Antonio Pappano

Pappano records regularly for Warner Classics and is also represented on other labels. His major recordings include: • The Age of Puccini: with Jonas Kaufmann, tenor • Béla Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1, with Janine Jansen, violin, with Luigi Piovano, cello and Antonio Pappano, piano • Arnold Bax: Tintagel • Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio • Ludwig van Beethoven: Lieder & Folk Songs, with Ian Bostridge, tenor, Vilde Frang, violin, Nicolas Altstaedt, cello and Antonio Pappano, piano • Vincenzo Bellini: Norma • Alban Berg: Lulu • Hector Berlioz: Requiem, with Javier Camarena, tenor • Hector Berlioz: Les Troyens • Leonard Bernstein: The 3 Symphonies (No. 1; No. 2; No. 3) & Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, with Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto, Beatrice Rana, piano and Alessandro Carbonare, clarinet • Georges Bizet: Carmen • Harrison Birtwistle: The Minotaur • Philippe Boesmans: Wintermärchen • Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto, with Janine Jansen, violin • Johannes Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 & Cello Sonata No. 2, with Luigi Piovano, cello and Antonio Pappano, piano • Benjamin Britten: Songs, with Ian Bostridge, tenor, Xuefei Yang, guitar and Antonio Pappano, piano • Benjamin Britten: War Requiem, with Anna Netrebko, soprano, Ian Bostridge, tenor & Thomas Hampson, baritone • Susan Chilcott at La Monnaie: works by Britten, Verdi, Richard Strauss & Boesmans, with Susan Chilcott, soprano and other singers • Aaron Copland: Symphony No. 3 • Gaetano Donizetti: extracts from Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda & Roberto Devereux, with Diana Damrau, soprano & other soloists • Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 • Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 & Cello Concerto, • Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto, with Gautier Capuçon, cello • Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 1 & In the South (Alassio) • Peter Eötvös: Halleluja - Oratorium balbulum & Alle vittime senza nome, with Topi Lehtipuu, tenor, Iris Vermillion, mezzo-soprano and Matthias Brandt, actor • Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier • Han-Na Chang - Romance: works by Glazunov, Saint-Saëns, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Lalo & Casals • Insieme - Opera Duets: works by Ponchielli & Giuseppe Verdi, with Jonas Kaufmann, tenor and Ludovic Tézier, baritone • Joyce & Tony - Live at Wigmore Hall: works by Haydn, Rossini, Santoliquido, Curtis, Foster, Kern, Nelson, Dougherty, Moross, Bolcom, Villa-Lobos, Rodgers, Berlin, Arlen & Lowry, with Joyce DiDonato, soprano and Antonio Pappano, piano • Jonas Kaufmann: Nessun Dorma - The Puccini Album, with Jonas Kaufmann, tenor and Kristine Opolais, soprano • Edouard Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, with Maxim Vengerov, violin • Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci • Anatoly Liadov: The Enchanted Lake • Liturgic Pappano: works by Rossini, Verdi & Britten • Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 • Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 • Giuseppe Martucci: Romance for cello and piano, No 1 & Romance for cello and piano, No 2, with Luigi Piovano, cello and Antonio Pappano, piano • Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana • Jules Massenet: Manon, Werther • Peter Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 10, with Markus Butter, baritone • Felix Mendelssohn: Elijah • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 31 • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concert Arias, with Rolando Villazón, tenor • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete Violin Sonatas, with Dmitri Sitkovetsky, violin and Antonio Pappano, piano • Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain • Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov • Operatic Pappano: works by Verdi, Puccini, Rossini & Wagner • Andrzej Panufnik: Symphony No. 10 • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater & other works, with Anna Netrebko, soprano and Marianna Pizzolato, contralto • Pianistic Pappano: works by Arlen, Schubert, Rossini, Berlin, Shostakovich, Finzi, Quilter, Saint-Saëns, Beethoven, Mahler, Prokofiev, Britten & Wolf, with Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano, Ian Bostridge, tenor, Han-na Chang, cello and Martha Argerich, piano • Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2, with Beatrice Rana, piano • Sergei Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante & Cello Sonata, with Han-na Chang, cello and Antonio Pappano, conductor and piano • Giacomo Puccini: Il trittico, La bohème, La rondine, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, Manon Lescaut • Giacomo Puccini: Messa di Gloria, Preludio sinfonico & Crisantemi, with Roberto Alagna, tenor and Thomas Hampson, baritone • Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 • Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Piano Concerto No. 2, with Leif Ove Andsnes, piano • Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Piano Concerto No. 4, with Leif Ove Andsnes, piano • Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé • Requiem - The Pity of War: works by Butterworth, Stephan, Weill, & Mahler, with Ian Bostridge, tenor and Antonio Pappano, piano • Maurice Ravel: Tzigane, with Maxim Vengerov, violin • Ottorino Respighi: The Roman Trilogy (Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome; Roman Festivals) & Il tramonto with Christine Rice, mezzo-soprano • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade • Gioachino Rossini: Stabat Mater, Guillaume Tell, Messa di Gloria, Petite messe solennelle • Gioachino Rossini: Overtures & Andante e tema con variazioni, with Carlo Tamponi, flute, Alessandro Carbonare, clarinet, Francesco Bossone, bassoon and Alessio Allegrini, horn • Gioachino Rossini: Mélodies, with Rockwell Blake, tenor, Gérard Lesne, countertenor and Antonio Pappano, piano • Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 & Carnival of the Animals, with Daniele Rossi, organ, Martha Argerich, piano & Antonio Pappano, conductor & piano • Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson e Dalila • Camille Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3, with Maxim Vengerov, violin • Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang, with Ian Bostridge, tenor & Antonio Pappano, piano • Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto, Introduction and Allegro appasionato, Concert Allegro with Introduction and solo piano works, with Jan Lisiecki, piano • Robert Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 • Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben & Burleske, with Bertrand Chamayou, piano • Richard Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder & final scenes from Capriccio & Salome, with Nina Stemme, soprano & Gerhard Siegel, tenor • Richard Strauss: Amor: Opera scenes & lieder, with Natalie Dessay, soprano, Felicity Lott, soprano, Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo-soprano, Sophie Koch, mezzo-soprano & Thomas Allen, baritone • Symphonic Pappano: with works by Respighi, Bernstein, Rimsky-Korsakov, Dvořák, Liadov, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, Rachmaninoff & Mahler • Karol Szymanowski: Król Roger • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, with Beatrice Rana, piano • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4-6 (No. 4; No. 5; No. 6) • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Overtures & Fantasies • Mark-Anthony Turnage: Anna Nicole • 12 Stradivari: works by Falla, Suk, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Vieuxtemps, Tchaikovsky, Szymanowski, Ravel, Elgar, Rachmaninoff, Heuberger, Kreisler & Kern written or arranged for violin and piano, with Janine Jansen, violin & Antonio Pappano, piano • Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 • Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9 • Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis • Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo, Il trovatore, Aida, Otello, Rigoletto, I due Foscari, Macbeth • Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem, Quattro Pezzi Sacri, Ave Maria (1880), with Maria Agresta, soprano • Verismo: works by Cilea, Giordano, Puccini, Leoncavallo, Catalani, Arrigo Boito & Ponchielli, with Anna Netrebko, soprano • Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre, Parsifal • Richard Wagner: Love Duets, with Plácido Domingo, tenor & Deborah Voigt, soprano • Richard Wagner: Scenes from The Ring, with Plácido Domingo, tenor & other soloists • George Walker: Symphony No. 5 • William Walton: Cello Concerto, with Gautier Capuçon, cello • While I Dream: works by Liszt & Schumann, with Barbara Bonney, soprano and Antonio Pappano, piano • Hugo Wolf: Lieder, with Ian Bostridge, tenor

Pappano's awards and honours include Gramophone's ‘Artist of the Year’ (2000), the 2003 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, the 2004 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award, and the Académie du Disque Lyrique's Bruno Walter prize. On 17 January 2013 he received the Incorporated Society of Musicians' Distinguished Musician Award. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2015. Pappano was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to music. In 2012, he was made a Cavaliere di Gran Croce of the Republic of Italy. He was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services at the coronation. At the 2024 Laurence Olivier Awards, Pappano won the Outstanding Achievement in Opera award, for his role as Music Director at the Royal Opera House.