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Benjamin Britten – The Collector’s Edition

Benjamin Britten – The Collector’s Edition


Britten:

Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Libor Pesek

Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Libor Pesek

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Libor Pesek

Canadian Carnival Overture, Op. 19

Wesley Warren (trumpet)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Diversions for piano (left hand) and orchestra, Op. 21

Peter Donohoe (piano)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Scottish Ballad, Op. 26

Peter Donohoe & Philip Fowke (pianos)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

An American Overture

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Occasional Overture, Op. 38

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

The Building of the House

CBSO Chorus & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Piano Concerto, Op. 13

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi

Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 15

Ida Haendel (violin)

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund

Young Apollo, Op. 16

Peter Donohoe (piano), Felix Kok, Jeremy Ballard (violins), Peter Cole (viola) & Michal Kaznowski (cello)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Simple Symphony, Op. 4

Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Iona Brown

Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10

Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Iona Brown

Prelude & Fugue Op. 29

Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Iona Brown

Lachrymae for viola & strings, Op. 48a

Lars Anders Tomter (viola)

Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Iona Brown

Gloriana - Symphonic Suite Op. 53a

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa

Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68

Steven Isserlis (cello)

City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox

Men of Goodwill (Variations on a Christmas Carol for orchestra)

Minnesota Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner

Sinfonietta, Op. 1

Pauline Lowbury & Julian Tear (violins)

Britten Sinfonia, Daniel Harding

Russian Funeral

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Suite on English Folk Tunes 'A Time there was', Op. 90

Peter Walden (cor anglais)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Matinees musicales - ballet suite Op.24

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson

Soirees musicales - ballet suite Op.9

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson

Rossini Suite original version of Soirées Musicales

Boys of the Choir of Paisley & Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

The Prince of the Pagodas, Op. 57

London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen

Rhapsody for String Quartet

Endellion String Quartet

Quartettino

Endellion String Quartet

String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 25

Endellion String Quartet

Phantasy in F minor for string quintet

Nicholas Logie (viola)

Endellion String Quartet

Elegy for unaccompanied viola

Garfield Jackson (viola)

Phantasy Quartet Op. 2 for oboe, violin, viola & cello

Endellion String Quartet

Three Divertimenti

Endellion String Quartet

String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36

Endellion String Quartet

String Quartet in D major (1931)

Endellion String Quartet

String Quartet No. 3, Op. 94

Endellion String Quartet

Suite No. 1 for cello solo, Op. 72

Truls Mørk (cello)

Suite No. 3 for cello solo, Op. 87

Truls Mørk (cello)

Suite No. 2 for cello solo, Op. 80

Truls Mørk (cello)

Holiday Diary Op. 5 for solo piano

Stephen Hough, Ronan O’Hara (pianos)

Three Character Pieces

Stephen Hough, Ronan O’Hara (pianos)

Moderato, Nocturne & Twelve Variations on a Theme from Sonatina romantica

Stephen Hough, Ronan O’Hara (pianos)

Five Waltzes for piano

Stephen Hough, Ronan O’Hara (pianos)

Two Lullabies for Two Pianos

Stephen Hough, Ronan O’Hara (pianos)

Introduction and Rondo alla burlesca, op.23 No.1

Stephen Hough, Ronan O’Hara (pianos)

Suite Op. 6

Alexander Barantschik (violin) & John Adey (piano)

Sonata for cello and piano in C major, Op. 65

Moray Welsh (cello) & John Lenehan (piano)

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo oboe, Op. 49

Roy Carter (oboe)

Nocturnal after John Dowland: Reflections on ‘Come, heavy Sleep', Op. 70

Julian Bream (guitar)

War Requiem, Op. 66

Elisabeth Söderström (soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) & Mark Blatchly (chamber organ)

Boys of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, CBSO Chorus & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Spring Symphony, Op. 44

Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Dame Janet Baker (contralto) & Robert Tear (tenor)

St. Clement Danes School Boys’ Choir, London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn

Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27

Richard Cross (treble)

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28

James Clark, Julian Godlee (trebles) & Osian Ellis (harp)

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

Missa Brevis in D major, Op. 63

Julian Brown, Christopher Anderson, Anthony Sackville, Rory Phillips & James Clark (trebles) & Ian Hare (organ)

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

Festival Te Deum in E, Op. 32

Simon Channing (treble) & James Lancelot (organ)

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger

Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30

Simon Channing (treble), James Bowman (countertenor), Richard Morton (tenor), Marcus Creed (bass), James Lancelot (organ) & David Corkhill (percussion)

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger

Te Deum in C

Rory Phillips (treble) & James Lancelot (organ)

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger

Jubilate Deo

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger

A Hymn to the Virgin

Stephen Barton (treble), Hugh Hudleston (treble), Warren Trevelyan-Jones (tenor) & Francis Pott (bass)

Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill

St Nicolas, Op. 42

Words by Eric Crozier

Robert Tear (tenor), Bruce Russell (treble), Andrew Davis & Ian Hare (piano duet

Cambridge Girls’ Choir, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge & Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir David Willcocks

Hymn to St. Peter, Op. 56a

Mark Emney, Peter Rowe (trebles) & Timothy Farrell (organ)

Wandsworth School Choir, Russell Burgess

A Hymn of Saint Columba

Mark Emney, Peter Rowe (trebles), Christopher Hughes, Timothy Farrell (organ)

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge & Wandsworth School Choir, Russell Burgess

Sacred and Profane, Op. 91

Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse

The Little Sweep

Words by Eric Crozier

Robert Lloyd, Robert Tear, Sam Monck, Heather Begg, Catherine Benson, Cato Fordham, Catherine Wearing, Mary Wells, David Glick, Colin Huehns & Katherine Willis

Finchley Children’s Music Group, Choral Scholars of King’s College, Cambridge & Medici String Quartet, Sir Philip Ledger

A Boy was Born, Op. 3

London Sinfonietta Chorus & Choristers of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Terry Edwards

A Shepherd's Carol

Sarah Leonard (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Peter Hall (tenor) & Gordon Jones (baritone)

London Sinfonietta Chorus, Terry Edwards

Noye's Fludde

Richard Pasco, Donald Maxwell, Linda Ormiston, Alexander Gallifant, Timothy Lamb, Nicholas Berry, Catriona Johnson, Polly Hewetson & Joanna Brown

Coull String Quartet & Schools’ Orchestra from schools of Salisbury and Chester, Richard Hickox

AMDG

London Sinfonietta Chorus, Terry Edwards

The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (Text: The Oxford Book of Ballads)

Baccholian Singers of London

The Company of Heaven

Peter Barkworth, Sheila Allen (narrators), Cathryn Pope (soprano), Dan Dressen (tenor) & Christopher Herrick (organ)

London Philharmonic Choir & English Chamber Orchestra, Philip Brunelle

Ballad of Heroes, Op. 14

Robert Tear (tenor)

CBSO Chorus & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Praise We Great Men

Alison Hargan (soprano), Mary King (contralto), Robert Tear (tenor) & Willard White (bass)

CBSO Chorus & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Les illuminations, Op. 18

Heather Harper (soprano)

Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner

Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31

Neil Mackie (tenor) & Barry Tuckwell (horn)

Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, for tenor, horn and strings

orch. Colin Matthews

Neil Mackie (tenor) & Barry Tuckwell (horn)

Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

Nocturne, Op. 60 for tenor, obbligato instruments and strings

Robert Tear (tenor)

English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate

Quatre Chansons Françaises

Jill Gomez (soprano)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8

Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)

Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Richard Armstrong

Four Folksong Settings

Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)

Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Richard Armstrong

Phaedra, Op. 93

Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), Jane Salmon (cello) & Melvyn Tan (harpsichord)

Endymion Ensemble, John Whitfield

Five French Folksong arrangements

Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)

Endymion Ensemble, John Whitfield

Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22

Peter Pears (tenor) & Benjamin Britten (piano)

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35

Peter Pears (tenor) & Benjamin Britten (piano)

On this Island, Op. 11

Robert Tear (tenor) & Sir Philip Ledger (piano)

Winter Words, Op. 52

Robert Tear (tenor) & Sir Philip Ledger (piano)

Canticles I-V

Ian Bostridge (tenor), David Daniels (countertenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Timothy Brown (horn), Aline Brewer (harp) & Julius Drake (piano)

Folksong Arrangements: The Plough Boy, The Salley Gardens, The foggy, foggy dew, There's none to soothe, O Waly, Waly, The Ash Grove, Greensleeves

