Classical 2012 (2012)
performed by
Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano), Alice Sara Ott (piano), Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Andreas Scholl (counter tenor), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Anna Prohaska (soprano), Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Bryn Terfel (bass baritone)
composed by
Alessandro Striggio, Antonin Dvorák, Antonio Vivaldi, Ariel Ramírez, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Claude Debussy, Francesco Cilèa, Franz Lehár, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Friedrich von Flotow, Fritz Kreisler, Georges Bizet, Giuseppe Verdi
Decca has culled an attractive assortment of performances from its vast archive or recordings for its collection, Classical 2012. The album may be dated 2012, but the performances are not necessarily by artists who were then active, although most were. Conductors Herbert von Karajan and Georg Solti, soprano Joan Sutherland, tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and pianist Jorge Bolet were prominent in the mid- to late 20th century, and their legendary performances have lost none of their luster. Artists relatively new to the ...
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Decca has culled an attractive assortment of performances from its vast archive or recordings for its collection, Classical 2012. The album may be dated 2012, but the performances are not necessarily by artists who were then active, although most were. Conductors Herbert von Karajan and Georg Solti, soprano Joan Sutherland, tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and pianist Jorge Bolet were prominent in the mid- to late 20th century, and their legendary performances have lost none of their luster. Artists relatively new to the international scene in 2012 are also represented by performers like conductor Gustavo Dudamel, tenor Joseph Calleja, and sopranos Danielle de Niese and Aleksandra Kurzak. With the deep trove of recordings in Decca's archive, it goes without saying that all the performances are top-notch and the sound is always at least very good, and often superlative. More than half of the selections are vocal, and the majority of those are operatic. The pieces are by far most often from the Romantic era,...
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- Vesperae solennes de confessore, for soloists, chorus & orchestra, K. 339: Laudate Dominum
- Prelude for piano No. 6 in G minor, Op. 23/5
- Carmen, opera: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée
- Orfeo ("Nel chiuso centro"), chamber cantata for soprano, strings & continuo, Op. 2/4: Nel chiuso centro
- Suite española No. 1, for piano, Op. 47, B. 7: Granada
- Adriana Lecouvreur, opera: La dolcissima effigie
- Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64: 3. Valse. Allegro moderato
- Suor Angelica, opera: Senza mamma, o bimbo, tu sei morto
- Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93: 2. Allegretto scherzando
- Rigoletto, opera: La donna è mobile
- Nocturne for piano in C sharp minor (doubtful), KK Anh.Ia/6
- Carmen, opera: Près des remparts de Séville
- Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Melody), arrangement (from "Orfeo ed Euridice")
- Les Pêcheurs de perles, opera in 3 acts: Je crois entendre encore
- Missa "Ecco si beato giorno", for 40 voices: Agnes Dei II
- Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major, Op. 10: 2. Andante assai
- Core 'ngrato (Catari), for voice & orchestra
- Clair de lune, for piano (Suite Bergamasque No. 3), L. 82/3 (75/3)
- Wiegenlied ("Guten Abend, gut Nacht"), song for voice & piano, Op. 49/4
- Radetzky-Marsch, for orchestra, Op. 228
- Das Land des Lächelns (The Land of Smiles), operetta in 3 acts (revision of "Die gelbe Jacke"): Dein ist mein ganzes Herz!
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, for voice & 8 cellos, A. 389: Aria (Cantilena)
- Berceuse for piano in D flat major, Op. 57, CT. 7
- Cantata No. 169, "Gott soll allein mein Herze haben," BWV 169 (BC A143): 2. Arioso
- Rondo a Capriccio, for piano in G major ("Rage Over a Lost Penny"), Op. 129
- Misa Criolla, for tenor, piano, chorus & orchestra: Kyrie
- Ständchen ("Leise flehen meine Lieder"), song for voice & piano (Schwanengesang), D. 957/4
- Die Fledermaus (The Bat), operetta (RV 503): Mein Herr Marquis
- Concerto for violin, strings & continuo No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041: 1. Allegro moderato
- Tito Manlio (I), opera, RV 738: Sonno, se pur sei sonno
- Consolation, for piano No. 3 in D flat major ("Lento placido"), S. 172/3 (LW A111a/2/2)
- Rusalka, opera, B. 203 (Op. 114): Mesícku na nebi hlubokém (Song to the Moon)
- La Traviata, opera: Act 1. Prelude
- I Vespri siciliani (Les vêpres siciliennes), opera: Mercè, dilette amiche
- The Sleeping Beauty, ballet, Op. 66: Valse. La Belle au bois dormant
- Werther, lyric drama in 4 acts: Pourquoi me réveiller, ô souffle du printemps?
- Sicilienne and Rigaudon in the Style of Francoeur, for violin & piano
- Lucrezia (after Handel)
- Coppélia, ou La fille aux yeux d'émail, ballet: Valse
- Martha, opera: The last rose of summer
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