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100 Best Soprano Arias

6 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2011-10-11

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata BWV 51; Cantata no 208, "Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!" (Hunt) BWV 208; George Frederick Handel: Messiah; Joshua; Rinaldo; Alcina; Serse; Il Trionfo del Temp...
Performers: Anderson, June [Soprano Vocal]; Argenta, Nancy; Augér, Arleen; Behrens, Hildegard; Bella, Benito di; Caballé, Montserrat; Callas, Maria; Ciofi, Patrizia; Crespin, Régine; Croisie...
Conductors: Huggett, Monica; Schreier, Peter; Parrott, Andrew; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Fischer, Georg; Trevor, Kirk; Hickox, Richard; Haïm, Emmanuelle; Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Barbirolli, John; Rousset, Ch...
Ensemble: ; Europa Galante; Le Concert d'Astrée ; Les Talens Lyriques; Sonnerie; Taverner Players

Festival Of Nine Lessons / King's College Choir

2 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2009-12-08

Works: Henry John Gauntlett: Once in Royal David's City, carol; Spoken Word: Bidding Prayer - The Lord's Prayer - Blessing; First Lesson - Genesis 3; Second Lesson - Genesis 22; Third Lesson - Isaiah 9; Fou...
Performers: Bagnall, Chris [spoken word]; Cleobury, Stephen [Organ/Conductor]; Harrison, Ross [spoken word]; Lloyd-Morgan, Richard; Musallam, Basim [spoken word]; Richardson, Ashley; Robinson, Joel; Robinson, Ni...
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen

This new, live, complete recording of the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols from Christmas Eve 2008 includes traditional hymns, modern carols, old favorites and...continue...
Recording information: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge (12/24/2008)....continue...

Encore - Scarlatti: Te Deum, Stabat Mater, Magnificat, etc / Stephen Cleobury, King's College Choir, Cambridge

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2009-03-10

Works: Domenico Scarlatti: Te Deum, motet for double chorus & organ in C major; Stabat Mater, for double chorus & continuo in C minor; Miserere in E minor; Magnificat in D minor, for chorus; Laetatus sum, m...
Performers: Butler, Richard; Crouch, Joseph; Daly, Nicholas; Grote, Ashley; Hyde, Daniel; Mead, Timothy
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen
Ensemble: King's College Choir, Cambridge

Elections Classiques 2007 - Coffret 50 Airs Prefer

4 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2008-08-05

Works: Franz Schubert: Trio pour Piano, Violon et Violoncelle no 2 en mi bémol majeur D. 929; Ave Maria; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie no 9 en ré mineur Op. 125 -; Concerto for Piano no 5 "Emper...
Performers: Asperen, Bob van; Bonney, Barbara; Braley, Frank; Bruscantini, Sesto; Callas, Maria; Cals, Isabelle; Capuçon, Gautier; Capuçon, Renaud; Cavallier, Nicolas; Collard, Jean-Phillipe; Dessa...
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir; Muti, Riccardo; Vonk, Hans; Serafin, Tullio; Barenboim, Daniel; Harding, Daniel; Marin, Ion; Willcocks, David; Karajan, Herbert von; Klemperer, Otto; Munch, Charles; Paavo, Jä...

Mozart: Airs sacrés

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2008-06-03

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Grabmusik, K. 42; Vesperae de Dominica, K. 321; Messe en ut mineur, K. 427; Motet, K. 165; Litaniae Lauretanae, K. 195; Davidde penitente, K. 469; Vesperae solennes de confes...
Performers: Caswell, Edward; Fowler-Watt, Andrew; Hendricks, Barbara [Soprano Vocal]; Sillman, Justin
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville

Triples - Bach: Favorite Organ Works / Werner Jacob

3 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2008-03-25

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Partite sopra Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig, BWV 768; Trio Sonata for Organ no 4 in E minor, BWV 528; Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564; Prelude and Fugue, fo...
Performers: Jacob, Werner

Fauré: Requiem; Pavane; Duruflé: Requiem

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2007-11-06

Works: Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48; Pavane, Op. 50; Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
Performers: Butt, John [Organ, Conductor]; Morris, Gareth; Wells, John [classical organ]
Conductors: Willcocks, David; Ledger, Philip, Sir

BBC Music Magazine
Cherished memories for those who discovered the Fauré via this landmark recording, though it has not aged well. Ledger's Duruflé is much less...continue...

