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The Erato Recitals / Soprano Sumi Jo (10 CDs)

10 CD / Erato / 2012-01-31

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Semiramide; Tancredi; Les soirées musicales; L'assedio di Corinto; Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; I Puritani, opera; I Capuleti e Montecchi; ...
Performers: Arevalo, Octavio; Bach, Gottfried; Barritt, Paul; Bennett, William; Black, Neil; Conlon, James; Davis, Mike [Violin]; Gerhardt, Alban [Cello]; Graham, Susan; Jo, Sumi; Kurosaki, Hiro; Maugue, Anne; R...
Conductors: Olmi, Paolo; Jordan, Armin; Montgomery, Kenneth; Carella, Giuliano; Bibl, Rudolf; Stratta, Ettore; Conlon, James; Schneider, Michael
Ensemble: ; Cappella Coloniensis

Praised for the remarkable agility, precision and warmth of her voice, and for her outstanding musicianship, Sumi Jo has established herself as one of her...continue...

Christmas by the Bach family / Schlick, Lins, Helling and Jochens

1 CD / Capriccio / 2011-10-25

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248; Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach: Die Kindheit Jesu; Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme; Johann Ludwig Bach: Uns ist ein Kind geboren, motet for 8 vo...
Performers: Jochens, Wilfried; Lins-Reuber, Martina; Schlick, Barbara [Soprano Vocal]; Scholl, Elisabeth
Conductors: Otto, Ralf; Max, Hermann; Schneider, Michael
Ensemble: ; Frankfurt Vocal Ensemble

In addition to Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded by many as the greatest composer of all times, other members of this widely ramified family took up...continue...

Sacred Music of the Bach family

5 CD / Capriccio / 2011-05-31

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, motet for chorus, BWV 225 (BC C1); Jesu, meines Herzens Freud', chorale setting for 4 voices, BWV 361 (BC F117.1); Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden...
Performers: Angerhofer, Gunther; Bernstein, Walter Heinz; Beyer, Achim; Burkhardt, Gisela; Eichler, Josephine; Ginzel, Reinhart; Karasiak, Andreas; Krumbiegel, Cornelia; Kunzel, Johannes; Lepetit, Albrecht; Lind...
Conductors: Eschenburg, Hartwig; Max, Hermann; Schneider, Michael; Gruss, Hans
Ensemble: ; Capella Fidicinia Leipzig; Das kleine Konzert; Members of Capella Fidicinia Leipzig

In addition to Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded by many as the greatest composer of all times, other members of this widely ramified family took up...continue...

Telemann: Ich hoffete aufs Licht

1 CD / CPO / 2011-04-26

Works: Georg Philipp Telemann: Ich hoffete aufs Licht, funeral cantata for chorus, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings & continuo, TWV 4
Performers: Cooper, Nils; Hierdeis, Gabriele; Kirchner, Benjamin; Kleindopf, Annegret; Poplutz, Georg; Schreckenberger, Stephan
Conductors: Schneider, Michael

Telemann (1714-1788) wrote funeral compositions for many people, including Charles VII. This funerary music is set in the context of the state compositions ordered by...continue...
Recording information: Konzerthaus Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg (03/20/2010)....continue...

Alessandro Stradella: Christmas Cantatas

1 CD / Deutsche Harmonia Mundi Import / 2009-10-20

Works: Alessandro Stradella: Ah! Troppo è Ver, cantata, for 6 voices, chorus, strings, lute & harp; Si Apra Al Riso Ogni Labbro, cantata, for 3 voices, 2 violins & continuo
Performers: Bach, Mechthild; Pregardien, Christoph; Schlick, Barbara [Soprano Vocal]; Schopper, Michael; Ziesak, Ruth
Conductors: Schneider, Michael
Ensemble: La Stagione Orchestra (Frankfurt)

Recording information: Kirche St. Osdag, Mandelsloh, Germany....continue...