Ian Bostridge (tenor), David Daniels (countertenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Timothy Brown (horn), Aline Brewer (harp) & Julius Drake (piano)

Two songs by Thomas Hardy

Neil Mackie (tenor) & Roger Vignoles (piano)

Beware

Neil Mackie (tenor) & Roger Vignoles (piano)

Two songs by W.H. Auden

Neil Mackie (tenor) & Roger Vignoles (piano)

Three rhymes by William Soutar

Neil Mackie (tenor) & Roger Vignoles (piano)

Tit for Tat

Jonathan Lemalu (bass baritone) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Two Ballads for two voices and piano

Felicity Lott (soprano) & Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)

Folksong arrangements

Robert Tear (tenor) & Sir Philip Ledger (piano)

Folksong arrangements

Sarah Brightman (soprano) & Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

Paul Bunyan

Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of the Plymouth Music Series, Philip Brunelle

Peter Grimes

Recorded: VI.1992, Watford Town Hall

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Felicity Lott, Thomas Allen, Patricia Payne, Maria Bovino, Gillian Webster, Stuart Kale, Stafford Dean, Sarah Walker, Neil Jenkins, Simon Keenlyside, David Wilson-Johnson

Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bernard Haitink

The Turn of the Screw

Recorded: 17–19.I.2002, Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk

Ian Bostridge, Joan Rodgers, Julian Leang, Caroline Wise, Jane Henschel, Vivian Tierney

Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Recorded: XI.1990

James Bowman, Lillian Watson, Dexter Fletcher, John Graham-Hall, Henry Herford, Della Jones, Jill Gomez, Norman Bailey, Penelope Walker

Trinity Boys’ Choir, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox

The Rape of Lucretia

Abridged recording of the revised version (1947), Recorded: 16–19.VII. & 19.X.1947, No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Peter Pears, Joan Cross, Norman Lumsden, Denis Dowling, Frederick Sharp, Nancy Evans, Flora Nielsen, Margaret Ritchie

English Opera Group Chamber Orchestra, Reginald Goodall


Benjamin Britten was born on the day of the Patron Saint of Music – St. Cecilia – 22nd November in 1913 in Lowestoft. He showed remarkable skill at composition from his earliest days. In 1924 he met Frank Bridge (1879-1941), a fine composer in his own right, and became his pupil; through him he developed an appreciation of contemporary music with scores by Bartók and the Schönberg school, particulary Berg.

In 1930 he entered the Royal College of Music and developed the pianistic skills which made him such a brilliant interpreter of both his own music and other greats particularly Mozart and Schubert. From these times date the beautiful A Hymn to the Virgin, Quatre Chansons Françaises and the Sinfonietta, his official Op. 1. He visited Vienna in 1934 and saw Wozzeck but family resistance prevented him studying with Berg (who, in any case, died from blood poisoning caused by an insect sting a year later).

He worked for some years in the film unit of the General Post Office where he met W.H. Auden whose poetry inspired the brilliant song cycle Our Hunting Fathers. The experience in the film unit enabled him to develop the expressive immediacy and technical abilities – often using small and unconventional resources – which would assist his composition of operas in the years to come.

In 1939 he decided to follow Auden to America, accompanying him was the tenor Peter Pears (1910-1986) who was to be the inspiration behind so many great operatic roles and song cycles. There he composed the Sinfonia da Requiem, the Michelangelo Sonnets and the First Quartet. His first opera, Paul Bunyan, to an Auden libretto, was also composed there but then withdrawn (it was revived for the Aldeburgh Festival in the year he died).

He started to get the pangs of homesickness especially when he read, by chance, an article by E.M. Forster on the Suffolk poet Crabbe (whose work was to lead to arguably his greatest success) and he returned to England in 1942. He wrote A Ceremony of Carols and Hymn to St. Cecilia (another Auden text) during this year.

For British Opera the date 7th June 1945 will always remain a red-letter day as it heralded the premiere of a masterpiece, Peter Grimes. The triumph not only established Britten as Purcell’s successor as Britain’s greatest music dramatist but its numerous performances abroad showed that Britain had an international composer celebrity.

The Rape of Lucretia was premiered the following year as was the work by which Britten is probably best remembered – certainly by thankful schoolchildren for their guide to the Orchestra. Here he subjects the theme by Purcell to a series of ingenious variations played by each member of the orchestra and then as groups and finally a fugue where everything comes together in a simply unforgettable coda.

