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Stokowski conducts Vaughan Williams, Dvorák & Purcell

1 CD / Newton Classics / 2010-10-26

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Henry Purcell: Dido and Aenaeas; Antonin Dvorák: Serenade for Strings
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold

International Record Review - Nigel Simeone
The Small Desmar label made two recordings with Leopold Stokowski in 1975, when the conductor was 93. They were released...continue...
Recording information: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London (08/16/1975); No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London (08/18/1975-08/19/1975)....continue...

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas / Christie/Les Arts Florissants, Ernman, Maltman, Summers [DVD]

1 DVD Video / FRA Musica / 2010-01-12

Works: Henry Purcell: Dido and Aenaeas
Performers: Ernman, Malena; Maltman, Christopher; Summers, Hilary; Van Wanroij, Judith
Conductors: Christie, William
Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants

A genius with the ability to combine French and Italian influences in an art that transported the English language, Purcell is one of William Christie's...continue...
Run Time: 66 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
Sound Format(s): Dolby Digital 2.0, DTS 5.1 Surround
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Purcell: Dido & Aeneas / Christie/Les Arts Florissants, Ernman, Maltman, Summers [Blu- Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / FRA Musica / 2010-01-12

Works: Henry Purcell: Dido and Aenaeas
Performers: Ernman, Malena; Maltman, Christopher; Summers, Hilary; Van Wanroij, Judith
Conductors: Christie, William
Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants

Run Time: 66 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): Dolby Digital 2.0, DTS 5.1 Surround
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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...

Bext Adagio Voices 100

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-10-06

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Songs (14), Op. 34; Ave Maria; Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei; Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50; Requiem, Op. 48; Ave Verum, Op. 65; Après un rêve, Op. 7 no 1; Cantique de J...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Auger, Arleen; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Boufil, Paul; Bouillat, Jean-Louis; Butt, John [Organ, Conductor]; Caballe, Montserrat; Callas, Maria; Collot, Delphine; Cornwe...
Conductors: Schoenwandt, Michael; Hill, David; Barenboim, Daniel; Spinosi, Jean-Christophe; Haitink, Bernard; Ledger, Philip, Sir; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Ferro, Gabriele; Paavo, Järvi; Guadagno, Anton; Lomba...
Ensemble: ; Capella Bavariae; Cellos ensemble of the Orchestre de Paris; Consort of Musicke; Ensemble instrumental de Genève ; Ensemble Instrumental de Lausanne; La Orfanelle della Pieta; Le Concert d'As...

This 6-CD set covers many of the most popular melodic works composed for the human voice and is programmed for a relaxed listening experience. This...continue...

In My Element / Anne Sofie van Otter

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2008-04-15

Works: Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Richard Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Clemenza de Tito...
Performers: Augustsson, Mikael; Bjorkman, David; Blair, Michael; d'Oustrac, Stephanie; Dohmen, Albert; Forsberg, Bengt; Henryson, Svante; Jonsson, Fredrik; Kress, Roland; Lindberg, Jakob; Lindberg, Magnus; Linds...
Conductors: Minkowski, Marc; Sinopoli, Giuseppe; Gardiner, John Eliot; Levine, James; Abbado, Claudio; Boulez, Pierre; Pinnock, Trevor
Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Dresden Staatskapelle; English Baroque Soloists; English Concert; Les Musiciens du Louvre; Les Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; North German ...

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Apparition - Henry Purcell, George Crumb / Christine Schäfer, Eric Schneider

1 CD / Onyx Classics / 2008-02-12

Works: William Shakespeare: Sonnets; Henry Purcell: Music for a while; Fairy Queen, Z 629; Ah! How sweet it is to love, Z. 613/2; Oedipus, Z 583; King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z 628; Don Quixote, Z 57...
Performers: Schafer, Christine; Schneider, Eric [Piano]

Christine Schafer is an artist with a unique sense of style, which comes through unmistakably on 'Apparition'... she and pianist Eric Schneider mix songs by...continue...

Endless Pleasure - Handel, Purcell: Arias / Hendricks, et al

1 CD / Arte Verum / 2008-01-08

Works: Henry Purcell: Music for a while; King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z 628; Fairy Queen, Z 629; Don Quixote, Z 578; Lord, what is man?, Z 192; Ah! Belinda I am pressed with torment (from "Dido and A...
Performers: Hendricks, Barbara [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble

"Barbara Hendricks' fascinating recital brings together some of the best-known songs and arias by the two great composers of vocal music in England in the...continue...

Serious Songs, Sad Faces / Mark Hetzler, Lisa Leonard

1 CD / Summit Records / 2003-05-06

Works: Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo virtutum; Johannes Ockeghem: Missa pro defunctis; John Wilbye: Adieu, sweet Amaryllis, madrigal (no 12, The First Set of English Madrigals); William Byrd: Mass for 4 Voices...
Performers: Hetzler, Mark; Leonard, Lisa

What Magic Has Victorious Love - Purcell & Handel/ Armstrong

1 CD / Video Artists International / 2002-12-24

Works: Henry Purcell: Music for a while; Fairy Queen, Z 629; Thus the ever grateful spring (from "The Fairy Queen"), soprano aria, Z. 629/33; Here's the summer, sprightly, gay (from "The Fairy Queen"), alto...
Performers: Armstrong, Nancy; Carrai, Phoebe; Earle, Kinloch; Gibbons, John [Classical]; Jeppesen, Laura; Martin, Anthony; Reinker, Daniel; Starkman, Jane; Stepner, Daniel; Sykes, Peter

