Essential Overtures

Essential Overtures

Various Artists
2012
Gioachino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia, “The Barber of Seville”
Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini
Gioachino Rossini
La scala di seta, “The Silken Ladder”
Gianluigi Gelmetti, SWR Symphonieorchester
Gioachino Rossini
Guillaume Tell, “William Tell”
Lamberto Gardelli, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492, KV 492 · “The Marriage of Figaro”
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Colin Davis
W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni K527 (1990 Remastered Version)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Colin Davis
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, KV 620 · “The Magic Flute”
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Colin Davis
George Frideric Handel
Messiah, HWV 56
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir David Willcocks
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30 · “Orpheus and Eurydice”
Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti
Mikhail Glinka
Ruslan and Lyudmila
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Artur Rodziński
Bedřich Smetana
The Bartered Bride, B. 131, JB 1:100, T 93 · “Prodaná Nevěsta”
Sieglinde Wagner, Günther Arndt, Fritz Wunderlich, Gertrud Freedmann, Karl-Ernst Mercker, Marcel Cordes, RIAS Kammerchor, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe, Nada Puttar, Walter Stoll, Ernst Krukowski, Pilar Lorengar, Ivan Sardi, Gottlob Frick
Strauss II: Die Fledermaus (Operetta in three acts · Libretto by Carl Haffner and Richard Genée after 'Le Réveillon' by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy · English version by Christopher Hassall) (1959 Remastered Version)
Vilem Tausky, Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra, Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus, David Tod-Boyd
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Il segreto di Susanna, “Susanna's Secret”
Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Jacques Offenbach
Orphée aux enfers, “Orpheus in the Underworld”
Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
Ludwig van Beethoven
Egmont, Op. 84
London Classical Players, Sir Roger Norrington
Carl Maria Von Weber
Der Freischütz, J 277, Op. 77
Berlin Philharmonic, Joseph Keilberth, Elisabeth Grümmer
Franz von Suppé
Leichte Kavallerie, “Light Cavalry”
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
Otto Nicolai
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
Bavarian State Orchestra
Giuseppe Verdi
La forza del destino, “The Force of Destiny”
Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti
Richard Wagner
Lohengrin, WWV 75
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
Richard Wagner
Concert Overture No. 2 in C Major, WWV 27
Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Boult
Engelbert Humperdinck
Hänsel und Gretel, EHWV 93.3 · “Hansel and Gretel”
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture in A Major, Op. 96
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Georges Bizet
Carmen, GB 9, WD 31
Georges Prêtre, Paris Opera Orchestra, Jean Laforge
Leonard Bernstein
Candide
André Previn, London Symphony Orchestra
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, TH 13
Christopher Warren-Green, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Lanchbery
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture in E-Flat Major, Op. 49, TH 49
Mariss Jansons, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

June 4, 2012 26 tracks, 2 hours 33 minutes ℗ This compilation 2012 EMI Records Ltd

RECORD LABEL

Warner Classics