Opera

Opera with Chris Stone  PUCCINI, J. Opera Excerpts  Nocturne with Anne Simpson   

Opera + Nocturne with Christopher Stone  TIPPETT "The Midsummer Marriage" Mark: Alberto Remedios, tenor; Jenifer: Joan Carlyle Raimund, soprano; King Fisher: Raimund Herincx, bass-baritone; Bella: Elizabeth Harwood, soprano; Jack: Stuart Burrows, tenor; Sosostris: Helen Watts, contralto; Priest/She-Ancient: Stafford Dean, bass / Elizabeth Bainbridge, mezzo-soprano; Chorus & Orch. of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Cond., Sir Colin Davis  TIPPETT Fantasia Concertante On A Theme of Corelli Bournemouth Symphony Orch; Cond., Richard Hickox  Wikipedia Nocturne with Christopher Stone  RACHMANINOV Vocalise Op 34 No 14 Anna Moffo, American Symphony Orch; Cond., Leopold Stokowski  DVORAK Piano Trio in G minor Op 26 Beaux Arts Trio  MOERAN Rhapsody for Piano & Orchestra Margaret Fingerhut, Ulster Orch.; Vernon Handley  

Opera + Nocturne with Yvonne Schwerdt  MASSENET "Don Quichotte" Ferruccio Furlanetto, bass (Quichotte); Anna Kiknadze, mezzo-soprano (Dulcinee); Andrei Serov, bass-baritone (Sancho Panca); Eleonora Vindau, soprano; Yulia Matochkina, mezzo-soprano; Carlos D’Onofrio, tenor; Dmitry Koleushko, tenor; Didier Jouanny, bass (Ténébrun - Chef des bandits); Sergei Zamarev, baritone; Denis Fedorenko; Andrei Bondarenko; Soldiers’ Ensemble of The Mariinsky; Academy of Young Singers; Mariinsky Orchestra; Cond., Valery Gergiev  Wikipedia FAURE Cello Sonata No 2 Op 117 Niall Brown, cello; Isabelle Trub, piano BEETHOVEN Parthia in E-flat major Op 103 Melbourne Windpower; Dir.  Richard Runnels  HAYDN String Quartet in F major Op 17 No 2 Kodaly Quartet  STANFORD Symphony No 3 in F minor Op 28 Irish Bornemouth Symphony Orchestra.; Cond., David Lloyd-Jones  DVORAK "The Old Castle" Tamara Anna Cislowska, piano TCHAIKOVSKY "The Seasons" - October Tamara Anna Cislowska, piano GLUCK "Orpheus and Euridice" - Dance of the Blessed Spirits Orpheus Chamber Orch.   

Opera + Nocturne with Glen Quick STRAUSS RICHARD Die Ägyptische Helena [Helena] Deborah Voight, soprano; [Menelas] Carl Tanner, tenor; [Aithra] Celena Shafer, soprano; [The Omniscient Seashell] Jill Grove, mezzo-soprano; [Altair] Christopher Robertson, baritone; [Da-ud] Eric Cutler, tenor; Concert Chorale of New York; American Symph. Orch.; Cond., Leon Botstein Wikipedia Nocturne with Glen Quick BRAHMS, J Paganini Variations Books 1 & 2 Cecile Ousset, piano  FAURE, GABRIEL Sonata No 1 for Violin & Piano Gil Shaham, violin; Akira Eguchi, piano  HAYDN, FJ String Quartet Op76/5 Kodaly Quartet HAYDN, FJ "The Creation" - "With Verdure Clad" Elly Ameling, soprano; Vienna Phil. Orch.; Cond., Karl Münchinger  SATIE, ERIK "Le Picadilly", "Je Te Veux" & Gymnopedies Pascal Roge, piano

Opera with Christopher Stone  ADAMS El Niño Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano; Willard White, bass-baritone; Theatre of Voices, London Voices, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Cond., Kent Nagano   Wikipedia Nocturne with Christopher Stone  FAURE Nocturne No 2 Op 33 No 2 Pascal Roge, piano DVORAK Piano Trio in B-flat Op 21 Beaux Arts Trio  BRAHMS String Quartet No 3 in B-flat Op 67 Quartetto Italiano  VILLA-LOBOS “Bachianas Brasileiras” No 5 Anna Moffo, lyric-coloraturo-soprano; American Symph. Orch; Cond., Leopold Stokowski  RAVEL “Ma Mère l'Oye” Paris Conservatoire Orch.; Cond., Andre Cluytens   