Indeed when one examines Britten’s output it is hard not to credit him with at least one work of genius, if not a masterpiece, virtually every year for the rest of his composing life – whether it be an opera, for example The Turn of the Screw in 1954 or A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1960; a choral work, for example Spring Symphony in 1949 or the War Requiem in 1961, a large vocal work, for example Serenade for tenor, horn and strings in 1943, Nocturne in 1958 and Phaedra in 1975; a smaller vocal work, for example the Canticles of 1947, 1952, 1954, 1971 & 1974; the works he wrote for Mstislav Rostropovich – the Cello Sonata in 1961, the Cello Symphony in 1963 and the three Solo Cello Suites in 1964, 1967 & 1971; the two remaining string quartets in 1945 & 1975 and a full length ballet The Prince of the Pagodas in 1956.

Besides setting many classic poets from Britain including Blake, Burns, Coleridge, Donne, Hardy, Keats, Jonson, Milton, Owen, Shakespeare, Shelley, Spenser, Tennyson and Wordsworth he also set texts in French (Hugo, Rimbaud and Verlaine), Italian (Michelangelo), German (Hölderlin) and Russian (Pushkin). He was also partly responsible for the reawakening of interest in the music of his great predecessor, Henry Purcell by making realizations of a large number of his works. He also launched the music festival in his adopted town of Aldeburgh.

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Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 4, 8 & 9

Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 4, 8 & 9


Beethoven:

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'

Carol Vaness (soprano), Janice Taylor (mezzo-soprano), Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor) & Robert Lloyd (bass)

The Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus, Christoph von Dohnanyi

Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93

The Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnanyi

Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60

The Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnanyi


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Mozart - Highlights from The Magic Flute & Cosi Fan Tutte

Mozart - Highlights from The Magic Flute & Cosi Fan Tutte


Mozart:

Die Zauberflöte, K620 (highlights)

Barbara Hendricks / June Anderson / Ulrike Steinsky / Jerry Hadley / Robert Lloyd / Thomas Allen / Gottfried Hornick

Così fan tutte, K588 (highlights)

Felicity Lott / Marie McLaughlin / Nuccia Focile / Jerry Hadley / Alessandro Corbelli / Gilles Cachemaille

Edinburgh Festival Chorus


Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras

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Vaughan Williams - The Collector’s Edition

Vaughan Williams - The Collector’s Edition


Vaughan Williams:

Symphonies Nos. 1-9

Joan Rogers (soprano), William Shimell (baritone), Alison Barlow (soprano)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Oboe Concerto in A minor

Jonathan Small (oboe)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Serenade to Music

choral version

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Partita for double string orchestra

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

The Wasps - Aristophanic Suite

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Prelude and Fugue in C minor

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Piano Concerto in C major

Piers Lane (piano)

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Piano Concerto in C for two pianos

Vitya Vronsky & Victor Babin

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Serenade to Music

16 soloists

London Symphony Orchestra & New Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

English Folk Song Suite

(orchestral)

London Symphony Orchestra & New Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1

London Symphony Orchestra & New Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

The Lark Ascending

London Symphony Orchestra & New Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

English Folk Song Suite

(band)

Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra

Tuba Concerto in F minor

Serenade to Music

(orchestral)

Northern Sinfonia of England, Richard Hickox

Old King Cole

Northern Sinfonia of England, Richard Hickox

Five Mystical Songs

Northern Sinfonia of England, Richard Hickox

Sea Songs

Northern Sinfonia of England, Richard Hickox

Variations for Brass Band

(orchestral)

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Northern SInfonia of England, Richard Hickox

String Quartet No. 1 in G minor

Britten Quartet

Violin Concerto in D minor 'Concerto Accademico'

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Northern SInfonia of England, Richard Hickox

Violin Sonata in A minor

Music Group of London

String Quartet No. 2 in A minor

Music Group of London

Toward the Unknown Region

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Dona Nobis Pacem

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Magnificat

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

An Oxford Elegy

Kings College Cambridge & London Symphony Orchestra, David Willcocks

Flos Campi

Kings College Cambridge & London Symphony Orchestra, David Willcocks

Whitsunday Hymn

Kings College Cambridge & London Symphony Orchestra, David Willcocks

Sancta Civitas

Kings College Cambridge & London Symphony Orchestra, David Willcocks

Five Tudor Portraits

Bach Choir, New Phil Orch & LSO, David Willcocks

Benedicite

Bach Choir, New Phil Orch & LSO, David Willcocks

Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus'

