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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | The Very Best of Nicolai Gedda
Adam: | Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau) | Beethoven: | Adelaide, Op. 46 | Bellini: | Prendi l'anel ti dono (from La Sonnambula) | Berlioz: | La gloire etait ma seule idole (from Benvenuto Cellini) | Bizet: | Au fond du temple saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen) | Donizetti: | Quanto è bella, quanto è cara! (from L'Elisir d'amore) Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore) Fra poco a me ricovero...Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali (from Lucia di Lammermoor) | Flotow: | Ach, so fromm (from Martha) | Glinka: | Souvenir | Goldmark: | Magische Töne, berauschender Duft (from Die Königin von Saba) | Gounod: | L'amour, l'amour... Ah, lève-toi soleil (from Roméo et Juliette) | Lehár: | Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküßt (from Paganini) Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns) | Massenet: | Pourquoi me reveiller (from Werther) Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon) | Mozart: | Il mio tesoro intanto (from Don Giovanni) Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (from Die Zauberflöte) | Mussorgsky: | Boris Godunov: Dmitry! Tsarevich | Offenbach: | Va pour Kleinzach...Il était une fois à la cour (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann) | Puccini: | Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut) | Rachmaninov: | Sing not, O lovely one (Ne poi, krasavitsa, pri mne), Op. 4 No. 4 How fair this spot, Op. 21 No. 7 | Rossini: | Asile héréditaire (from Guillaume Tell) | Strauss, J, II: | Ja, das alles auf Ehr' (from Der Zigeunerbaron) | Strauss, R: | Heimliche Aufforderung, Op. 27 No. 3 Ständchen, Op. 17 No. 2 | Tchaikovsky: | Kuda, Kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (from Eugene Onegin) In this moonlight, Op.73, No.3 Sred' shumnogo bala (Amid the din of the ball), Op. 38 No. 3 Serenada Don-Zhuana (Don Juan's Serenade), Op. 38 No. 1 | Thomas, Ambroise: | Elle ne croyait pas, dans sa candeur naïve (from Mignon) | Verdi: | Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera) La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) | Wagner: | In fernem Land (from Lohengrin) |
Nicolai Gedda, the most recorded tenor in history, is an exceptionally versatile artist who has excelled in a wide variety of operatic roles as well as in the art song. With a magnificent lyric tenor voice and extraordinary range, Gedda makes the notorious top D at the end of ‘Mes amis, écoutez l’histoire’ sound positively effortless. This collection offers a wealth of repertoire that has helped to cement Gedda’s reputation as one of the greatest tenors of his generation. | 
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| |  | Christian Gerhaher: Ferne Geliebte (Distant Beloved)
Christian Gerhaher is the outstanding Lieder singer of our time. His recordings of the art songs and song cycles by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Mahler possess reference status, and have been awarded many major prizes. In the UK alone his awards include the 2009 BBC Music Magazine Award for Vocal Performance, a Gramophone award in 2006, and in 2011 he won the Olivier Outstanding Achievement in Opera award. Gerhaher now presents his first ‘concept album’, which is at the same time his first album of songs by multiple composers in 10 years. ‘Ferne Geliebte’ (Distant Beloved) juxtaposes compositions from the two great Vienna schools, Viennese Classicism on the one hand, represented by Haydn and Beethoven, and the Second Viennese School with Schönberg and Berg on the other. The connection between them all is their preoccupation with loneliness, longing and hopeless love. Christian Gerhaher is accompanied on the piano by his permanent duo partner Gerold Huber. “He treats the cycles with the same care for the meaning of every word, beauty of tone, subtle emphasis and shading...Both the Schoenberg and the Berg are usually sung by a soprano or mezzo...But hearing them juxtaposed in such poised performances – Gerold Huber is Gerhaher's acutely sensitive partner – seems totally logical.” The Guardian, 14th June 2012 ***** “Rather than a purely beautiful voice, Gerhaher's approach is intently text-focused, making the consonants sound as strongly as the vowels, responsive to every twist and turn of the poetry.” The Observer, 17th June 2012 “Gerhaher delivers text so incisively and with such vitality that these songs leap from the page more vividly than ever before. I doubt that the Schoenberg and Berg cycles have been more lyrically sung, either. Huber’s expressive playing is vital to this indivisible partnership’s most challenging, but ultimately most rewarding, achievement on disc.” Sunday Times, 9th July 2012 “Gerhaher is an unrivalled lieder singer, and his partnership with Huber is a reproof to the one-night-stand recitals brokered by many record labels.” The Independent on Sunday, 22nd July 2012 “Admirers of Gerhaher...will need no encouragement to...be re-acquainted with his beautiful baritone, clean diction and highly cultivated interpretative stance. The programme he has selected with pianist Gerold Huber will not, however, appeal to everyone...though the softness of Gerhaher’s timbre and the intelligence of his word-painting gives them an ideally seductive cushion.” Financial Times, 4th August 2012 *** “a recital of rare and compelling musical intelligence and integrity of response...But as well as the intellectual satisfaction of this recital, there is also the sheer delight of Gerhaher's superbly cultivated baritone, and his outstanding artistry. If ever art concealed art, it is here” BBC Music Magazine, September 2012 ***** “The Beethoven cycle immediately reacquaints us with Gerhaher's familiar virtues of a beautiful, even voice and unforced clarity of diction...Others have portrayed more suggestively the highly coloured, alien dream-world the cycle seems to inhabit...but few have shown how intimately Stefan George's poems determine the pitches and rhythms of Schoenberg's singing combines lyrical beauty with meticulous detail.