Great Operatic Arias vol 20 - Christine Brewer, Soprano Vol.2 | Chandos - Opera in English CHAN3159

Great Operatic Arias vol 20 - Christine Brewer, Soprano Vol.2

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Label: Chandos - Opera in English

Cat No: CHAN3159

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 2nd March 2009

Contents

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Fidelio, op.72
» Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin?

Britten, Benjamin

Peter Grimes, op.33
» Embroidery in Childhood

Dvorak, Antonin

Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs) (7), op.55 B104
» no.4 Als die alte Mutter (Songs my mother taught me)

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Alceste
» Grands dieux soutenez mon courage... Ah! Divinites implacables
» Ou suis-je?

Handel, George Frideric

Rodelinda, HWV19
» Se il mio duol non e si forte

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang

Die tote Stadt, op.12
» Gluck, das mir verblieb 'Marietta's Lied'

Lehar, Franz

Wer hat die Liebe uns in Herz gesenkt

Menotti, Gian Carlo

The Consul
» To this we've come

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
» Porgi amor
» Sull'aria che soave zeffiretto

Rodgers, Richard

The Sound of Music
» Climb Every Mountain

Wagner, Richard

Lohengrin
» Einsam in truben Tagen (Elsa's dream)
Tannhauser
» Allmacht'ge Jungfrau, hor mein Flehen! 'Elisabeth's Prayer'

Artists

Christine Brewer (soprano)
Judith Howarth (soprano)
Timothy Robinson (tenor)
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

David Parry

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Fidelio, op.72
» Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin?

Britten, Benjamin

Peter Grimes, op.33
» Embroidery in Childhood

Dvorak, Antonin

Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs) (7), op.55 B104
» no.4 Als die alte Mutter (Songs my mother taught me)

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Alceste
» Grands dieux soutenez mon courage... Ah! Divinites implacables
» Ou suis-je?

Handel, George Frideric

Rodelinda, HWV19
» Se il mio duol non e si forte

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang

Die tote Stadt, op.12
» Gluck, das mir verblieb 'Marietta's Lied'

Lehar, Franz

Wer hat die Liebe uns in Herz gesenkt

Menotti, Gian Carlo

The Consul
» To this we've come

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
» Porgi amor
» Sull'aria che soave zeffiretto

Rodgers, Richard

The Sound of Music
» Climb Every Mountain

Wagner, Richard

Lohengrin
» Einsam in truben Tagen (Elsa's dream)
Tannhauser
» Allmacht'ge Jungfrau, hor mein Flehen! 'Elisabeth's Prayer'

Artists

Christine Brewer (soprano)
Judith Howarth (soprano)
Timothy Robinson (tenor)
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

David Parry

About

Hats off, gentlemen. A diva. The real, rare, wondrous thing. Her name is Christine Brewer.’ So wrote the London Evening Standard on Christine Brewer’s first volume of arias on Opera in English.

We were delighted when the internationally renowned soprano Christine Brewer agreed to record some of her favourite repertoire pieces on her first recital disc for Chandos in 2005. No surprise that it was a huge success – so we were even more delighted when she returned to record this second volume – repertoire which you would never hear in a single concert or operatic performance, but here capturing Brewer’s glorious range, wonderfully supported by Judith Howarth, Timothy Robinson and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Parry.

Christine Brewer’s earlier recital (CHAN 3127) introduced into this series the dramatic soprano voice and included in its programme, as does its successor, arias from Gluck’s Alceste and Wagner’s Tannhäuser. In a previous age both operas were sung by Kirsten Flagstad, by general consent the greatest heroic-dramatic soprano of all. Christine Brewer now adds one of the most formidable challenges in the repertoire, Leonore’s solo in Act I of Beethoven’s Fidelio. Otherwise, the two significant extensions are in time, backward to Handel and forward to Britten and Menotti.

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