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Peter Tchaikovsky: Famous Waltzes / NY Phil., Masur

1 CD / Apex / 2012-10-30

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20; Eugene Onegin, Op. 24; The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66; Hamlet, Op. 67a; The Nutcracker, Op. 71; Symphony no 5 in E minor, Op. 64; Symphony no 6 in B minor, ...
Conductors: Masur, Kurt
Ensemble: ; New York Philharmonic Orchestra

An endlessly fascinating, warmly interpreted performance, the New York Philharmonic presents a gloriously recorded program of 11 of the most beloved waltzes in the classical...continue...
Recording information: Avery Fisher Hall, New York (11/1994)....continue...

Lachrymae: Music for Strings by Henry Purcell, Benjamin Britten, Arvo Part, Michael Tippet et al. / CO of Europe

1 CD / Apex / 2012-06-26

Works: Henry Purcell: Chacony for Strings in G minor, Z 730; Dido and Aeneas; Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae, reflections on a song of Dowland, for viola & string orchestra, Op. 48a; Arvo Pärt: Cantus in ...
Performers: Blankestijn, Marieke; Bone, Nicholas; Bone, Nicolas; Conway, William; Moffat, Vesna Stankovic
Conductors: Egarr, Richard; Conway, William; Boyd, Douglas
Ensemble: ; Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Lachrymae (latin for "tears") is the perfect title for this collection of some of the most visceral music composed in the last four centuries. "The...continue...
Recording information: St John's Smith Square, London, England (03/24/2003/03/31/2003)....continue...

Opera Scenes and Arias; Italian Songs / Ruggero Raimondi

1 CD / Apex / 2011-09-27

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Hector Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, Op. 24; Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Jules Massenet: Don Quich...
Performers: Benedetti, Rene; Bris, Michele Le; Fremeau, Jean-Marie; Jaclin, Meral; Lublin, Elaine; Raimondi, Ruggero
Conductors: Tchakarov, Emil; Scimone, Claudio
Ensemble: ; Paris National Theatre Orchestra

Richard Strauss once was quoted saying, "The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play." Contained...continue...
Recording information: Notre-Dame Du Liban, Paris, France (02/1981); Villa Contarini, Piazzola sul Brenta, Padova, Italy (02/1981); Notre-Dame Du Liban, Paris, France (06/1984); Villa Contarini, Piazz...continue...

Puccini: Arias & Songs / Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano; Roger Vignoles, piano

1 CD / Apex / 2011-08-30

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Le villi; Manon Lescaut; Sole e amore (Mattinata), for voice & piano; La bohème; Canto d'anime, song for voice & piano; Madama Butterfly; La rondine; Morire?, song for ...
Performers: Te Kanawa, Kiri, Dame; Vignoles, Roger [Piano]
Conductors: Nagano, Kent

Artists Kiri Te Kanawa, Kent Nagano and Roger Vignoles join forces with the Orchestre de l'Opera National de Lyon to bring together this incredible recording...continue...
Recording information: Opéra National de Lyon (05/14/1996-05/22/1996)....continue...

Mozart, Handel: Opera Arias / Jennifer Larmore

1 CD / Apex / 2011-05-31

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La finta semplice; Le nozze di Figaro; La clemenza di Tito; Mitridate, re di Ponto; La finta giardiniera; Così fan tutte, K 588; George Frederick Handel: Serse; Hercules...
Performers: Friedli, Thomas; Larmore, Jennifer
Conductors: López-Cobos, Jesús

Recording information: Auditorium Stravinski, Montreux (10/1994)....continue...

Operatic Duets for Baritone & Bass / Hampson, Ramey

1 CD / Apex / 2011-03-29

Works: Domenico Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto; Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Marino Faliero; Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Attila; Don Carlos; Boccanegra; Un giorno di regno (Il ...
Performers: Hampson, Thomas; Ramey, Samuel [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Martin, Miguel Angel Gomez

Recording information: Studio 1, Bayerischer Rundfunk (07/1997)....continue...

Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; Night on the Bare Mountain; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol

1 CD / Apex / 2010-11-30

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel; Night on Bald Mountain (Noch' na Lïsoy gore), symphonic poem, edited by Rimsky-Kor...

Lettera Amorosa

1 CD / Apex / 2010-10-19

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 7; L'Incirinazione Di Poppea; Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger: Toccata for lute no 6; Sigismondo d'India: Vostro fui, vostro son e sarò vostro, for voice & lut...

Wagner: Siegfried [Highlights]

1 CD / Apex / 2010-10-19

Works: Richard Wagner: Siegfried

Gludk: Orfeo dd Euridice [Highlights]

1 CD / Apex / 2010-10-19

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo

Berlioz: Grande Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale; Overtures

2 CD / Apex / 2010-10-19

Works: Hector Berlioz: Symphonie funèbre et triomphale, for band, strings & chorus, Op. 15; La Mort de Cléopâtre, for soprano & orchestra, H.36; Benvenuto Cellini, Op. 23, Overture; Le car...

Lully: Les Comedies-ballets; Phaeton

2 CD / Apex / 2010-10-19

Works: Jean-Baptiste Lully: Chaconne "L'Amour Medecin"; Les plaisirs, ballet, LWV 2; George Dandin, LWV 38; Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, comédie-ballet, LWV 41; La pastorale comique, comédie-ballet, ...

