Composer: Georges Bizet, Benjamin Britten, Charles François Gounod, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Lehár, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Rodgers, Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, Johann Strauss, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Ambroise Thomas, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner
Performer: Sir Thomas Allen, Brindley Sherratt, Janice Watson
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: David Parry
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN3118
Release: 2005
Size: 267 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Gounod: Faust, CG 4
01. Act II: Even the bravest heart may swell (Avant de quitter ces lieux) (Valentin)
Rossini: The Barber of Seville
02. Act I: I am the barber everyone wants, I am!, “Largo al factotum” (Figaro)
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
03. Act III: You’ve won the case already – Must I be made to suffer (Vedrò mentr’io sospiro) (Count Almaviva)
Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70
04. Act III: With dark foreboding twilight casts her shadows (Wie Todesahnung) (Wolfram)
Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades, Op. 68, TH 10
05. You seem unhappy, my beloved (Yeletsky)
Thomas: Hamlet
06. Act II: Oh wine, deliver me from sadness, “Drinking Song” (Hamlet, Chorus)
Verdi: Luisa Miller
07. Act I: Stop! You shall listen – Marriage is sacred – I was right to be so suspicious (Sacra la scelta) (Miller, Wurm)
Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70
08. Act II: Turning my gaze upon this proud assembly (Blick’ ich umher) (Wolfram)
Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, GB 4, WD 13
09. Act III: The storm has died away (L’orage s’est calmé) (Zurga)
Britten: Billy Budd, Op. 50
10. Act II: Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray, “Billy in the Darbies” (Billy)
Strauss II: Die Fledermaus
11. Act I: Though I’m somewhat out of practice, “Watch Duet” (Gabriel von Eisenstein, Rosalinde)
Lehár: The Merry Widow
12. Hello, here’s a soldier bold, “Cavalryman Duet” (Hanna, Count Danilo)
Rodgers: Carousel
13. Act I: I wonder what he’ll think of me!, “Billy’s Soliloquy” (Billy Bigelow)
Korngold: Die Tode Stadt (The Dead City), Op. 12
14. Act II: In visions, illusions (Mein Sehnen) (Fritz, Chorus)