Opera with Yvonne Schwerdt  PROKOFIEV Semyon Kotko Victor Lutsiuk - tenor; Lyudmila Filatova, mezzo-soprano; Olga Savova, soprano; Yevgeny Nikitin, bass; Gennady Bezzubenkov, bass; Olgar Markova-Mikhailenko, mezzo-soprano; Tatiana Pavlovskaya, soprano; Viktor Chernomortsev, baritone; Kirov Chorus & Orch; Cond., Valery Gergiev  Wikipedia Nocturne with Yvonne Schwerdt  FAURE Romance, Op 20; "Fileuse" (Spinning Song) Op 80 No 2; Sicilienne Op 78; Berceuse Op 16 Gil Shaham, violin; Akira Eguchi, piano  HAYDN Symphony No 67 in F major Hob I:67 Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia; Cond., Bela Drahos   BRAHMS Piano Trio in C major Op 87 Trioz: Kathy Selby, piano; Niki Vasilakis, violin; Emma-Jane Murphy, cello  RICHTER Sinfonia No 3 in C minor Helsinki Baroque Orch.; Cond., Aapo Hakkinen     

Opera + Nocturne with Glen Quick  DONIZETTI, GAETANO Linda di Chamonix Alfonso Antoniozzi, baritone; Luca Canonici, baritone; Donata Di Stefano, bass; Salomaa Ganassi, mezzo-soprano; Chorus & Orch. of East Netherlands Opera; Cond., Gabriele Bellini Wikipedia Nocturne with Glen Quick  MOZART, WA Piano Concerto No 25 in C major K503 Alfred Brendel, piano;  Pro Musica Orch.; Cond., Paul Angerer  BEETHOVEN, L VAN Piano Sonata No 28 in A major Op 101 Alfred Brendel, piano   

Opera with Christopher Stone  ROSSINI La Cenerentola Teresa Berganza, mezzo-soprano; Luigi Alva, tenor; Renato Capecchi, baritone; Paolo Montarsolo, bass; Scottish Opera Chorus; London Symphony Orch.; Cond., Claudio Abbado  Wikipedia Nocturne with Christopher Stone  FAURE Nocturne No 1 Op 33 No 1 Pascal Roge, piano  BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34 Maurizio Pollini, piano; Quartetto Italiano  SCHUBERT Fantasia for Piano 4 Hands in F minor D 940 Murray Perahia & Radu Lupu, pianos  RAVEL "Menuet Antique; Une Barque Sur L'ocean" Paris Conservatoire Orch.; Cond., Andre Cluytens  

Opera + Nocturne with Yvonne Schwerdt  MOZART, WA "Cosi Fan Tutte" Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano; Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano; Lisa Otto, soprano; Leopold Simoneau, tenor; Rolando Panerai, baritone; Sesto Bruscantini, bass; Philharmonia Chorus & Orch.; Cond., Herbert von Karajan  Wikipedia Nocturne with Yvonne Schwerdt  BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata in D major Op 10 No 3 Tessa Birnie, piano  BACH, CPE Symphony for Strings in B-flat minor WQ 182/2 Tasmanian Chamber Players; Dir., Geoffrey Lancaster & harpsichord-continuo  MENDELSSOHN arr. OTTENSAMER Songs Without Words Op 102 No 1 Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet; Yuja Wang, piano MENDELSSOHN arr. OTTENSAMER Songs Without Words Op 30 No 4 Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet; Yuja Wang, piano MENDELSSOHN arr. OTTENSAMER Songs Without Words Op 67 No 3 Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet; Yuja Wang, piano  

Opera + Nocturne with Glen Quick  BOITO, A "Mefistofele"  Mefistofele - Cesare Siepi, bass; Faust - Mario del Monaco, tenor; Margherita - Renata Tebaldi, soprano; Wagner & Nerio - Piero di Palma, tenor;  Elena - Floriana Cavalli, soprano; Pantalis - Lucia Danieli, contralto; Orch & Chorus of Santa Cecilia Rome; Cond., Tullio Serefin  Wikipedia Nocturne with Glen Quick  BACH, JS Keyboard Concerto No 7 in G minor BWV 1058 Murray Perahia, piano; Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields  LISZT, FRANZ Venezia E Napoli S162 Lazar Berman, piano  FRANCK, CESAR Violin Sonata in A major Perlman,& Ashkenazy, violin MOZART, WA Piano Sonata in F KV332 Mitsuko Uchida, piano     

Opera with Christopher Stone  SAINT-SAENS "Samson et Dalila" Placido Domingo, tenor; Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano; Alain Fondary, baritone; Jean-Phillipe Courtis, bass; Samuel Ramey, bass; Chorus & Orchestra of The Opera Bastille; Cond., Myung-Whun Chung  Wikipedia Nocturne with Christopher Stone  RAVEL La Valse Paris Conservatoire Orch.; Cond., Andre Cluytens  RAVEL Valses Nobles et Setimentales Paris Conservatoire Orch.; Cond., Andre Cluytens  DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor Op 10 Quartetto Italiano  SAINT-SAENS Piano Concerto No 5 in F major Op 103 Egyptian Sir Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symph. Orch.; Cond., Sakari Oramo  SAINT-SAENS Danse Macabre Op 40 Phil. Orch.; Cond., Charles Dutoit  STRAUSS, J The Blue Danube Boston Pops Orch.; Cond., Arthur Fiedler  STRAUSS, J Tales from the Vienna Woods Boston Pops Orch.; Cond., Arthur Fiedler   

Opera + Nocturne with Yvonne Schwerdt  MENOTTI Amahl and The Night Visitors Ike Hawkersmith, Treble; Kirsten Gunlogson, mezzo-soprano; Dean Anthony, tenor; Todd Thomas, Bart le Fan, baritones; Kevin Short, bass-baritone; Members of the Nashville Symph. Chorus and Chicago Symph. Chorus; Dir., George Mabry; Nashville Symph. Orch.; Cond., Alastair Willis  Wikipedia MENOTTI My Christmas Male Voices of the Nashville Symph. Chorus; Members of the Nashville Symph. Orch; Cond., and Chorus Director..george Mabry BRITTEN A Boy Was Born Choral Variations On Old Carols Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Dir., Stephen Cleobury; Ladies From the Cambridge University Choir Nocturne with Yvonne Schwerdt  PROKOFIEV Cinderella Op 87 Excerpts Cleveland Orch.; Cond., Vladimir Ashkenazy  LISZT Weinachtsbaum Stephanie Mccallum, piano  TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker Queensland Symph Orch; Cond., Werner Andreas Albert  PAGANINI La Campanella David Garrett, violin; Alexander Markovich, piano     

Opera + Nocturne with Glen Quick  STRAUSS RICHARD "Salome" Salome: Cheryl Studer, soprano; John the Baptist: Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone; Herodias: Leonie Rysanek, soprano; Herod: Horst Hiestermann, tenor; Narraboth: Clemens Bieber, tenor; Orch. of German Opera, Berlin; Cond., Giuseppe Sinopoli  Wikipedia  STRAUSS RICHARD "Brentano" Lied Natalie Dessay, soprano  Nocturne with Glen Quick  STRAUSS RICHARD arr. KEMPE Rosenkavalier Waltz Suite Staatskapelle Dresden Kempe  MOZART, WA Piano Quartet No 1 K478 Soltii, piano; Melos Quartet  SMETANA, BEDRICH Piano Trio in G minor Op15 Smetana Trio  SIBELIUS JAN String Quartet in D minor Op 56 Fitzwilliam Quartet  MILHAUD, DARIUS "Scaramouche" for 2 Pianos Walter & Beatriz Klien   

Opera with Christopher Stone  BIZET Carmen Teresa Berganza, mezzo-soprano; Placido Domingo, tenor, Sherrill Milnes, baritone; Ileana Cotrubas, soprano; Yvonne Kenny, soprano; Ambrosian Singers, London Symph. Orch., Cond. Claudio Abbado  SARASATE Carmen Fantasy Gil Shaham, violin; Berlin Phil. Orch.; Cond., Claudio Abbado  Wikipedia Nocturne with Christopher Stone  RAVEL Alborada Del Gracioso Samson Francois, piano  RODRIGO Fantasia Para Un Gentilhombre Slava Grigoryan, Queensland Symph. Orch.; Cond. Brett Kelly  RAVEL Rapsodie Espagnole Paris Conservatoire Orch.; Cond., Andre Cluytens RAVEL Une Barque Sur L'ocean Paris Conservatoire Orch; Cond., Andre Cluytens  RAVEL La Tombeau le Couperin Paris Conservatoire Orch; Cond., Andre Cluytens   

Opera with Yvonne Schwerdt  STRAUSS, R Elektra Hanna Schwarz, mezzo-soprano; Alessandra Marc, soprano; Deborah Voigt, soprano; Siegfried Jerusalem, tenor; Samuel Ramey, bass; Vienna Phil. Orch; Cond., Giuseppe Sinopoli  Wikipedia Nocturne with Yvonne Schwerdt  ELGAR Violin Sonata in E minor Op 82 Marcia Crayford, violin; Ian Brown, piano  HANDEL Concerto Grosso in A minor Op 6 No 4 HWV322 Paul Dyer, harpsichord; Australian Brandenburg Orch.; Dir., Paul Dyer  BACH Toccata in C minor BWV911 Jayson Gilham, piano  MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56 Scottish the Royal Concertgebouw Orch.; Cond., Bruno Maderna  BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B-flat major Op 18 No 6 Australian String Quartet     Valgis Marcinkiavichius, flute; Baltic Festival Orch.; Cond., Vitas Antonavichius MOZART Andante in C major for Flute and Orchestra K315 Valgis Marcinkiavichius, flute; Baltic Festival Orch.; Cond., Vitas Antonavichius  FIELD Nocturne No 17 in E major Míċeál O'Rourke, piano