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Mozart: Requiem; Bruckner: Te Deum / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda, Sheila Armstrong. Barenboim

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-02-26

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626; Anton Bruckner: Te Deum in C major, WAB 45
Performers: Armstrong, Sheila [Soprano Vocal]; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Garrard, Don; Gedda, Nicolai; Pashley, Anne; Tear, Robert
Conductors: Barenboim, Daniel
Ensemble: ; New Philharmonia Orchestra Chorus

EMI Classics relaunches the popular EMI Master Series: The definitive series of great classical music from a trove of the most notable and revered classical...continue...
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50 Best Verdi: CD One: Tenors & Baritones; CD Two: Soparnos & Mezzos; CD Three: Choruses

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-02-26

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; Macbeth; Il trovatore; I lombardi alla prima crociata; Don Carlos; Requiem; La forza del destino; Otello; Fals...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Arroyo, Martina; Bella, Benito di; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bonisolli, Franco; Bruson, Renato; Caballé, Montserrat; Callas, Maria; Carreras, José [Tenor Vocal]; Corelli, Franco...
Conductors: Muti, Riccardo; Viotti, Marcello; Patanè, Giuseppe; Rudel, Julius; Erede, Alberto; Karajan, Herbert von; Pappano, Antonio; Gardelli, Lamberto; Barker, John; Pidò, Evelino; Serafin, Tullio; ...

This 3-CD set contains 100 tracks from the most familiar and best-loved works by the iconic Italian operatic composer Giuseppe Verdi, performed by many of...continue...

The Very Best of Mirella Freni

2 CD / Virgin Classics / 2013-02-05

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; Madama Butterfly; La rondine; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Suor Angelica; Turandot; Pietro Mascagni: L'amico Fritz; Francesco Cil...
Performers: Corelli, Franco; Freni, Mirella; Gedda, Nicolai; Malagu, Stefania; Vilma, Michele
Conductors: Muti, Riccardo; Schippers, Thomas; Magiera, Leone; Votto, Antonino; Lombard, Alain; Klemperer, Otto; Ferraris, Franco; Karajan, Herbert von

Mirella Freni was one of Herbert von Karajan's favorite signers; indeed, he is known to have commented that if he could have any voice in...continue...

The Very Best of Nicolai Gedda

2 CD / Virgin Classics / 2013-02-05

Works: Jules Massenet: Werther; Manon; Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette; Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, opera Op. 23; Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, op...
Performers: Blanc, Ernest; Eyron, Jan; Freni, Mirella; Gedda, Nicolai; Mallabrera, Andre; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Zareska, Eugenia
Conductors: Galliera, Alceo; Prêtre, Georges; Cluytens, André; Dervaux, Pierre; Gardelli, Lamberto; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Downes, Edward; Patanè, Giuseppe; Bender, Heinrich; Dobrowen, Issay; ...

Nicolai Gedda, the most recorded tenor in history, was exceptionally versatile artist who has excelled in a wide variety of operatic roles as well as...continue...

Essential Opera Divas - Over 2 hours of glorious operatic performances

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-01-22

Works: George Frederick Handel: Alcina; Antonio Vivaldi: Bajazet; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro; Don Giovanni; Die Zauberflöte (The Ma...
Performers: Anderson, June [Soprano Vocal]; Arroyo, Martina; Auger, Arleen; Behrens, Hildegard; Caballe, Montserrat; Callas, Maria; Ciofi, Patrizia; Crespin, Regine; de los Angeles, Victoria; Dernesch, Helga [So...
Conductors: Hickox, Richard; Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Rousset, Christophe; Muti, Riccardo; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Haitink, Bernard; Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Langrée, Louis; Karajan, Herbert von; Tennstedt, Kla...

These two CDs present a veritable galaxy of opera divas - sopranos who have won countless hearts and thrilled millions of opera lovers with their...continue...

Essential Verdi - Over 2 hours of dramatic arias and choruses

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-01-22

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; Ernani; Macbeth; Nabucco; Un ballo in maschera; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Requiem Mass; Otello; Don Carlo
Performers: Baltsa, Agnes; Bella, Benito di; Cappuccilli, Piero; Carreras, Jose [Violin]; Corelli, Franco; Crespin, Régine; D'Amico, Fiamma Izzo; de los Angeles, Victoria; Dessi, Daniella; Dimitrova, Ghen...
Conductors: Ceccato, Aldo; Davis, Colin; Serafin, Tullio; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Rudel, Julius; Muti, Riccardo; Schippers, Thomas; Zedda, Alberto; Gardelli, Lamberto; Patanè, Giuseppe; Prêtre, Geor...

The operas of Verdi today form the mainstay of the repertoire of opera all over the world. Some of his music has become absorbed into...continue...

The Essential Wagner - highlights from the great operas performed by the artists of EMI Classics

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-11-06

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Die Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Tris...
Performers: Behrens, Hildegard; Dernesch, Helga [Soprano]; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Gedda, Nicolai; Goldberg, Reiner; Gorr, Rita; Haage, Peter; Heppner, Ben [Tenor Vocals]; Jerusalem, Siegfried; Lipovsek, Marj...
Conductors: Boult, Adrian; Heger, Robert; Ludwig, Leopold; Jansons, Mariss; Tennstedt, Klaus; Konwitschny, Franz; Schneider, Peter; Cluytens, André; Bender, Heinrich; Haitink, Bernard; Sawallisch, Wolfgang;...

The operas of Richard Wagner have never been more popular than they are today, and performances of his Ring cycle continue to fill opera houses...continue...

Voices of Italian Opera - Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini / Gigli, Caruso, Bjorling, Gobbi, Callas, Scotto et al.

5 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-07-31

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; La sonnambula, opera; I Capuleti e i Montecchi, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Lucia di Lammermoor; La Favorita; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Alva, Luigi [Tenor Vocals]; Arroyo, Martina; Baltsa, Agnes; Barbieri, Fedora; Basiola, Marco; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bjorling, Jussi; Blake, Rockwell; Bonisolli, Franco; Borgonovo, Luigi; ...
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio; Eichhorn, Kurt; Pidò, Evelino; Fistoulari, Anatole; Sabajno, Carlo; Davis, Colin; Robinson, Stanford; Goehr, Walter; Gui, Vittorio; Levine, James; Albergoni, Angelo; Norrington,...

These two compilations present a sampling of the many outstanding voices captured on record by EMI Classics over the past century in the field of...continue...