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"; Festival Coronation March; Gopak

1 CD / Apex / 2010-10-19

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Pathétique Symphony, Op. 74; Mazeppa; Festival Coronation March in D major

Mozart: Idomeneo [Highlights]

1 CD / Apex / 2010-10-19

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo

Massenet: Scènes Dramatiques; Scènes de Féerie; Scènes alsaciennes; Scènes pittoreques

2 CD / Apex / 2010-10-19

Works: Jules Massenet: Suite no 3 for orchestra ("Scènes dramatiques d'après Shakespeare"); Suite no 6 for orchestra ("Scènes de féerie"); Work(s); Scènes alsaciennes; Suite for O...

Handel: Giulio Cesare [Highlights]

1 CD / Apex / 2010-10-19

Works: George Frederick Handel: Giulio Cesare

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo [Highlights]

1 CD / Apex / 2010-10-19

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo

Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito [Highlights]

1 CD / Apex / 2010-10-19

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Clemenza de Tito

Wagner: Das Rheingold [Highlights]

1 CD / Apex / 2010-10-19

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold

Rossini: Arias

1 CD / Apex / 2009-02-17

Works: Gioachino Rossini: La pietra del paragone; Matilde (di) Shabran, opera; Le siège de Corinthe (The Siege of Corinth), opera; Maometto II; Bianca e Falliero; Otello; Armida
Performers: Larmore, Jennifer
Conductors: Carella, Giuliano

Chabrier: España; Suite pastorale; Gwendoline Overture; Bourrée fantasque; Danse slave; Joyeuse Marche

1 CD / Apex / 2008-07-15

Works: Emmanuel Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Marche française), for orchestra or piano, 4 hands; Le roi malgré lui, opéra-comique in 3 acts; Suite pastorale, for orchestra; Gwendoline, ope...
Conductors: Jordan, Armin

Gounod: Faust [Highlights]

1 CD / Apex / 2006-07-04

Works: Charles Gounod: Faust

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, etc / Runnicles, NDR SO Hamburg

1 CD / Apex / 2006-06-02

Works: Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40; Final Scene
Performers: Marc, Alessandra
Conductors: Runnicles, Donald
Ensemble: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra Hamburg

Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain, etc / Saraste, et al

1 CD / Apex / 2006-06-02

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Pictures at an exhibition; Khovanschina; The Capture of Kars (Vzyatiye Karsa), triumphal march for orchestra, edited by Rimsky-Korsakov; Scherzo, for or...
Conductors: Saraste, Jukka-Pekka
Ensemble: Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Handel: Opera Arias for Mezzo Soprano

1 CD / Apex / 2006-01-16

Works: George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; MEDLEY; Partenope; Agrippina; Orlando

Verdi: Rigoletto [Highlights]

1 CD / Apex / 2005-07-04

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto

Beethoven: Fidelio (Highlights) / Harnoncourt, et al

1 CD / Apex / 2002-09-17

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Performers: Bonney, Barbara; Leiferkus, Sergei; Margiono, Charlotte; Polgar, Laszlo; Seiffert, Peter; Van der Walt, Deon
Conductors: Harnoncourt, Nikolaus
Ensemble: Arnold Schoenberg Choir; Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas / Leppard, Troyanos, Stilwell, et al

1 CD / Apex / 2002-09-17

Works: Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z 626
Performers: Gale, Elisabeth; Hodgson, Alfreda; Kern, Patricia; Langridge, Philip; Maxwell, Linn; Palmer, Felicity; Stilwell, Richard; Troyanos, Tatiana
Conductors: Leppard, Raymond
Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

Verdi: Opera Choruses - Aida, Nabucco, Otello, Macbeth, etc

1 CD / Apex / 2002-09-17

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; Macbeth; La battaglia di Legnano; I lombardi; Il Trovatore; Aida, opera; Ave Maria
Conductors: Rizzi, Carlo
Ensemble: Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Chorus; Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra

Mozart: Famous Opera Arias / Bartoli, Gruberova, et al

1 CD / Apex / 2002-07-16

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Così fan tutte, K 588; Die Entführung aus ...
Performers: Bartoli, Cecilia; Blochwitz, Hans-Peter; Bonney, Barbara; Gruberova, Edita; Hampson, Thomas; Hollweg, Werner [Tenor Vocals]; Kenny, Yvonne; Lang, Petra; Langridge, Philip; Margiono, Charlotte; Murray...
Conductors: Harnoncourt, Nikolaus
Ensemble: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Vienna Concentus Musicus; Zurich Opera Orchestra

Wagner: Die Walküre (Highlights) / Barenboim, et al

1 CD / Apex / 2002-05-14

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre
Performers: Bundschuh, Eva-Maria; Close, Shirley; Dijkstra, Hebe; Elming, Poul; Evans, Anne; Finnie, Linda [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Floeren, Ruth; Hölle, Matthias; Johansson, Eva; Katagiri, Hitomi; Secunde, ...

Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, etc / Davis

1 CD / Apex / 2002-02-19

Works: Frederick Delius: Paris; In a Summer Garden, rhapsody for orchestra, RT vi/17; Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody; A Village Romeo and Juliet; Pieces (2) for small orchestra, RT vi/19
Conductors: Davis, Andrew