Smetana, Bedrich > Kempe, Rudolf

Essential Encores - Over 2 hours of great classical showpieces

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-10-09

Works: Antonio Bazzini: La ronde des lutins, Op. 25; Niccolò Paganini: Caprices (24) for Violin solo, Op. 1; Fritz Kreisler: La Gitana; Jules Massenet: Meditation (from "Thaïs"); Aram Khachaturian...
Performers: Adni, Daniel [Piano]; Alagna, Roberto; Alexeev, Dmitri; Andsnes, Leif Ove; Antonsen, Ole Edvard; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Balsom, Alison; Barrueco, Manuel; Bostridge, Ian; Brightman,...
Conductors: ; Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Kempe, Rudolf; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Jansons, Mariss; Litton, Andrew; Karajan, Herbert von; Paavo, Järvi; Fisch, Asher; Barker, John
Ensemble: ; Nash Ensemble; Virtuosi

Essential Classics is a series of 2-CD sets drawn from the catalogs of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics. Presenting the bestloved and most popular works...continue...

Essential Overtures - Over 2 hours of thrilling overtures (overture highlights only)

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-06-05

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; La scala di seta; Guillaume Tell; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro; Don Giovanni; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; George Frederi...
Conductors: Giulini, Carlo Maria; Gelmetti, Gianluigi; Gardelli, Lamberto; Davis, Colin; Willcocks, David; Muti, Riccardo; Rodzinski, Artur; Kempe, Rudolf; Tausky, Vilem; Marriner, Sir Neville; Karajan, Herbert ...

50 Best Overtures [3 CDs]

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-22

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; La scala di seta; Il Signor Bruschino; Tancredi; Overture to L'italiana in Algeri; Overture to Guillaume Tell; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro;...
Conductors: Giulini, Carlo Maria; Gelmetti, Gianluigi; Gardelli, Lamberto; Davis, Colin; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Muti, Riccardo; Marriner, Sir Neville; Rodzinski, Artur; Lanchbery, John; Kempe, Rudolf; Serafi...

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...

The Record of Singing Vol 5 - From the LP to the Digital Era

10 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-03-10

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Die Walküre; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt (The...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Aler, John [Tenor Vocal]; Allen, Thomas; Alva, Luigi [Tenor Vocals]; Ameling, Elly [Soprano Vocals]; Anderson, June [Soprano Vocal]; Andre, Maurice; Angelici, Martha; Argenta, Nancy;...
Conductors: Ludwig, Leopold; Konwitschny, Franz; Dobroven, Issay; Weigert, Herman; Prêtre, Georges; Cluytens, André; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Karajan, Herbert von; Kempe, Rudolf; Susskind, Walter; Bl...
Ensemble: ; Collegium Vocale (Ghent); Consort of Musicke; Ensemble Artaserse; Ensemble Orchestral de Paris; Fretwork; Hespèrion XX ; Il Complesso Barocco; Il Seminario Musicale; La Grande Écurie et ...

EMI Classics is proud to present two 10-CD boxed sets of 'The Record of Singing'. Together this collection offers a breath-taking overview of the past...continue...

Best Encores 100

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-02-24

Works: Antonio Bazzini: La ronde des lutins, Op. 25; Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for Violin solo no 3 in C major, BWV 1005; Cantata no 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben," BWV 147 (BC A174); Orchestral...
Performers: Adni, Daniel [Piano]; Ainsley, John Mark; Alagna, Roberto; Alexeev, Dmitri; Alpher, David; Anderson, June [Soprano Vocal]; Andre, Maurice; Andsnes, Leif Ove; Antonsen, Ole Edvard; Argerich, Martha [P...
Conductors: ; Paavo, Järvi; Litton, Andrew; Warren-Green, Christopher; Kempe, Rudolf; Friisholm, Lavard; Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Jansons, Mariss; Karajan, Herbert von; Tennstedt, Klaus; ...
Ensemble: ; Nash Ensemble; Virtuosi

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

Smetana: Bartered Bride Suite; Dvorak, Humperdinck / Kempe

1 CD / Testament / 2003-02-01

Works: Bedrich Smetana: Prodaná nevesta (The Bartered Bride), opera, JB 1; Antonin Dvorák: Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66/B 131; Engelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel, opera
Conductors: Kempe, Rudolf
Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

"These are great recordings. Kempe had Beecham's orchestra, and it was one of the three of four best in the world at the time. EMI...continue...

Schubert, Mendelssohn, Weber, Smetana: Overtures / Kempe

1 CD / Testament / 2003-01-01

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, in B minor Op. 26 "Fingal's Cave"; Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon, J 306; Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek: Donna Diana, overture to the opera; Otto Nicolai: Die lustige...
Conductors: Kempe, Rudolf
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra