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The Heartfelt Voice - Heinz Hoppe, tenor [4 CDs]

4 CD / Acanta / 2012-09-25

Works: Werner Bochmann: Heimat, deine Sterne, song for voice & piano; Abends in der Taverne, song; Robert Stolz: Vor meinem Vaterhaus steht eine Linde; Karl Blume: Grün ist die Heide, song (from the fi...
Performers: Bak, Valerie; Bartos, Rita; Hallstein, Ingeborg [Soprano Vocals]; Hansen, Max; Hofmann, Willi; Hoppe, Heinz; Langel, Willy [Vocals]; Litz, Gisela; Owen, Chloe; Rothenberger, Anneliese; Schlemm, Anny;...
Conductors: Becht, Erich; Stolz, Robert; Marszalek, Franz; Stephan, Wilhelm; Schandert, Manfred; Muller-Lampertz, Richard; Cremer, Curt; Schmidt-Boelcke, Werner; Burkhardt, Paul; Erede, Alberto; Martin, Wolfgang...

Heinz Hoppe was been the incarnation of the "olk singer": that rare species of singer possessing the necessary vocal qualities to pursue a career in...continue...

Peter Schreier: Songs and Arias

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2011-06-14

Works: Peter Cornelius: Weihnachtslieder (Christmas Carols), Op. 8; Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio), BWV 248; Matthäuspassion (St. Matthew Passion), BWV 244; Cantata no ...
Performers: Adam, Karl-Dietfried; Dermoy, Claude; Merker, Karl-Ernst; Olbertz, Walter; Ragossnig, Konrad; Schreier, Peter; Shetler, Norman; Vogel, Siegfried; Wustmann, Erika
Conductors: Flämig, Martin; Koch, Helmut; Suitner, Otmar; Kurz, Siegfried; Klee, Bernhard; Mauersberger, Erhard; Mauersberger, Rudolf; Sanderling, Kurt; Hanell, Robert; Kegel, Herbert; Schreier, Peter

Whether as tenor or as lieder singer, Peter Schreier sets standards across the genres. This compilation takes a good hour to review the many facets...continue...

Icon: Fritz Wunderlich - A Poet among Tenors

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-09-14

Works: Heinrich Finck: O schönes Weib; Heinrich Isaac: Mein Freud allein, song for 4 voices; Adam Krieger: Amanda, darf man dich wohl küssen?, song for voice & ensemble; Johann Sebastian Bach: Was...
Performers: Baumgartner, Georg; Cordes, Marcel; Engen, Keith; Frick, Gottlob; Grummer, Elisabeth; Hildebrand, Helga; Kastner, Gerhard; Kupper, Annelies; Lorengar, Pilar; Mathis, Edith; Muszely, Melitta; Naumann,...
Conductors: Forster, Karl; Müller-Kray, Hans; Klobucar, Berislav; Rothe, Ernst; Heger, Robert; Walter, Fried; Schmidt-Bolcke, Werner; Michalski, Carl; Moltkau, Hans; Zanotelli, Hans; Stein, Horst; Kempe, Ru...

Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich was born into a musical family - his father was a choir director, his mother a violinist. As a young...continue...

Icon: Nicolai Gedda

11 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-03-23

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 189, "Meine Seele rühmt und priest" (by Melchior Hoffmann), BWV 189; Cantata no 55, "Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht," BWV 55; Cantata no 160, "Ich weis...
Performers: Blanc, Ernest; Callas, Maria; Ciccolini, Aldo [Piano]; Clark, Raymond; Downes, Ralph; Dupré, Desmond; Eyron, Jan; Freni, Mirella; Gedda, Nicolai; Halverson, Alan [Organ]; Malcolm, George; Mall...
Conductors: ; Prêtre, Georges; Cluytens, André; Klemperer, Otto; Wangenheim, Volker; Heger, Robert; Bender, Heinrich; Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafae; Galliera, Alceo; Froment, Louis de; Dervaux, Pierre...
Ensemble: ; Balalaika-Ensemble Tschaika; Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Orchestra

Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda was a famous opera singer and recitalist. Having made some two hundred recordings, Gedda is said to be the most widely...continue...

Verstummte Stimmen

4 CD / Membran / 2008-11-04

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Idomeneo; Don Giovanni; Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Ab...
Performers: Alpar, Gitta; Anday, Rosette; Berg, Johannes; Hussa, Maria; Jager, Robert [Piano]; Janssen, Herbert; Jokl, Fritzi; Kalter, Sabine; Kipnis, Alexander; Lehmann, Lotte; Massary, Fritzi; Metzger, Ottilie...
Conductors: Sebastian, Georges; Knappertsbusch, Hans; Moralt, Rudolf; Paumgartner, Bernhard; Prüwer, Julius; Goehr, Walter; Hauke, Ernst; Weissmann, Frieder; Günther, Felix; Dobrindt, Otto; Meyrowitz, ...

2008 four CD set. Verstummte Stimmen (Voices Falling Silent) is an exposition in Germany in honor of the artists from the opera and concert houses...continue...

Peter Schreier - Legendary Recordings

6 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Saint John Passion, BWV 245; Mass in B minor, BWV 232; Es kostet viel, ein Christ zu sein, for voice & continuo (Schemelli Gesangbuch no 522), BWV 459 (BC; Ich halte treulich s...
Performers: Adam, Karl-Dietried; Bernstein, Walter Heinz; Beyer, Achim; Güttler, Ludwig; Hauschild, Wolf-Dieter; Heidrich, Gunter; Köbler, Robert; Losche, Siegfried; Mauersberger, Rudolf; Olbertz, Walt...
Conductors: Suitner, Otmar; Klee, Bernhard; Kurz, Siegfried; Koch, Helmut; Rotzsch, Hans-Joachim; Flämig, Martin; Kegel, Herbert; Hanell, Robert
Ensemble: ; New Bach Collegium Musicum Leipzig

Renowned as a lyric tenor, Peter Schreier has specialized in Mozart roles since his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 1967, and has expressed a...continue...

