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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

1 CD / Decca Import / 2013-01-29

Works: Giovanni Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Salve regina, for countertenor & strings in F minor (doubtful)
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Kirkby, Emma; Scholl, Andreas
Conductors: Hogwood, Christopher; Rousset, Christophe

Rolando Villazon's Guide to Opera

2 CD / Decca Import / 2011-06-28

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera; Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Turandot; La bohème; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; Nabucco; La Traviata; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, oper...
Performers: Alvarez, Marcelo [Tenor Vocal]; Bartoli, Cecilia; Berbié, Jane; Calleja, Joseph; Carreras, José [Tenor Vocal]; Cross, Gregory; D'Arcangelo, Ildebrando; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Domingo, Pl...
Conductors: Solti, Sir Georg; Bonynge, Richard; Karajan, Herbert von

Maynard: The XII Wonders of the World, 1611; Characters Songs

1 CD / Decca Import / 2010-07-06

Works: John Maynard: The 12 Wonders of the World, for voices & ensemble; Thomas Campion: Jack and Joan, for voices, lute & ensemble; Tobias Hume: Tobacco for bass & ensemble; Anonymous, English: The Poor So...
Performers: Elliot, Paul [Tenor Vocal]; Hill, Martyn; Kirkby, Emma; Rooley, Anthony [Lute]; Skinner, John York; Thomas, David [Bass Vocal]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Consort of Musicke

Recording information: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London, UK (01/1975)....continue...

The Lute Is a Song / Edin Karamazov

1 CD / Decca Import / 2009-10-20

Works: Leo Brouwer: Paisaje Cubano con Rumba, for 4 guitars; Sting: Alone with my thoughts this evening, song; Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue for Organ in D minor, BWV 565; Henry Purcell: Dido and...
Performers: Fleming, Renée; Karamazov, Edin; Scholl, Andreas; Sting
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kaliopi

Established as today's most exciting and charismatic player of the lute, Edin Karamazov, the featured lutenist of Sting's best-selling album 'Songs from the Labyrinth' now...continue...
Personnel: Edin Karamazov (electric guitar, archlute, theorbo); Renée Fleming (soprano); Andreas Scholl (countertenor).

Recording information: Friendship 7 Studio, Kiedrich, Germany; Legac...continue...

Handel - The Masterworks

30 CD / Decca Import / 2009-04-14

Works: George Frederick Handel: Handel - Bourée; Water Music Suite no 2 in D major, HWV 349; Water Music Suite no 1 in F major, HWV 348; The Water Music; Concerti grossi (12), Op. 6; Concerto Grosso ...
Performers: Adeney, Richard; Agnew, Paul [Tenor Vocals]; Ainsley, John Mark; Ameling, Elly [Soprano Vocal]; Augér, Arleen; Bennett, William; Birchall, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals]; Bostridge, Ian; Connah,...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Malcolm, George; Jones, Granville; Hogwood, Christopher; ; Cleobury, Stephen; Preston, Simon; Gardiner, John Eliot; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; McCreesh, Paul; Minkowski, Marc
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemb; English Baroque Soloists; English Chamber Orchestra; Gabrieli Consort; Gabrieli Players; King's College Choi...

Celebrate the 250th anniversary of Handel's death with this impressive 30-CD box set of the composer's most celebrated works. Featured conductors include Sir Neville Marriner,...continue...

Orff: Carmina burana / Riccardo Chailly

1 CD / Decca Import / 2008-03-18

Works: Carl Orff: Carmina burana
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Greenberg, Sylvia
Conductors: Chailly, Riccardo
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

The #1 Baroque Album

2 CD / Decca Import / 2007-11-13

Works: George Frederick Handel: Solomon; Handel - Bourée; Rinaldo; Der Messias; Water Music Suite no 1 in F major, HWV 348; MEDLEY; The Water Music; Coronation Anthem; Johann Pachelbel: Canon and Gig...
Performers: Accardo, Salvatore [Violin/Conductor]; Adeney, Richard; Bennett, William; Bonney, Barbara; Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Brown, Iona; Carmirelli, Pina; Chorzempa, Daniel [Organ]; Cuckston, Alan...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Munchinger, Karl; Preston, Simon; Brown, Iona; Hogwood, Christopher; Cleobury, Stephen; Malcolm, George; Bicket, Harry; ; Solti, Sir Georg; Rousset, Christophe; Leppard, Raymon...
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; English Baroque Soloists; English Chamber Orchestra; I Musici; King's College Choir, Cambridge; Les talens l...

