Balada: Cristobal Colon
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Release Date: 26 July 2009
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 730099023771
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Balada
Release Date: 26 July 2009
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 730099023771
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Balada
Description
From one of the world's great opera houses, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, comes Leonardo Balada's richly melodic opera about one of the world's great explorers, Christopher Columbus, commissioned by the Spanish government for the 5th Centennial of the Discovery of America.A superb cast, headed by Jos?® Carreras as Columbus and Monsterrat Caball?® as Queen Isabella of Spain, gained critical acclaim for their performances in what The Washington Times described as \a masterpiece...a landmark score in the lyric theater of our time."Naxos's ongoing series of Balada's music is establishing him as a major and truly distinctive creative voice, and as with previous issues the performances are very good." Classics Today on Naxos 8557749""
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Davis/Kuenzel/Lovelace
Dale Kavanagh
Consortium Carissimi/Comeaux