Ricardo Muti
Biography
Muti's appointment as music director at La Scala, Milan in 1986 was, for Italians, an epic event.
Legend had it that a Neapolitan-born southerner could never attain the Himalayan peak of music-making in the all-powerful north - a supposed prejudice that Muti proudly confounded.
Music
By then, however, he had already established himself as a major force the music director of the New Philharmonia Orchestra. His recording of 'Aida', made with them when he was still only in his early 30s, remains a true classic.
Muti’s repertory is rather less wide than some, with much emphasis on opera, especially Mozart, Verdi and Rossini.
Discography
2003 - Tchaïkovsky - Symphonie N°6 ''Pathétique"
2001 - Cherubini - Messa solenne
1995 - Mozart - La clemenza di Tito
1994 - Nino Rota
Verdi - Don Carlo
1993 - Shostakovich - Symphony No.5 in D minor
1994 - Vivaldi - Vivaldi
Nino Rota - Music for film
1991 - Mozart - Don Giovanni
Scriabin
1991 - 1990 - Prokofiev
1990 - Verdi - I vespri siciliani
1989 - Verdi - Attila
Schubert
Rossini - Muti selection
1988 - Schubert
Verdi - Rigoletto
1987 - Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano concerto No.3
Verdi - Messa da Requiem1986 - Verdi - La forza del destino
1985 - Respighi - Respighi
Bellini - I capuleti e i Montecchi
1984 - Donizetti - Don Pasquale
1983 - 1984 - Brahms - Liszt
1983 - 1987 - 1991 - Mozart - The da ponte operas
1983 - Mozart - Così fan tutte
Violin concertos
1982 - Verdi - La traviata
Verdi - Ernani
Cherubini - Requiem in C minor
1982 - 1985 - Prokofiev - Roméo et Juliette
1980 - Bellini - I puritani
Espana
Orff -Carmina Burana
1980 - 1985 - Chabrier - Ravel - Falla - Respighi
1979 - La voix de son maitre
1979 - 1982 - 1975 - Stravinsky
1978 - 1972 - 1976 Prokofiev - Rachmaninov
1977 - Bellini - Norma
1975 - Verdi - Un ballo in maschera
1975 - 1982 - 1985 - 1989 - Cherubini
1974 - Verdi - Aida
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