Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
A Life for the Tsar, Act I: Antonida's
Cavatina and Rondo
Teresa Stich-Randall (soprano)
A Life for the Tsar, Act IV: Brother, in the darkness
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
A Life for the Tsar, Act IV: My poor horse is dead
Mela Bugarinović (contralto)
A Life for the Tsar, Act IV: They begin to guess the truth
A Life for the
Tsar, Act IV: Not so long ago, at home
A Life for the Tsar, Act IV: Death
of Susanin
Boris Christoff (bass)
Ruslan and Ludmila, Act III: Farlaf's Rondo
Aleksandr Dargomïzhsky (1813-1869)
Rusalka, Act I: Song of the Miller
Rusalka,
Act III: Mad Scene and Death of the Miller
Feodor Chaliapin (bass)
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Prince Igor, Act I: Prince Galitsky's Aria
Boris Christoff (bass)
Prince Igor, Act II: Konchakovna's Aria
Reni Penkova (mezzo-soprano)
Prince Igor, Act II: Vladimir's Aria
Todor Todorov (tenor)
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Prince Igor, Act II: Prince Igor's
Aria
Constantin Chekerliiski (baritone)
Prince Igor, Act II: Khan Konchak's Aria
Boris Christoff (bass)
Prince Igor, Act IV: Yaroslavna's Lament
Julia Wiener (soprano)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Boris Godunov, Prologue: O ye faithful!
Boris will not yield
Jacques Mars (baritone)
Boris Godunov, Prologue: Coronation Scene
Martti Talvela (bass)
Boris Godunov, Act I: Pimen's Narrative
Leonard Mróz (bass)
Boris Godunov, Act I: In the Town of Kazan
Aage Haugland (bass)
Boris Godunov, Act II: Song of the Gnat
Lydia Romanova (mezzo-soprano)
Boris Godunov, Act II: Clapping Game
Ana Alexieva (mezzo-soprano), Mela Bugarinović (contralto)
Boris Godunov, Act II: Boris's Monologue
Martti Talvela (bass)
Boris Godunov, Act II: Tale of the Parakeet
Wiera Baniewicz (contralto)
Boris Godunov, Act II: In the cathedral of Ulglich
Bohdan Paprocki (tenor)
Boris Godunov, Act II: Clock Scene
Feodor Chaliapin (bass)
Boris Godunov, Act III: Marina's Aria
Evelyn Lear (soprano)
Boris Godunov, Act III: Marina/Rangoni Duet
Eugenia Zareska (mezzo-soprano), Kim Borg (bass)
Boris Godunov, Act III: Dmitri's Aria
Dimitr Ouzounov (tenor)
Boris Godunov, Act III: That wily Jesuit has firmly seized me
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Boris Godunov, Act IV: Shuisky's Evidence
André Bielecki (tenor)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Boris Godunov, Act IV: Hear ye, noble
Boyars
Andrzej Hiolski (baritone)
Boris Godunov, Act IV: Simpleton's Song
Kiril Dulguerov (tenor)
Boris Godunov, Act IV: Flow, flow, o bitter tears
Paulos Raptis (tenor)
Boris Godunov, Act IV: Boris's Farewell and Prayer
Boris Godunov, Act IV:
Death of Boris
Boris Christoff (bass)
Songs and Dances of the Death: The Field Marshal
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Sorochintsy, Act I: Why cry and lament, my poor eart?
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Khovanshchina, Act V: Dosifei's Aria
Boris Christoff (bass)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Eugene Onegin, Act I: Tatyana's
Letter Scene
Lucia Popp (soprano)
Eugene Onegin, Act II: Lensky's Aria
Rolando Villazón (tenor)
Eugene Onegin, Act III: Prince Gremin's Aria
Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone)
The Queen of Spades, Act I: Forgive me, loveliest of creatures
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
The Queen of Spades, Act III: It is close on midnight already
Lucia Popp (soprano)
The Queen of Spades, Act III: What is our life? A game!
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
The Snow Maiden: Lel's Song
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
May Night, Act I: The sun sinks
low
Sadko, Scene 2: Oh, you dark little wood
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Sadko, Scene 2: Lullaby of the Sea Princess
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Sadko, Scene 4: Song of the Viking Guest
Feodor Chaliapin (bass)
The Snow Maiden, Act II: Nature, sacred sweet
Dmitri Smirnov (tenor)
The Tsar's Bride, Act II: Marfa's Scene and Aria
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, Act III: Prince Yuri's Aria
Boris Christoff (bass)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Aleko: Romance of the Young Gypsy
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Aleko: Aleko's Aria
Feodor Chaliapin (bass)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
War and Peace, Scene 3: What right have
they?
