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#21863112
Performer(s): Ruth Ziesak
Conductor(s): Marcus Creed
Ensembles(s): Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin
Label: Capriccio Records
Number of Discs: 1
Total time: 68:33
Available in U.S. only.
#21863158
Performer(s): Jochen Kowalski
Conductor(s): Heinz Fricke
Ensembles(s): Munich Radio Orchestra
Label: Capriccio Records
Number of Discs: 1
Total time: 60:07
Available in U.S. only.
Valery Gergiev's ongoing Rimsky-Korsakov series is simply the most important thing happening in the world of opera today. -ClassicsToday.com
#8002413
Performer(s): Evgeny Boitsov, Larissa Diadkova, Evgeny Fedotov, Nikolai Gassiev,, etc...
Conductor(s): Valery Gergiev
Ensembles(s): Mariinsky (Kirov) Theater Chorus, St. Petersburg Orchestra and Chorus
Label: Philips
Number of Discs: 3
Total time: 181:13
#5258626
Performer(s): Leontyne Price
Label: BMG
Number of Discs: 2
#5173164
Performer(s): Dalton Baldwin, Baldwin Dalton, Jessye Norman
Conductor(s): William Patterson, Willis Patterson
Ensembles(s): Ambrosian Singers
Label: Philips
Number of Discs: 1
Total time: 42:25
#5376927
Performer(s): Gabriel Bacquier, Fiorenza Cossotto, Plácido Domingo, William Elvin,, etc...
Conductor(s): James Levine
Ensembles(s): John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra
Label: RCA Records
Number of Discs: 3
Total time: 171:05
"Beethoven has no peer. His single opera has a unique appeal, and a magic very much of its own — especially in its first version, the Lenore of 1805, where his ideas ... are at their most radical." —John Eliot Gardiner
#5277552
Performer(s): Kim Begley, Matthew Best, Robert Burt, Colin Campbell, Ruth Crouch,, etc...
Conductor(s): John Eliot Gardiner
Ensembles(s): Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
Label: DG Archiv / Polygram
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 137:44
#5163353
Performer(s): Tim Jones, Ruth Ann Swenson, Karen Vaughan, Moray Welsh
Conductor(s): Julius Rudel
Ensembles(s): London Symphony Orchestra
Label: Angel Records
Number of Discs: 1
Total time: 63:38
SALE ends Apr 15th
#561235
Performer(s): Roberto Alagna, Yann Beuron, Anne Constantin, José van Dam, Till, etc...
Conductor(s): Michel Plasson
Ensembles(s): Choeur de Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
Label: EMI Music Distributio
Number of Discs: 3
Available in U.S. only.
#5163773
Performer(s): Enrico Caruso
Label: RCA Records
Number of Discs: 1
Total time: 65:46
#8008882
Performer(s): Fernando Corena, Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Taddei
Ensembles(s): Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus
Label: Decca
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 113:03
The 20th century would be unthinkable without Wagner . . . Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy: those four, they changed everything. Music was not the same after them. -- Daniel Barenboim
#5173833
Performer(s): Dale Clevenger
Conductor(s): Daniel Barenboim
Ensembles(s): Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Label: Teldec
Number of Discs: 1
Total time: 72:48
"Amazing Grace is a moving collection of traditional gospel songs, all delivered with remarkable style and grace from Jessye Norman." —All Music Guide
#5186098
Performer(s): Dalton Baldwin, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, Jessye Norman, Geoffrey Parsons
Conductor(s): William Patterson
Ensembles(s): Ambrosian Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Label: Philips
Number of Discs: 1
Total time: 72:04
Janet Baker's ... Dido ... is truly memorable, from the lovely opening 'Ah! Belinda, I am prest' to the deeply moving closing Lament. -Gramophone
#5164174
Performer(s): Janet Baker, Patricia Clark, Thurston Dart, Raimund Herincx, Monica, etc...
Conductor(s): Emanuel Hurwitz, Anthony Lewis
Ensembles(s): English Chamber Orchestra, St. Anthony Singers
Label: Decca
Number of Discs: 1
Total time: 52:45
#5260408
Performer(s): Pasquale Amato, Angelo Bada, Enrico Caruso, Salvatore Cottone, Minnie, etc...
Conductor(s): Josef A. Pasternack, Walter B. Rogers, Giulio Setti
Ensembles(s): Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Label: BMG
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 149:58
#5260864
Performer(s): Licia Albanese, Jussi Björling, Fernando Corena, Tommaso Frascati, Emil, etc...
Conductor(s): Renato Cellini, Nils Grevillius, Erich Leinsdorf, Jonel Perlea
Ensembles(s): RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, RCA Victor Orchestra, Rome Opera House Chorus
Label: RCA Records
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 155:43
#21968894
Performer(s): Andrzej Hiolski, Wieslaw Ochman, Jerzy Ostapiuk, Ryszarda Racewicz,, etc...
Conductor(s): Robert Satanowski
Ensembles(s): Polish National Opera Orchestra & Chorus
Label: CPO
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 121:25
Available in U.S. only.
I envy you the prospect of hearing this small miracle of a one-act opera for the first time. -Classic FM Magazine
#5171068
Performer(s): Patrizia Kwella, Philip Langridge, Felicity Palmer, Stephen Varcoe
Conductor(s): Richard Hickox
Ensembles(s): City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox Singers
Label: Hyperion
Number of Discs: 1
Total time: 57:49
SALE ends Apr 15th
#5252435
Performer(s): Wolfgang Anheisser, Kurt Böhme, Willi Brokmeier, Grace Bumbry, Biserka, etc...
Conductor(s): Franz Allers
Ensembles(s): Munich State Opera Chorus, Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper
Label: EMI Music Distributio
Number of Discs: 2
Total time: 101:15
#7104261
Performer(s): Enrico Caruso, Salvatore Cottone, Ruggero Leoncavallo
Label: Nimbus
Number of Discs: 1
Total time: 74:14