The Radiant Voice of Barbara Bonney

1 CD / Decca / 2001-07-24

Works: John Dowland: Come Again; Henry Purcell: Dido and Aenaeas; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 211, "Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht," (Coffee Cantata), BWV 211 (BC G48); Giovanni Pergolesi: Stabat Mat...
Performers: Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Bonney, Barbara; Graham, Susan; Heringman, Jacob [Lute]; Knudsen, Sato; Martineau, Malcolm; Music, Academy of Ancient; Pappano, Antonio [Conductor]; Phillips, Daniel [Organ]; Pre...
Conductors: Hogwood, Christopher; Leonhardt, Gustav; Rousset, Christophe; Pinnock, Trevor; Östman, Arnold; Ferro, Gabriele; Järvi, Neeme; Eschenbach, Christoph; Chailly, Riccardo; Previn, Andre; Page, ...

Personnel: Anthony Way (treble); Jacob Heringman (lute); André Previn , Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano).

Recording information: Grotezaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (11/1986-02...continue...

A-Z of Opera

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2000-10-01

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo; Henry Purcell: Dido and Aenaeas; George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; MEDLEY; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Christoph W. Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits; Alceste; Wolfgang A...
Performers: Alperyn, Graciela; Amps, Kym; Borowska, Joanna; Carolis, Natale de; Dalayman, Katarina; Gauci, Miriam; Harper, Thomas [Tenor Vocal]; Kertesi, Ingrid; Kohutkova, Adriana; Krause, Monika; Kwon, Hellen;...
Conductors: ; Kovács, László; Wildner, Johannes; Östman, Arnold; Leitner, Konrad; Morandi, Pier G.; Halász, Michael; Humburg, Will; Rahbari, Alexander; Dohnányi, Oliver von; Saccani...
Ensemble: ; Bratislava Children's Choir; Brussels Belgian Radio & TV Philharmonic Orchestra; Camerata Budapest; Camerata Transylvanica; Capella Istropolitana; Capella Musicale di S. Petronio di Bologna; Czecho...

The World of Early Music

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1999-12-13

Works: Gregorian Chant: Kyrie; In Paradisum Angeli; Hildegard von Bingen: O pastor animarum; Richard I Coeur-de-lion: Ja nuns hons pris, for consort; Walther von der Vogelweide: Palästinalied (Kreutzfa...
Performers: Cano, Carmen; Christie, James David; Landauer, Bernhard; Laurence Cummings [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Payne, Joseph; Posch, Michael; Richards, Steven; Rumsey, Shirley; Schenale, Manuela; Wilson, Christ...
Conductors: Turco, Alberto; Randon, Alessio; Summerly, Jeremy; ; Holten, Bo; Wimmer, Thomas; Vartolo, Sergio; Morel, Christine; Fasolis, Diego; Bychkov, Semyon; Crees, Eric; Mallon, Kevin; Niquet, Hervé; Kr...
Ensemble: ; Accentus Austria (Early Music); Aradia Ensemble; Capella Istropolitana; Ensemble Unicorn; Les Voix Humaines; London Baroque; Rose Consort of Viols; Scholars Baroque Ensemble; Westra Aros Pijpare

Recitals - An Evening with Jessye Norman

1 CD / Opera D'Oro / 1999-10-12

Works: Henry Purcell: Dido and Aenaeas; Richard Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder; Gustav Mahler: Um Mitternacht, song for voice & piano (or orchestra) in B minor (Rückert Lieder no 4); Liebst du um Schön...
Performers: Norman, Jessye

Marian Anderson - Rare and Unpublished Recordings 1936-1952

1 CD / Video Artists International / 1998-08-25

Works: Alessandro Scarlatti: La donna ancora è fedele; George Frederick Handel: Deborah, HWV 51; A Song for St Cecilia's Day, HWV 76; Franz Schubert: Der Jüngling an der Quelle, D 300; Schwaneng...
Performers: Primrose, William; Rupp, Franz; Vehanen, Kosti

History of Classical Music

4 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1997-08-01

Works: Gregorian Chant: Chant for Good Friday; Anonymous: Ambrosian Chant for Epiphany; Je Ne Puis . . . Amors Me Tienent . . . Veritatem, for consort; Oy voy; Hildegard von Bingen: Work(s); Pérotin: P...
Performers: Éder String Quartet; Biret, Idil; Cuckston, Alan; Elsner, Kasia; Fawkes, Richard; Harper, Thomas [Tenor Vocal]; Hill, Peter H.; Jandó, Jenö; Kliegel, Maria; Kodaly Quartet; La Scol...
Conductors: ; Antal, Mátyás; Warchal, Bohdan; Kraemer, Nicholas; Gunzenhauser, Stephen; Gmür, Hanspeter; Ward, Nicholas; Wordsworth, Barry; Halász, Michael; Wildner, Johannes; Kosler, Zdenek;...
Ensemble: ; Accentus Austria (Early Music); Capella Istropolitana; Capella Musicale di S. Petronio di Bologna; Ensemble Unicorn; Gothic Voices; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra & Chorus; In Dulci Jubilo Childre...