Product Description
Decca pays tribute to Joan Sutherland - "La Stupenda" to her numerous fans - with a limited-edition 23-CD set of her complete studio recitals.
Joan Sutherland shot to international fame in February1959 when she sang the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and a month later she recorded her first solo album in Paris for Decca - the start of an exclusive association that would last until her retirement from the operatic stage on 31 December 1990.
This is the first time all of Joan Sutherland's studio recitals have been made available in a single collection and the set is released in time for what would have been the diva's 85th birthday on 7 November; October 10 marks the first anniversary of her death.
The CDs are presented in sleeves with original cover art a 48-page booklet contains an appreciation of Joan Sutherland by opera wrter and critic George Hall.
Full track-listings with recording information is included.
Tracklisting
CD 1: Operatic Arias
Scenes and arias from Lucia di Lammermoor, Ernani, I vespri siciliani, Linda di Chamounix
Orchestre des Concerts du Conservatoire; Nello Santi; recorded April 1959
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CDs 2 & 3: The Art of the Prima Donna
Arias from Artaxerxes, Samson, Norma, I puritani, Semiramide, La sonnambula, Faust, Roméo et Juliette, Otello, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La traviata, Hamlet, Lakmé, Les Huguenots, and Rigoletto
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; recorded August 1960
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CDs 4 & 5: Command Performance
Arias from Oberon, Le Cid, Dinorah, Pagliacci, I masnadieri, Luisa Miller, La cambiale di matrimonio, Beatrice di Tenda; songs - The Gypsy and the Bird, Parla!, Io non sono più, Ideale, Il bacio, La Serenata, Mattinata, Lo! here the gentle lark, The Last Rose of Summer, Scenes that are brightest may charm awhile, I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, Home sweet home
London Symphony Orchestra; Richard Bonynge (conductor & piano); recorded October-November 1962
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CDs 6 & 7: The Age of Bel Canto
6. Arias from La buona figliuola, Atalanta, Meraspe, Samson, Semele, Astarto, Artaxerxes, Rosina, Il re pastore, Die Zauberflöte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Angéla ou L'Atelier de Jean Cousin
7. Arias from Semiramide, La Muette de Portici, Der Freischütz, Beatrice di Tenda, Don Pasquale, Lucrezia Borgia, Attila, La straniera, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Arditi: Boléro
with Marilyn Horne (mezzo), Richard Conrad (tenor), New Symphony Orchestra of London (CD 6); London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (CD 7); recorded June 1963
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CD 8: Joy to the World
Joy to the World, It came upon a midnight clear, O holy night, O divine Redeemer, What Child is this?, Adeste fideles, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Good King Wenceslas, Hark! the herald angels sing, The Virgin's Slumber Song,
Ave Maria, The Holly and the Ivy, Angels we have heard on high, Deck the hall
The Ambrosian Singers, New Philharmonia Orchestra; Richard Bonynge; recorded May 1965
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CD 9: Noël Coward Album
Songs from Conversation Piece, Bitter Sweet, Operette, After the Ball, Pacific 1860
Chorus and Orchestra; Richard Bonynge; recorded July 1966
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CDs 10 & 11: Love Live Forever
Songs from operetta: The Student Prince, The Boys from Syracuse, The Desert Song, Music in the Air, Rose Marie, The Only Girl, Show Boat, The Maid of the Mountains, Tom Jones, La Périchole, Chérubin, Der Vogelhändler, The Dubarry, Die geschiedene frau, Die spanische Nachtigall, Die Dollarprinzessin, Madame Pompadour, Der liebe Augustin, Eva, Ein Walzertraum, Der Opernball, Casanova, The Merry Widow, The King Steps Out, The Chocolate Soldier, Balalaika, Paganini
Ambrosian Light Opera Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra; Richard Bonynge; recorded March & July 1966
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CD 12 & 13: Romantic French Arias
Arias from Robinson Crusoé, Dinorah, Louise, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Manon Lescaut, Fra Diavolo, Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Cendrillon, Mireille, L'Étoile du Nord, Le Tribut de Zamora, Robert le Diable, Le Coeur et la Main, Les Noces de Jeannette, Faust, Vasco de Gama
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Richard Bonynge; recorded September 1969
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CD 14: Songs my Mother taught me
Songs by Dvorák, Mendelssohn, Del Riego, Massenet, Gounod, Nelson, Delibes, LaForge, Juncker, Hahn, Abt, Grieg, Liszt, Delibes
New Philharmonia Orchestra; Richard Bonynge; recorded August 1972
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CD 15: Operatic Duets
Duets from La traviata, La Sonnambula, Linda di Chamounix, Otello, Aida
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor); National Philharmonic Orchestra; Richard Bonynge; recorded September 1976
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CDs 16 & 17: Serate musicali
Songs by Rossini, Leoncavallo, Donizetti, Respighi, Bellini, Verdi, Cimara, Ponchielli, Mascagni, Gounod, Godard, Massenet, Lalo, Thomas, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Bizet, Meyerbeer, Chaminade, Delibes, Hahn, Adam
Richard Bonynge (piano), recorded June 1978
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CD 18: Wagner recital
Arias from Rienzi, Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Die Walküre, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tristan und Isolde
National Philaharmonic Orchestra; Richard Bonynge
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CD 19: Mozart recital
Arias from Il re pastore, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte; Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio, K418; Chi'io mi scordi di te... Non temer, amato bene, K505
National Philharmonic Orchestra; Richard Bonynge; recorded November 1978
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CD 20: Bel canto arias
Arias from Il castello di Kenilworth, Attila, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Betly, La Favorite, L'Africaine, Guillaume Tell, Il barbiere di Siviglia
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera; Richard Bonynge; recorded September 1985
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CD 21: Talking Pictures
A tribute to films and Hollywood musicals
English Chamber Orchestra; Richard Bonynge; recorded April 1986
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CD 22: Romantic Trios
Songs for soprano, horn and piano
Songs by Denza, Panseron, Kreutzer, Nicolai, Proch, Skroup, Donizetti, Lachner, Kücken, Massenet, Berlioz
Barry Tuckwell (horn), Richard Bonynge (piano), recorded October 1987
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CD 23: Rarities and first recordings
Arias by Bononcini, Paisiello, Piccinni, Arne, and Handel (Acis and Galatea, Alcina)
Philomusica of London; Granville Jones, Adrian Boult, Anthony Lewis; recorded 1958 and May/June 1959
Russian songs by Stravinsky, Cui & Gretchaninov
Gliere: Concerto for Coloratura soprano
London Symphony Orchestra; Richard Bonynge; recorded May 1968
Donizetti: La Fille du régiment: Par le rang... Salut à la France
Chorus and Orchestra of ther Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Richard Bonynge; recorded July 1967
