50 Best Romantic Classics
Alexander Oliver (tenor), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Dale Duesing (baritone), Dinah Bryant (soprano), Jessye Norman (soprano), Jocelyne Taillon (mezzo-soprano), José van Dam (bass-baritone), Kurt Rydl (bass), Luciana Serra (soprano), Neil Shicoff (tenor), Robert Tear (tenor), Rosalind Plowright...
50 Best Romantic Classics
Alexander Oliver (tenor), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Dale Duesing (baritone), Dinah Bryant (soprano), Jessye Norman (soprano), Jocelyne Taillon (mezzo-soprano), José van Dam (bass-baritone), Kurt Rydl (bass), Luciana Serra (soprano), Neil Shicoff (tenor), Robert Tear (tenor), Rosalind Plowright...
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Offenbach:
Les contes d'Hoffmann, Act 4: Barcarolle. "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" (Nicklausse, Giulietta, Chœur)
Work length4:24
- Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Jessye Norman (soprano)
- Chœurs de la Monnaie, Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie
- Sylvain Cambreling
- Recorded: 1986-07-31
- Recording Venue: 25, 27, 29-30 June & July 1986 /Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Saint-Saëns:
Le carnaval des animaux: XIII. Le cygne (Arr. Hazell for Cello and Orchestra)
Work length3:18
- Aline Brewer (harp), Han-Na Chang (cello)
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Leonard Slatkin
- Recorded: 2000-03-26
- Recording Venue: 24-26 March 2000/Abbey Road Studio No.1
- Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, Maria Callas (soprano)
- Choeurs René Duclos, Orchestre du Théatre National de l'Opéra Paris
- Georges Prêtre
- Recorded: 1964-07-20
- Recording Venue: 6-20 July 1964 / Salle Wagram, Paris
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Recorded: 1995-02-11
- Recording Venue: 8/11 February 1995, Giandomenico Studios, Collingswood, New Jersey
Delibes:
Lakmé, Act 1: Duo des fleurs. "Viens, Mallika" - "Dôme épais, le jasmin" (Lakmé, Mallika)
Work length4:52
- Delphine Haidan (mezzo-soprano), Natalie Dessay (soprano)
- Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
- Michel Plasson
- Recorded: 1997-12-31
- Recording Venue: 24 June - 2 July 1997 / Halle-aux-Grains, Toulouse
- New Philharmonia Orchestra
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Recorded: 1969-04-01
- Recording Venue: 9 May 1968 & 1 April 1969 / No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Saint-Saëns:
Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, Act II, Scene 3: Air. "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" (Dalila, Samson)
Work length5:21
- Maria Callas (soprano)
- Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
- Georges Prêtre
- Recorded: 1961-04-05
- Recording Venue: 28 March-5 April 1961, Salle Wagram, Paris
- Gareth Morris (flute)
- New Philharmonia Orchestra
- Sir David Willcocks
- Recorded: 1967-12-10
- Recording Venue: 10 December 1967/Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Michel Dalberto (piano)
- Recorded: 1995-03-05
- Recording Venue: Musicathéàtre,La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Saint-Saëns:
Romance pour flûte et orchestre, Op. 37 (Version for Violin and Orchestra)
Work length5:55
- Ulf Hoelscher (violin)
- New Philharmonia Orchestra
- Pierre Dervaux
- Recorded: 1977-04-07
- Recording Venue: 23-24 March & 4-7 April 1977 / No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
- Bruno Rigutto (piano), Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
- Recorded: 1982-01-01
- Orchestre National de France
- Seiji Ozawa
- Recorded: 1983-06-26
- Recording Venue: 25-26 June 1983, Salle Wagram, Paris
- Natasha Marsh (vocals), Grace Row (vocals), Cassell Webb (vocals), Andrew Walter (vocals), Ian Phillipps-Kerr (vocals), Simon Rhodes (recorder)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Michael Francis
- Recorded: 2006-01-01
- Recording Venue: Abbey Road Studios, London
- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Louis Frémaux
- Recorded: 1973-08-31
- Recording Venue: 30 & 31 August 1973, Great Hall, University of Birmingham
- New Philharmonia Orchestra
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Recorded: 1968-05-09
- Recording Venue: 9 May 1968 / No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London