TITLE OF CD

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PERFORMERS

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A La Française

Saint Saens’ Carnival of the Animals, Fauré’s Pavane, Songs of the Augergne arr. by Goff Richards

The King’s Singers

EMI CDC 7 47708 2

After A Dream

Debussy, Dvorak, de Falla, Faure, Strauss

Bill Banovetz, Oboe; Barbara Lister-Sink: Piano

Well Tempered Productions

At the Grave of Richard Wagner

Liszt, Berg, Webern

Kronos Quartet: David Harrington, Violin; John Sherba, Violin; Hank Dutt, Viola; Joan Jeanrenaud, Cello

Nonesuch 9 79318-2

Ave Maria – Sacred Arias and Choruses

Bach, Handel, Giordani, Schubert, Bizet, Donizetti, Franck, Faure, Bach/Gounod

Various conductors, orchestras, soloists and choirs

Naxos 8.570064

emusic

Barcelona Games

Bizet, Verdi, Leoncavallo, more

Garcia Navarro, Cond.; Placido Domingo; Montserrat Caballe; Juan Pons; Jose Carreras; Teresa Berganza; Giacomo Aragall; City of Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

RCA Victor Red Seal 09026-61204-2

The Beauty of the Soprano

Delibes, Puccini, Mozart, Canteloube, Offenbach, Catalani, Delibes, Taylor, Webber, Gershwin, Hammerstein, Lehar, Traditional

Lesley Garrett and Various Orchestra

Avalon 22584

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Gregorian Chant, William Byrd, John Taverner, Palestrina, Scheidt, John Sheppard, Duruflé, Whyte

John Rutter, Cond./ The Cambridge Singers

AGCD 588

Chant

Gregorian Chant

The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos

Angel 7243 5 55138 2 3

Chanticleer: The Anniversary Album 1978-1988

Palestrina, des Prez, Shearer, Poulenc, Trad., Brown, Arlen, Clark

Chanticleer

Chanticleer Records CR-8801

Classic Yo-Yo

Bach, Piazzolla, O’Connor, Dvorak, Gershwin, Williams, Meyer, Brahms, Tan Dun, Fauré, Rachmaninoff

Yo-Yo Ma

Sony SK 89667

Domingo at the Philharmonic

Giordano, Lehar, Reznicek, Mascagni, Rimsky-Korsakov, Lara, Strauss, Verdi, Tosti, Puccini, Gastaldon

Zubin Mehta, Cond.; Placido Domingo, Tenor; Adriana Morelli, Soprano; New York Philharmonic

CBS Masterworks MK 44942

The Girl with Orange Lips

Manuel De Falla, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Earl Kim, Maurice Delage

Dawn Upshaw, Soprano; Carmit Zori, Lynn Chang, Nai-Yuan Hu, Robert Rinehard, Violins; Sarah Clarke, Nardo Poy, Violas; Eric Bartlett, Bruce Coppock, Cellos; Fenwick Smith, Laura Gilbert, Flutes; Marcia Butler, Oboe; Thomas Hill, Clarinet; Mitchell Weiss, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet; Barbara Allen, Harp, Randall Hodgkinson, Piano

Elektra Nonesuch 9 79262-2

Goethe Lieder

Schumann, Schubert, Wolf, Mozart

Dawn Upshaw, Soprano; Richard Goode, Piano

Nonesuch 79317-2

Howl, U.S.A.

Kronos Quartet: David Harrington, Violin; John Sherba, Violin; Hank Dutt, Viola; Joan Jeanrenaud, Cello

Kronos Quartet

Nonesuch 79372-2

The Idiot’s Guide to Classical Music

99 tracks including Beethoven, Chopin, Gershwin, Mozart, Pachelbel, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Rossini, Vivaldi, Wagner

Mutliple performers including Placido Domingo, Julian Bream, Emanuel Ax, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops, Arthur Fiedler, Eugene Ormandy

RCA Victor 09026-62641-2

If You Love Me

18th Century Italian Songs – Scarlatti, Giordani, Lotti, Cesti, Paisiello, Marcello, Caldara, Caccini, Parisotti, more

