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Vivaldi: Recorder Concertos; Handel: Recorder Sonatas / Piers Adams, recorder; Howard Beach, harpsichord, organ; David Watkin, cello

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2012-07-10

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Flute in F major, Op. 10 no 1/RV 433 "La tempesta di mare"; Concerto for Piccolo in A minor, RV 445; Concerto for Recorder in C minor, RV 441; Concerto for Flute in D ma...
Performers: Adams, Piers; Beach, Howard; Watkin, David
Conductors: King, Robert
Ensemble: Musica Da Camera

Piers Adams is widely regarded as one of the greatest recorder players of our time. He has worked tirelessly to develop the recorder's reputation as...continue...

Priest on the Run - Vivaldi, Handel, etc / Red Priest

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2009-06-09

Works: Dario Castello: Sonata for 2 instruments & continuo no 3 in C major (Sonata Concertate II/3); Diego Oritz: Work(s); Georg Philipp Telemann: Trio for recorder (or flute), violin & continuo in A minor,...
Performers: Red Priest
Conductors:
Ensemble: Red Priest

"This group tears up the carpet, rattles the walls, and certainly will shake up its audience with rousing and original renditions of music by some...continue...
Red Priest's Priest on the Run was its first album, released in 1998 on Dorian Records with harpsichordist Julian Rhodes as a member of the group. Red Priest has since taken on its own destiny in term...continue...

D. Scarlatti: Complete Sonatas Vol 5 / Richard Lester

5 CD / Nimbus Records / 2007-08-07

Works: Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata for Harpsichord in D major, K 484/L 419; Sonata for Harpsichord in C major, K 485/L 153; Sonata for Harpsichord in C major, K 486/L 455; Sonata for Harpsichord in C major, ...
Performers: Evans, Nerys; Lester, Elizabeth; Lester, Richard

Volume five of a brand-new series of the complete Keyboard Sonatas with appendices and recent discoveries, plus six Continuo sonatas. Thirty-eight CDs in total in...continue...

Prima Voce - Great Singers Vol 2 (1903-1939)

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2006-02-14

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Ernani; Traditional: Ma Lisette; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; Giacomo Meyerbeer: L'Africaine; Les Huguenots; George Frederic...
Performers: Björling, Jussi; Calvé, Emma; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cottone, Salvatore; de Luca, Giuseppe; Ebert, Harry; Farrar, Geraldine; Favero, Mafalda; Flagstad, Kirsten; Garden, Mary; Gluck, Alma; Ivo...
Conductors: Blech, Leo; Barbirolli, John, Sir
Ensemble: Berlin State Opera Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra

...An utterly splendid collection, winners every one...a tour from one superlative to another. Gramophone. Very popular selection of arias and featuring the greatest singers recorded...continue...

Prima Voce - Lilli Lehmann

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2005-05-10

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Così fan tutte, K 588; D...
Performers: Helbig, Hedwig; Lehmann, Lilli

Because of the superb quality and volume of her voice, German operatic soprano Lilli Lehmann became famous in the Wagnarian roles, but she was also...continue...

Prima Voce - Gerhard Hüsch

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2005-02-01

Works: Albert Lortzing: Der Wildschütz, opera; Undine; Zar und Zimmermann; Engelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel, opera; Königskinder, opera; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Siegfried Och...
Performers: Bettendorf, Emmy; Hüsch, Gerhard; Lemnitz, Tiana; Rosvaenge, Helge; Strienz, Wilhelm
Conductors: Weissmann, Frieder; Muller, Hans Udo; Dobrindt, Otto; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno

German baritone Gerhard Husch was a consummate artist whose international career never quite achieved the exposure it deserved, despite glowing reviews. In some ways a...continue...

Handel: Messiah / Boughton, Smart, Towers, et al

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2004-06-08

Works: George Frederick Handel: Der Messias
Performers: Carr, Gavin; Hart-Davis, Michael; Smart, Alison; Towers, William
Conductors: Boughton, William
Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

Prima Voce - Clara Butt

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2004-03-02

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia; La Favorita; George Frederick Handel: MEDLEY; Sosarme, HWV 30; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Ludwig van Beethoven...
Performers: Ronald, Landon; Torrens, Grace
Conductors: Wood, Henry; Harty, Hamilton, Sir; Ketèlbey, Albert W.

The Golden Age of Singing Vol 4 - 1930-1950

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2001-10-02

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir d'amore, opera; Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Rienzi; Tannhäuser; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; R...
Performers: Baccaloni, Salvatore; Borgonovo, Luigi; Cebotari, Maria; Gay, Maria; Gigli, Beniamino; Ivogün, Maria; Kipnis, Alexander; Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo; Lehmann, Lotte; Lemnitz, Tiana; Lorenz, Max; Melchi...
Conductors: Schmalstich, Clemens; Barbirolli, John; Melichar, Alois; Orthmann, Erich; Zweig, Fritz; Heger, Robert

This special 2 CD collection is the final volume in a mini-series presenting fifty years of great voices on record. All the material contained here...continue...

