Great Operatic Arias (Sung in English), Vol. 20 - Christine Brewer, Vol. 2

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Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492 (more info)
Performed by: Porto National Orchestra Latvian National Symphony Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia Estonian State Symphony Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Capella Istropolitana Munich Chamber Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Symphony Orchestra Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta Vienna Mozart Orchestra Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Classical Arts Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, La Linz Bruckner Orchestra Moscow State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Metropolitan Orchestra Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart James Robertson
Conducted by: Lodovico Zocche Marc Tardue Eri Klas Lawrance Collingwood Gilles Bellemare Marcus Creed Klaus-Peter Hahn Walter B. Rogers Fritz Busch Mario Bernardi Josef Krips John Pritchard Jacques Lacombe Jean-Claude Malgoire Peter Guth Michael Halasz Konrad Leitner Pier Giorgio Morandi Joseph Rescigno Richard Bradshaw Barry Wordsworth George W. Byng David Parry Alexandrs Vilumanis Hans Lowlein Frederic Chaslin
Patrick Donnelly, baritone
Annie Burgaux, soprano
Jose Canales, vocals
Stephanie Leclercq, vocals
Rigoberto Marin-Polop, baritone
Gaynor Morgan, soprano
Rebecca Ockenden, soprano
Isabelle Senges, mezzo-soprano
Jean-Marc Thoron, vocals
Manon Feubel, soprano
Claudine Le Coz, mezzo-soprano
Stuart Patterson, tenor
Valerie Lecoq, soprano
Galina Musurova, soprano
Nellie Melba, soprano
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Elina Garanca, soprano
Gabriele Sima, contralto
Stephen Alltop, piano
Patrice Michaels, soprano
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Luise Helletsgruber, soprano
Audrey Mildmay, soprano
Elisabeth Schumann, soprano
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Maggie Teyte, soprano
Eleanor Steber, soprano
Martial Defontaine,
Lina Pagliughi, soprano
Renato Girolami, bass
Bo Skovhus, baritone
Janusz Monarcha, bass
Peter Schreier, tenor
Ruth Ziesak, soprano
Natale de Carolis, baritone
Roberto Frontali, baritone
Aulikki Rautavaara, mezzo-soprano
Constance Willis, alto
Conchita Supervia, mezzo-soprano
Christine Brewer, soprano
Landon Ronald, piano
Peter Koves, bass
Edith Lienbacher, soprano
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Maria Pia Ionata, soprano
Nicolas Rivenq, baritone
Yvonne Kenny, soprano
Ingrid Kertesi, soprano
Jonathan Veira, bass-baritone
Judith Howarth, soprano
John Graham Hall, tenor
Rebecca Evans, soprano
Hubert Claessens, bass
Marina Mescheriakova, soprano
Frances McCafferty, mezzo-soprano
Yvette Bonner, soprano
Victoria Joyce, soprano
William Dazeley, baritone
Sarah Tynan, soprano
Graeme Danby, bass
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Sophie Marin-Degor, soprano
Laura Polverelli, mezzo-soprano
Elfriede Trotschel, soprano
Stuart Kale, tenor
Donato di Stefano, bass
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Andrea Martin, baritone
Evgueniy Alexiev, baritone
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Jozsef Mukk, tenor
Philippe Cantor, baritone
Christopher Purves, baritone
Judith Halasz, soprano
Michelle Breedt, soprano
Michael Roider, tenor
Alexander Klinger, tenor
Orsolya Safar, soprano
Patrizia Pace, soprano
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Lyne Fortin, soprano
Igor Chichagov, piano
Donna Robin, soprano
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Michael Schade, tenor
Juliane Banse, soprano
Christoph Poppen, violin
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Cornelia Ptassek, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Danielle Borst, soprano
Evelyne Brun,
Allan Monk, baritone
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Russell Braun, baritone
Recording date: 26 October - 04 November 2002


