The Most Famous Opera Duets (1994) more music like this

performed by Alfredo Kraus (tenor), Carlo Bergonzi (vocals), Carlo del Monte (vocals), Christa Ludwig (vocals), Danielle Millet (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Edita Gruberová (vocals), English Chamber Orchestra (chamber ensemble), Ernest Blanc (vocals)
composed by Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Léo Delibes, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

EMI's The Most Famous Opera Duets is a decent collection of excerpts that delivers on enough of its promise to be forgiven its superlative title. A few notable blockbusters are missing, like "O soave fanciulla" from La bohème and the evening prayer from Hansel and Gretel, but overall the collection covers its territory well -- from the famous ...

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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (2006) more music like this

performed by Heather Harper (soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Lucia Popp (soprano), Martti Talvela (bass), René Kollo (tenor), Vienna Boys' Choir (boy's choir), Vienna State Opera Choir (choir, chorus), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti (conductor)
composed by Gustav Mahler

Aside from his sensational Wagner Ring cycle, if one recording in Georg Solti's catalog bears repeated reissues, it must be his truly legendary rendition of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in E flat major, "Symphony of a Thousand," a captivating performance that was unmatched in its day and one that still holds its own against later releases. No ...

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Haydn: The Creation; Missa in tempore belli (2006) more music like this

performed by Alexander Young (tenor), Andrew Davis (organ), Heather Harper (soprano), James Blades (tympani [timpani]), James Lancelot (harpsichord), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), Keith Harvey (cello), Pamela Bowden (contralto), Robert Tear (tenor)
composed by Franz Joseph Haydn

The budget Classics for Pleasure line from Britain has reissued a growing variety of famous performances from the 1960s and early 1970s. Some haven't aged a bit; some offer sterling examples of how fashions change. And some fall in between those extremes. Made in 1974, this was a reference recording of Haydn's The Creation for many years, ...

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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' (2007) more music like this

performed by Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), London Symphony Chorus (choir, chorus), London Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti (conductor)
composed by Gustav Mahler

Anyone who became aware of Gustav Mahler's symphonies in the late '60s and 1970s surely knows of the many impressive recordings Georg Solti made for Decca, and likely remembers that they were held in high regard for their remarkable clarity, energetic playing, and overwhelming emotional expression. This 1966 recording of the Symphony No. 2 in C ...

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Handel: Messiah (1993) more music like this

performed by Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contra-alto), John Shirley-Quirk (vocals), John Wakefield (tenor), Leslie Pearson (harpsichord), Ralph Downes (organ), William Lang (trumpet), London Symphony Chorus (choir, chorus), London Symphony Orchestra
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (2003) more music like this

performed by Birgit Finnila (vocals), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (vocals), Elizabeth Gale (vocals), Elizabeth Ritchie (vocals), Geraint Evans (vocals), Heather Harper (vocals), John Fryatt (vocals), John Robertson (vocals), Judith Blegen (vocals)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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The Best Choral Album in the World...Ever! (1999) more music like this

performed by Charles Brett (alto), Daniel Sladden (bass), David Bell (organ), David Corkhill (percussion), Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano), Felicity Lott (soprano), Gerald Finley (cantor), Heather Harper (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), James Morris (bass)
composed by Alexander Borodin, Amadeo Vives, Antonio Vivaldi, Carl Orff, César Franck, Edward Elgar, Felix Mendelssohn, Francis Poulenc, Franz Joseph Haydn, Gabriel Fauré, George Frederick Handel, Giuseppe Verdi, Gregorian Chant, Gregorio Allegri, Hector Berlioz

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Vaughan Williams: The Nine Symphonies [Box Set] (2003) more music like this

performed by Alex Taylor (viola), Anthony Camden (cor anglais), Anthony Halstead (horn), Douglas Cummings (cello), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Heather Harper (soprano), James Buswell (violin), John Fletcher (tuba), John Georgiadis (violin)
composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia; Phaedra (1990) more music like this

performed by Benjamin Luxon (vocals), Bryan Drake (vocals), Elizabeth Bainbridge (vocals), Heather Harper (vocals), Janet Baker (soprano), Janet Baker (vocals), Jenny Hill (vocals), John Shirley-Quirk (vocals), Peter Pears (vocals), English Chamber Orchestra
composed by Benjamin Britten

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Britten Conducts Britten: Operas 1 [Box Set] (2004) more music like this

performed by Anne Pashley (vocals), April Cantelo (vocals), Benjamin Luxon (vocals), Bryan Drake (vocals), Catherine Wilson (vocals), Claire Watson (vocals), David Bowman (vocals), David Kelly (vocals), David Read (vocals), Delme Bryn-Jones (vocals)
composed by Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten's recordings of his own operas are definitive -- cutting out the interpretive middle man and going straight to the heart of every bar, every scene. For sure, there are better sounding, and in many cases better sung, recordings to be had, especially of the popular works like Peter Grimes and Billy Budd; but none of them are as ...

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Handel: Judas Maccabeus (2007) more music like this

performed by Alexander Young (tenor), Christopher Keyte (bass baritone), Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Jean Temperley (mezzo-soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Patricia Clark (soprano), Amor Artis Chamber Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by George Frederick Handel

Little on the outside packaging of this album, other than the names of the soloists, tells the buyer that the music was originally recorded in 1971. First released by the Vanguard label, the performance was well done in the first place and has had a durable life in budget reissues. The buyer should know what he or she is getting -- a thoroughly ...

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Mahler: Symphony No. 4; Berlioz: Le Corsaire (1996) more music like this

performed by Heather Harper (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor)
composed by Gustav Mahler, Hector Berlioz

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Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony more music like this

performed by Heather Harper (soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra (choir, chorus), London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams

The authoritative recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 1, "A Sea Symphony" (1903-1909), is generally conceded to be the stirring rendition by Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, with soprano Sheila Armstrong and baritone John Carol Case, released in 1968 on EMI. But the 1970 RCA recording by André Previn ...

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Bruckner: Masses 2 & 3; Te Deum; 5 Motets (2003) more music like this

performed by Anna Reynolds (contralto), Anne Pashley (soprano), Birgit Finnila (contralto), Don Garrard (bass), Heather Harper (soprano), Marius Rintzler (bass), Robert Tear (tenor), John Alldis Choir (choir, chorus), New Philharmonia Chorus (choir, chorus)
composed by Anton Bruckner

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Gilbert & Sullivan Operettas [Box Set] (2001) more music like this

performed by Alexander Young (tenor), April Cantelo (soprano), Bernard Turgeon (baritone), Denis Dowling (baritone), Doreen Hume (soprano), Edna Graham (soprano), Elizabeth Harwood (soprano), Elsie Morison (soprano), George Baker (baritone), Geraint Evans (baritone)
composed by Arthur Sullivan

Malcolm Sargent began serving as an accompanist for amateur productions of Gilbert & Sullivan when he was 14, was musical director for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1926 to 1928, and made complete recordings of several of the operettas with the company, so he clearly had the Gilbert & Sullivan tradition in his blood. During the late '50s and ...

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Anton Webern: Complete Works, Opp. 1-31 (1991) more music like this

performed by Abraham Weinstein (saxophone), Barry McDaniel (baritone), Charles Rosen (piano), Colin Bradbury (clarinet), Daniel Majeske (violin), Halina Lukomska (soprano), Heather Harper (soprano), Isaac Stern (violin), John Williams (guitar)
composed by Anton Webern

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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (1998) more music like this

performed by Heather Harper (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Bavarian Radio Chorus (choir, chorus), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)
composed by Gustav Mahler

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Bach: St. John Passion (1995) more music like this

performed by Adam Skeaping (viola da gamba), Adrian Beers (double bass), Adrian Thompson (vocals), Alfreda Hodgson (vocals), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Gwynne Howell (vocals), Heather Harper (vocals), James Brown (oboe), Jenny Hill (vocals), John Shirley-Quirk (vocals)
composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

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Vaughan Williams: Symphony Nos. 3 & 4 more music like this

performed by Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Heather Harper (soprano), Osian Ellis (harp), William Bennett (flute), London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Choral Favourites from King's (2006) more music like this

performed by Academy of Ancient Music, Alfreda Hodgson (alto), Andrew Davis (piano), Andrew King (tenor), Bruce Russell (treble), Cambridge Classical Players, Felicity Lott (soprano), Francis Grier (organ), Gerald Finley (cantor), Heather Harper (soprano)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi, Benjamin Britten, Charles Wood, Edward Elgar, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Frederick Delius, Gabriel Fauré, George Frederick Handel, Gregorio Allegri, Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Bacchus Dykes, John Rutter

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Britten: Peter Grimes (1999) more music like this

performed by Anne Pashley (soprano), Elizabeth Bainbridge (contralto), Forbes Robinson (bass), Heather Harper (soprano), John Dobson (tenor), John Lanigan (tenor), Jon Vickers (tenor), Jonathan Summers (baritone), Patricia Payne (mezzo-soprano)
composed by Benjamin Britten

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Mozart: Idomeneo, Re di Creta (2002) more music like this

performed by Andrea Snarski (vocals), Antonio Liviero (vocals), Carla Virgili (vocals), Elvira Spica (vocals), Franco Pugliese (vocals), Heather Harper (vocals), Jessye Norman (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (vocals), Rae Woodland (vocals)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Mozart: Don Giovanni (2007) more music like this

performed by Alberto Rinaldi (baritone), Antigone Sgourda (soprano), Geraint Evans (baritone), Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Donath (soprano), Luigi Alva (tenor), Peter Lagger (bass), Roger Soyer (bass), Walter Baracchi (harpsichord)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Mozart, The Greatest Operas [Box Set] (2007) more music like this

performed by Alfredo Kraus (vocals), Andrea Snarski (vocals), Antonio Liviero (vocals), Carla Virgili (vocals), Dimiter Petkov (vocals), Edith Oravez (vocals), Elisabeth Höngen (vocals), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (vocals), Elizabeth Harwood (vocals), Elke Schary (vocals)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Britten Conducts Britten: Operas 2 [Box Set] (2004) more music like this

performed by Alan Opie (vocals), Alfred Deller (vocals), Angela Vernon Bates (vocals), Anna Vincent (vocals), Anne Wilkens (vocals), Arda Mandikian (vocals), Benjamin Luxon (vocals), Bryan Drake (vocals), Bryn Terfel (vocals), Christopher Cornall (vocals)
composed by Benjamin Britten

This second volume completes Decca's compact reissue of Britten conducting his own operas. As with the first volume, it is a self-recommending testament to the synergy of Britten's talents as a composer and conductor, and his continuing preeminence as a recorded interpreter of his own music. Because Britten never completed recordings of his Death ...

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