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Mozart: Don Giovanni / Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Vitalij Kowaljow, Diana Damrau, Rolando Villazon, Joyce DiDonato

3 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2012-09-18

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni
Performers: Bayl, Benjamin; Pfiz, Konstantin [Cello, Continuo]; Summers, Timothy
Conductors: Nézet-Séguin, Yannick
Ensemble: Rastatt Vocal Ensemble

This thrilling recording around concert performances at the Bade-baden Festpielhaus is set to be a milestone in at least two ways:

It marks the beginning

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Recording information: Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (07/2011)....continue...

The Best of Yvonne Kenny

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2011-10-11

Works: Antonin Dvorák: Rusalka; Gypsy Songs, Op. 55; George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Messiah; Alcina; Richard Strauss: Lieder (4), Op. 27; Four Last Songs; Rudolf Sieczynski: Wien, du Stadt meiner Tr...
Performers: Almonte, Caroline; Chindamo, Joe; Kenny, Yvonne; Martineau, Malcolm; Sandilands, Ron; Vries, Doug de
Conductors: Kamirski, Wlodzimierz; Fritzsch, Johannes; Bonynge, Richard; Noble, Guy; Dyer, Paul

Baritone Ildebrando D'Arcangelo sings Mozart Arias

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2011-09-13

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Le nozze di Figaro; Alcandro, lo confesso ... Non so d'onde viene, K. 512; Mentre ti lascio, o figlia, K 513; Così fan tutte, K 588; Così dunque tra...
Performers: Agnoletto, Giannandrea; D'Arcangelo, Ildebrando; Filippone, Dora; Ghio, Davide; Lukic, Relja
Conductors: Noseda, Gianandrea
Ensemble: Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino

From the outset of his career, bass-baritone Ildebrando D'Arcangelo has been the pre-eminent Mozart man in his Fach. For his all-Italian Mozart album under Gianandrea...continue...
Recording information: Teatro Regio di Torino, Sala Regia, Turin (06/2010)....continue...

Vaughan Wiliams: Carols, Songs & Hymns

1 CD / Park Records (uk) / 2010-12-07

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Golden Carol ("Now is Christèmas y-come"), carol for chorus; Blake's Cradle Song ("Sweet dreams, form a shade o'er my lovely infant's head"), carol for chorus; Hodie;...
Performers: Banks, Steve; Davis, Jub; Lewin, Giles [Violin/Bagpipe]; Prior, Maddy; Prior, Maddy & The Carnival Band; Vitale, Steno; Watts, Andy

Recording information: Blue Moon Studios, Oxfordshire; The Steppings Cumbria....continue...

Romance in Tuscany

1 CD / Capitol / 2010-07-27

Works: Francesco Sartori: Time to Say Goodbye (Con te partirò), song; Harry Warren: Innamorata; Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera; La Boheme; Turandot; Andrea Morricone: Cinema Paradiso (for the ...
Performers: Angell, David; Catchings, John; Davidson, David [Violin]; Jezzro, Jack; Mock, John; Reist, Sari; Sixfin, Pamela; Steinberg, Jeff; Taylor, Jeff [Accordion/Keyboards]; Winkelman, Karen

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Vienna, City of My Dreams

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2008-10-07

Works: Johann Strauss II: Wiener Blut (Vienna Blood), operetta (arr. & edited by A. Müller); Casanova; Carl Zeller: Der Vogelhändler; Der Obersteiger; Rudolf Sieczynski: Wien, du Stadt meiner Tr&#...
Performers: Bowman, Calvin; Cook, Jan; Kenny, Yvonne; Smith, Wilma; Vries, Doug de
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard

Despite being the city where Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Berg and Schoenberg lived and created many of their greater masterpieces, many people still consider...continue...

Tutto Mozart! / Bryn Terfel, Sir Charles Mackerras, et al

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2006-11-14

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Io ti lascio, K Anh 245; Così fan tutte, K 588; Warnung, K 433 (416c); Così dunque tradisci...Aspri rimo...
Performers: Lawson, Greg; Persson, Miah; Rice, Christine; Terfel, Bryn; Watkin, David; Williams, Duncan
Conductors: Mackerras, Charles, Sir
Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Bryn Terfel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart have been very good to one another. No composer has provided the great Welsh bass-baritone with more congenial roles,...continue...

