Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART

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DON GIOVANNI

Don Giovanni: William Shimell
Leporello: Samuel Ramey
Donna Anna: Cheryl Studer
Donna Elvira: Carol Vaness
Don Ottavio: Frank Lopardo
Zerlina: Susanne Mentzer
Masetto: Natale de Carolis
Commendatore: Jan-Hendrik Rootering

Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor 
Wiener Philharmoniker, Conductor: Riccardo Muti

Recording: Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, September 1990
Producer: David Groves
Editor: David Bell
Balance Engineer: Michael Sheady
Production Assistant: Anne Armes

EMI CDS 7 54255-2 (3)  (1991)     
CD1 64'28" CD2 58'39" CD3 48'11"

Highlights: CDC 7 54323-2  EL 7 54323-4 (1991) (62'10")

Or sai chi l'onore
Cheryl Studer: A Portrait
EMI Classics 5 55350 2 (05/1995) (75'17")
Also in EMI Centenary Edition, Volume 10: 1988-1997
EMI Classics 66493-2  (04/1997)

DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL

Konstanze: Cheryl Studer
Blonde: Elzbieta Szmytka
Belmonte: Kurt Streit
Pedrillo: Robert Gambill
Osmin: Günther Missenhardt
Bassa Selim: Michael Heltau

Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor 
Chorus Master: Helmuth Froschauer
Wiener Symphoniker, Conductor: Bruno Weil

Producer/Recording Supervisor: Wolf Erichson
Assistant Producer: Peter Laenger
Recording Engineer: Andreas Neubronner (Tritonus)
Editing/Mastering: Peter Laenger

Recorded at the Sofiensäle, Vienna
Tuesday, April 2-Wednesday, April 10, 1991

Sony Classical S2K 48 053 (2) (04/1992)     
CD1 64'27" CD2 58'40"

Highlights: SMK 53500 (1994) (73'01")

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

Il conte di Almaviva: Boje Skovhus
La contessa di Almaviva: Cheryl Studer
Susanna: Sylvia McNair
Figaro: Lucio Gallo
Cherubino: Cecilia Bartoli
Marcellina: Anna Caterina Antonacci
Bartolo: Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Basilio: Carlo Allemano
Don Curzio: Peter Jelosits
Antonio: Istvan Gati
Barbarina: Andrea Rost

Wiener Staatsopernchor, Chorus Master: Dietrich Gerpheide.
Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
Continuo: Ronald Schneider, Harpsichord
Robert Scheiwein, Franz Bartolomey, Cello
Musical Assistant: Pedro Alcalde

Recording: Vienna, Musikverein, Großes Saal 
January /February 1994
Executive producers: Christopher Alder, Pål Christian Moe
Associate Producer: Ewald Markl
Recording Producer: Christopher Alder
Balance Engineer: Rainer Maillard
Recording Engineers: Reinhard Lagemann, 
Jürgen Bulgrin, Rainer Pollakowski

DG 445 903-2  (09/1995)     
CD1 64'51" CD2 57'57" CD3 47'00"

Highlights: DG 449 838-2 [1996] (70'00")

DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE

Sarastro: Samuel Ramey
Queen of the Night: Cheryl Studer
Pamina: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Tamino: Francisco Araiza
Papageno: Olaf Bär
Papagena: Eva Lind
Speaker: José van Dam
First priest: Edmund Barham
Second priest: Harry Peeters
Monostatos: Aldo Baldin
First lady: Yvonne Kenny
Second lady: Iris Vermillion
Third lady: Anne Collins
First boy: Christian Fliegner*
Second boy: Markus Baur*
Third boy: Christian Günther*
First armoured man: Edmund Barham
Second armoured man: Harry Peeters

* Soloists of the Tölz Boys' Choir

Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Chorus Master: John McCarthy
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
Musical Assistance: John Constable
Arrangement of text and direction of dialogue: August Everding

German Language Coach: Geraldine Frank

Artists & repertoire production: Eve Edwards
Recording Producer: Erik Smith
Balance Engineer: Erdo Groot
Recording Engineers: Martha de Francisco & Roger de Schot
Tape Editor: Kees de Visser
Recording: St. John's, Smith Square, London, July 1989

Philips 426 276-2 (2) (1990)     
CD1 62'30" CD2 75'06"

Highlights: 438 495-2 (09/1993) (69'25")

ARIAS

Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Martern aller Arten
Die Zauberflöte: Ach, ich fühl's
Idomeneo, Re di Creta: Oh smania! - D'Oreste, d'Aiace
Le nozze di Figaro: E Susanna non vien! - Dove sono i bei momenti
Don Giovanni: In quali eccessi - Mi tradi quell'alma ingrata
La clemenza di Tito: Non più di fiori
Le nozze di Figaro: Porgi amor
Die Zauberflöte: O zittre nicht - Zum Leiden bin ich auserkoren. 
Der Hölle Rache
Così fan tutte: Temerari! - Come scoglio

Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
Christine Messiter, flute 
Celia Nicklin, oboe 
Kenneth Sillito, violin
Stephen Orton, cello (Die Entführung aus dem Serail)
Nicholas Bucknall, basset horn (La clemenza di Tito)
Musical assistance: John Constable

Recording: London, September 1989
Artists and repertoire production: Eve Edwards
Recording Producer: Mike Bremner
Balance Engineer: Erdo Groot
Recording Engineer: Stan Taal
Tape Editor: Albert Kos

Philips	426 721-2 (1990) (55'26")  (nla)
          	442 410-2 (06/1994) (Philips "Solo")

Le nozze di Figaro: Porgi amor.
"Opera! Special Opera Sampler Vol. 2"
Philips 434 126-2 (1991)

Die Zauberflöte:Der Hölle Rache
In "Faszination Oper - Festspiele der Großen Stars"
Philips 438 824-2 (1993) (71'57")

VESPERAE SOLENNES DE CONFESSORE K. 339

With:
Anton BRUCKNER: Mass No. 3 in F minor

Mass: Cheryl Studer, Soprano; Susan Watson, Alto 
Karl Dan Sorensen, Tenor; Gordon Holleman, Baritone
Vesperae: Cheryl Studer, Soprano; Donna Hewit, Alto
Henry Lussier, Tenor; Gordon Holleman, Baritone
M.I.T. Choral Society, John Oliver

Recording: 
Sacred Heart Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts
13 March 1977 (Mass)
Kresge Auditorium, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts
8 May 1977 (Vesperae)
Recording Engineer: David Greisinger.

MITCS-77-D (2 LPs) Side 1: 22'25" Side 2: 20'00" 
Side 3: 20'55" Side 4: (Vesperae) 25'10"

AVE MARIA - SACRED WORKS

Vesperae solennes de confessore, K 339 - Laudate Dominum

With:
Schubert (arr. Marin): Ave Maria, D839
Mendelssohn: Hear my Prayer, O God
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 - Flösst, mein Heiland
Handel: Messiah - I Know that my Redeemer liveth
Gounod: Repentir
Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria
Fauré: Requiem - Pie Jesu
Poulenc: Gloria - Domine Deus
Bernstein: Mass - A Simple Song
Bruch: Jubilate, Amen, Op 3

Ambrosian Singers, Chorus Master: John MacCarthy 
London Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Ion Marin

Recording: London, Henry Wood Hall, March 1991
Executive Producer: Pål Christian Moe
Recording Producer: Wolfgang Stengel
Balance Engineer: Jochen Gottschall

DG 435 387-2 (11/1992) (55'44")


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