musicians had apparently reached a sort of understanding: he wouldn't ask them to do anything they didn't want to do and they'd do what little he did ask them to do.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti - Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (2017)

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti - Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (2017)

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (2017)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Muti

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 313 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: CSO-Resound | # CSOR901 1701 | 01:02:20

For this 2017 CSO-Resound release, Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra present Anton Bruckner's unfinished Symphony No. 9 in D minor in a monumental performance that impresses with its marmoreal weight, poignant lyricism, and brutal volatility. Not widely known for his few Bruckner recordings, Muti nonetheless delivers this symphony with the passion and sensitivity of an experienced Brucknerian, and possibly because he hasn't recorded it before, this live rendition of the Ninth seems like an attempt to make up for lost time. Muti's intensity and the orchestra's ferocious power combine to make a memorable reading that may remind listeners of performances by such greats as Günter Wand, Eugen Jochum, and particularly Carlo Maria Giulini, whose recordings of the Ninth are recognized benchmarks. While Muti only performs the three completed movements, and eschews any attempted reconstructions of the surviving Finale sketches, the performance has a genuine feeling of wholeness, and the Adagio particularly has the grandeur and pathos that make it feel like a convincing ending, albeit one that the composer did not intend.

Riccardo Muti, Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra - Saverio Mercadante: I due Figaro (2013)

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Riccardo Muti, Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra - Saverio Mercadante: I due Figaro (2013)

Riccardo Muti, Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra - Saverio Mercadante: I due Figaro (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 692 Mb | Total time: 53:42+38:14+74:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ducale | # DUC045-47 | Recorded: 2011

Riccardo Muti's 2011 performances of Saverio Mercadante's I due Figaro (The Two Figaros) were the first it had received since 1835, and this Ducale release of the presentation at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, Italy, is the world-premiere recording. The story of this comic opera is a sequel to events in the Beaumarchais plays, which inspired Rossini's Barber of Seville and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro; the characters of Figaro, Susanna, Cherubino, and the Count and Countess Almaviva are seen a decade later in another farce of disguises and deception. The music is very much in the animated style of Rossini, with an exotic quality that Mercadante discovered on his visit to Madrid, and the mood of the opera is brightened by the combination of Neapolitan tunefulness and Spanish dance rhythms.

Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Scriabin: Symphonies (complete), Le Poème de l'Extase, Prométhée (1996)

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Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra  - Scriabin: Symphonies (complete), Le Poème de l'Extase, Prométhée (1996)

Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Scriabin: Symphonies (complete), Le Poème de l'Extase, Prométhée (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 792 Mb | Total time: 50:38+68:16+69:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 92744 | Recorded: 1986,1990

Had he lived into the age of recordings instead of dying in 1915, Scriabin would no doubt have relished the idea of listening to a complete cycle of his own symphonic works. Of course, had he lived into the age of recordings, Scriabin would have added only one other work to his oeuvre – the Mysterium for soloists, choruses, and orchestras along with actors, dancers, perfumers, and light projector operators plus percussionists striking bells suspended from balloons – because, according to the composer, at the conclusion of the work's premiere, the world as we know it would have come to an end with the transfiguration of humanity, thereby foreclosing further opportunities for listening to recordings.

Riccardo Muti, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009/1999)

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Riccardo Muti, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009/1999)

Riccardo Muti, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009/1999)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | 7.55 Gb (DVD9) | 173 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano

For his production of “ Don Giovanni“ at the Vienna International Festival (Wiener Festwochen), Roberto de Simone does not want to follow in the footsteps of other directors who modernise the design and add something that did not exist in Mozart’s original. He sends Don Giovanni on a journey through time to revisit the centuries that the character lived through starting with the original costume of the 16th century and ending in the 19th century. Don Giovanni changes garments but is still the same legend and archetype. Something similar can be said for his accompanying antagonist, Donna Elvira.