Christmas Organ Music / Kevin Bowyer

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2001-04-17

Works: Franz Liszt: Weihnachtsbaum for Piano, S 186; Johann Sebastian Bach: In dulci jubilo, BWV 729; Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248; Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, chorale prelude for organ (Schübler C...
Performers: Bowyer, Kevin

Recording information: Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, England....continue...

The Golden Age of Singing Vol 3 - 1920-1930

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2001-03-06

Works: Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt (The Dead City); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Entführung aus ...
Performers: Anthony, Grace; Bori, Lucrezia; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cortis, Antonio; de Luca, Giuseppe; Fleta, Miguel; Fugere, Lucien; Galeffi, Carlo; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Garden, Mary; Gigli, Beniamino; Granforte, ...
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Gelabert, Maestro; Gurlitt, Manfred; Setti, Giulio; Zweig, Fritz; Blech, Leo; Sabajno, Carlo; Weissmann, Frieder; Robinson, Stanford; Cloez, Gustave; Coates, Albert

This special 2-CD collection represents the third volume in a mini-series presenting 50 years of great voices on record. With all tracks culled from the...continue...

Prima Voce Vol 2 - Treasury of Opera - Historic Recordings

5 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-11-14

Works: Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Manon Lescaut; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Tosca; Turandot; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night; Sadko; Snow Maiden; The Tsar's Bri...
Performers: Anthony, Grace; Barone, Clement; Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Björling, Jussi; Bori, Lucrezia; Bronskaya, Yevgeniya; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; de Luca, Giuseppe; Farrar, Geraldine [So...
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Romani, Romano; Molajoli, Lorenzo; Ormandy, Eugene; Cloez, Gustave; Bourdon, Rosario; Albergoni, Angelo; Dobrindt, Otto; Pelletier, Wilfred; Coppola, Piero; Ghione, Franco; Barb...

Fine Arts Brass play Baroque - Bach, Handel, Vivaldi

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-09-12

Works: George Frederick Handel: Solomon; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 Trumpets and Strings in D major; L' estro armonico, concertos (12) for 1-4 solo instruments, strings & continuo, Op. 3; Tomaso Albino...
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Ensemble: Fine Arts Brass Ensemble

Rule Britannia - Purcell, Elgar, et al / Wallace, et al

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-09-12

Works: Daniel Purcell / Jeremiah Clarke / Richard Leveridge: Island Princess, incidental music; George Frederick Handel: Water Piece, suite for trumpet, strings & continuo in D major (spurious arrangement),...
Performers: Barham, Edmund; Wallace, John [Trumpet]
Conductors: Boughton, William; Faris, Alexander; Darlington, Stephen
Ensemble: English String Orchestra; English Symphony Orchestra; Leeds Festival Chorus; Philharmonia Orchestra; Scottish Chamber Orchestra

The Prima Voce Treasury of Opera Vol 1

6 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-02-15

Works: Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; L'Arlesiana; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Le pardon de Ploërmel "Dinorah"; Die Hugenoten; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Attila; Un ballo in masche...
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Battistini, Mattia; Bjorling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cortis, Antonio; de Luca, Giuseppe; Devries, David; Flagstad, Kirsten; Fleta, Miguel; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Ga...
Conductors: Molajoli, Lorenzo; Ghione, Franco; Bourdon, Rosario; Pasternack, Josef A.; Messner, J.; Reibold, Bruno; Sabajno, Carlo; Polacco, Giorgio; Albergoni, Angelo; Grevillius, Nils; Cloez, Gustave; Setti, G...

Prima Voce - Alma Gluck

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-01-11

Works: Gustave Charpentier: Louise; Benjamin Godard: Jocelyn, Op 100; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Jules Massenet: Élégie; Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Timbre d'Argent; Jean-Philippe Rameau: ...
Performers: Barone, Clement; Bourdon, Rosario; Chotzinoff, Samuel; Gluck, Alma; Lapitino, Francis J.; Rattay, Howard; Zimbalist, Efrem [Violin]
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Herbert, Victor; Hageman, Richard; Rogers, Walter B.

As in the similar case of John McCormack, it would be hard to exaggerate the extent of Gluck's popularity with the American public. It was...continue...

Prima Voce - Highlights / Amato, Anderson, Battistini, et al

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1999-09-14

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia; Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Mikhail G...
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Anderson, Marian; Battistini, Mattia; Chaliapin, Feodor; de Luca, Giuseppe; Farrar, Geraldine [Soprano Vocals]; Fleta, Miguel; Journet, Marcel; Lapitino, Francis J.; Lehmann, Lotte; ...
Conductors: Rogers, Walter B.; Sabajno, Carlo; Collingwood, Lawrance; Shaw, Robert; Molajoli, Lorenzo; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Messner, J.; Cordone, Mario

This newest release from Nimbus' acclaimed "Prima Voce" series investigates the early history of the recording industry, which would hold little interest for us today...continue...

Prima Voce - Tito Schipa in Opera and Song

3 CD / Nimbus Records / 1999-09-14

Works: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; L'Amico Fritz; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Don Pasquale; L' elisir d'amore, op...
Performers: Echantz, Jose; Gogorza, Emilio de; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Antonicelli, Giuseppe; Olivieri, Dino; Sabajno, Carlo; Bourdon, Rosario; Riccardo, Alberto Fernanco; Pasternack, Josef A.

A comprehensive survey of the Italian tenor's art, this set includes all three previous Prima Voca releases of Schipa. Included are arias and songs by...continue...

Prima Voce - Marian Anderson Vol 2

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1998-10-20

Works: George Frederick Handel: Siroe; Te Deum in D major, HWV 283 "Dettingen"; L'Allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato; Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm, süsser Tod, komm, sel'ge Ruh'!, BWV 478; Alessandro S...
Performers: Anderson, Marian; Primrose, William; Rupp, Franz; Vehanen, Kosti

Prima Voce - Marian Anderson

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-02-01

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 81; Cantata no 112; St. Matthew Passion; Cantata no 12; St. John Passion; Christmas Oratorio; George Frederick Handel: Messiah; Traditional Spiritual: City Called He...
Performers: Anderson, Marian; Bloom, Robert; Fuchs, Joseph; Mayes, Samuel
Conductors: Shaw, Robert
Ensemble: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

Prima Voce - Maria Ivogün

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Henry Bishop: Comedy of errors; George Frederick Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55; Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Lucia di Lammermoor; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Sivigl...
Performers: Ivogün, Maria; Raucheisen, Michael
Conductors: Blech, Leo
Ensemble: Berlin State Opera Orchestra

Prima Voce - Schipa in Song

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Alessandro Scarlatti: La donna ancora è fedele; Il Pirro e Demetrio; Il Tigrane; Giovanni Pergolesi: Nina, song for voice & piano (spurious; by V.L. Ciampi); George Frederick Handel: MEDLEY; C...
Performers: Echantz, Jose; Gogorza, Emilio de; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Olivieri, Dino; Sabajno, Carlo; Bourdon, Rosario; Riccardo, Alberto Fernanco
Ensemble: ; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

"...So why should you but this disc? The answer is the sound...I have heard just about all the Schipa transfers over the years, and from...continue...

For Weddings / Kevin Bowyer

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben," BWV 147 (BC A174); Cantata no 208, "Was mir behagt," (Hunt Ca...
Performers: Bowyer, Kevin

Prima Voce - Tenors 1904-1937 / Caruso, Schipa, McCormack

3 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Jules Massenet: Manon; Werther; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Manon Lescaut; La bohème; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Dom Sébastien; Il Duca d'Alba; Lucia di Lammermoor; Don Pasq...
Performers: Caruso, Enrico; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Sammarco, Giuseppe Mario; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Schneider, Edward
Conductors: Antonicelli, Giuseppe

Prima Voce - Caruso in Song

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Vincenzo di Crescenzo: Tarantella sincera; Henry Ernest Geehl: For you alone; Helen Guy: Because; Gioachino Rossini: Les soirées musicales; Petite Messe solennelle; Josef Zygmunt Szulc: Hantis...
Performers: Caruso, Enrico

Prima Voce - John McCormack in Opera

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir d'amore, opera; La fille du régiment; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Rigoletto; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Les pêcheurs de perles; L...
Performers: Bori, Lucrezia; McCormack, John; Sammarco, Mario; Schneider, Edwin

McCormack was the only tenor to rival Caruso in his time, although his voice was of a very different type. He is still considered one...continue...

Oxford Church Anthems

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Charles Wood: O Thou, the central orb; Orlando Gibbons: Almighty and everlasting God; Herbert Howells: My eyes for beauty pine; Franz Schubert: Des Tages Weihe, D 763/Op. post. 146; Anton Bruckner: L...
Performers: Farr, Stephen

Prima Voce - Eidé Norena

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Die Entführung aus dem Ser...
Performers: Noréna, Eidé
Conductors: Défosse, Henri; Coppola, Piero; Messner, Joseph

Prima Voce - Ernestine Schumann-Heink

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia; Luigi Arditi: Leggero invisible "Bolero"; John Joseph Becker: Frühlingszeit; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète; Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Götter...
Performers: Schumann-Heink, Ernestine; Witherspoon, Herbert
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario