Proch, Heinrich

The Song of the Nightingale - Coloratura operetta arias / Ingeborg Hallstein, coloratura soprano [4 CDs]

4 CD / Acanta / 2012-07-31

Works: Franz Grothe: Lied der Nachtigall ("Zauberlied der Nacht"), for voice & piano; Napoleon ist an allem Schuld; Carl Zeller: Ich bin die Christel von der Post, song (from Der Vogelhändler); Eduard ...
Performers: Bader, Hans-Dieter; Clarin, Hans; Hallstein, Ingeborg [Soprano Vocals]; Hoppe, Heinz; Kieling, Wolfgang; Rubin, Peter
Conductors: Marszalek, Franz; Bernet, Dietfried; Ebert, Wolfgang; Geese, Heinz; Hoffman, Ernest

Ingeborg Hallstein was one of the outstanding coloratura sopranos in the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Munich on May 23, 1936, Ingeborg...continue...

Stellar Sopranos

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

Works: Victor Massé: La Reine topaze (The Topaz Queen); Jacques Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann); Un mari à la porte (A Husband at the Door); George Frederick Handel: Giuli...
Performers: Connell, Elizabeth; Gruberova, Edita; Jo, Sumi; Kenny, Yvonne; Macliver, Sara; Matthews, Emma; Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano Vocal]; Price, Leontyne; Serra, Luciana; Streich, Rita; Sutherland, Joan, Dame
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard; Cohen, Brad; Dyer, Paul; Davis, Colin; Pritchard, John; Leinsdorf, Erich; Tang, Muhai; Rudner, Ola; Lang-Lessing, Sebastian; Hager, Leopold; Gaebel, Kurt

Emma Matthews in Monte Carlo

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2010-04-06

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Candide; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi, opera; Charles Gounod: Rom&...
Performers: Carby, Catherine; Matthews, Emma
Conductors: Cohen, Brad

Recording information: Auditorium Rainier III, Monte Carlo (09/16/2008-09/20/2008)....continue...

Recital at Wigmore Hall / Nelly Miricioiu, David Harper

1 CD / EtCetera Records / 2009-09-01

Works: Henri Duparc: L'invitation au voyage; Soupir; Chanson triste; Enrique Granados: Colección de tonadillas; Ottorino Respighi: Notturno; Liriche (6), Set 1; Canti (5) all'antica; L'ultima ebbrezza;...
Performers: Harper, David; Miricioiu, Nelly

Emma Matthews in Monte Carlo

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2009-08-11

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Candide; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi, opera; Charles Gounod: Rom&...
Performers: Carby, Catherine; Matthews, Emma
Conductors: Cohen, Brad

Recording information: Auditorium Rainier III, Monte Carlo (09/16/2008-09/20/2008)....continue...

Vocalises

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2008-07-01

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Songs (14), Op. 34; Alexander Alyabyev: The Nightingale; Camille Saint-Saëns: Parysatis, incidental music; Léo Delibes: Les Filles de Cadiz "Chanson Espagnole"; Maurice ...
Performers: Dessay, Natalie; Waage, Richard
Conductors: Schoenwandt, Michael

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Janine Micheau

1 CD / Preiser / 2005-03-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Charles Gounod: Mireille; Roméo et Juliette; Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Ambroise Thoma...
Performers: Luca, Libero de; Micheau, Janine
Conductors: Mathieson, Muir; Desormiere, Roger; Wolff, Albert; Bigot, Eugene

Early Romantic Songs / Dearing

2 CD / Preiser / 2004-06-01

Works: Franz Schubert: Auf dem Strom, D 943/Op. 119; Herbst, D 945; Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D 965/Op. 129; Heinrich Proch: Addio! (Lebewohl), Op. 35; Schweitzer's Heimweh, Op. 38; Glockentöne, Op. 21;...
Performers: Dearing, Helena; Grahe, Ortrun; Schablas, Andreas; Stosiek, Tobias

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Maria Galvany

1 CD / Preiser / 2003-12-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; I Puritani, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Don Pasquale; Lucia di Lammermoor; Linda di Chamoun...
Performers: Andreini, Remo; Galvany, Maria; Giorgini, Aristodemo

Prima Voce - Maria Barrientos (1884-1946)

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2003-09-03

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; I Puritani, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriag...
Performers: Barrientos, Maria; Gordon, Jeanne; Hackett, Charles Francis; Stracciari, Riccardo
Conductors: Polacco, Giorgio

Janine Micheau sings Thomas, Charpentier, Bizet, et al

1 CD / Pearl / 2003-02-25

Works: Claude Debussy: La damoiselle élue; Emmanuel Chabrier: Ode à la musique; Le roi malgré lui, opéra-comique in 3 acts; Charles Gounod: Mireille; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Ham...
Performers: Collard, Jeanine; Micheau, Janine; Mollien, Jean
Conductors: Fournet, Jean; Desormiere, Roger; Bigot, Eugene

Callas' Teacher / Maria Callas, Elvira de Hidalgo, et al

1 CD / Fono / 2002-09-03

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; La sonnambula, opera; Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Gaetano Donizett...
Performers: Callas, Maria; Hidalgo, Elvira de
Conductors: Basile, Arturo
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Debut Series - Callas - My First Concert

1 CD / Fono / 2002-07-02

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth; Un ballo in maschera; Nabucco; Jules Massenet: Werther; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Zazà, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Léo D...
Performers: Callas, Maria; Filacuridi, Nicola
Conductors: de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno; Basile, Arturo
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Vocalises / Natalie Dessay, Schönwandt, Berliner Sinfonie

1 CD / EMI Classics / 1998-06-02

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Songs (14), Op. 34; Alexander Alyabyev: The Nightingale; Camille Saint-Saëns: Le rossignol; Léo Delibes: Les Filles de Cadiz "Chanson Espagnole"; Maurice Ravel: Pi&egrav...
Performers: Dessay, Natalie; Waage, Richard
Conductors: Schoenwandt, Michael
Ensemble: Berlin Symphony Orchestra

"...This collection of unlikely fare from the thinking man's coloratura is a delight from start to finish...Most of these works are avoided these days, so...continue...

Lily Pons - The Odeon Recordings 1928-1929

1 CD / Video Artists International / 1997-02-05

Works: Camille Saint-Saëns: Parysatis, incidental music; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384;...
Performers: Mazzei, Enrico di; Pons, Lily
Conductors: Cloez, Gabriel

Prima Voce - Luisa Tetrazzini

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; Carl Anton Florian Eckert: L'Eco for voice & orchestra; Ambroise Thomas: Mi...
Performers: Tetrazzini, Luisa

Prima Voce - Amelita Galli-Curci Vol 2

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il trovatore; La traviata; Félicien César David: La perle du Brésil; Georges Bi...
Performers: Bada, Angelo; Barone, Clement; de Luca, Giuseppe; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Gigli, Beniamino; Homer, Louise; Pinza, Ezio; Schipa, Tito
Conductors: Setti, Giulio
Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Lily Pons - Opera Arias

1 CD / Pearl / 1991-01-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Charles Gounod: Mireille; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Z...
Performers: de Luca, Giuseppe; Di Mazzei, Enrico; Pons, Lily

Art of Coloratura / Edita Gruberova

1 CD / Orfeo / 1984-01-12

Works: Luigi Arditi: Il Bacio; Reinhold Glière: Concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra, Op. 82; Sergey Rachmaninov: Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne (Do not sing to me, fair maiden), Op. 4/4; Heinric...
Performers: Gruberova, Edita
Conductors: Eichhorn, Kurt
Ensemble: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra