Baillie, Isobel

Kathleen Ferrier, contralto: The Complete EMI Recordings

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-04-24

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orpheus and Eurydice; Orfeo ed Euridice; Johannes Brahms: Liebestreu, Op. 3 no 1; German folk songs (49) for voice & piano, WoO 33; Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius; Ma...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Duval, Nel; Koeman, Greet; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth
Conductors: Walter, Bruno; Karajan, Herbert von; Bruck, Charles

Described as a 'legend in her own lifetime', Kathleen Ferrier rose form obscurity to become one of the most sough-after contraltos of the 20th century....continue...

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder; Gluck; Greene; etc. / Kathleen Ferrier, Gerald Moore

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-03-26

Works: Henry Purcell: Birthday Ode for Queen Mary; The Indian Queen; Shepherd, leave decoying (from "King Arthur"), symphony & duet for 2 sopranos, Z. 628/16; George Frederick Handel: Ottone; Christoph Will...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Moore, Gerald [Piano]
Conductors: Bruck, Charles; Walter, Bruno
Ensemble: ; Vienna Philharmonic

Gramophone Magazine
An outstandingly beautiful performance à Kathleen Ferrier, under Bruno Walter's inspired direction, sings these songs as, one feels, Mahler must have imagined them...continue...

Beecham Collection - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis / Baillie, etc

2 CD / SOMM / 2011-10-11

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Falkner, Keith; Jarred, Mary; Nash, Heddle [Tenor]; Richardson, H. Percy
Conductors: Beecham, Thomas, Sir
Ensemble: Leeds Festival Chorus; London Philharmonic Orchestra

Great British Sopranos / Maggie Teyte, Isobel Baillie, Eva Turner, Margaret Sheridan

1 CD / Regis Records / 2011-07-03

Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Giacomo Puccini: Madam Butterfly; La Boheme; Claude Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande; Syrinx; Emile Paladilhe: Psyché; Reynald...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Catley, Gwen; Garden, Mary; Labette, Dora; Licette, Miriam; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Nicholls, Agnes; Pertile, Aureliano; Sheridan, Margaret; Solomon, Lionel; Sud...
Conductors: Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Robinson, Eric; Sabanjo, Carlo; Goossens, Eugene, Sir

Regis presents a selection of pre-war performances by Great British sopranos in repertoire which secured their reputations. Familiar figures such as Maggie Teyte, Isobel Baillie,...continue...

Vaughan Williams: Music in the Heart [Includes Bonus Disc]

2 CD / Albion / 2010-06-08

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to music; Pilgrim's Journey, cantata for soloists, chorus & orchestra (or organ; arr. from the opera "The Pilg; English Hymnal; Spoken Word: Vaughan Williams speaks a...
Performers: Allen, Stiles; Allin, Norman; Baillie, Isobel; Bove, Louis; Easton, Robert; Henderson, Roy; Herbert, William; Lewis, Richard [Tenor Vocal]; Manton, Stephen; Mitchell, Ena; Nash, Heddle [Tenor Vocals]...
Conductors: Vaughan Williams, Ralph; Pfohl, Henry

Music in the Heart features a rare recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams conducting his Serenade to Music from a performance in 1951, the Pilgrim's Journey...continue...

From Vaughan Williams attic / Boult, Irving, Wood, London PO, et al

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2009-03-10

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The wasps; Old King Cole, ballet for chorus & orchestra; Flourish for a Coronation, for chorus & orchestra; Serenade to music; A Song of Thanksgiving for soprano, speaker, cho...
Performers: Allen, Stiles; Allin, Norman; Baillie, Isobel; Balfour, Margaret; Brunskill, Muriel; Desmond, Astra; Easton, Robert; Henderson, Roy; Jarred, Mary; Jones, Parry; Nash, Heddle [Tenor Vocals]; Ritchie, ...
Conductors: Vaughan Williams, Ralph; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Wood, Henry J.; Irving, Ernest
Ensemble: ; Aeolian Orchestra

This fascinating and important release features recordings of Vaughan Williams works, remastered from the composer's personal collection of 78-rpm discs. Works include the film score...continue...

Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (Box)

4 CD / Membran Import / 2006-04-27

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Symphony no 4 in A major, Op. 90 "Italian"; Concerto for Violin in D minor; Trio for Piano and Strings no 2 in C minor, Op. 66; Quartet for Strings no 1 ...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Heifetz, Jascha; Johnston, James; Kushnevitzky, Sviatoslav; O'Hora, Ronan [Piano]; Oborin, Lev; Oistrakh, David; Williams, Harold
Conductors: Zinman, David; Sanderling, Stefan; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Faerber, Jörg; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir

Arturo Toscanini conducts Beethoven - Symphony no 9

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2004-12-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"; Recorded Sound: Applause
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Jarred, Mary; Jones, Parry; Williams, Harold
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

To Music / Isobel Baillie & Kathleen Ferrier

1 CD / Appian Publications & Recordings / 2004-10-01

Works: Henry Purcell: Bid the virtues; Stript of their green our groves appear, Z 444; I saw that you were grown so high, Z 387; Indian Queen, Z 630; King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z 628; George Freder...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Moore, Gerald [Piano]

British Music Collection - Vaughan Willliams / Boult, LPO

5 CD / Decca / 2004-04-13

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 1 "A sea symphony"; A London Symphony (Symphony no 2) (Original 1913 version); Symphony no 9 in E minor; Symphony no 3 for soprano or tenor & orchestra ("Pastoral"...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Cameron, John; Parfitt, Harold; Ritchie, Margaret
Conductors: Boult, Adrian
Ensemble: London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra

This is the first time these complete symphony recordings have been made available as a boxed set....continue...

Singers to Remember - Isobel Baillie - The Unforgettable

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2002-10-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Giulio Cesare, HWV 17; Rodelinda; Der Messias; Theodora; Joshua; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 68, "Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt" BWV 68; Cantata no 201, "Der Streit zw...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Draper, Charles; Ison, G.; Lockwood, Arthur; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Pini, Anthony
Conductors: Braithwaite, Warwick; Cameron, Basil; Heward, Leslie; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Prentice, Charles; Robinson, Stanford
Ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Hallé Orchestra; Orchestra; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music, etc / Wood, BBC SO

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2001-08-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The wasps; Serenade to music; A London Symphony (Symphony no 2) (Original 1913 version); Fantasia on Greensleeves
Performers: Allin, Norman; Baillie, Isobel; Balfour, Margaret; Brunskill, Muriel; Desmond, Astra; Easton, Robert; Henderson, Roy; Jarred, Mary; Jones, Parry; Nash, Heddle [Tenor Vocals]; Suddaby, Elsie; Titterto...
Conductors: Wood, Henry J.

"[This recording] brings a most striking discrepancy of pace with modern performances. The first movement alone takes over three minutes less than in most latter-day...continue...

Great Voices of the Past - Legendary Opera Duets

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2001-07-10

Works: Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Don Carlos; Simon Boccanegra; Otello; Henry Pur...
Performers: Alda, Frances; Amato, Pasquale; Baillie, Isobel; Bampton, Rose; Beuf, Augusto; Bjorling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Clement, Edmond; de Luca, Giuseppe; Eames, Emma; Farrar, Geraldine [Soprano Vocals]; Fr...

This is a unique collection of some operatic rarities, some sung by famous singers, some by names now forgotten, but belonging to artists of surprising...continue...

The EMI Record of Singing Vol 3 - 1926-1939

10 CD / Testament / 1999-12-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Die Walküre; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Das Rheingold; The Flying Dutchman; Siegfried; Wesendonck Lieder; Rudolf Wille: Königsballade, ...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Allin, Norman; Andrésen, Ivar; Angelis, Nazzareno de; Arangi-Lombardi, Giannina; Austral, Florence; Baccaloni, Salvatore; Badia, Conchita; Badini, Ernesto; Baillie, Isobel; Ba...
Conductors: Barbirolli, John; Viebig, Ernst; Heidenreich, Johannes; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Weissmann, Frieder; Kun, Cornelius; Dobrindt, Otto; Blech, Leo; Muller, Hans Udo; Orthmann, Erich; Alwin, Carl; Schmals...

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas / Lambert, Hammond, Noble, et al

1 CD / Opera D'Oro / 1999-11-16

Works: Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z 626
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Coates, Edith; Fullerton, Joan; Hammond, Joan, Dame; Hobson, Edna; Jones, Trefor; Noble, Dennis; Ord, Boris; Patriss, Sylvia; Ripley, Gladys
Conductors: Lambert, Constant
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra Strings

Prima Voce - The Spirit of Christmas Past

3 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-10-01

Works: John Francis Wade: Adeste fideles; Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Hallelujah; Adolphe-Charles Adam: Minuit, Chrétiens "O holy night"; Charles Gounod: Ave Maria; Hanns Eisler: The oldest Christmas stor...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Caruso, Enrico; Crooks, Richard [Tenor]; Destinn, Emmy; Erb, Karl; Gigli, Beniamino; Gluck, Alma; Hollister, Carroll; Laughton, Charles; Lehmann, Lotte; Lush, Ernest; Lutsky, Eugene;...
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef; Molajoli, Lorenzo; Rogers, Walter; O'Connell, Charles; Weigert, Hermann
Ensemble: Chorus; Orchestra

You are invited to be a guest at the 'Prima Voce' Christmas party! Includes seasonal songs, carols and readings from the greatest opera stars of...continue...