Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Emmerich Kalman, Franz Lehár, Bob Merrill, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Rodgers, Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, Arthur Seymour Sullivan, Richard Wagner, Carl Maria von Weber
Performer: Christine Brewer, Barry Banks, Janice Watson, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: David Parry
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN3127
Release: 2005
Size: 320 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70
01. Act II: Great Hall of Song (Dich teure Halle) (Elizabeth)
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527
02. Act I: Don Ottavio, I’m dying – He threatened my honour (Or sai chi l’onore) (Donna Anna, Don Ottavio)
Gluck: Alceste, Wq. 44
03. Act I: Almighty gods of death! (Divinités du Styx) (Alceste)
Weber: Oberon, J. 306
04. Act II: Ocean! Thou mighty monster – Still I see thy billows flashing (Ozean! Du Ungeheuer) (Reiza)
Sullivan: The Golden Legend
05. The night is calm and cloudless (Elsie, Chorus)
Weber: Euryanthe, J. 291
06. Act I: Ah, What have I done? – Fading is the star (Unter ist mein Stern gegangen) (Euryanthe, Eglantine)
Kalman: Countess Mariza
07. Gypsy and airs and joyful phrases – Where is love’s kingdom? (Maritza, Chorus)
Rodgers: Carousel
08. Act II: You’ll never walk alone (Nettie Fowler, Chorus)
Lehár: Giuditta
09. Act IV: Why ever should it be (Meine Lippen sie küssen so heiss) (Giuditta, Chorus)
Rossini: Stabat Mater
10. Blessed Virgin, may the flame of love (Inflammatus et accensus)
Beethoven: Concert Aria, Op. 65
11. Ah! Treachery and falsehood! – Ah, my love, how can you leave me (Ah perfido!)
Merrill: Carnival
12. I came two buses and a train (Mira – Can you imagine that?) (Lili)
Christine Brewer possesses possibly the finest dramatic soprano in the world today, and this wonderful collection of arias sung in English is a stunning testament to this assertion…Her versatility is never in doubt and the results rarely less than exceptional…The Philharmonia Orchestra provides excellent support throughout, perhaps a little flaccid in the Tannhäuser, but generally very responsive and vivid elsewhere.