'The #1 Baroque Album' features the best-loved and most popular works by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Pachelbel and many others. This disc features performances of Renee...continue...

The Best of Andreas Scholl

1 CD / Decca Import / 2006-10-10

Works: George Frederick Handel: MEDLEY; Rodelinda; Rinaldo; Giulio Cesare; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Antonio Vivaldi: Salve Regina, antiphon for voice, double chorus, 2 recorders, flute, double stri...
Performers: Armstrong, Siobhán; Bonney, Barbara; Brough, Harvey; Dantone, Ottavio; Karamazov, Edin; Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; Na, Hyun-Sun; Scholl, Andreas; Shames, Stacey
Conductors: Norrington, Roger; Dyer, Paul; Dantone, Ottavio; Rousset, Christophe
Ensemble: ; Accademia Bizantina; Les Talens Lyriques

The essential collection featuring one-of-a-kind countertenor Andreas Scholl, who burst on the music scene in 1999 to critical acclaim. "Scholl's voice rushes through the bloodstream."...continue...

Rossini: Matilde di Shabran / Frizza, Massis, Flórez, et al

3 CD / Decca Import / 2006-08-14

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Matilde (di) Shabran, opera
Performers: Bonfatti, Gregory; Chialli, Chiara; Cucchi, Rosetta; Florez, Juan Diego; Halevy, Hadar; Lepore, Carlo; Massis, Annick; Moravec, Lubomir; Simone, Bruno de; Taddia, Bruno; Vinco, Marco
Conductors: Frizza, Riccardo
Ensemble: Galicia Symphony Orchestra

The Times
...driving the Pesaro audience bananas with his pinging high notes and thrilling volleys of coloratura
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Britten: Song Cycles

1 CD / Decca Import / 2006-05-01

Works: Benjamin Britten: Sonnets (7) of Michelangelo, for voice & piano, Op. 22; Winter Words, Op. 52; On this Island, Op. 11; Who are these Children?, song cycle for tenor & piano, Op. 84; Tit for Tat; Hen...
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Britten, Benjamin; Pears, Peter, Sir; Shirley-Quirk, John

The names of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears are forever linked by their personal and creative partnership. Composer and interpreter have rarely enjoyed so long-standing...continue...

Arias for Senesino / Andreas Scholl, et al

1 CD / Decca Import / 2005-10-11

Works: George Frederick Handel: Flavio, Rè di Longobardi, HWV 16; Rodelinda; Giulio Cesare; Rinaldo; Tomaso Albinoni: Astarto, dramma per musica (opera) in 3 acts (incomplete); Engelberta, opera in 5...
Performers: Dantone, Ottavio; Scholl, Andreas
Conductors: Dantone, Ottavio
Ensemble: Accademia Bizantina

On this release countertenor Andreas Scholl celebrates one of the 18th Centurys greatest vocal superstars, the remarkable male alto known as Senesino. Senesinos place in...continue...

Handel: Orlando / Hogwood, Bowman, Auger, et al

3 CD / Decca Import / 2004-09-14

Works: George Frederick Handel: Orlando
Performers: Auger, Arleen; Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Kirkby, Emma; Robbin, Catherine; Thomas, David [Bass Vocal]
Conductors: Hogwood, Christopher
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music

Andreas Scholl - Arcadia / Dantone, Accademia Bizantina

1 CD / Decca Import / 2004-01-13

Works: Francesco Gasparini: Destati Lidia mia; Ecco, che alfin ritorno, chamber cantata; Benedetto Marcello: Quando penso agl'affanni, cantata for alto, 2 violins, viola & continuo, SF. 276; Bernardo Pasqui...
Performers: Dantone, Ottavio; Scholl, Andreas
Conductors: Dantone, Ottavio
Ensemble: Accademia Bizantina

"The music, much of it recorded here for the first time, is sheer delight from start to finish, each of the five cantatas combining frivolity,...continue...

The Glories of Handel Opera / Berganza, Kirkby, Horne, et al

1 CD / Decca Import / 2001-02-13

Works: George Frederick Handel: Alcina; Orlando; Riccardo Primo, HWV 23; Atalanta; Semele; Rodelinda; Ezio, HWV 29; Giulio Cesare; Rinaldo; MEDLEY; Berenice, Regina d'Egitto, HWV 38
Performers: Berganza, Teresa [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Evans, Geraint [Baritone]; Greevy, Bernadette [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Haim, Emmanuelle [Condcutor/Harpsichord]; Horne, Mari...
Conductors: Hogwood, Christopher; Rousset, Christophe; Bonynge, Richard; ; Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Balkwill, Bryan; Lewis, Henry
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music (UK); Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Les Talens Lyriques; New Symphony Orchestra; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra; Suisse Romande Orchestra; Vienna Cantata Or...