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2012 “Gerhaher is now clearly at the peak of his career, as regards his ability to align beauty of sound to remarkably sincere and unfussy delivery of text...The whole of the programme is presented with consistently elegant and thoughtful artistry...[Huber is] a superbly sensitive partner throughout” International Record Review, September 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Guitar - Greatest Works
Albéniz: | Córdoba (from Chants d’Espagne Op. 232) Sevilla (from Suite Española, Op. 47) | Beethoven: | Adelaide, Op. 46 | Brahms: | Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4 (Lullaby) | Debussy: | Golliwog's Cakewalk (from Children's Corner) | Falla: | Polo (No. 7 from Siete canciones populares españolas ) Canción (No. 6 from Siete canciones populares españolas) El sombrero de tres picos: Danza del molinero (farruca) | Fürstenau, C: | Pieces (12) for flute & guitar, Op. 34: excerpts | Galilei, V: | Counterpoint for two guitars | Marais, M: | Les Folies d'Espagne, 32 Variations pour flûte seule | Martin, F: | Quatre Pieces Breves | Mendelssohn: | Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op. 34 No. 2 | Mozart: | Abendempfindung an Laura, K523 | Narvaez: | Diferencias on Guardame las Vacas Tres diferencias por otra parte Canción del Emperador (sobre "Mille Regretz" de Josquin des Prez) Baxa de contrapunto | Paganini: | Sonata for violin & guitar in A major, Op. 3 No. 1, MS 27/1 Sonata for violin & guitar in A major, Op. 3 No. 5, MS 27/5 Sonata for violin & guitar in E minor, Op. 3 No. 6 | Rodrigo: | Invocación y danza | Schubert: | Ständchen 'Leise flehen meine Lieder', D957 No. 4 Der Unglückliche, D713 | Sor: | L'Encouragement, Op. 34 | Vivaldi: | Trio Sonata for Violin, Lute and Basso Continuo in C major, RV 82 |
Klaus & Rainer Feldman, Monika & Jurgen Rost, Eckart Haupt & Christian Funke 2CDs for price of 1 This comprehensive collection includes works for two guitars, solo guitar, flute and guitar and violin and guitar. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Der junge Beethoven
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| |  | David Daniels - Serenade
also includes: Selve amiche, ombrose piante O del mio dolce ardor Intorno all'idol mio Pur dicesti, o bocca bella L'absent Où voulez-vous aller? Absence Sérénade Orpheus with his lute (first setting) Linden Lea - A Dorset song Hands, Eyes and Heart C'est ansi que tu es Priez pour paix La belle jeunesse Sweeter than roses I'll sail upon the Dog Star An Evening Hymn
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| |  | Schumann, Schubert & Beethoven - Lieder
Wunderlich was one of the most unusual and captivating tenors of the last fifty years. In his tragically short career, he displayed an extraordinary musical versatility. This recording was made with his longtime friend and accompanist Hubert Giesen and includes Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Schubert 6 Songs. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Of ladies and love ...
Beethoven: | Adelaide, Op. 46 Wonne der Wehmut, Op. 83 No. 1 Der Kuss, Op. 128 | Fauré: | Nell, Op. 18 No. 1 Adieu, Op. 21 No. 3, from Poème d'un jour Sylvie, Op. 6 No. 3 Lydia, Op. 4 No. 2 Fleur jetée, Op. 39 No. 2 | Liszt: | Sonetti di Petrarca (3) for voice & piano, S270 | Ravel: | Cinq mélodies populaires grecques | Schubert: | Trost: An Elisa, D97 Laura am Klavier, D388 An Sylvia, D891 Der Jüngling an der Quelle, D300 (Salis-Seewis) | Strauss, R: | Cäcilie, Op. 27 No. 2 Zueignung, Op. 10 No. 1 Nichts, Op. 10 No. 2 Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4 |
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| |  | Beethoven: | Zärtliche Liebe 'Ich liebe dich', WoO 123 Adelaide, Op. 46 Resignation, WoO 149 Der Kuss, Op. 128 | Schubert: | An Sylvia, D891 Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren D360 (Mayrhofer) Liebhaber in allen Gestalten, D558 Der Einsame, D800 Im Abendrot, D799 Ständchen 'Leise flehen meine Lieder', D957 No. 4 An die Laute D905 Der Musensohn, D764 (Goethe) An die Musik D547 | Schumann: | Dichterliebe, Op. 48 |
“Few tenors have matched the young Wunderlich in the freshness and golden bloom of the voice. The open manner could not be more appealing here in glowing performances” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Beethoven Songs
Beethoven: | An die Hoffnung, Op. 94 Maigesang, Op. 52 No. 4 Adelaide, Op. 46 Der Liebende, WoO 139 Klage, WoO 113 Neue Liebe, Neues Leben, Op. 75, 2 Lieder von Gellert (6), Op. 48 Aus Goethes Faust Wonne der Wehmut, Op. 83 No. 1 Sehnsucht, Op. 83, 2 Das Liedchen von der Ruhe, Op. 52 No. 3 An die Geliebte, WoO 140 An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved), Op. 98 |
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| |  | Liederabende Salzburger Festspiele Live 1957-1965, Vol. V
Beethoven: | Lieder von Gellert (6), Op. 48 In questa tomba oscura, WoO.133 An die Hoffnung, Op. 94 Der Wachtelschlag, WoO 129 An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved), Op. 98 Adelaide, Op. 46 Wonne der Wehmut, Op. 83 No. 1 Maigesang, Op. 52 No. 4 Sehnsucht, Op. 83, 2 Neue Liebe, Neues Leben, Op. 75, 2 Mephistos Flohlied, Op. 75, 3 |
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