French Opera Arias

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2006-07-04

Works: François Bazin: Maître Pathelin; Jules Massenet: Le Cid; Luigi Cherubini: Les abencérages; Charles Gounod: Mireille; André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry: L' Amant jaloux (Les Fausses...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Ellis, James; Foster, Lucy; Fyfe, Elizabeth
Conductors: De Billy, Bertrand
Ensemble: London Voices; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

Gramophone wrote of this album of French Opera Arias: "A fine recital by Alagna which finds him in good voice and exploiting a sensitive feeling...continue...
This disc received the 2001 Gramophone magazine award for "Best Recital Recording."...continue...

Mozart 250 - A Celebration

4 CD / Sony Classical / 2006-02-07

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Concerto for Piano no 21 in C major, K 467; Quintet for 2 violins, 2 violas & cello no 6 in E flat major ("String ...
Performers: Berganza, Teresa [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Blegen, Judith [Soprano Vocals]; Cho-Liang, Lin; Cieslewicz, Philipp; Clevenger, Dale; De Larrocha, Alicia; Flagello, Ezio [Bass Vocals]; Galway, James [Flute...
Conductors: Davis, Colin; Szell, George; Bruno, Weil; Lockhart, James; Brico, Antonia; Leppard, Raymond; Kubelik, Rafael; Faerber, Jörg; Schmidt-Gaden, Gerhard; Kuhn, Gustav; Zukerman, Pinchas; Maazel, Lori...
Ensemble: ; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Winds; Cleveland Orchestra; Dresden Staatskapelle; English Chamber Orchestra; Franz Liszt Academy Chamber Orchestra; London Symp...

Mozart: Arias and Duets / C. Genz, S. Genz, Kuijken, et al

1 CD / RCA Records / 2004-04-06

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte, K 588; Misero! o sogno...Aura che intorni spiri, K 431 (425b); Mentre ti lascio, o figlia, K 513; Si mostra la sorte, aria for tenor & orchestra, K. 209;...
Performers: Badiarov, Dmitry; Genz, Christoph; Genz, Stephan
Conductors: Kuijken, Sigiswald
Ensemble: La petite bande

Opera in English - Yvonne Kenny 2 - R. Strauss, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-08-26

Works: George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Così fan tutte, K 588; Richard Strauss: Arabella; Capriccio, Op 85; Franz L...
Performers: Edwards, Catherine; Evans, Rebecca; Ford, Bruce [Tenor Vocal]; Jones, Tim; Kenny, Yvonne; Quinteiro, Eligio; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Woodhouse, Nigel
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Arias

1 CD / RCA Records / 1997-09-30

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così dunque tradisci...Aspri rimorsi atroci, recitative and aria for bass & orchestra, K. 432 (K. 4; Alcandro, lo confesso...Non sò, d'onde viene, K 512; Mentre ti...
Performers: Quasthoff, Thomas; Riabokon, Vladislav; Simone, Mark de; Sistek, Robert
Conductors: Faerber, Jörg
Ensemble: Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn

Mozart: Don Giovanni / Gardiner, Gilfry, Orgonasova, et al

3 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1995-07-18

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni
Performers: Clarkson, Julian; D'Arcangelo, Ildebrando; Gilfrey, Rodney; James, Eirian; Margiono, Charlotte; Orgonasova, Luba; Prégardien, Christoph; Silvestrelli, Andrea; Smith, Steve; Watkin, David
Conductors: Gardiner, John Eliot
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

"...on the whole Mozart performances don't come much better than this." -Gramophone...continue...

Mozart: Don Giovanni - Highlights / Barenboim, Furlanetto, Tomlinson, Salminen, Meier, Berlin PO, et al

1 CD / Erato / 1994-06-07

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni
Performers: Borwitzky, Ottomar; Carthy, Nicholas; Cuberli, Lella; Furlanetto, Ferruccio; Heilmann, Uwe; Meier, Waltraud; Pertusi, Michele; Rodgers, Joan; Rosenthal, Willi; Salminen, Matti; Tomlinson, John
Conductors: Barenboim, Daniel
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Mozart: Don Giovanni / Barenboim, Cuberli, Meier, Rodgers

3 CD / Erato Import / 1992-02-04

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni
Performers: Borwitzky, Ottomar; Carthy, Nicholas; Cuberli, Lella; Furlanetto, Ferruccio; Heilmann, Uwe; Meier, Waltraud; Pertusi, Michele; Rodgers, Joan; Rosenthal, Willi; Salminen, Matti; Tomlinson, John
Conductors: Barenboim, Daniel