1.   Act II: Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro - 03:49
2.   Act III: Che soave zeffiretto - 03:53


Tannhauser (more info)
Performed by: Bratislava Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra WDR Symphony Orchestra Maastricht Limburg Symphony Orchestra Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Manfred Gurlitt Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Swedish Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra Bavarian State Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Stuttgart State Orchestra Linz Bruckner Orchestra Russia Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Richard Wagner Manfred Gurlitt
Conducted by: Edward Gardner Eri Klas Frederik IX (King of Denmark) Gaetano Merola Karl Bohm Mario Bernardi Yakov Kreizberg Karl Elmendorff Ed Spanjaard Gerd Albrecht Artur Bodanzky Michael Halasz Georges Sebastian Karl Muck Michael Schonwandt Leif Segerstam Johannes Wildner Jukka-Pekka Saraste Richard Bradshaw Lothar Zagrosek Constantine Orbelian Roberto Paternostro David Parry Ivan Anguelov Hanns-Martin Schneidt Kurt Woss Bernhard Klee
Alexandre Sylvestre, baritone
Joseph Schwarz, tenor
Michael Bohnen, baritone
Theodor Scheidl, baritone
Frida Leider, soprano
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Maria Muller, soprano
Ruth Jost-Arden, soprano
Sigismund Pilinszky, tenor
Ivar Andresen, bass
Herbert Janssen, baritone
Karita Mattila, soprano
Thomas Allen, baritone
Charlotte Margiono, soprano
Christine Brewer, soprano
Richard Bonelli, baritone
Astrid Varnay, soprano
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Gwyneth Jones, soprano
Folke Alin, piano
Christina Hornell, choirmaster
Juha Uusitalo, bass-baritone
Brett Polegato, baritone
Gerald Finley, baritone
Susanne Clemens, vocals
Hermann Prey, bass-baritone
Gabor, vocals
Wolfe, vocals
Marianne Schech, soprano
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Leo Slezak, tenor
John Treleaven,
Giovanni Paltrinieri, tenor
Inga Nielsen, soprano
Allan Monk, baritone
Recording date: 9 October 1949


3.   Tannhauser, Act III: Allmacht'ge Jungfrau! Hor mein Flehen! (Sung in English) - 04:34


Peter Grimes, Op. 33 (more info)
Performed by: London Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra City of London Sinfonia
Composed by: Benjamin Britten
Conducted by: Richard Hickox Colin Davis David Parry
John Fryatt, tenor
Christine Brewer, soprano
Matthew Best, bass
Christopher Gillett, tenor
Philip Langridge, tenor
Alan Opie, baritone
Alison Buchanan,
Jill Grove, mezzo-soprano
Janice Watson, soprano
Yvonne Barclay, soprano
John Connell, bass
Ameral Gunson, mezzo-soprano
Pamela Helen Stephen, mezzo-soprano
Anne Collins, mezzo-soprano
John Graham Hall, tenor
Roderick Williams, baritone
Glenn Winslade, tenor
Anthony Michaels-Moore, baritone
Sally Matthews, soprano


4.   Peter Grimes, Op. 13, Act III: Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness - 04:07


Fidelio, Op. 72 (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: London Philharmonic Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
Composed by: Ludwig van Beethoven
Conducted by: David Parry
Pavlo Hunka, bass-baritone
Robert Lloyd, bass
Christine Brewer, soprano
Rebecca Evans, soprano
Peter Wedd, tenor
Ashley Catling, tenor
Christopher Purves, baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
John Tomlinson, bass


5.   Fidelio, Op. 72, Act I: Komm, Hoffnung, sie blass und abseitig Stern (Sung in English) - 07:20


Rodelinda, HWV 19 (more info)
Performed by: Vienna Radio Orchestra Collegium Musicum 90 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra English Concert Handel Festival Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Wolfgang Katschner Brian Priestman Hartmut Haenchen Christophe Rousset Daniel Taylor David Parry Howard Arman
Alexander Weimann, harpsichord
Simon Standage, violin
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Suzie Le Blanc, soprano
Christine Brewer, soprano
Harry Bicket, organ
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
Rosemary Joshua, soprano
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Maureen Forrester, contralto
Jochen Kowalski, counter-tenor
Axel Kohler, counter-tenor
Stephen Stubbs, lute
Lutz Gabler, violin
Petra Hiltawsky, horn
Gunter Strobelt, oboe
Frank Benkendorf, bassoon


6.   Rodelinda, HWV 19, Act III: Se il mio duol non e si forte (Sung in English) - 05:55


Alceste (more info)
Performed by: Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Geraint Jones Orchestra
Composed by: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Conducted by: Arnold Ostman David Parry Geraint Jones
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
Christine Brewer, soprano
Justin Lavender, tenor
Jonas Degerfeldt, tenor
Miriam Treichl, soprano
Lars Martinsson, baritone
Raoul Jobin, tenor
Adam Giertz, treble
Emelie Clausen, treble
Mattias Nilsson, baritone
Johan Lilja, bass
Thomas Hemsley,
Alexander Young,
Teresa Ringholz, soprano
Marion Lowe, soprano
Joan Clark, vocals
Rosemary Thayer, vocals
James Atkins, bass


7.   Alceste, Act I: Aria: Ou suis-je? (Sung in English) - 04:55
8.   Alceste, Act I: Grands dieux! Du destin qui m'accable (Sung in English) - 03:56


Lohengrin (more info)
Performed by: WDR Symphony Orchestra Philadelphia Orchestra Seattle Symphony Orchestra Maastricht Limburg Symphony Orchestra Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Concertgebouw Orchestra Victor Symphony Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Royal Swedish Orchestra Russian State Symphony Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Linz Bruckner Orchestra Cologne West German Radio Orchestra
Composed by: Sten Frykberg Richard Wagner William Lawrence Arturo Toscanini
Conducted by: Willem Mengelberg Gaetano Merola Clemens Schmalstich John McGlinn Karl Bohm Frieder Weissmann Ed Spanjaard Gerd Albrecht Erich Leinsdorf Karl Muck Eugene Ormandy Leif Segerstam Johannes Wildner Michael Gielen Joseph Keilberth Semyon Bychkov Gerard Schwarz Roberto Paternostro David Parry Ivan Anguelov Simone Young Bernhard Klee
Sandor Sved, baritone
Norman Cordon, bass
Mack Harrell, baritone
Emmy Bettendorf, soprano
Nellie Melba, soprano
Johan Botha, tenor
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Eleanor Steber, soprano
Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano
Torsten Kerl, tenor
Richard Crooks, tenor
Kwangchul Youn, baritone
Charlotte Margiono, soprano
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
Kerstin Thorborg, contralto
Christine Brewer, soprano
Astrid Varnay, soprano
Wolfgang Windgassen, tenor
Josef Janko, tenor
Gerhard Stolze, tenor
John Horton Murray, tenor
Margaret Jane Wray, soprano
Edwin McArthur,
Gwyneth Jones, soprano
Folke Alin, piano
Christina Hornell, choirmaster
Petra Lang,
Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Eike Wilm Schulte, baritone
Josef Greindl, bass
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Hans Braun, baritone
Hermann Uhde, baritone
Alfons Herwig, baritone
Theo Adam, bass
Wilhelm Pitz, choirmaster
Leo Slezak, tenor
Falk Struckmann, baritone
John Treleaven,
Ruby Elzy, soprano
Recording date: 17 October 1937


9.   Lohengrin, Act I: Einsam in truben Tagen (Sung in English) - 07:42


The Consul (more info)
Performed by: Spoleto Festival Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Studio orchestra
Composed by: Lehman Engel Gian Carlo Menotti
Conducted by: Richard Hickox David Parry
Mabel Mercer, vocals
Marie Powers, contralto
Gloria Lane, mezzo-soprano
Cornell MacNeil, baritone
Leon Lishner, baritone
Andrew McKinley, tenor
George Jongyans, bass-baritone
Maria Marlo, soprano
Francis Monachino, baritone
Lydia Summers, contralto
Charles Robert Austin, bass-baritone
Christine Brewer, soprano
Victoria Livengood, mezzo-soprano
John Horton Murray, tenor
Susan Bullock, soprano
Louis Otey, baritone
Herbert Eckhoff, baritone
Giovanna Manci, soprano
Malin Fritz, contralto
Graeme Broadbent, bass
Robin Blitch Wiper, soprano
Jacalyn Kreitzer, contralto
Patricia Neway,
Maria Andreassi, mezzo-soprano