Cecilia Bartoli, Soprano; Gyorgy Fischer, Piano

London D 100862

I Wish It So

Marc Blitzstein, Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein,

Eric Stern, Cond.; Dawn Upshaw, Soprano

Nonesuch 79345-2

The King’s Singers, The Debut Recording

The Peanut Vendor; Shenandoah; Cherry Ripe; Summertime; Time Wise; Scarborough Fair; None But The Lonely Heart; Linstead Market; The Oak and the Ash; Wives and Lovers; Blow Away the Morning Dew; The Green Leaves of Sumer; What Kind of Things

King’s Singers

Chandos Records/Koch Dist.

emusic (not really classical, but what to do?)

Kiri Te Kanawa; Verdi & Puccini

Arias by Verdi and Puccini

John Pritchard, Cond.; Kiri Te Kanawa, Soprano, London Philharmonic Orchestra

CBS Masterworks MK 37298

Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Samuel Barber, Gian Carlo Menotti, John Harbison, Igor Stravinsky

David Zinman, Cond.; Dawn Upshaw, Soprano; The Orchestra of St. Luke’s

Nonesuch 7559-79187-2

Lieder*Songs

Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov

Paata Burchuladze, Bass; Ludmilla Ivanova, Piano

Deutsche Grammophone 419 239-2

Morimur

Partita in D Minor, BWV 1004, Chorales, Ciaccona for Solo Violin and Four Voices

Christoph Poppen, Baroque Violin; Monika Mauch, Soprano; David Jmaes, Countertenor; David James, Countertenor; John Potter, Tenor; Gordon Jones, Baritone

My Spirit Sang All Day

Finzi, Stanley Wilson, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Rubbra, Elgar, Bridge, Perry, more

The King’s Singers

EMI CDC 7 49765 2

Naumburg Presents Dawn Upshaw

Wolf’s Goethe Songs, Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia, 6 Songs by Rachmaninoff, Berceuse and The World’s Highway by Ives, Weill’s Berlin im Licht-Song and Je ne t’aime pas

Dawn Upshaw, Soprano; Margo Garrett, Piano

Music Masters 7045-2-C

Night Prayers

Dmitri Yano-Yanovsky, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Sofia Gubaidulina, Tigran Tahmizyan, Osvaldo Golijov, Giya Kancheli

Kronos Quartet: David Harrington, Violin; John Sherba, Violin; Hank Dutt, Viola; Joan Jeanrenaud, Cello

Nonesuch 79346-2

The Oboe

Mozart, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Dvorak, more …

Burkhard Glaetzner, Oboe

Laserlight Digital 15 236

Officium

Jan Garbarek, Soprano and Tenor Saxophones David James, Countertenor; Rogers Covey-Crump, Tenor; John Potter, Tenor; Gordon Jones, Baritone

ECM New Series78118-21525-2

On Yoolis Night

Medieval Carols & Motets

Anonymous 4

Harmonia Munci 907099

Six

Down to the River to Pray; Blackbird; The Wishing Tree; Lullaby (Goodnight My Angel); Blue Skies; After the Goldrush

King’s Singers

Signum Records/The Orchard

emusic (not really classical, but what to do?)

Stratas Sings Weill

Kurt Weill

Gerard, Schwarz, Cond./Teresa Stratas/Y Chamber Symphony

Nonesuch 9-79131-2

With a Poet’s Eye

Cary John Franklin, Ned Rorem, Allen Shearer, William Hawley, David Conte, Steven Sametz

Chanticleer

Chanticleer Records CR-8804

Words of the Angel

Messe de Tournai with 14th century polyphony

Trio Mediaeval

ECM New Series 289 461 782-2

The World So Wide

Aaron Copland, John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, Tania León, Douglas Stuart Moore, Kurt Weill, Samuel Barber, Carlisle Floyd

David Zinman, Cond.; Dawn Upshaw, Soprano; The Orchestra of St. Luke’s

Nonesuch 79458-2