Debut - Hyunah Yu - Bach, Mozart: Arias

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2007-01-16

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 32 "Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen" BWV 32; Cantata no 202, "Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten" ("Wedding Cantata") BWV 202; Saint Matthew Passion, BWV 244; Cantata...
Performers: Borovka, Vladislav; Fiser, Jan; Klecka, Pavel; Pospisil, Lukas; Sevcik, Jiri; St'astny, Frantisek; Yu, Hyunah
Conductors: Sato, Shuntaro

"As a calling-card for a young singer entering the profession, Hyunah Yu's ambitious recital shows enough genuine quality to justify EMI's obvious faith in this...continue...

Tenor

2 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2007-01-16

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; La Rondine; Le Villi; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Messa di Gloria; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Don Carlos; Requiem Mass; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor...
Performers: Airizer, Czaba; Alagna, Roberto; Alain, Marie-Claire; Dessay, Natalie; Facini, Enrico; Fissore, Enrico; Gheorghiu, Angela; Hampson, Thomas; Mula-Tchako, Inva; Quemener, Yann-Armel; Vaduva, Leontina; ...
Conductors: Pappano, Antonio; Pidò, Evelino; Plasson, Michel; Armstrong, Richard; Nelson, John; Abbado, Claudio
Ensemble: ; Maitrise de Ste.-Marie d'Antony; Paris Opera Children's Chorus

In this compilation the incomparable tenor Roberto Alagna sings with some of the world's greatest artists including Natalie Dessay, Thomas Hampson, Claudio Abbado, Angel Gheorghiu,...continue...

Best Baroque 100

6 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2006-06-26

Performers: André, Maurice [trumpet]; Argenta, Nancy; Asperen, Bob van; Augér, Arleen; Banchini, Chiara; Beckett, Rachel; Bennett, Mark; Blythe, Stephanie; Boothby, Richard; Bowman, James; Brosse, ...
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen; Hickox, Richard; ; Parrott, Andrew; Haïm, Emmanuelle; Leonhardt, Gustav; Norrington, Roger; Nelson, John; Rooley, Anthony; Rees, Jonathan; McCreesh, Paul; Kraemer, Nicholas; S...
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music; Academy of London; Boston Early Music Festival Choir; Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra; Capella Agostino Steffani; Choir of the Age of Enlightenment; City of London Bar...

EMI's collection 100 Best Baroque includes a generous 460 minutes of some of the most familiar works or movements from works written during the Baroque era. There is a good mix of genres, including wo...continue...

The Da Vinci Collection

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2006-05-16

Works: Guillaume Dufay: Missa L'Homme armé, for 4 voices; Ce moys de may, rondeau for 3 voices; Johannes Ockeghem: Ma bouche rit, chanson for 3 voices; Missa prolationum, for 4 voices; Josquin Desprez:...
Performers: Balloy, Philippe; Beavan, David; Becu, Wim; Bona, Jacques; Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Brett, Charles; Brookes, Oliver; Chance, Michael; Corkhill, David [Conductor]; Covey-Crump, Rogers; Dani...
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Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London; Ensemble Gilles Binchois; Ricercare-Ensemble für Alte Musik, Zürich ; The Hilliard Ensemble

Most Relaxing Mozart Album in the World...Ever!

2 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2006-03-21

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no 36 in C major, K 425 "Linz"; Concerto for Horn no 2 in E flat major, K 417; Gran Partita; Sonata for Piano no 4 in E flat major, K 282 (189g); Concerto for Piano ...
Performers: Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Dawson, Lynne; Koch, Lothar; Layton, Stephen; Leister, Karl; Piesk, Gunter; Tetzlaff, Christian [Violin]; Tuckwell, Barry [French Horn]
Conductors: Tate, Jeffrey; Marriner, Sir Neville; ; Barenboim, Daniel; Karajan, Herbert von; Tetzlaff, Christian; Cleobury, Stephen
Ensemble: ; Cambridge Classical Players; Consortium Classicum; Nash Ensemble

Vivaldi, et al: Works for Violin and Orchestra / Mutter

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2005-03-01

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Autumn (The Four Seasons); Concerto for Violin, strings & continuo in D major, RV 218; Jules Massenet: Meditation (from "Thaïs"); Pablo de Sarasate: Ziegeunerweisen
Performers: Karajan, Herbert von; Mutter, Anne-Sophie; Read, William Tim; Scholz, Rudolf
Conductors: Hink, Werner; Muti, Riccardo; Karajan, Herbert von; Ozawa, Seiji

Fauré: Requiem, Messe basse / Ledger, Augér, Luxon, et al

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2005-03-01

Works: Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48; Messe basse, for solo voices, chorus & organ
Performers: Butt, John [Organ, Conductor]
Conductors: Ledger, Philip, Sir
Ensemble: King's College Choir, Cambridge

The Faure Requiem is one of those rare French choral works which has traveled well outside of France. In fact, it can almost be described...continue...

Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartcia; Serenade to Music / Handley

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2005-03-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to music; Partita for double string orchestra; Symphony no 7 for soprano, small female chorus & orchestra with narrator ad lib ("Sinfonia Antarti
Performers: Hargan, Alison; Tracey, Ian
Conductors: Handley, Vernon

Carols from King's College

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2005-03-01

Works: Henry John Gauntlett: Once in Royal David's City, carol; Christmas Traditional: Angels From the Realms Of Glory; O Little Town of Bethlehem; In dulci jubilo (Piæ Cantiones); The First Nowell (E...
Performers: Ledger, Philip, Sir; Philip Jones Brass Ensemble; Willcocks, David, Sir [Choral Conductor]

Best of Sir John Tavener

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2005-03-01

Works: John Tavener: Funeral Ikos, for chorus; The Lamb "Little Lamb, who made thee?"; A Hymn to the Mother of God; The Protecting Veil; Angels; Lament of the Mother of God; Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, fo...
Performers: Dunnett, David; Isserlis, Steven
Conductors: Backhouse, Jeremy; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Hill, David; Cleobury, Stephen

Gemini - Poulenc: Sacred and Secular Works

2 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2004-08-10

Works: Francis Poulenc: Exultate Deo; Litanies à la vierge noire de Rocamadour; Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence, for chorus, FP 97; Salve Regina; Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue (4), ...
Performers: Alain, Marie-Claire
Conductors: Alldis, John
Ensemble: Groupe Vocal de France

Bach: Cantata no 82; Brahms / Hans Hotter

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2004-03-23

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 82, "Ich habe genug" BWV 82; Johannes Brahms: Serious Songs (4), Op. 121; Feldeinsamkeit, Op. 86/2; Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 105; Sonntag; Songs (5) for voic...
Performers: Hotter, Hans; Jones, Geraint; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Sutcliffe, Sidney
Conductors: Bernard, Anthony
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

Handel: Messiah / Sargent, Morison, Thomas, Lewis, Milligan

2 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2003-08-05

Works: George Frederick Handel: Der Messias
Performers: Chadwick, Eric; Lewis, Richard [Tenor Vocal]; Milligan, James; Morison, Elsie
Conductors: Sargent, Malcolm, Sir
Ensemble: Huddersfield Choral Society

DEBUT - Music for Trumpet and Organ / Balsom, Thomas

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2003-02-04

Works: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Mein junges Leben hat ein End, variations for keyboard, SwWV 324; Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita for Violin solo no 2 in D minor, BWV 1004; Henry Purcell: King Arthur, or T...
Performers: Balsom, Alison; Thomas, Quentin

"Balsom has a true soloist's flair with a firm and highly focused sound without a hint of forced tone. Her reading of the Eben is...continue...

Vaughan Williams: The Nine Symphonies, etc / Handley, et al

7 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2003-01-07

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 1 "A sea symphony"; A London Symphony (Symphony no 2) (Original 1913 version); Symphony no 8 in D minor; English Folk Song Suite; Symphony no 3 for soprano or teno...
Performers: Balmain, Ian; Balmer, Christopher; Barlow, Alison; Bell, David [Organ]; Benedict, Roger; Black, Nigel; Chambers, Colin; Hargan, Alison; Jones, Mair; Nolan, David; Rodgers, Joan; Shimell, William; Sma...
Conductors: Handley, Vernon
Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Gramophone
Handley's performances can withstand comparison with the very best.. ..these consistently idiomatic readings will provide many hours of pleasurable listening.'
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Fauré: Requiem, etc / Frémaux, Burrowes, Rayner-Cook, et al

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2002-08-13

Works: Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48; Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11; Ballade for Piano and Orchestra in F sharp major, Op. 19
Performers: Bell, David [Organ]; Burrowes, Norma; Cook, Brian Rayner; Ogdon, John
Conductors: Frémaux, Louis
Ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Faure: Requiem Op.48

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2002-07-29

Works: Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48; Pavane, Op. 50
Performers: Puig-Roget, Henriette
Conductors: Barenboim, Daniel

Recording information: Paris, Salle Wagram (01/1974-02/1974)....continue...

