Massenet: La Vierge: Le Dernier Sommeil de la vierge (Légende sacrée) (The Last Sleep of the Virgin)

Des Grieux’s Lodgings (Act 2, Scene 2)

Manon — Ballet based on extracts from works by Jules Massenet, arranged and orchestrated by Leighton Lucas with the collaboration of Hilda Gaunt

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge

Massenet:

Meditation (from Thaïs)

Nigel Kennedy (violin)

National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

De cet affreux combat…Pleurez, mes yeux ! (from Le Cid)

Joan Sutherland

London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Pourquoi me reveiller (from Werther)

Luciano Pavarotti

National Philharmonic Orchestra, Oliviero de Fabritiis

Il est doux, il est bon (from Hérodiade)

Angela Gheorghiu

Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, John Mauceri

Je suis seul, seul enfin... Ah fuyez douce image (from Manon)

Jonas Kaufmann

Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Marco Armiliato

Esprits de l'air! Esprits de l'onde! (from Esclarmonde)

Joan Sutherland

National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Dance of the Spirits (Esclarmonde)

John Alldis Choir & National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Où suis-je? (Esclarmonde)

Giacomo Aragall

John Alldis Choir & National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Ah! je suis seule, seule enfin! (Thaïs)

Renée Fleming

Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Yves Abel

Dis-moi que je suis belle (from Thaïs)

Renée Fleming

Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Yves Abel

Valse très lente

National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Vive amour qui rêve (from Chérubin)

Angela Gheorghiu

Orchestra e coro del Teatro Regio di Torino, John Mauceri

Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon)

Joseph Calleja & Tatiana Lisnic

Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Carlo Rizzi

Ah, que mes soeurs ... Reste au foyer, petit grillon (from Cendrillon)

Joan Sutherland

L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Richard Bonynge

Je ne sais pas si je veille (from Werther)

José Carreras

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis

Va! Laisse couler mes larmes (from Werther)

Marilyn Horne

Wiener Opernorchester, Henry Lewis

Oh! si les fleurs avaient des yeux

Joan Sutherland

New Philharmonia Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

La Vierge: Le Dernier Sommeil de la vierge (Légende sacrée)

Carmichael, J:

Sleighride to Thredbo

orch. by Philip Lane

Carwithen:

On the Twelfth Day

reconstructed by Philip Lane

Coleridge-Taylor:

Christmas Overture

arr. Baynes

Lane, P:

Overture on French Carols (2003)

The Night before Christmas

Liszt:

The Christmas Tree Suite

arr. Collins

Lighting the Carols

arr. Collins

In Olden Times

arr. Collins

Games

arr. Collins

Bedtime

arr. Collins

Massenet:

La Vierge: Le Dernier Sommeil de la vierge (Légende sacrée)

(from La Vierge)

Nicolai, C O:

Weihnachts-Ouverture, WoO109 on the chorale 'Von Himmel hoch da komm ich her'

Massenet:

Scènes dramatiques

Scènes de féerie

La Vierge: Le Dernier Sommeil de la vierge (Légende sacrée)

Scènes alsaciennes

Scènes pittoresques

Don Quichotte

Massenet:

Le Cid - Ballet music

Recorded at Kingsway Hall, London on 14-16 July 1952

London Symphony Orchestra, Robert Irving

Phèdre: Overture

Recorded at Maison de la Mutualité, Paris on 1 June 1951

Orchestre de l’Opéra-Comique, Paris, Albert Wolff

Werther: Prelude & La nuit de Noël

Recorded at Maison de la Mutualité, Paris on 1 June 1951

Orchestre de l’Opéra-Comique, Paris, Albert Wolff

Scènes alsaciennes

Recorded at the Salle Apollo Paris on 15 September 1953

Orchestre Lamoureux, Jean Fournet

La Vierge: Le Dernier Sommeil de la vierge (Légende sacrée)

Recorded at Walthamstow Town Hall, London 7 – 18 December 1953

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham

Scènes pittoresques

Recorded at the Salle Apollo Paris on 15 September 1953

Orchestre Lamoureux, Jean Fournet

Ô noble lame étincelante (from Le Cid)

Recorded on 2 February 1933

Georges Thill

Eugène Bigot

Pleurez, mes yeux (Le Cid)

Recorded on 16 May 1930

Germaine Cernay

Gustave Cloez

Dis-moi que je suis belle (from Thaïs)

Recorded on 08 November 1927

Fanny Heldy

Piero Coppola

Te souvient-il du lumineux voyage (from Thaïs)