10.   The Consul, Act II: To this we've come - 07:07


Die tote Stadt, Op. 12 (more info)
Performed by: Canadian Opera Company Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Swedish Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra
Composed by: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Conducted by: Otto Dobrindt Leif Segerstam Richard Bradshaw David Parry Ivan Anguelov
Richard Tauber, tenor
Torsten Kerl, tenor
Ulrik Qvale, tenor
Christine Brewer, soprano
Richard Bonelli, baritone
Anders Bergstrom, baritone
Ingrid Tobiasson, mezzo-soprano
Per-Arne Wahlgren, baritone
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Timothy Robinson, tenor
Lars-Erik Jonsson, tenor
Hilde Leidland, soprano
Lotte Lehmann, soprano
Anna Tomson, mezzo-soprano
Brett Polegato, baritone
Thomas Sunnegardh, tenor
Katarina Dalayman, soprano
Recording date: 17 April 1924


11.   Die tote Stadt, Op. 12, Act I: Gluck, das mir verblieb (Sung in English) - 05:13


Zigeunermelodien, Op. 55, B. 104 (Sung in German) (more info)
Performed by: London Philharmonic Orchestra Studio orchestra
Composed by: Antonin Dvorak
Conducted by: Walter B. Rogers Rosario Bourdon David Parry
Jon Vickers, tenor
Richard Woitach, piano
Gabriel Lapierre, piano
Frank St. Leger, piano
Nellie Melba, soprano
Karita Mattila, soprano
Christine Brewer, soprano
Martin Katz, piano
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Recording date: 17 January 1928


12.   Zigeunermelodien (Gypsy Melodies), Op. 55, B. 104: No. 4. Als die alte Mutter (Sung in English) - 02:16


Das Land des Lachelns (The Land of Smiles) (more info)
Performed by: MGM Studio Orchestra Munich Radio Orchestra Budapest Symphony Orchestra Hungarian Operetta Orchestra Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony London Philharmonic Orchestra Nils Grevillius Orchestra Chandos Concert Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra Morbisch Festival Orchestra Linz Bruckner Orchestra Cologne Radio Orchestra Cologne West German Radio Orchestra
Composed by: Alfred Berg Fritz Lohner-Beda Franz Lehar
Conducted by: Barry Knight Ulf Schirmer Walter Lutze Selmar Meyrowitz Raffi Armenian Nils Grevillius Peter Guth Laszlo Kovacs Otto Ackermann Georgie Stoll Helmut Froschauer Walter Weller David Parry Rudolf Bibl Jan Schultsz
Andreas Post, tenor
Theodor Weimer, tenor
Henry Raudales, violin
Julia Bauer, soprano
Dietmar Kerschbaum, tenor
Irene Eisinger, vocals
Christine Brewer, soprano
Zsuzsa Csonka, soprano
Janos Berkes, tenor
Erich Kunz, baritone
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Timothy Robinson, tenor
Bruce Ford, tenor
Helen Williams, soprano
Pieter Schoeman,
Herbert Lippert, tenor
Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Nicolai Gedda, tenor
Harald Serafin, baritone
Elisabeth Flechl, soprano
Sangho Choi, tenor
Yoku Mitani, soprano
Toru Tanabe, baritone
Gideon Singer, vocals
Noemi Nadelmann, soprano
Alexander Kaimbacher, tenor
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Marilyn Hill Smith, soprano
Thomas Dewald, tenor
Emmy Loose, soprano
Otakar Kraus, baritone
Tatjana Dravenau, piano
Jana Scharkowskaja, soprano
Camilla Nylund, soprano
Maria Leyer, soprano
Felix Kent, actor
Andre Mattoni, actor
Rupert Glawitsch, tenor
Piotr Beczala, tenor
Mark DuBois, tenor
Joanne Kolomyjec, soprano
Recording date: 31 December 1946


13.   Das Land des Lachelns (The Land of Smiles), Act II: Wer hat die Liebe uns ins Herz geschenkt? (Sung in English) - 04:39


The Sound of Music (more info)
Performed by: Philharmonia Orchestra
Composed by: Richard Rodgers
Conducted by: Gilbert Patenaude David Parry
Christine Brewer, soprano


14.   The Sound of Music: Climb ev'ry mountain - 03:02

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