Mozart: The Operas
Pilar Lorengar (Fiordiligi), Teresa Berganza (Dorabella), Jane Berbié (Despina), Ryland Davies (Ferrando), Tom Krause (Guglielmo), Gabriel Bacquier (Don Alfonso), Bernd Weikl (Don Giovanni), Margaret Price (Donna Anna), Stuart Burrows (Don Ottavio), Sylvia Sass (Donna Elvira), Gabriel Bacquier (Leporello),...
Mozart: The Operas
Pilar Lorengar (Fiordiligi), Teresa Berganza (Dorabella), Jane Berbié (Despina), Ryland Davies (Ferrando), Tom Krause (Guglielmo), Gabriel Bacquier (Don Alfonso), Bernd Weikl (Don Giovanni), Margaret Price (Donna Anna), Stuart Burrows (Don Ottavio), Sylvia Sass (Donna Elvira), Gabriel Bacquier (Leporello),...
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21 October 2012 marks Sir Georg Solti's centenary and Decca is celebrating this with several important reissues.
Sir Georg was an exclusive Decca artist for 50 years. In 1947 he signed his first contract with Decca, as a pianist, and that same year he made his first record as a conductor (with the Zurich Tonhalle in Beethoven's Egmont Overture). His last public concerts took place just a few weeks before his death in 1997 and were with the Zurich Tonhalle.
Solti was a musician with extraordinarily wide musical interests and sympathies and he was without doubt one of the most important opera conductors of the second half of the twentieth century. His legacy of recordings is dominated by opera and his recording of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen - the first ever complete studio recording - has been described as "the greatest recording of all time" [BBC Music Magazine, January 2012]
Artists
Pilar Lorengar (Fiordiligi), Teresa Berganza (Dorabella), Jane Berbié (Despina), Ryland Davies (Ferrando), Tom Krause (Guglielmo), Gabriel Bacquier (Don Alfonso), Bernd Weikl (Don Giovanni), Margaret Price (Donna Anna), Stuart Burrows (Don Ottavio), Sylvia Sass (Donna Elvira), Gabriel Bacquier (Leporello), Kurt Moll (Il Commendatore), Alfred Sramek (Masetto), Lucia Popp (Zerlina), Edita Gruberova (Konstanze), Kathleen Battle (Blonde), Gösta Winbergh (Belmonte), Heinz Zednik (Pedrillo), Martti Talvela (Osmin), Will Quadflieg (Bassa Selim), Thomas Allen (Count Almaviva), Kiri Te Kanawa (Countess Almaviva), Lucia Popp (Susanna), Samuel Ramey (Figaro), Frederica von Stade (Cherubino), Jane Berbié (Marcellina), Kurt Moll (Doctor Bartolo), Robert Tear (Don Basilio), Philip Langridge (Don Curzio), Yvonne Kenny (Barbarina), Giorgio Tadeo (Antonio) & Lynda Russell, Anne Mason (Bridesmaid), Martti Talvela (Sarastro), Stuart Burrows (Tamino), Cristina Deutekom (Königin der Nacht), Pilar Lorengar (Pamina), Renate Holm (Papagena), Hermann Prey (Papageno), Gerhard Stolze (Monostatos), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Sprecher), René Kollo (1er Geharnischter), Hans Sotin (2er Geharnischter), Hanneke van Bork, Yvonne Minton, Hetty Plümacher (Drei Damen), Georg Kulenkampff (violin), Sir Georg Solti (piano), Wilhelm Melcher (violin), Hermann Voss (viola), Peter Buck (cello), Sir Georg Solti (piano and conductor)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London Opera Chorus, Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Staatsopernchor, English Chamber Orchestra, Georg Solti
Contents and tracklist
- Jane Berbié (mezzo-soprano), Jeffrey Tate (harpsichord), Ryland Davies (tenor), Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Jeffrey Tate (organ), Gabriel Bacquier (baritone), Tom Krause (baritone), Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
- London Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1973-07
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
- Lucia Popp (soprano), Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Sylvia Sass (soprano), Gabriel Bacquier (bass), Kurt Moll (bass), Alfred Sramek (bass), Gabriel Bacquier (baritone), Stuart Burrows (tenor), Bernd Weikl (baritone)
- London Philharmonic Orchestra, The London Opera Chorus
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1978-11
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
- Kathleen Battle (soprano), Gösta Winbergh (tenor), Will Quadflieg (speaker), Martha Heigl (singer), Edita Gruberova (soprano), Heinz Zednik (tenor), Daniela Wagner (singer), Martti Talvela (bass), Johann Reinprecht (tenor), Josef Pogatschnig (singer)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti, Walter Hagen-Groll
- Recorded: 1985-12
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
- Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Samuel Ramey (bass), Robert Tear (tenor), Giorgio Tadeo (bass), Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Jane Berbié (mezzo-soprano), Anne Mason (soprano), Thomas Allen (baritone), Kurt Moll (bass), Lynda Russell (soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor), Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
- London Philharmonic Orchestra, The London Opera Chorus
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1981-05-29
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
- Stuart Burrows (tenor), Cristina Deutekom (soprano), Wolfgang Zimmer (speaker), René Kollo (tenor), Gerhard Stolze (tenor), Renate Holm (soprano), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), Hermann Prey (bass-baritone), Herbert Lackner (bass), Hanneke Van Bork (soprano), Hans Sotin (bass), Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Martti Talvela (bass), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Hetty Plumacher (contralto)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1969-10
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
- Georg Kulenkampff (violin), Sir Georg Solti (piano)
- Recorded: 1947-06-23
- Recording Venue: Zurich Radio Studio, Zurich
- Sir Georg Solti (piano), Gerhard Voss (viola), Peter Buck (cello), Wilhelm Melcher (violin)
- Melos Quartet
- Recorded: 1984-06
- Recording Venue: Alte Oper, Frankfurt/M.
- Sir Georg Solti (piano)
- English Chamber Orchestra
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1989-06-30
- Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London