Bach Choir, New Phil Orch & LSO, David Willcocks

Hodie (A Christmas Cantata)

(w/strings & organ)

Janet Baker

Bach Choir & LSO, David Willcocks

Fantasia on Christmas Carols

(w/orch)

In Windsor Forest

Songs of Travel

On Wenlock Edge

Mass in G minor

Kings College Cambridge, David Willcocks

All people that on earth do dwell

Kings College Cambridge, David Willcocks

Te Deum in G

Kings College Cambridge, David Willcocks

Household Music

Kings College Cambridge, David Willcocks

Four Hymns

Ian Partridge

Music Group of London

Merciless Beauty

Ian Partridge

Music Group of London

Ten Blake Songs

Ian Partridge

Music Group of London

On Wenlock Edge

Ian Partridge

Music Group of London

House of Life

Anthony Rolfe Johnson & David Willison

Songs of Travel

(piano)

A Song of Thanksgiving

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Epithalamion

Meredith Davies

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Orchestra Nova of Londo, David Willcocks

Riders to the Sea

Meredith Davies

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Orchestra Nova of Londo, David Willcocks

Hugh the Drover

Robert Tear / Sheila Armstrong / Michael Rippon & Robert Lloyd

Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral & RPO, Charles Groves

Sir John in Love

Felicity Palmer / Robert Tear / Robert Lloyd & Helen Watts

New Phil Orchestra, Meredith Davies

The Pilgrim's Progress (complete)

& rehearsal sequence

Ian Partridge / John Shirley-Quirk / Jean Temperley & John Noble

LPC / LPO, Adrian Boult


Celebrated as the musical poet of the English landscape, Vaughan Williams was also a visionary composer of enormous range: from the pastoral lyricism of The Lark Ascending and the still melancholy of Silent Noon to the violence of the Fourth Symphony and the grand ceremonial of All people that on earth do dwell, he assumed the mantle of Elgar as our national composer. This edition, released to mark the 50th anniversary of his death, presents all the major orchestral, chamber, vocal and stage works, as well as many lesser pieces and rarities, in the finest interpretations. All your favourite Vaughan Williams is here, in over 34 hours of music on 30 CDs

“A convincing and deeply moving showcase… exceptional value… it’s scope breathtaking. This is the essential set, and if you're at all drawn to VW you might as well buy the whole damn show now - because sooner or later you're going to anyway.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 *****

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Janacek: Kata Kabanova

Janacek: Kata Kabanova

The tragic libretto portrays a woman driven to despair and suicide by her husband and monstrous mother-in-law. The result is a deeply moving, intensely lyrical work, as engaging in the beauty of the vocal and orchestral writing as in its story – which also revealed the tragedy of Slavic provincial life, of which Janácek was only too well aware: ‘There is much sadness and Slav tenderness and depth of feeling in it. May I find the right way to express it with equal intensity’, wrote Janácek on The Storm, the Ostrovsky play that was his source for Katya Kabanova.


Cheryl Barker (soprano) / Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano) / Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-soprano) / Kathleen Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano) / Claire Hampton (soprano) / Robert Brubaker (tenor) / Peter Hoare (tenor) / Peter Wedd (tenor) / Owen Webb (baritone) / Gwynne Howell (bass) / Sian Meinir (mezzo-soprano) & Philip Lloyd-Holtam (tenor)

Chorus of Welsh National Opera & Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Carlo Rizzi

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“Cheryl Barker’s Katya is a huge achievement, rapturously sung, pertinently acted…” Venue Magazine (on WNO's performances of Katya Kabanova)

GGramophone Awards 2008

Finalist - Opera

BBC Music Magazine

Opera Choice - December 2007

BBC Music Magazine Awards 2008

Opera Finalist

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Mozart - Complete Operas

Mozart - Complete Operas

All 22 Mozart Operas from the 2006 Salzburg Festival


Czernowin:

Adama

Directed by: Claus Guth

Noa Frenkel, Yaron Windmüller, Andreas Fischer & Paul Lorenger

OENM - Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik, Johannes Kalitzke

Mozart:

