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ID: GM5.0075
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionLive recording, Buenos Aires, September 19, 1958
Leonore, his wife - Gré Brouwenstijn, soprano
Florestan, a prisoner - Hans Hopf, tenor
Don Pizarro, governor of the prison - Paul Schoeffler, baritone
Jaquino - Murray Dickie, tenor
Don Fernando, King's minister - Angelo Mattiello, bass
First Prisoner - Italo Pasini, tenor
Second Prisoner - Hector Barbieri, bass |
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ID: SIGCD246
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Choral CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
The Huddersfield Choral society has one of the longest and most fruitful relationships with Handel’s famous Messiah than perhaps any other chorus in the world: they first performed it in concert during their inception year of 1836, and have continued to do so annually since 1860 with concerts the world over as well as in their hometown of Huddersfield.
Recorded live in concert in December 2010, this new recording combines the famous ensemble with the Northern Sinfonia and four world-class professionals, under the direction of Jane Glover CBE. The disc begins with John Wainwright’s ‘Christians Awake’, a traditional addition to the Messiah programme at their concerts in Huddersfield. |
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ID: QTZ2017
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
Anna Leese - soprano (Mary)
Louise Poole - mezzo-soprano (Mary Magdalene)
Andrew Staples - tenor (John)
Colin Campbell - baritone (Peter)
Robert Rice - baritone (Judas)
Roderick Williams - baritone (Jesus)
The years 1898-1900 for Elgar saw the composition of The Dream of Gerontius which represented a new style of oratorio in which a continuous musical flow replaced the customary division into separate arias and choruses.
He embarked seriously on The Apostles in 1902 and the first performance took place in October of the following year at the Birmingham Festival conducted by Hans Richter. Elgar himself conducted performances in 1914 and again in 1922 in Canterbury Cathedral where this performance was given. As with Handel's Messiah Elgar's work was to have been in three parts, though it soon became apparent that it was going to be far too long for one oratorio, and the third part became the starting point for The Kingdom. This piece grew in its turn and the project became one for three oratorios; the first The Apostles, concerned with the apostles' relationship with the earthly Jesus, the second, The Kingdom, with the period after the crucifixion and the coming of the Holy Ghost, and the third, which never came to be written, on Judgment and the Life Everlasting.
Another influence is to be found in Wagner who built up his scores from a pattern of leit-motifs. In his analysis of The Apostles, Jaeger identified and named about sixty such themes, though he came under criticism from Ernest Newman (a leading Wagner authority) for being too obsessional in this respect, and even Elgar himself felt that Jaeger had taken this aspect of the work further than was really justified, since the themes, while being a strong structural element in the music, lacked the immediately identifiable symbolism of Wagner's motifs. The two composers' compositional methods were very different: Wagner completed his libretto first, allocating fragments of melody to particular ideas and incorporating them into the score at significant moments, for Elgar the musical development was pre-eminent he was by nature a symphonic, rather than an operatic composer. |
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ID: NMCD170
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
The Cast:
Roderick Williams, baritone · Tim Mirfin, baritone
Teresa Cahill, soprano · Hilary Summers, mezzo-soprano
Louise Winter, mezzo-soprano · Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts, tenor
Brindley Sherratt, bass · Graeme Danby, bass
Jeremy White, bass
Actors: Simon Paisley Day · Jennie Stoller
Lydia Kalian · Rudi Goodman
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers
André de Ridder, conductor
Roderick Williams (Wandering Jew), Tim Mirfin (Jesus/Beggar), Teresa Cahill (Widowed Mother), Hilary Summers (Fortune Teller), Louise Winter (Kundry), Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts (Faust), Brindley Sherratt (Mephistopheles), Graeme Danby (Odin), Jeremy White (Old Man)
Robert Saxton’s long-awaited radio opera, commissioned by the BBC, is a modernist take on the tale of the Wandering Jew - the shoe-mender condemned by Jesus to wander the Earth until the Second Coming after he refused to help him on his way to his Crucifixion. The opera introduces many legendary characters, following medieval and other myths, including Faust, Mephistopheles, Kundry and Wotan. Underneath its surface lies a structure relating to the annual cycle of Jewish and Christian festivals in eight scenes of sweeping orchestral and choral music, enhanced by studio post-production from Antony Pitts. |
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ID: NMCD095
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
Goehr's neo-classical works - Bach tribute ...a musical offering (JSB 1985)... and Sinfonia - plus the dazzling coloratura aria Behold the Sun, the Romanza for cello and orchestra, and the vivid variation-set Metamorphosis/Dance.