Andreas Scholl sings Vivaldi

1 CD / Decca Import / 2000-06-13

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus in G minor, RV 608; Concerto for strings & continuo in F major, RV 142; Clarae stellae in F major, RV 625; Concerto for strings & continuo in C major, RV 109; Vestro pri...
Performers: Dyer, Paul; Kent, Linda; Scholl, Andreas
Conductors: Dyer, Paul
Ensemble: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

This may well be Andreas Scholl's finest album to date. Track four of the disc, "Cum dederit delectis suis somnum" from Nisi Dominus may well...continue...

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, etc /Rousset, Scholl, Bonney, et al

1 CD / Decca Import / 1999-09-14

Works: Giovanni Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Salve regina, for countertenor & strings in F minor (doubtful); Salve Regina in A minor
Performers: Bonney, Barbara; Scholl, Andreas
Conductors: Rousset, Christophe
Ensemble: Les talens lyriques

"It would be hard to imagine a better assemblage of performers than those gathered for this recording, and the result is perfection. Scholl's voice is...continue...

Mozart: Mitridate / Rousset, Bartoli, Sabbatini, et al

3 CD / Decca Import / 1999-04-13

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K 87 (74a)
Performers: Asawa, Brian; Bartoli, Cecilia; Corre, Helene Le; Dessay, Natalie; Florez, Juan Diego; Piau, Sandrine
Conductors: Rousset, Christophe
Ensemble: Les talens lyriques

Beloved mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and the astonishing French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay together with Gramophone Award-winning conductor Christophe Rousset perform Mozart's early opera "Mit...continue...

Handel: 4 Coronation Anthems, etc / King's College, et al

2 CD / Decca Import / 1997-09-16

Works: George Frederick Handel: Coronation Anthems (4); Dixit Dominus; Blessed Are They That Considereth the Poor (Foundling Hospital Anthem), HWV 268; Utrecht Te Deum, HWV 278; Jubilate (Utrecht), canticle...
Performers: Black, Neil; Brett, Charles; Buchanan, Isobel; Chance, Michael; Covey-Crump, Rogers; Crabtree, Libby; Dart, Thurston; Elliot, Paul [Tenor Vocal]; Elwes, John; Farnes, Richard; Fisher, Gillian; Herfor...
Conductors: Willcocks, David; Cleobury, Stephen; Hill, David; Preston, Simon
Ensemble: ; Academy of Ancient Music; English Chamber Orchestra; Winchester Cathedral Choir

Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 / Gardiner

2 CD / Decca Import / 1994-10-11

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine; Exultent caeli et gaudeant angeli, motet for 5 voices, SV 304; Giovanni Gabrieli: Audite principes; Angelus ad pastores ait; Quem vidistis pastores, mo...
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Brett, Charles; Gomez, Jill; Hicks, Malcolm; Hill, Martyn; Kraemer, Nicholas; Langridge, Philip; Messana, John Angelo; Palmer, Felicity; Rippon, Michael; Ross, Ala...
Conductors: Gardiner, John Eliot
Ensemble: David Monrow Recorder Ensemble; Philip Jones Brass Ensemble; Philip Jones Wind Ensemble

Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Britten, London SO

2 CD / Decca Import / 1990-02-06

Works: Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64
Performers: Brannigan, Owen; Deller, Alfred; Harper, Heather; Harwood, Elizabeth [Soprano Vocals]; Hemsley, Thomas; Kelly, David C. [Bass Vocal]; Lumsden, Norman; MacDonald, Kenneth; Pears, Peter, Sir; Raggett, ...
Conductors: Britten, Benjamin
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Good CD Guide
This recording remains as fresh and inspired as the day it was made. Britten's taut, disciplined yet magical reading is unsurpassed.
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, Salve Regina / Hogwood, AAM

1 CD / Decca Import / 1989-10-06

Works: Giovanni Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Salve Regina
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Kirkby, Emma
Conductors: Hogwood, Christopher
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music

Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music here offer a spirited, colorful, and certainly one of the most unique performances of Pergolesi's most beloved...continue...

Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, etc / Hogwood, Bowman, et al

1 CD / Decca Import / 1985-02-18

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Amen; Concerto for strings & continuo in G minor, RV 153; Nisi Dominus in G minor, RV 608
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]
Conductors: Hogwood, Christopher
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music