Bass Baritone > Mussorgsky, Modest

30 Years at La Monnaie

2 CD / Cypress / 2012-07-01

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Parsifal; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Richard Strauss: Salome; Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo; Simon Boccanegra; Falstaff; W...
Performers: Bastin, Jules; Cupido, Alberto; Dufrasne, Arnaud [Vocals]; Gustafson, Nancy [Soprano Vocals]; Kozlowska, Joanna; Krause, Carlos [Vocals]; Lascarro, Juanita; Malfitano, Catherine [Soprano Vocals]; McI...
Conductors: Cambreling, Sylvain; Pritchard, John; Pappano, Antonio; Schoenwandt, Michael; Fischer, Iván; Benjamin, George

Legendary baritone José van Dam celebrates a triple anniversary: his 70th birthday, 50 years onstage, and 30 years at La Monnaie, Brussels' opera house. This...continue...
Recording information: La Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium....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...

Bravura Basses

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2011-07-26

Works: Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio); Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Le nozze di Fig...
Performers: Brannigan, Owen; Coad, Conal; East, Angela; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Herford, Henry; Martin, Bruce; Myers, Raymond; Nimsgern, Siegmund; Pape, Rene; Parkin, David; Parsons, Geoffrey; Rhodes, Teddy Tahu; Rob...
Conductors: de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Rudner, Ola; Measham, David; Divall, Richard; Franks, Dobbs; Solti, Sir Georg; Weigle, Sebastian; Cleobury, Stephen; Boult, Adrian; Gardiner, John Eliot; Greene, Andrew; Davis...

The Worst of William Powers

1 CD / Centaur / 2011-03-04

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Giuseppe Verdi: Attila; Falstaff; I Vespri Siciliani; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable; Les Huguenots; Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia...
Performers: Powers, William
Conductors: Burkh, Dennis

Recording information: Bratislava, Slovak Republic....continue...

George London: Recital

1 CD / Orfeo / 2009-09-22

Works: Franz Schubert: Der Atlas ("Ich unglückselger Atlas"), song for voice & piano (Schwanengesang), D. 957/8; Ihr Bild ("Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen"), song for voice & piano (Schwanengesang),...
Performers: London, George [Baritone Vocal]; Ulanowsky, Paul; Werba, Erik [Piano]

Songs and Dances of Death - Mussorgsky, Shostakovich

1 CD / Gega New / 2006-11-01

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Songs and dances of death; Dmitri Shostakovich: Suite on Poems of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Op. 145
Performers: Guechev, Guenko; Lemberskaya, Susanna

The spectre of death haunted both of these Russian masters. In the Songs and Dances of Death, Mussorgsky, using all of his formidable operatic craft,...continue...

Amaize sings Beethoven, Loewe, Shostakovich

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2005-04-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Songs (6) for voice & piano, Op. 48; Carl Loewe: Erlkönig, for voice & piano, Op. 1/3; Tom der Reimer, Op. 135a; Dmitry Shostakovich: Yunoshu, gorku rïdaya (A girl, so...
Performers: Amaize, Odekhiren; Korevaar, David

Prima Voce - Vladimir Kastorsky

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2004-11-02

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Charles Gounod: Faust; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Queen of Spades, Op. 68; Mazeppa; Mikhail Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla; O gentle autum...
Performers: Kastorsky, Vladimir

Born in Russia in 1871, Vladimir Kastorsky became a leading bass at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, famous especially for singing the leads in...continue...

Famous Voices of the Past - George London

1 CD / Preiser / 2003-06-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Hector Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, Op. 24; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Charles Gounod: Faust; Jacques Offenbach...
Performers: London, George [Baritone Vocal]; Nadell, Rosalind
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von; Schoenherr, Max; Moralt, Rudolf; Morel, Jean Paul; Adler, Kurt

Dokumente Einer Sängerkarriere - Ferdinand Frantz

1 CD / Preiser / 2002-08-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Siegfried; Charles Gounod: Faust; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Jacques Offenbach: Ga&...
Performers: Frantz, Ferdinand
Conductors: Jochum, Eugen; Schroder, Kurt; Koetsier, Jan

Great Voices of the Past - Opera's Super Villains

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2002-04-02

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Il Trovatore; Ernani; Luisa Miller; Rigoletto; I vespri siciliani; Un ballo in maschera; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Don Giovanni;...
Performers: Alpar, Gitta; Bechi, Gino; Björling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; Destinn, Emmy; Granforte, Apollo; Hasslo, Hugo; Herrmann, Josef; Pasero, Tancredi; Pertile, Aureliano; Pinza, Ezio;...

Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov / Abbado, Ghiaurov, Raimondi, etc

3 CD / Myto Records / 2002-02-08

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Performers: Andreolli, Florindo; Barbieri, Fedora; Corato, Luigi de; Ferrarini, Alida; Foiani, Giovanni; Gaifa, Carlo; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Giacomotti, Alfredo; Gullino, Walter; Jankovic, Eleonora; Langridge, Phil...
Conductors: Abbado, Claudio

English Poets, Russian Romances / Savenko, Blok

1 CD / Hyperion / 2001-10-01

Works: Anton Arensky: Vospominaniye (Recollection) suite for voice & piano, Op. 71; V al'bome (In an album) for voice & piano, Op. 49/4; Ya lask tvoikh strashus' (I fear thy kisses) for voice & piano; Nikol...
Performers: Blok, Alexander [Piano]; Savenko, Vassily

'Even more impressive than their two previous collections... a CD that merits a very strong recommendation' (Fanfare, USA)

'Russian composers have set many English poems...continue...

Pora! and Other Russian Romances / Amaize, Korevaar

1 CD / MSR Classics / 1999-12-01

Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: To the poet, Op. 45; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Songs (7), Op. 47; Songs (6), Op. 6; Songs (6), Op. 38; Songs (12), Op. 60; Songs (6), Op. 63; Sergei Rachmaninov: Songs (12), ...
Performers: Amaize, Odekhiren; Korevaar, David

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Leo Schützendorf

1 CD / Preiser / 1999-09-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Don Giovanni; Peter Cornelius: Der Barbier von Bagdad; Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov; Richard Wagner: Die Meist...
Performers: Bohnen, Michael; Kalenberg, Josef; Schutzendorf, Leo
Conductors: Weyersberg, Bruno; Weissmann, Frieder; Meyrowitz, Selmar
Ensemble: Berlin City Opera Orchestra; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Berlin State Opera Orchestra

Russian Images - Arensky, Balakirev, et al / Savenko, Blok

1 CD / Hyperion / 1999-07-01

Works: Mikhail Glinka: How sweet it is to be with you (Kak sladko s toboyu mne bït'), for voice & piano, G. x277; Bolero, for piano in D minor, G. vi208; Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomizhsky: Nochnoi def...
Performers: Blok, Alexander [Piano]; Savenko, Vassily

Grosse Sänger Unseres Jahrhunderts - Hans Hotter

1 CD / Orfeo / 1999-02-01

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov; Richard Strauss: Di...
Performers: Fehenberger, Lorenz; Hotter, Hans; Siebert, Dorothea
Conductors: Zallinger, Meinhard von; Albert, Rudolf; Jochum, Eugen

Mussorgsky: Night on Bare Mountain, etc / Abbado, Berlin PO

1 CD / Sony Classical Import / 1997-09-02

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Sorochintsï Fair; Khovanschina; Scherzo, for piano in B flat major; Intermezzo in modo classico, for orchestra in B minor, edited by Rimsky-Korsakov; Festive March, for orches...
Performers: Kotcherga, Anatoly; Tarasova, Marianna
Conductors: ; Abbado, Claudio
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Berlin Radio Children's Chorus

Engineer's Choice 2

1 CD / Delos / 1997-01-01

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49; Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé; Richard Rodney Bennett: Barcarolle for piano; Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite, for full orchestra; Rodion Shched...
Performers: Brainerd, Clayton; Crozier, Catharine; Fraser, Donald [1~Composer]; Rosenberger, Carol [Piano]; Vogel, Allan; Zukerman, Eugenia
Conductors: Litton, Andrew; Schwarz, Gerard; ; DePreist, James; Macal, Zdenek; Keene, Dennis; Cichowicz, Vincent
Ensemble: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Los Angeles Guitar Quartet; Millar Brass Ensemble; Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; Seattle Symph...

Heaven and Hell - Macal Conducts Mussorgsky / New Jersey

1 CD / Delos / 1997-01-01

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Sorochintsï Fair; Golitsyn's Jouney, entr'acte for orchestra (from Khovanshchina), transcribed by Rimsky-Korsakov; Khovanshchina; Pictures at an exhibition
Performers: Brainerd, Clayton
Conductors: Macal, Zdenek
Ensemble: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; Westminster Choir

Moussorgski: Boris Godounov / Rostropovitch, Raimondi, et al

3 CD / Erato Import / 1990-05-22

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Performers: Booth, Thomas; Cowan, Richard; Dubosc, Catherine; Fish, Matthew Adam; Gedda, Nicolai; Miller, Lajos; Pastor, Michel; Plishka, Paul [Bass Vocals]; Polozov, Vyacheslav; Raimondi, Ruggero; Raitzin, Mish...
Conductors: Rostropovich, Mstislav
Ensemble: National Symphony, Washington, D. C.