Originally released on Unicorn-Kanchana in 1981.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
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ID: NMCD123
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
Described as a "thought opera", Brian Ferneyhough's Shadowtime sets Charles Bernstein's inventive and complex libretto based on the work, life and imagined death of philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin: it includes a movement for a speaking pianist - Opus contra naturam, the opera's fourth scene - a guitar concerto (Scene II) and ends in an ethereal haze of voices and electronics, Stelae for Failed Time. The performers are all internationally known for their commitment to contemporary music.
Shadowtime is an opera told in seven scenes across 2 CDs and a little over 2 hours of complex and fascinating music. Described as a "thought opera", it is based on the work and life of Walter Benjamin, one of the greatest philosophers and cultural critics of the twentieth century. |
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ID: NMCD122
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
The Intelligence Park, recorded in the 1990 Almeida Opera production and setting Vincent Deane's libretto of 18th-century Dublin, explores the relationship between an opera composer and the increasingly independent life of the characters he has created.
Set in 1753, (although the music is not fashioned on that of the era) the story is an old-fashioned ‘opera-seria’ on the subject of conflict between head and heart, duty and inclincation, based around a composer who falls in love with a castrato. |
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ID: MKM260
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Oper
Werther - Placido Domingo, tenor
Albert, betrothed to Charlotte - Franz Grundheber, baritone
The Bailiff - Kurt Moll, bass- baritone
Schmidt - Alejandro Vazquez, tenor
Johann, a friend of the Bailiff - Laszlo Anderko, baritone
Bruhlmann, a young man - Wolfgang Vater, tenor
Charlotte, the Bailiff’s daughter - Elena Obraztsova, mezzo-soprano
Sophie, her sister - Arleen Auger, soprano
Katchen, a young girl - Gertrud von Ottenthal, soprano |
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ID: FHR12
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
From 1955 through 1964, Judy Garland was one of the most celebrated, acclaimed, and best-selling album artists on the EMI/Capitol roster. On several occasions during those years, she had the opportunity of recording at Abbey Road Studios. This 2CD set assembles her work done there between October 1957 and August 1964. Not only are 12 previously unreleased alternate takes included but, more significantly, a completely unknown/undocumented recording of a song called Please Say 'Ah'! The Mort Lindsey orchestration of this song is complicated and marvellous, the band on top form; Garland and her vocal partner, Saul Chaplin, are having a wonderful time and this great piece of fun, liberally sprinkled with Garland's infectious laugh, demands to be heard! This historic issue is the very first composite compact disc celebration of its kind and a guaranteed collector's item for anyone who appreciates the Great Popular Songbook - and "the World's greatest entertainer."
CD 1
Track 1: Orchestra conducted by Geoff Love Abbey Road Studios, 2-9 August 1960
Tracks 2-21: Orchestra and chorus conducted by Norrie Paramor
CD2
Track 1-4: Orchestra conducted by Mort Lindsey Abbey Road Studios, 6 & 12 August 1964
Tracks 5-8: Orchestra conducted by Harry Robinson
Tracks 9-14: Orchestra conducted by Norrie Paramor
Tracks 15-18: Orchestra conducted by Harry Robinson
Track 22, vocals: Judy Garland and Saul Chaplin
Tracks 19-22: Orchestra conducted by Mort Lindsey
Track 22, vocals: Judy Garland and Saul Chaplin
Tracks 19-22: Orchestra conducted by Mort Lindsey |
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ID: IDIS6376-77
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal and Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
Recorded 1937
Mariano Stabile Vocals, Dora Komarek Vocals, Esther Rethy Vocals, Jarmila Novotna Vocals, Virgilio Lazzari Vocals, Viktor Madin Vocals, Angelica Cravcenko Vocals, William Wernigk Vocals, Ezio Pinza Vocals, Aulikki Rautawaara Vocals, Giuseppe Nessi Vocals,
Vienna State Opera Choir, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter Conductor |
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