Eterna Collection - Grosse Sänger der Vergangenheit / Ludwig

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; François-Adrien Boieldieu: La dame blanche; Friedrich von Flotow: Alessandro...
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Ludwig, Walther; Schmitt-Walter, Karl
Conductors: Rother, Artur; Stein, Horst; Leitner, Ferdinand; Steinkopf, Hans; Lehmann, Fritz
Ensemble: ; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Stuttgart State Orchestra

Walther Ludwig was born the son of a businessman in Bad Oeynhausen and was initially studying medicine when, just for fun, sang for a friend...continue...

Peter Schreier: Arien aus Opern

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte, K 588; Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; La finta semplice, K 51 (46a); Don Giovanni; Idomeneo; La Cle...
Performers: Dormoy, Claude; Mercker, Karl-Ernst; Schreier, Peter
Conductors: Suitner, Otmar; Klee, Bernhard; Kurz, Siegfried; Koch, Helmut

Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor / Klee, Mathis

2 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Performers: Donath, Helen [Soprano Vocal]; Dormoy, Claude; Ludwig, Kurt; Mathis, Edith; Mercker, Karl-Ernst; Moll, Kurt; Schreier, Peter; Schunk, Heinz; Schwarz, Hanna; Vocals], Bernd Weikl [Baritone; Vogel, Sie...
Conductors: Klee, Bernhard
Ensemble: Berlin State Opera Chorus

Eterna - Nicolai: Die Lustige Weiber von Windsor / Klee

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Performers: Donath, Helen [Soprano Vocal]; Dormoy, Claude; Ludwig, Kurt; Mathis, Edith; Mercker, Karl-Ernst; Moll, Kurt; Schreier, Peter; Schwarz, Hanna; Vocals], Bernd Weikl [Baritone; Vogel, Siegfried

The Hamburg Singers

4 CD / Preiser / 2004-06-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Tannhäuser; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; The Flying Dutchman; Das Rheingold; Parsifal; Die Walküre; Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; Gaetano Donizetti: ...
Performers: Ader, Rose; Ahlersmeyer, Mathieu; Alten, Bella; Ammermann, Liselott; Armster, Carl; Bötel, Heinrich; Berlik, Jan; Birrenkoven, Willi; Bockelmann, Rudolf; Bollman, Hans Heinz; Bronsgeest, Corneli...

The Very Best of Fritz Wunderlich

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2003-04-22

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Così fan tutte, K 588; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620;...
Performers: Lorengar, Pilar; Mathis, Edith; Schmidt, Liselotte; Schock, Rudolf [Tenor Vocal]; Wunderlich, Fritz
Conductors: Zanotelli, Hans; Stein, Horst; Klobucar, Berislav; Müller-Kray, Hans; Konwitschny, Franz; Heger, Robert; Kempe, Rudolf; Walter, Fried; Schmidt-Bolcke, Werner; Moltkau, Hans; Michalski, Carl; Eis...
Ensemble: ; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra; Bavarian State Orchestra; Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Berlin Symphony Orchestra; FFB Orchestra; Graunke Symphony Orchestra

Nicolai: Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor / Altmann, et al

2 CD / Gala / 2003-03-06

Works: Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor; Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff
Performers: Bugarinovic, Melanie; Dermota, Anton [Tenor Vocals]; Ebers, Clara; Hann, Georg; Kern, Adele; Kronenberg, Carl; Kuen, Paul; Kusche, Benno; Misske, Gerhard; Mosch, Karl; Muhlenbeck, Maria; Nerz, Gisa; ...
Conductors: Altmann, Hans; Krauss, Clemens
Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Vienna State Opera Chorus

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, et al: Arias /Patzak, Martin, et al

1 CD / Pearl / 2002-03-26

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Saint John Passion, BWV 245; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Don Giovanni; Così fan tutte, ...
Performers: Patzak, Julius; Runger, Gertrud; Rupp, Franz
Conductors: Melichar, Alois; Böhm, Karl; Weigert, Herman; Blech, Leo; Prüwer, Julius; Gurlitt, Manfred; Martin, Wolfgang
Ensemble: ; Vienna State Opera Orchestra

Julius Patzak - The Early Operatic Recordings 1929-1938

2 CD / Preiser / 1999-02-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Aida, opera; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; Jules Massenet: Manon; Werther; Bedrich Smetana: Prodaná nevesta (The Bartered Bride), opera, JB 1; Pyo...
Performers: Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Patzak, Julius; Runger, Gertrud
Conductors: Gurlitt, Manfred; Weigert, Herman; Melichar, Alois; Blech, Leo; Martin, Wolfgang; Schuler, Johannes

Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor / Rother, Beilke, et al

2 CD / Preiser / 1998-06-01

Works: Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor; Lieder und Gesänge (6); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Peter ...
Performers: Beilke, Irma; Florian, Hans; Hann, Georg; Heyer, Edwin; Hoffmann, Lore; Ludwig, Walther; Nissen, Hans-Heinz; Strienz, Wilhelm; Windisch, Ludwig
Conductors: Rother, Artur; Steinkopf, Hans

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Herbert Ernst Groh

1 CD / Preiser / 1997-02-18

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Gioachino Rossini: Semiramide; Gaetano Do...
Performers: Alpar, Gitta; Bettendorf, Emmy; Groh, Herbert Ernst
Conductors: Heger, Robert; Dobrindt, Otto; Weissmann, Frieder