Composer: Alexander Borodin, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, George Frideric Handel, Liza Lehmann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Modest Mussorgsky, Jacques Offenbach, Arthur Seymour Sullivan, Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: John Tomlinson, Helen Williams, Barry Banks, Andrew Shore
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: David Parry
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN3044
Release: 1999
Size: 351 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Handel: Acis and Galatea, HWV 49
01. Act II: I rage, I rage, I rage, I melt, I burn! – O ruddier than the cherry (Polyphemus)
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
02. Act I: When a maiden takes your fancy (Wer ein Liebchen hat gefunden) (Osmin)
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
03. Act II: I’m going, but take my advice (Ich gehe, doche rate ich dir) (Osmin, Blonde)
04. Act II: Vivat Bacchus! Long live Bacchus! (Vivat Bacchus! Bacchus lebe!) (Pedrillo and Osmin)
Handel: Samson, HWV 57
05. Honour and arms scorn such a foe (Harapha)
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
06. Prologue: A last farewell I bid you (A te l’estremo addio) – My soul is torn with suffering (Il lacerato spirito) (Fiesco)
Mussorgsky: Mephistopheles’s Song in Auerbach’s Cellar (Pesnya Mefistofelya v pogrebke Auerbakha)
07. There lived a king of old (Zhil bil korol kogdato) (Mephistopheles), “Song of the Flea”
Borodin: Prince Igor
08. Act II: No rest, no slumber (Ni sna, ni otdikha) (Prince Igor)
09. Act I: The Prince has drunk his fill? … The sober life of boredom (Greshno tait) (Galitsky)
10. Act II: Igor, listen (Zdorov li, Knaz?) (Khan Konchak)
Dargomyzhsky: Rusalka
11. Act I: Ah! You young girls are all the same (Okh, toto vse vi devky molodiye) (Miller)
Verdi: Ernani
12. Act I: Can I believe it? (Che mai vegg’io!) – Vain illusion! When I believed her (Infelice! … e tuo credivi) (Silva)
13. Lehmann: In a Persian Garden: Myself when young
Sullivan: The Mikado
14. Act II: A more humane Mikado … My object all sublime (The Mikado), “The Mikado’s Song”
Offenbach: Genevieve de Brabant
15. We’re public gaurdians bold and wary (Gendarmes)
Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance
16. Act II: When a felon’s not engaged in his employment (Sergeant of Police), “Policeman’s Song”
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
17. Prologue. Scene 2: Coronation Scene. My soul is sad (Skorbit dusha!) (Boris), “Boris’s Prayer”