La finta giardiniera, K196

Directed by: Doris Dörrie

John Graham Hall, Alexandra Reinprecht, John Mark Ainsley, Véronique Gens, Ruxandra Donose, Adriana Kucerova & Markus Werba

Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Ivor Bolton

Il re pastore, K208

Kresimir Spicer, Annette Dasch, Marlis Petersen, Arpiné Rahdjian, Andreas Karasiak

Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Thomas Hengelbrock

Lucio Silla, K135

Directed by: Jürgen Flimm

Roberto Saccà, Annick Massis, Monica Bacelli, Veronica Cangemi, Julia Kleiter, Stefano Ferrari

Chor und Orchester des Teatro La Fenice Venedig, Tomas Netopil

Ascanio in Alba K111

Directed by: David Hermann

Iris Kupke, Sonia Prina, Marie-Belle Sandis, Charles Reid, Diana Damrau, Christian Benzhaf, Katharina Vötter

Chor und Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim, Adam Fischer

Bastien und Bastienne, K50

Directed by: Thomas Reichert

Aleksandra Zamojska, Evmorfia Metaxaki, Bernhard Berchtold, Radu Cojocariu & Alfred Kleinheinz

Salzburger Marionettentheater & Junge Philharmonie Salzburg, Elisabeth Fuchs

Der Schauspieldirektor, K486

Directed by: Thomas Reichert

Aleksandra Zamojska, Evmorfia Metaxaki, Bernhard Berchtold, Radu Cojocariu & Alfred Kleinheinz

Salzburger Marionettentheater & Junge Philharmonie Salzburg, Elisabeth Fuchs

La Betulia liberata, K118

Jeremy Ovenden, Marijana Mijanovic, Julia Kleiter, Franz-Josef Selig, Irena Bespalovaite & Jennifer Johnston

Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Münchener Kammerorchester, Christoph Poppen

Il sogno di Scipione

Directed by: Michael Sturminger

Blagoj Nacoski, Louise Fribo, Bernarda Bobro, Iain Paton, Robert Sellier & Anna Kovalko

Chor des Stadttheaters Klagenfurt & Kärntner Sinfonieorchester, Robin Ticciati

Lo sposo deluso

(Irrfahrten II) Conceived and directed by Joachim Schlömer, based on unfinished works: Abendempfindungen, Lo Sposo Deluso, L'Oca del Cairo, and Rex Tremendus.

Josef Wagner, Marisa Martins, Jeremy Ovenden, Matthias Kliink, Malin Hartelius, Silvia Moi, Miljenko Turk, Ann Murray & Marianne Hamre

Chor der Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele & Camerata Salzburg, Michael Hofstetter

La Finta Semplice

(Irrfahrten I) Conceived and directed by Joachim Schlömer, based on La Finta Semplice.

Malin Hartelius, Josef Wagner, Matthias Klink, Marina Comparato, Silvia Moi, Jeremy Ovenden & Miljenko Turk

Chor der Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele & Camerata Salzburg, Michael Hofstetter

Zaïde, K344

Directed by: Claus Guth

Noa Frenkel, Yaron Windmüller, Andreas Fischer & Paul Lorenger

OENM - Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik, Johannes Kalitzke

Apollo et Hyacinthus, K38

ximilian Kiener, Ekaterina Tretjakova, Anja Schlosser & Astrid Hofer

Orchester der Universität Mozarteum, Josef Wallnig

Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, K35

Michiko Watanabe, Bernhard Berchtold, Monika Wäckerle & Christiane Karg

Orchester der Universität Mozarteum, Josef Wallnig

Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384

Directed by: Stefan Herheim

Laura Aikin (Konstanze), Valentina Farcas (Blonde), Charles Castronovo (Belmonte), Dietmar Kerschbaum (Pedrillo) & Franz Hawlata (Osmin)

r Staatsopernchor & Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Ivor Bolton

Die Zauberflöte, K620

Directed by: Pierre Audi

René Pape (Sarastro), Genia Kühmeier (Pamina), Paul Groves (Tamino), Diana Damrau (Queen of the Night), Inga Kalna (First Lady), Karine Deshayes (Second Lady), Ekaterina Gubanova (Third Lady), Christian Gerhaher (Papageno), Irena Bespalovaite (Papagena), Franz Grundheber (Speaker), Burkhard Ulrich (Monostatos), Franz Grundheber (Priest), Simon O'Neill (Man in Armour), Peter Loehle (Man in Armour) & Xavier Mas (Priest)