40 Most Beautiful Christmas Classics

2 CD / Warner Classics / 2007-11-13

Works: Christmas Traditional: O come, o come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni, Emmanuel), carol; Gabriel's Message (Basque); In dulci jubilo (Piæ Cantiones); I Wonder As I Wander (American); This is the truth sen...
Performers: Bach, Gottfried; Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Domingo, Placido; George, Michael; Hampson, Thomas; Harjanne, Jouko; Jo, Sumi; Lipovsek, Marjana; Ochs, Barbara; Te Kanawa, Kiri, Dame; Upshaw, Dawn [So...
Conductors: Stapleton, Robin; Higginbottom, Edward; Wolff, Hugh; ; Gardiner, John Eliot; Sutej, Vjekoslav; Schneider, Michael; Scimone, Claudio; Werner, Fritz; Glahe, Will; Cohen, Joel [Early Music]; Lazarev, Al...
Ensemble: ; Concentus Musicus Wien; I Solisti Veneti; Il Giardino Armonico; London Brass; Will Glahe Soloists

Personnel: Marjana Lipovsek , Plácido Domingo, José Carreras , Michael George, Thomas Hampson, Sumi Jo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dawn Upshaw (vocals); Jouko Harjanne (trumpet); Gottfried Bach (forte...continue...

The Christmas Album / Sumi Jo

1 CD / Erato (USA) Import / 2001-09-18

Works: Christmas Traditional: I Wonder As I Wander (American); Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248; Alessandro Scarlatti: Oh di Betlemme altera povertà, chamber cantata for soprano & s...
Performers: Bach, Gottfried; Jo, Sumi; Kurosaki, Hiro
Conductors: Schneider, Michael
Ensemble: Cappella Coloniensis

Recording information: Studio Stolberger Straáe, Cologne, Germany (10/04/1999-10/09/1999).

Celebrated soprano Sumi Jo delivers a warm and bright collection of mostly lesser-known religio...continue...

Telemann: Damon / Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt

3 CD / CPO / 1997-07-01

Works: Georg Philipp Telemann: Die Satyrn in Arkadien (Damon), opera in 3 acts, TWV 21
Performers: Biegel, Erik; Gebhardt, Carl-Christof; Georg, Mechthild; Lunen, Camille van; Monoyios, Ann; Schopper, Michael; Schwarz, Gotthold; Smits, Stefanie
Conductors: Schneider, Michael
Ensemble: La Stagione Vocal Ensemble

"...Damon is apparently the first opera from [Telemann's] pen to come down to us complete...Michael Schneider directs a strong cast in this first recording. Ann...continue...

Holzbauer: Günther von Schwarzburg / Schneider, La Stagione

3 CD / CPO / 1996-04-23

Works: Ignaz Holzbauer: Günther von Schwarzburg, Singspiel
Performers: Bartha, Clarry; McFadden, Claron; Pregardien, Christoph; Schopper, Michael; Worle, Robert
Conductors: Schneider, Michael
Ensemble: La Stagione

"Mozart, who heard this opera in late 1775, wrote that he found its music "incomparably fine, very beautiful," with remarkable fire, better than the text...continue...

Telemann: Hamburgische Kapitänsmusik 1755 / Schneider

2 CD / CPO / 1994-07-01

Works: Georg Philipp Telemann: Ich danke dem Herrn von ganzem Herzen (Psalm 111), for chorus, 2 oboes, piccolo trumpet, strings & c; Ihr rüstigen Wächter hamburgischer Zinnen, serenata for chorus,...
Performers: Bach, Mechthild; Nolte, Raimund; Schopper, Michael; Stapf, Silke; Turk, Gerd
Conductors: Schneider, Michael
Ensemble: La Stagione

Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe / Schneider, Schlick, Monoyios, et al

2 CD / Capriccio / 1994-01-01

Works: Johann Adolf Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe, intermezzo tragico in 2 parts
Performers: Jochens, Wilfried; Monoyios, Ann; Schlick, Barbara [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Schneider, Michael
Ensemble: La Stagione

Telemann: Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho

1 CD / CPO / 1993-09-01

Works: Georg Philipp Telemann: Don Quichotte der Löwenritter, serenata (comic opera) in 3 acts, TWV 21
Performers: Bach, Mechthild; Brandt, Karl-Heinz; Hallaschka, Heike; Nolte, Raimund; Schopper, Michael; Stapf, Silke
Conductors: Schneider, Michael
Ensemble: La Stagione Chorus (Frankfurt)

Gluck: Paride ed Elena / Schneider, Alexander, McFadden

2 CD / Capriccio / 1992-01-01

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: O del mio dolce ardor
Performers: Alexander, Roberta [Soprano Vocals]; Frey, Dorothea; Ganninger, Kerstin; Hoffman, Axel-E; McFadden, Claron
Conductors: Schneider, Michael
Ensemble: La Stagione