Lucia Popp (soprano)
Ivan the Terrible Op. 116: Song about the Beaver
Irina Arkhipova (mezzo-soprano)
Ivan the Terrible Op. 116: Feodor Basmanov's Song
Anatoly Mokrenko (baritone)
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Act
I: Oh, I don't feel like sleep
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Act II: That's what old age means
Dimiter Petkov (bass)
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Act III: Only a lady friend of mine
Robert Tear (tenor)
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Act III: The police were formed
Aage Haugland (bass)
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Act IV: In the wood, right in a grove
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Act IV: Thank you Katerina Lvovna
Birgit Finnilä (mezzo-soprano)
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Act IV: We trudge along day after day
Alexander Malta (bass)
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
A Life for the Tsar, Act II: I look over
the bare fields
Marie Michailova (soprano)
A Life for the Tsar, Act IV: Ah, not to me, poor wretch
Eugenia Zbrueva (contralto)
A Life for the Tsar, Act IV: They guess the truth
Vladimir Kastorsky (bass)
Ruslan and Ludmila, Act III: O my Ratmir!
Marianne Tcherkasskaya (soprano)
Alexander Serov (1820-1871)
Judith: I shal don my robe of byssus
Natalia Yuzhina (soprano)
Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
The Demon: On desire's soft, fleeting wing
Andrei Labinsky (tenor)
The Demon: In the quiet of the night
Nina Koshetz (soprano)
The Demon: Accursed world
Joachim Tartakov (baritone)
Nero: Epithalamium
Nikolai Shevelev (baritone)
César Cui (1835-1918)
Prisoner of the Caucasus: The sun was brightly
shining
Ivan Grizunov (baritone)
Eduard Nápravník (1839-1916)
Dubrovsky: O give me oblivion
Dmitri Smirnov (tenor)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Oprichnik: I swear before God
and thee
Nikolai Figner (tenor)
Eugene Onegin, Act II: In your house
Dmitri Smirnov (tenor)
Eugene Onegin, Act III: Lensky's Aria
Leonid Sobinov (tenor)
The Maid of Orleans, Act I: Farewell to the forests
Vera Petrova-Zvantseva (mezzo-soprano)
The Queen of Spades, Act III: It is midnight
Medea Mei-Figner (soprano)
Iolanthe, Act I: Why have I not known this before?
Lydia Lipkowska (soprano)
Iolanthe: My lord, if I offend
Lev Sibiriakov (bass)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
The Snow Maiden, Prologue: Gathering
berries
Antonina Nezhdanova (soprano)
Aleksandr Grechaninov (1864-1956)
Dobrinya Nikitich: Flowers were
blooming
Leonid Sobinov (tenor)
Various pianists, orchestras and conductors
(5CD, flac image, log, cue, booklet)
(by courtesy of Bodtje@Susato)
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Mass for the Octave of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
First
Vespers for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
❖
William Byrd (1543-1623)
The Great Service
❖
Giovanni Maria Nanino (c1544-1607)
Adoramus te, Christe
Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
Miserere mei, Deus (Psalm 51)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Messa sopra l'aria della monica
Vincenzo Ugolini (c.1580-1638)
Beata es virgo, Maria
❖
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
Te Deum, H.146
Magnificat, H.74
Felicity Lott
(soprano),
Eiddwen Harrhy
(soprano)
Charles Brett
(countertenor)
Ian Partridge
(tenor)
Stephen Roberts
(bass)
❖
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Gloria in D, RV 589
Dixit Dominus in D,
RV 594
Magnificat in Gm, RV 610
Sarah Fox
(soprano),
Deborah Norman
(soprano)
Michael Chance
(countertenor)
James Gilchrist
(tenor)
Jonathan Lemalu
(bass)
❖
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata, BWV 147 'Herz und Mund und Tat
und Leben'
Motet, BWV 226 'Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf'
Motet,
BWV 228 'Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir'
Motet, BWV 230 'Lobet den
Herrn, alle Heiden'
Elly Ameling
(soprano)
Janet Baker
(contralto)
Ian Partridge
(tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk
(bass)
❖
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Messiah, HWV 56
James Bowman
(countertenor)
Robert Tear
(tenor)
Benjamin Luxon
(bass)
(soprano solos sung in unison by the boys of the choir)
❖
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Requiem, Op. 48
Pavane, Op. 50
Bob Chilcott
(treble)
John Carol Case
(baritone)
❖
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Chichester Psalms (version for choir,
organ, harp and percussion)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1973)
Festival Te Deum, Op.32
Rejoice in the
Lamb, Op.30
Te Deum in C major
Jubilate Deo
James Bowman
(countertenor)
Osian Ellis
(harp)
David Corkhill
(percussion)
❖
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Hymnus Paradisi
Heather Harper
(soprano)
Robert Tear
(tenor)
❖
Henryk Górecki (1933-2010)
Totus tuus
Amen
Arvo Pärt (1935- )
Magnificat
The Beatitudes
John Tavener (1944-2013)
Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Collegium
Regale)
Funeral Ikos
❖
John Rutter (1945- )
Requiem
Veni Sancte Spiritus
What Sweeter
Music
Hymn to the Creator of Light
Cantate Domino
Cantus
Te
Deum
❖
Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591)
Resonet in laudibus
Boris Ord (1897-1961)
Adam lay ybounden
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Joseph and Mary [12 Traditional Carols
from Herefordshire, No. 4]
Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863)
Stille Nacht
William Mathias (1934-1992)
A babe is born, Op.55
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Chorale Prelude, BWV 729 'In dulci
jubilo'
interspersed with
Readings from the King James Bible and Traditional
English Carols:
· Once in royal David's city (H J Gauntlett)
·
Sussex Carol (arr. Philip Ledger)
· A Maiden most gentle (arr. Andrew
Carter)
· Chester Carol (arr. Philip Ledger)
· Angels from the
realms of glory (arr. Philip Ledger)
· O come, all ye faithful (anon.,
arr. Philip Ledger)
· Hark! The herald Angels sing (Mendelssohn, arr.