Members of the Vienna Boys Choir, Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti

Don Giovanni, K527

Directed by: Martin Kusej

Thomas Hampson (Don Giovanni), Ildebrando D‘Arcangelo (Leporello), Christine Schäfer (Donna Anna), Melanie Diener (Donna Elvira), Isabel Bayrakdarian (Zerlina), Robert Lloyd (Il Commendatore), Piotr Beczala (Don Ottavio) & Luca Pisaroni (Masetto)

Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, Daniel Harding

Così fan tutte, K588

Directed by: Ursel Herrmann, Karl-Ernst Herrmann

Ana María Martínez (Fiordiligi), Sophie Koch (Dorabella), Shawn Mathey (Ferrando), Stéphane Degout (Guglielmo), Sir Thomas Allen (Don Alfonso) & Helen Donath (Despina)

Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Manfred Honeck

Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K87

Directed by: Günter Krämer

Richard Croft (Mitridate), Netta Or (Aspasia), Miah Persson (Sifare), Bejun Mehta (Farnace), Ingela Bohlin (Ismene), Colin Lee (Marzio), Pascal Bertin (Arbate)

Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble, c Minkowski

Idomeneo, K366

Ramón Vargas (Idomeneo), Magdalena Kozená (Idamante), Ekaterina Siurina (Ilia), Anja Harteros (Elettra), Jeffrey Francis (Arbace), Robin Leggate (Gran Sacerdote), Günther Groissböck (La Voce) & Andreas Schlager (Neptune)

Camerata Salzburg & Salzburger Bachchor, Sir Roger Norrington

Le nozze di Figaro, K492

Directed by: Brian Large

Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko, Bo Skovhus, Dorothea Röschmann & Christine Schäfer

Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

L'oca del Cairo

(Irrfahrten III) Conceived and directed by Joachim Schlömer, based on unfinished works: Abendempfindungen, Lo Sposo Deluso, L'Oca del Cairo, and Rex Tremendus.

Josef Wagner, Marisa Martins, Jeremy Ovenden, Matthias Kliink, Malin Hartelius, Silvia Moi, Miljenko Turk, Ann Murray & Marianne Hamre

Chor der Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele & Camerata Salzburg, Michael Hofstetter


. . . striking productions of all 22 operas, plus a wealth of bonus interviews with conductors, singers, and other members of the artistic team . . . Part of the enticement lies with the casts and productions. Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), for example, features such top-tier artists as the spectacular Diana Damrau as the Queen of the Night, René Pape as a sterling, pensive High Priest Sarastro, and Paul Groves as Tamino . . . this performance of the opera is as compelling visually as it is vocally. Don't miss Pape's designer denim casuals and provocatively demonic goatee in the bonus section . . . Le Nozze di Figaro has a dream cast . . . Of these productions, 90% reflect the zeitgeist of new directors who tend to appeal to viewers of all ages. Some of the more obscure directors especially whet the appetite . . . On the levels of edification, enjoyment, and sheer entertainment-the last value sorely missing from many audio-only recordings-this remarkable project scores a solid 10. Record Review

DVD Video

Region: 0

Format: NTSC

Decca Mozart 22 - 0734221

(DVD Video - 33 discs)

£280.99 (£239.14 ex. VAT)

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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527

Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527

Directed by: Martin Kusej


Thomas Hampson (Don Giovanni), Ildebrando D‘Arcangelo (Leporello), Christine Schäfer (Donna Anna), Melanie Diener (Donna Elvira), Isabel Bayrakdarian (Zerlina), Robert Lloyd (Il Commendatore), Piotr Beczala (Don Ottavio) & Luca Pisaroni (Masetto)

Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, Daniel Harding

'Fresh, transparent, dashing' - Die Presse, Vienna

DVD Video

Region: 0

Format: NTSC

Decca Mozart 22 - 0743162

(DVD Video)

£24.99 (£21.27 ex. VAT)

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Massenet: Esclarmonde

Massenet: Esclarmonde


Joan Sutherland (Esclarmonde), Huguette Tourangeau (Parséis), Clifford Grant (L'Empereur Phorcas), Giacomo Aragall (Le Chevalier Roland), Luois Quilico (L'Evêque de Blois), Ryland Davies (Enéas) & Robert Lloyd (Cléomer, Roi de France)

John Alldis Choir & National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Recorded: Kingsway Hall, London, July 1975

Decca Classic Opera - 4757914

(CD - 3 discs)

£24.99 (£21.27 ex. VAT)

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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72

Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72


Christine Brewer, Richard Margison, Robert Lloyd, Rebecca Evans, Peter Wedd, Pavlo Hunka, Christopher Purves

Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry

Chandos Opera in English - CHAN3123

(CD - 2 discs)

£16.49 (£14.03 ex. VAT)

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Purcell: Theatre Music

Purcell: Theatre Music


Purcell:

Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge - incidental music, Z570

Distressed Innocence or The Princess of Persia - incidental music, Z577

The Married Beau or The Curious Impertinent - incidental music, Z603

The Gordion Knot Untied - incidental music, Z597

Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady - incidental music, Z588

Bonduca or The British Heroine - incidental music, Z574

Circe - incidental music, Z575

The Virtuous Wife or Good Luck At Last - incidental music, Z611

The Old Batchelor - incidental music, Z607

Overture in G minor, Z770

Don Quixote - incidental music, Z578

Amphitryon or The Two Sosias - incidental music, Z572

The Double Dealer - incidental music, Z592

The Richmond Heiress or A Woman Once in the Right, Z608

The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love - incidental music, Z609

Henry the Second, King of England - incidental music, Z580

Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr - incidental music, Z613

Overture in G minor Z772

Theodosius, or The Force of Love - incidental music, Z606

The Libertine or The Libertine Destroyed - incidental music, Z600

The Massacre of Paris: Thy genius lo!, Z604

Oedipus - incidental music, Z583

The History of King Richard the Second or The Sicilian Usurper: Retir'd from any mortal's sight, Z581

Sir Barnaby Whigg or No Wit Like a Woman's: Blow, Blow, Boreas blow, Z589

Beneath a poplar's shadow

The English Lawyer: My wife has a tongue, Z594

A Fool's Preferment or The Three Dukes of Dunstable - incidental music, Z571

The Indian Emperor or The Conquest of Mexico: I look'd and saw within, Z598

The Knight of Malta: At the close of the ev'ning, Z599

A Dialogue between Thirsis and Daphne: Why, my Daphne, why complaining, Z525

The Wife's Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves - incidental music, Z612

Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero: No, no, poor suff'ring heart, Z576

Regulus or The Faction of Carthage: Ah me! to many deaths, Z586

The Marriage-Hater Match'd: incidental music, Z602

Love Triumphant or Nature Will Prevail: How happy's the husband, Z582

There's not a swain (Rule a Wife and Have a Wife)

The Female Virtuosos: Love, thou art best, Z596

Epsom Wells: Leave these useless arts, Z579

The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather than Fail - incidental music, Z601

I see she flies me ev'rywhere

The Canterbury Guests or A Bargain Broken: Good neighbour why?, Z591

The Fatal Marriage or The Innocent Adultery - incidental music, Z595

The Spanish Friar or The Double Discovery: Whilst I with grief, Z610

Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country - incidental music, Z585

The Mock Marriage: Oh! how you protest...'Twas within a furlong, Z605

Oroonoko: Celemene, pray tell me, Z584

Pavan in A major Z748

Pavan in A minor Z749

Pavan in B flat major Z750

Pavan in G minor Z751

Pavan for Three Violins and Bass in G minor - Z752

Trio Sonata, for violin, bass viol and organ, Z780

Chacony in G minor - for Two Violins, Viola and Bass Z730


Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, Elizabeth Lane, Joy Roberts, Prudence Lloyd (sopranos), James Bowman (countertenor), Martyn Hill, Rogers Covey-Crump, Paul Elliott, Alan Byers, Peter Bamber, Julian Pike (tenors), David Thomas, Christopher Keyte, Geoffrey Shaw, Michael George (basses)

Academy of Ancient Music, The Taverner Choir, Christopher Hogwood

Decca Collectors Edition - 4755292

(CD - 6 discs)

£34.99 (£29.78 ex. VAT)

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