Recorded on 14 January 1947

Dorothy Kirsten, Robert Merrill

RCA Victor Orchestra, Jean Morel

Il est doux, il est bon (from Hérodiade)

Recorded in Paris on 29 March 1928

Ninon Vallin

Gustave Cloëz

Calmez donc vos fureurs…Jean, je te revois (from Hérodiade)

Recorded on 21 November 1932

César Vezzani, Jeanne Guyla

Fleurissait une rose au bord de chemin (from Le jongleur de Notre-Dame)

Recorded in Camden, New Jersey, USA on 11 October 1926

Marcel Journet

Je suis encore tout étourdie (from Manon)

Recorded on 26 March 1928

Emma Luart

Gustave Cloëz

On l'appelle Manon (from Manon)

Recorded on 26 March 1928

Emma Luart, Gaston Micheletti

Gustave Cloëz

Adieu, notre petite table (from Manon)

Recorded on 7 June 1945

Bidú Sayão

Fausto Cleva

Je marche sur tous les chemins (from Manon)

Recorded on 27 March 1928

Emma Luart

Gustave Cloëz

Obéissons quand leur voix appelle (from Manon)

Recorded in 1928

Emma Luart

Gustave Cloëz

Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon)

Recorded in Paris in 1916

Edmond Clément with orchestra

Je suis seul, seul enfin... Ah fuyez douce image (from Manon)

Recorded in Paris in 1916

Edmond Clément with orchestra

Promesse de mon avenir (from Le roi de Lahore)

Recorded at Salle du Conservatoire, Paris 30 November 1929

Arthur Endrèze

Henri Defosse

J'aurais sur ma poitrine (from Werther)

Recorded on 10 May 1927

Georges Thill

Fernand Heuteur

Va! Laisse couler mes larmes (from Werther)

Recorded in Paris on 13 April 1927

Ninon Vallin

Gustave Cloëz

Ah! mon courage m’abandonne!... Seigneur Dieu (from Werther)

Recorded in Paris on 13 April 1927

Ninon Vallin

Gustave Cloëz

Pourquoi me reveiller (from Werther)

Recorded between 1950 - 1952

Cesare Valletti

Orchestra Lirica della Cetra di Torino, Arturo Basile

Elégie

Recorded on 19 May 1926

Rosa Ponselle (soprano), Alfred Lennartz (cello)

Rosario Bourdon

Bach, J S:

Komm süsser Tod, BWV478

Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV1043: Largo ma non tanto

St John Passion, BWV245: Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine

Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben': Jesu, bleibet meine Freude

Barber, S:

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Beethoven:

Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 ‘Eroica' - Marcia funebre

Chopin:

Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre'

Elgar:

Nimrod (from Enigma Variations)

Sursum corda, Op. 11

Fauré:

Requiem: Pie Jesu

Pavane, Op. 50

Requiem: Agnus Dei

Franck, C:

Panis Angelicus

Grainger:

Irish Tune from County Derry 'Danny Boy'

Grieg:

Peer Gynt: Ase's Death

Handel:

Messiah: I know that my Redeemer liveth

Dead March from Saul

Mahler:

Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor - Adagietto

Massenet:

Méditation (from Thaïs)

La Vierge: Le Dernier Sommeil de la vierge (Légende sacrée)

Mozart:

Introitus from Requiem

Pärt:

Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

Purcell:

When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas)

Rachmaninov:

Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14

Ravel:

Pavane pour une infante défunte

Verdi:

Agnus Dei (from Requiem)

Walton:

Henry V: Touch her soft lips and part

Bach, J S:

Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068: Air ('Air on a G String')

Sheep May Safely Graze, from Cantata BWV208

Barrios Mangoré:

Julia florida

Bax:

Lullaby

Beethoven:

Bagatelles (6), Op. 126: No. 3

Clifford:

Curly Locks from Five English Nursery Tunes

Debussy:

Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque)

Préludes - Book 1: No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin

Delius:

Serenade from Hassan

Dyson:

Pastoral from Children's Suite after Walter de la Mare

Fauré:

Berceuse from Dolly Suite, Op. 56

Gershwin:

Summertime (from Porgy and Bess)

Godard, B:

Idylle from Suite de trois morceaux, Op. 116

Holst:

Brook Green Suite: Air

Ireland:

The Holy Boy

Llobet:

The Mother's Son

Massenet:

La Vierge: Le Dernier Sommeil de la vierge (Légende sacrée)

Mélodie - Élegie

Mendelssohn:

