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Ranked among Opera Now’s ‘Top 10 High Flyers – a new generation of sopranos destined to have impressive careers in 2014’, rising operatic soprano Ilona Domnich releases her debut Signum album. Comprising arias and songs from her operatic heroines, including Gilda from Verdi’s Rigoletto; Magda from Puccini’s La Rondine; and Rosina from Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Domnich is joined by Italian baritone Leo Nucci and Southbank Sinfonia conducted by Simon Over.
| EAN/UPC: | 635212041925 |
| Release Date: | 9th Mar 2015 |
| Composer: | Various |
| Artists: | Ilona Domnich - Soprano, Leo Nucci - Baritione, Southbank Sinfonia - Orchestra, Simon Over - Conductor, |
| 1. | Linda di Chamounix, Act 1 Scene 3: Ah! Tardai Troppo... Oh luce di quest'anima | Gaetano Donizetti | 5:35 | |
| 2. | La Voix Humaine, Tu as raison ... Si, je t'ecoute ... | Francis Poulenc | 6:01 | |
| 3. | Fortunio, Act III: Tout est sombre ... Lorsque je n'etais qu'une enfant | Andre Messager | 5:49 | |
| 4. | La Rondine, Act I: Denaro! Nient'altro che denaro... | Giacomo Puccini | 6:05 | |
| 5. | Manon, Act III, Scene 1 Je marche sur tous les chemins ... obeissons quand leurs voix apple (Gavotte) | Jules Massenet | 5:13 | |
| 6. | The Snow Maiden,, Prolouge: Snegurochka's Aria | Niolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 3:44 | |
| 7. | Rigoletto, Act I Scene 2: Gualtier Malde ... Caro nome | Giuseppe Verdi | 4:54 | |
| 8. | Rigoletto, Act II: Mio Pardre! (aria) | Giuseppe Verdi | 1:47 | |
| 9. | Rigoletto, Act II: Tutte le feste al tempio... (duet) | Giuseppe Verdi | 3:53 | |
| 10. | Rigoletto, Act II: Piangi, fanciulla ... Si, vendetta | Giuseppe Verdi | 5:38 | |
| 11. | Le Nozze di Figaro, Act III E Susanna non vien ... Dove sono I bei momenti | Wolfgan Amadeus Mozart | 6:17 | |
| 12. | Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Act I Scene 1: Una voce poco fa | Gioachino Rossini | 6:09 | |
| 13. | Rigoletto, , Act III: Chi e mai, chi e qui in sua vece? ... Lassu in ciel | Giuseppe Verdi | 5:57 |
Ilona Domnich has already featured…as a talent to watch, and this debut recital disc proves an excellent calling card. Her self-penned programme notes explain that she chose ‘surrender’ not as a sign of acquiescence, but as something that needs to be faced courageously. Hence her choice of arias, revealing an instrument with gleaming tone and secure technique, which takes her from Linda di Chamounix’s scintillating “O luce di quest’anima” through the anguish of La voix humaine and the world-weary regret of La Rondine’s Magda to the innocence and resolution of Gilda in Rigoletto…Her Rigoletto is none other than Leo Nucci, virtually Sprechgesang at the bottom of the range, rising to a still thrilling A-flat. Simon Over provides solid support with the youthful Southbank Sinfonia
Opera Now – Francis Muzzi
© Toccata Classics
These orchestral songs by the English composer (b. 1975) all deal with the subject of loss. In Three Songs – Budapest, 1944 Csányi-Wills uses documentation from his own family history to shadow the fate of Hungary’s Jews under the Nazis. Mortality is an omnipresent theme in A. E. Housman’s Shropshire Lad poems. And Elegy for Our Time sets an anguished lament by Jessica d’Este, sparked by the death of her granddaughter in a car crash. Csányi-Wills responds to the stimulus of these dark texts with music that is hauntingly lyrical and elegiac.
| Catalogue No: | TOCC0329 |
| Release Date: | 27th Nov 2015 |
| Composer: | Michael Csányi-Wills |
| Artists: | Ilona Domnich - Soprano, Jacques Imbralio - Baritone, Nicky Spence - Tenor, Chris McKay - Horn, |
| 1. | Budapest, 1944: Three Songs, I. The 'Waldsee' Postcard | Michael Csányi-Wills | 3:18 | |
| 2. | Budapest, 1944: Three Songs, II. The Siege | Michael Csányi-Wills | 5:19 | |
| 3. | Budapest, 1944: Three Songs, III. The Last Letter | Michael Csányi-Wills | 7:26 | |
| 4. | Elegy for Our Time | Michael Csányi-Wills | 5:55 |
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| 1. | Scott of Antarctic, soprano and orchestra | R V Williams | ||
| 2. | Scott of Antarctic, soprano and orchestra | R V Williams | ||
| 3. | R V Williams, soprano and orchestra | R V Williams |
© OSJ Alive
This is a beautiful recording of Fauré’s works performed by OSJ at St John’s Smith Square in London on Wednesday 24 April 2013.
The CD features Ilona Domnich (Soprano) and Johnny Herford (Bass) performing the first recording of John Lubbock’s moving orchestration of Fauré’s “Eight Songs”, originally written with piano accompaniment.
It also contains John Lubbock’s sensitive interpretation of Fauré’s famous Requiem by OSJ and OSJ Voices.
This CD really is something very special.
| Catalogue No: | OSJCD01 |
| Release Date: | 17th Mar 2014 |
| Composer: | Fauré |
| Artists: | Ilona Domnich - soprano, Johnny Herford - baritone, Orchestra of St. John's, John Lubbock - conductor, |
| 1. | Eight Songs, No. 1, Op. 1: Le Papillon et La Fleur | Gabriel Fauré | 2:20 | |
| 2. | Eight Songs, No. 2, Op. 39: Fleur jetee | Gabriel Fauré | 1:35 | |
| 3. | Eight Songs, No. 1, Op. 8: Au bord de l'eau | Gabriel Fauré | 2:06 | |
| 4. | Eight Songs, No. 3, Op. 23: Le secret | Gabriel Fauré | 3:19 |
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| 1. | Shostakovich | La serenata |
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Le Secret – Love Songs & Arias – Ilona Domnich
| 1. | Amor | Strauss | ||
| 2. | Stornello | Verdi | ||
| 3. | Ach, ich fuhl's | Mozart | ||
| 4. | Endless pleasure | Handel |