Elgar: Enigma Variations, etc; Vaughan Williams: Fantasias

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2002-05-07

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The lark ascending; Fantasia on Greensleeves; Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Edward Elgar: Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20; Enigma Variations
Performers: Bell, David [Organ]; Chambers, Colin; Jones, Mair; Nolan, David
Conductors: Handley, Vernon
Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Hindemith: Kammermusik no 2, 3, 6 & 7 / Abbado, Vogt, et al

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2002-03-05

Works: Paul Hindemith: Kammermusik no 2, for piano & 12 instruments, Op. 36/1; Kammermusik no 3, for cello and 10 instruments, Op. 36/2; Kammermusik no 6, for viola d'amore & chamber orchestra, Op. 46/1; Ka...
Performers: Christ, Wolfram [Viola]; Faust, Georg; Vogt, Lars; Wayne Marshall [Piano/Organ]
Conductors: Abbado, Claudio
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Christmas Music from King's /Willcocks, King's College Choir

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2001-09-04

Works: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Hodie Christus natus est; Tomás Luis de Victoria: O magnum mysterium; Senex puerum portabat; William Byrd...
Performers: Andrew Davis [Conductor/Organ]; Kampen, Christopher van; King's College Choir, Cambridge; Spencer, Robert [Lute]; Whittaker, Douglas
Conductors: Willcocks, David

Personnel: Robert Spencer (flute); Andrew Davis (organ).

Recording information: King's College Chapel, Cambridge, England (08/05/1964-08/05/1965)....continue...

Clérambault: Livre d'orgue - chants du salut / Boyer, et al

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2001-04-03

Works: Louis-Nicolas Clérambault: Motet pour le Roy, la Reine et le Dauphin; Suite du premier ton, alternated with chant from a Magnificat; Pour un Salut du Saint Sacrement (Benediction of the Holy Sac...
Performers: Boyer, Jean; Mandrin, Emmanuel

References - Bach: Matthäus-Passion / Wilhelm Furtwängler

2 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2001-03-06

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Saint Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Performers: Boskovsky, Willi; Brabec, Emanuel; Dermota, Anton [Tenor Vocals]; Edelmann, Otto; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Grummer, Elisabeth; Heiller, Anton; Kamesch, Hans; Reznicek, Hans; Schutz, Franz
Conductors: Furtwängler, Wilhelm

The Original Four Seasons / Vanessa-Mae

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 1999-03-09

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; Giuseppe Tartini: Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo in G minor, Op. 1 no 4 "Devil's Trill"; Vanessa-Mae: Devil's Tri...
Performers: Blanc, Frédéric; Bourre, Jean-Luc; Cazauran, Bernard; Chaves, Ana Bela; Dimcevsky, Blagoya; Eschkenazy, Vesko; ewski, Tomasz; Gridtchouk, Andrei; Kholodenko, Anton; Kobayashi, Tamiko; P...
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Ensemble: Laureate

Personnel: Tamiko Kobayashi, Yuri Zhislin, Vasko Vassilev (violin); Andrew Shulman (cello).

The main question here is what they mean by "original," since this performance is based on the usual ...continue...

English Anthems / Cleobury, Choir of King's College

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 1993-06-08

Works: Charles Wood: Hail, gladdening light; Edgar Leslie Bainton: And I Saw a New Heaven, anthem for chorus & organ; John Ireland: Greater love hath no man; William H. Harris: Faire Is the Heaven, for chor...
Performers: Datnow, Robert; Hughes, Christopher; King's College Choir, Cambridge; Pearce, Michael; Rangarajan, Gautam; Rice, Robert W.; Robinson, Paul [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Rose, Thomas; Tyson, Robin
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen

Personnel: Gautam Rangarajan (tenor); Robert Rice, Paul Robinson (baritone); Michael Pearce (treble).

Recording information: Chapel Of King's College, Cambridge, MA (12/16/1991-12/19/1991)....continue...