Allegretto grazioso from Songs without Words, Bk V, Op. 62

Mozart:

Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan' - Andante

Pachelbel:

Canon

Saint-Saëns:

Aquarium & The Swan from Carnival of the Animals

Satie:

Gymnopédie No. 1

Schumann:

Slumber Song from Albumblätter, Op. 124 No. 18

Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kind im Einschlummern

Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Von fremden Ländern und Menschen

Stravinsky:

Berceuse from The Firebird

Tárrega:

Recuerdos de la Alhambra

Tchaikovsky:

Preghiera from Suite No. 4 'Mozartiana, Op. 61

The Nutcracker: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

Mother, from Album for Children, Op. 39

Vaughan Williams:

Hymn Tune Prelude: Eventide (Monk)

Lento from Six Studies in English Folksong

Fantasia on Greensleeves (extract)

Vivaldi:

The Four Seasons: Winter - Largo

Walton:

Allegro from Music for Children

Warlock:

Capriol Suite: Pieds-en-l'air

Yoshimatsu:

Canticle & Noël from Two Little Pieces

Albinoni:

Concerto for Two Oboes, Op. 7 No. 11: 1st movement

Arne:

Symphony No. 2: 3rd movement

Bach, J S:

Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major: 3rd movement

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV1050: 3rd movement

Sheep May Safely Graze, from Cantata BWV208

(orch. Stokowski)

Beethoven:

Bagatelles (7): No. 4

Chopin:

Étude Op. 10 No. 5 in G flat major 'Black Key'

Étude Op. 25 No. 10 in B minor

Debussy:

Préludes - Book 1: No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin

Elgar:

Chanson de Matin, Op. 15 No. 2

Field:

Concerto No. 2 in A flat major: 2nd movement

Nocturne No. 5 in B flat major

Handel:

Semele: Where'er you walk

Water Music - Suite No. 2: Sarabande

Lascia ch'io pianga (from Rinaldo)

Herschel:

Symphony No. 2: 2nd movement

Hummel, J:

Mandolin Concerto: 2nd movement

Ireland:

A Downland Suite: 3rd movement

Massenet:

La Vierge: Le Dernier Sommeil de la vierge (Légende sacrée)

Mozart:

Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in C, K373

Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan' - Andante

Serenade No. 13 in G major, K525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik': Romance (Andante)

Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major, K495 - Rondo

Myers:

Cavatina (from The Deerhunter)

(arr. John Williams)

Pachelbel:

Canon

Pergolesi:

Concerto armonici No. 5 in B flat major: Largo, Andante

Respighi:

Six Pieces for Violin & Piano: No. 4

Scheibe:

Sinfonia à 4 in A major: Allegro

Schubert:

String Quartet No. 8 in B flat major, D112 - 3rd movement

Spohr:

String Sextet, Op. 140: 3rd movement

Tárrega:

Recuerdos de la Alhambra

Telemann:

Concerto in D major: 1st movement

Torroba:

Sonatina in A major for solo guitar: 1. Allegretto

Villa-Lobos:

Chôros No. 1 for guitar

Vivaldi:

Concerto for Lute, 2 Violins and Basso Continuo: 3rd movement

The Four Seasons: Spring, RV269

Concerto for Strings in D major: 1st movement

Adam:

Si j'étais roi - Overture

Auber:

Le Cheval de bronze: Overture

Chabrier:

Habanera

Joyeuse marche

Gounod:

Funeral March of a Marionette

Hérold:

Zampa - Overture

Maillart:

Overture to 'Les Dragons de Villars'

Massenet:

La Vierge: Le Dernier Sommeil de la vierge (Légende sacrée)

Mélodie - Elégie

Peter Dixon (cello)

Méditation (from Thaïs)

Yuri Torchinsky (violin)

Offenbach:

La Belle Helene Overture

Barcarolle (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann )

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir

Thomas, Ambroise:

Mignon Overture

Gavotte from 'Mignon'

Bizet:

L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1

Delius:

Irmelin

Massenet:

La Vierge: Le Dernier Sommeil de la vierge (Légende sacrée)

Wagner:

Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg Music

Berlioz:

Chasse royale et Orage (from Les Troyens)

Chabrier:

Gwendoline Overture

España

Debussy:

L'Enfant Prodigue: Cortege et Air de danse

Delius:

Brigg Fair

Massenet:

La Vierge: Le Dernier Sommeil de la vierge (Légende sacrée)

Mozart:

Divertimento in D major, K131

Saint-Saëns:

Le Rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31