Riccardo Muti, Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala - Verdi: Otello (2009/2001)

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Riccardo Muti, Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala - Verdi: Otello (2009/2001)

Riccardo Muti, Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala - Verdi: Otello (2009/2001)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 7.15 Gb (DVD9) | 140 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano, Chinese

The Milan „Otello“ traditionally opens the Scala season and did so in 2001 on 7 December, but at the same time it was the farewell production before the start of the three-year renovation of the house and not least a brilliant end to the Verdi Year. The audience as well as the press cheered Barbara Frittoli as a youthfully charming Desdemona, Leo Nucci as cleverly self-controlled Iago and Plácido Domingo as a thrilling Otello, both from the dramatic and the singing point of view. Domingo had been the leading Moro di Venezi for a quarter of a century, and in Milan he said farewell to this role – “in triumph”, according to ‘The Herald Tribune’.

Riccardo Muti, Philharmonia Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 "Little Russian"; Romeo and Juliet (1986)

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Riccardo Muti, Philharmonia Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 "Little Russian"; Romeo and Juliet (1986)

Riccardo Muti, Philharmonia Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 "Little Russian"; Romeo and Juliet (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 230 Mb | Total time: 51:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # CDC 7 47867 2 | Recorded: 1978

Muti's Tchaikovsky cycle with the Philharmonia is one of the most consistent ever, with the conductor's high voltage tempered by expressive warmth and keen fantasy …

Riccardo Muti, Philharmonia Orchestra - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony, Op. 58 (1987)

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Riccardo Muti, Philharmonia Orchestra - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony, Op. 58 (1987)

Riccardo Muti, Philharmonia Orchestra - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony, Op. 58 (1987)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 248 Mb | Total time: 58:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # CDC 7 47412 2 | Recorded: 1981

This disc elevates "Manfred" to a statement of real stature. Firstly, the Philharmonia sounds magnificent. For an artistic tradition that is generally reserved, the English have always done well by Tchaikovsky. Ashkenazy's Decca version of this very symphony is also with the Philharmonia, while Jurowski leads an astoundingly involved London Symphony Orchestra. All are worth having, but this is one of Muti's best recordings. Climaxes are explosive and the playing is rich and committed. The low strings – never a sure bet from British orchestras – are truly present and utterly engaged. The Philharmonia has a rock-solid lower half that recalls Klemperer's glory days, and the percussion and brass are at the fore. Speaking of Klemperer, he'd be proud of the swirling winds in the andante, and the obvious care that the conductor takes in matters of balance and dynamics.

Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6; Scriabin: Le Poème de l'extase (1990)

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Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6;  Scriabin: Le Poème de l'extase (1990)

Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6; Scriabin: Le Poème de l'extase (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 292 Mb | Total time: 67:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # CDC 7 54061 2 | Recorded: 1989, 1990

Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, universally known as the Pathétique, is among the most deeply moving and profound of all works. An enduring masterwork which Tchaikovsky considered to be his greatest composition. Once again the struggle against ‘fate’ is central to this symphony which was to be the last Tchaikovsky wrote. The première took place in October 1893 at St. Petersburg and just eight days later the composer was dead. Few farewells in music are more poignant.

Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Scriabin: Prometheus (1991)

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Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4;  Scriabin: Prometheus (1991)

Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Scriabin: Prometheus (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 276 Mb | Total time: 64:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # CDC 7 54112 2 | Recorded: 1990

The Fourth Symphony was written at a particularly crucial point in Tchaikovsky’s life. 1877 was not only the year of his disastrous marriage but also the year in which he began his fifteen-year correspondence with his patroness Nadezhda von Meck. The F minor Symphony has always been a popular work with its muscular and melodic writing. Infused throughout the score is the sense of ‘fate’ which Tchaikovsky believed controlled his destiny as he described in a letter to Madame von Meck, “the fateful force which prevents the impulse to happiness from achieving its goal … which hangs above your head like the sword of Damocles.”