Cummings)
❖
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge
(incl. soloists from the choir)
conducted by
Stephen Cleobury
(CDs 1-3, 5, 12-13)
Philip Ledger
(CDs 4, 10, 14)
David Willcocks
(CDs 6-9, 11)
King's organ scholars:
Benjamin Bayl
(CD 5),
David Briggs
(CD 3)
Richard Farnes
(CD 2),
David Goode
(CD 12)
Ian Hare
(CDs 6-8),
Daniel Hyde
(CD 5)
James Lancelot
(CDs 7-8, 10),
Robert Quinney
(CD 13)
Thomas Trotter
(CDs 4, 14)
with
The Bach Choir (CD 11)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields (CDs
4, 6-8)
The Academy of Ancient Music (CD 5)
New Philharmonia
Orchestra (CDs 9, 11)
Sinfonia of London; The Wallace Collection (CD 13)
❖
(14CD, flac image, log, cue, booklet)
(by courtesy of prehensile@Susato)
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The Music Makers
Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
London Philharmonic Choir
London
Philharmonic Orchestra
The Dream of Gerontius - Part I
The Dream of Gerontius - Part II
Helen Watts (mezzo-soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Robert Lloyd (bass)
John
Aldiss Choir, London Philharmonic Choir
New Philharmonia Orchestra
The Apostles - Part 1
The Apostles - Part 2
Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto)
Robert Tear (tenor),
Benjamin Luxon (bass)
Clifford Grant (bass), John Carol Case (bass)
Choir
of Downe House School, London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic
Orchestra
The Apostles & The Kingdom - An Introduction by Sit Adrian Boult
The Kingdom - Part I-III
The Kingdom Part IV & V
Margaret Price (soprano), Yvonne Minton (contralto)
Alexander Young
(tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
London Philharmonic Choir
London
Philharmonic Orchestra
Coronation Ode
Felicity Lott (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto)
Richard Morton
(tenor), Stephen Roberts (bass)
Cambridge University Musical Society
Chorus
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
New Philharmonia
Orchestra
Band of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall
Philip Ledger
(6CD, flac image, log, cue, booklet)
(by courtesy of Bodtje@Susato)
On This Island
Folk Song Arrangements
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo
Canticle I: My beloved is mine
Canticle
II: Abraham and Isaac¹
Canticle III: Still falls the rain²
Winter
Words
¹James Bowman (countertenor)
²Alan Civil (horn)
Robert Tear
(tenor)
Philip Ledger (piano)
(2CD, flac image, log, cue, booklet)
(by courtesy of Bodtje@Susato)
Our Hunting Fathers Op. 8
Folksong Arrangements
Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Richard Armstrong
Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings
Robert Tear (tenor), Alan Civil (horn)
Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Neville Marriner
(flac image, log, cue, booklet)
(by courtesy of tubarec@Susato)
Margaret Marshall (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
Robert Tear
(tenor), Samuel Ramey (bass)
Academy and Chorus of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner
(2CD, flac image, log, cue, booklet)
(by courtesy of Contrarian@Susato)
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Hodie: A Christmas Cantata
Elizabeth Gale (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor)
Stephen Roberts
(baritone)
London Symphony Chorus, Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral
London
Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox
(flac image, log, cue, booklet)
(by courtesy of Bodtje@Susato)