Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Benjamin Britten, Antonín Dvořák, Christoph Willibald Gluck, George Frideric Handel, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Lehár, Gian Carlo Menotti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Rodgers, Richard Wagner
Performer: Christine Brewer, Judith Howarth, Timothy Robinson
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: David Parry
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN3159W
Release: 2009
Size: 274 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
01. Act II: Hear my prayer, I humbly beg you (Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro) (Countess)
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
02. Act III: The breezes… (Che soave zeffireto) (Countess, Susanna)
Gluck: Alceste, Wq. 44
03. Act I: Where am I (Ou suis-je?) (Alceste)
Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70
04. Act III: Almighty Virgin (Allmacht’ge Jungfrau! Hor mein Flehen!) (Elisabeth)
Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 13
05. Act III: Embroidery in childhood, “Embroidery Aria” (Ellen Orford)
Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
06. Act I: Come hope, you faint and distant star (Komm, Hoffnung, sie blass und abseitig Stern) (Leonora)
Handel: Rodelinda, HWV 19
07. Act III: If my pain, my bitter sighing (Se il mio duol non e si forte) (Rodelinda)
Gluck: Alceste, Wq. 44
08. Act I: Great Gods! Cruel fortune has cursed me (Grands dieux! Du destin qui m’accable) (Alceste)
Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75
09. Act I: When all my hopes departed (Einsam in truben Tagen) (Elsa)
Menotti: The Consul
10. Act II: To this we’ve come (Magda)
Korngold: Die tote Stadt, Op. 12
11. Act I: My joy lives in you (Gluck, das mir verblieb), “Marietta’s Lied” (Marietta)
Dvořák: Zigeunermelodien, Op. 55, B. 104
12. IV. Songs my mother taught me (Als die alte Mutter)
Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns
13. Act II: Love, what has given you this magic pow’r (Wer hat die Liebe uns ins Herz geschenkt?) (Lisa, Sou-Chong)
Rodgers: The Sound of Music
14. Climb ev’ry mountain (Reverend Mother)