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Hector Berlioz: Les Troyens

4 CD / Testament / 2009-08-11

Works: Hector Berlioz: Les Troyens, opera, H. 133a; Spoken Word: Jon Vickers in conversation with Jon Tolansky
Performers: Allman, Robert; Carlyle, Joan; Davies, Rhoderick; Elms, Lauris; Evans, Edgar; Kelly, David C. [Bass Vocal]; Langdon, Michael; Lewis, Ronald; Robinson, Forbes; Rouleau, Joseph; Shuard, Amy; Thebom, Bl...
Conductors: Kubelik, Rafael
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

From our privileged position, half a century on, there may be a temptation to feel superior and to undervalue the 1957 Covent Garden Trojans and...continue...

French Opera Arias

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2006-07-04

Works: François Bazin: Maître Pathelin; Jules Massenet: Le Cid; Luigi Cherubini: Les abencérages; Charles Gounod: Mireille; André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry: L' Amant jaloux (Les Fausses...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Ellis, James; Foster, Lucy; Fyfe, Elizabeth
Conductors: De Billy, Bertrand
Ensemble: London Voices; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

Gramophone wrote of this album of French Opera Arias: "A fine recital by Alagna which finds him in good voice and exploiting a sensitive feeling...continue...
This disc received the 2001 Gramophone magazine award for "Best Recital Recording."...continue...

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini; Auber / Pritchard, Gedda

3 CD / Gala / 2004-06-05

Works: Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, opera Op. 23; Les nuits d'été, Op. 7, song cycle; Jean-Philippe Rameau: Castor et Pollux; Daniel-François Auber: La muette de Portici
Performers: Bisson, Napoleon; Bruyere, Jules; Dobson, John; Gedda, Nicolai; Godfrey, Victor; Massard, Robert; Minton, Yvonne; Vaughan, Elizabeth; Ward, David
Conductors: Pritchard, John; Ehrling, Sixten
Ensemble: ; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, etc / Graham, Nelson

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1997-07-15

Works: Hector Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7, song cycle; La damnation de Faust, Op. 24; Benvenuto Cellini, opera Op. 23; Les Troyens, opera, H. 133a; Béatrice et Bénédic...
Performers: Graham, Susan
Conductors: Nelson, John
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

"It would be hard to imagine a move inspiriting and rewarding display of Berlioz singing than this from a singer who has the composer's style...continue...