Great Operatic Arias (Sung in English), Vol. 10 - Diana Montague

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Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492 (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: London Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conducted by: Richard Hickox Walter Weller David Parry
Thomas Allen, baritone
Yvonne Kenny, soprano
Rebecca Evans, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano


1.   Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act I: Aria: Is it pain, is it pleasure that fills me (Non so piu) - 3:07


La clemenza di Tito, K. 621 (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conducted by: Walter Weller David Parry
Bruce Ford, tenor
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
Paul Richards,
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano


2.   La clemenza di Tito, K. 621, Act I: Aria: Send me, but, my beloved (Parto, Parto) - 6:39


Iphigenia auf Tauris (Iphigenia in Tauris) (more info)
Performed by: London Philharmonic Orchestra Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Conducted by: Joseph Keilberth Walter Weller
Nicolai Gedda, tenor
Hilde Zadek, soprano
Hermann Prey, bass-baritone
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Ilse Wallenstein, soprano
Marcel Cordes, baritone
Friedrich Himmelmann, bass
Herbert Beil, bass
Claire Breske, soprano
Brigitte Kaltwasser, soprano
Elly Volkenrath, alto


3.   Act II: Chorus and Aria: Farewell, beloved homeland - No hope remians in my affliction (A malheureuse Iphigenie) - 4:56
4.   Act III: Aria: I implore thee and tremble (Je t'implore et je tremble) - 3:36


Alcina, HWV 34 (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: London Philharmonic Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Walter Weller Steven White
Elizabeth Futtal, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano


5.   Alcina, HWV 34, Act II: Aria: Verdant pastures, leafy woodlands (Verdi prati) - 4:18


Atalanta, HWV 35 (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Walter Weller
Alastair Young,
Susanne Beer,
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano


6.   Atalanta, HWV 35, Act I: Aria: Noble forests, sombre and shady (Care selve) - 2:05


Cosi fan tutte, K. 588 (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: London Symphony Orchestra Age of Enlightenment Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conducted by: Charles Mackerras Richard Hickox Walter Weller David Parry Steven White
Thomas Allen, baritone
Alan Opie, baritone
Janice Watson, soprano
Yvonne Kenny, soprano
Bruce Ford, tenor
Elizabeth Futtal, soprano
Orla Boylan,
Lesley Garrett, soprano
Toby Spence, tenor
Christopher Maltman, baritone
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano


7.   Act I: Trio: Blow gently, you breezes (Soave sia il vento) - 3:33
8.   Act I: Recitative and Aria: Ah! Leave me now - Torture and Agony (Smanie implacabili) - 3:39
9.   Act II: Duet: I will take the handsome, dark one (Prendero quel brunettino) - 3:07
10.   Cosi fan tutte, K. 588, Act II: Duet: My heart here I give you (Il core vi dono) - 4:39


Vado, ma dove? Oh Dei!, K. 583 (more info)
Performed by: Munich Chamber Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra Classical Arts Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conducted by: Ed Spanjaard Walter Weller
Stephen Alltop, piano
Patrice Michaels, soprano
Lenneke Ruiten, soprano
Juliane Banse, soprano
Christoph Poppen, violin
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano


11.   Vado, ma dove? (Banished, rejected, God save me!), K. 583 - 4:50


Chi sa qual sia (Who knows what feeling), K. 582 (more info)
Performed by: Munich Chamber Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra Antwerp Transparant Chamber Opera Ensemble and Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conducted by: Ed Spanjaard Walter Weller Hans Rotman
Leonie Schoon,
Lenneke Ruiten, soprano
Juliane Banse, soprano
Christoph Poppen, violin
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano


12.   Chi sa qual sia (Who knows what feeling), K. 582 - 3:16


Der Opernball (The Opera Ball), Op. 40 (more info)
Performed by: MGM Studio Orchestra Budapest Symphony Orchestra Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony London Philharmonic Orchestra Schwanen Salon Orchestra Studio orchestra
Composed by: Richard Heuberger
Conducted by: Georg Huber Walter Goehr Frieder Weissmann Raffi Armenian Georgie Stoll Walter Weller Jan Schultsz Franz Marszalek
Rita Streich, soprano
Richard Tauber, tenor
Elisabeth Schumann, soprano
Helen Williams, soprano
Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Noemi Nadelmann, soprano
Peter Anders, tenor
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Mark DuBois, tenor
Joanne Kolomyjec, soprano
Recording date: 23 June 1947


13.   Der Opernball: This is the clock (Gehen wir ins Chambre separee) - 5:46


Prince Igor (Knyaz Igor) (more info)
Performed by: Ukraine National Radio Symphony Orchestra Ukraine State Radio Symphony Orchestra Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia London Philharmonic Orchestra Nils Grevillius Orchestra RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Stuttgart State Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia
Composed by: Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin Issay Alexandrovich Dobrowen
Conducted by: Theodore Kuchar Gustave Cloez Rosario Bourdon Frieder Weissmann Bruno Reibold Nils Grevillius Mykola Hobdych Vladimir Sirenko Geoffrey Simon Adrian Leaper Alexander Melik-Pashayev Lothar Zagrosek Alexander Vedernikov Constantine Orbelian Walter Weller David Parry
Valery Gilmanov, bass
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Vladimir Grishko, tenor
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Yuri Nechaev,
Daniil Shtoda,
Boris Christoff, bass
Ewa Podles, contralto
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Evgeniya Smolenskaya, soprano
Sergey Lemeshev, tenor
Alexander Pirogov, bass
Mark Reizen, bass
Veronica Borisenko, mezzo-soprano
Alexey Serov, tenor
Ivan Skobtsov, tenor
Feodor Godovkin, tenor
Elena Korneueva, mezzo-soprano
Nina Koshetz, soprano
Nadezhda Obukhova, mezzo-soprano
Charles Friant, tenor
George Baklanoff, baritone
Andrey Ivanov, baritone
Antonina Ivanova, soprano
John Tomlinson, bass
Angelina Shvachka, mezzo-soprano
Dmytro Popov, tenor
Mykola Koval, baritone
Taras Shtonda, bass-baritone


14.   Knyaz Igor (Prince Igor), Act II: Song: Tender flower, starved of water - 5:57


Die Fledermaus (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: Hungarian Operetta Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Johann Strauss II
Conducted by: Laszlo Kovacs Walter Weller David Parry
Thomas Allen, baritone
Zsuzsa Csonka, soprano
Janice Watson, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano


15.   Die Fledermaus, Act II: Aria: Three score and ten (Ich lade gern mir Gaste ein) - 2:46


Faust (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra New Symphony Orchestra Munich Radio Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Georg Szell Orchestra Berlin City Opera Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Danish Radio Sinfonietta Quebec Symphony Orchestra Eugene Goossens Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Studio orchestra Paris Opera Orchestra Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra Cologne West German Radio Orchestra Sofia Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Eugene Goossens Emil Tabakov Lawrence Tibbett Enrico Caruso Alfred Newman Charles-Francois Gounod Henri Busser
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Julius Rudel Eri Klas Gilles Bellemare Felix Prohaska Walter B. Rogers Simon Streatfeild Selmar Meyrowitz Jacques Lacombe Fausto Cleva Nils Grevillius Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Charles Rosekrans Richard Bradshaw Thomas Beecham Helmut Froschauer Constantine Orbelian David Parry Mikko Franck Eugune Kohn Michail Angelov
Manon Feubel, soprano
Andreas Post, tenor
Wilfrid Pelletier, narrator
John McCormack, tenor
Nellie Melba, soprano
Antonio Scotti, baritone
Dorothy Kirsten, soprano
Alexandrina Pendatchanska, soprano
Etienne Dupuis, baritone
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Michael Bohnen, baritone
Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Georges Nore, tenor
Roger Rico, baritone
Roger Bourdin, baritone
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Elisabeth Schumann, soprano
Leonard Warren, baritone
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Marcel Journet, bass
Richard Crooks, tenor
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Thomas Allen, baritone
Samuel Ramey, bass
Landon Ronald, piano
Richard Bonelli, baritone
Maria Zamboni, soprano
Michael Cozette, baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Helen Jepson, soprano
George Szell,
Brett Polegato, baritone
Thelma Votipka, mezzo-soprano
Franz Hawlata, bass
Ezio Pinza, bass
Lyne Fortin, soprano
Indra Thomas, soprano
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Valerian Ruminski, bass
Mario Sammarco, baritone
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Earl Covert, vocals
Zaruhi Elmassion, vocals
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Tatjana Dravenau, piano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Anne Bollinger, soprano
Cesare Siepi, bass
Frank Guarrera, baritone
Lawrence Davidson, baritone
Michele Pertusi, bass-baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
Garden Farara, soprano
Gabrielle Gilibert, mezzo-soprano
Geraldine Farrar, soprano
Inga Nielsen, soprano
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Recording date: November 1947 - June 1948


16.   Faust, Act IV: Romance: When happy days (Si le bonheur a sourire t'invite) - 2:49


Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) (more info)
Performed by: Cologne Symphony Orchestra Munich Radio Orchestra Budapest Symphony Orchestra Hungarian Operetta Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Berlin Babelsberg Film Orchestra Prague Philharmonia London Philharmonic Orchestra Chandos Concert Orchestra Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Studio orchestra Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra Morbisch Festival Orchestra Linz Bruckner Orchestra Cologne Radio Orchestra
Composed by: Erich Wolfgang Korngold Franz Lehar
Conducted by: Barry Knight Steven Mercurio Ernst Hauke Richard Hickox Peter Guth Laszlo Kovacs Otto Ackermann Helmut Froschauer Walter Weller David Parry Rudolf Bibl Jan Schultsz Heinz Wallberg Heinz Fricke
Michael Heltau, reader
Alfred Sramek, bass
Birgid Steinberger, soprano
Margarita de Arellano, soprano
Richard Tauber, tenor
Thomas Allen, baritone
Zsuzsa Csonka, soprano
Janos Berkes, tenor
Edith Lienbacher, soprano
Erich Kunz, baritone
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Dusolina Giannini, soprano
Janice Watson, soprano
Yvonne Kenny, soprano
Ingrid Kertesi, soprano
Peter Morrison, baritone
Bruce Ford, tenor
Helen Williams, soprano
Ana Maria Martinez, soprano
Nigel Woodhouse,
James Ellis,
Herbert Lippert, tenor
Johann Reinprecht, tenor
Johannes Kalpers, tenor
Alexander Klinger, tenor
Nicolai Gedda, tenor
Mirjana Irosch, mezzo-soprano
Mathias Hausmann, baritone
Marwan Shamiyeh, tenor
Peter Branoff, vocals
Bernd Ander, vocals
Daniel Serafin, tenor
Noemi Nadelmann, soprano
Marilyn Hill Smith, soprano
Jochen Kowalski, counter-tenor
Thomas Dewald, tenor
Daniel Kirch, tenor
Emmy Loose, soprano
Anton Niessner, baritone
Joseph Schmidinger, bass
Otakar Kraus, baritone
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Jana Scharkowskaja, soprano
Marcel Wittrisch, tenor
Katharina Richter, soprano
Karl Fath, bass-baritone
Kay Steifermann, vocals
Eva Lind, soprano
Pamela Coburn, soprano
Juan Jose Lopera, tenor
Inga Nielsen, soprano
James Schwabacher, tenor
Recording date: 1938


17.   Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow), Act II: Duet: Calm down, my friend! (Wie eine Rosenknospe) - 6:55


Anna Magdalena Notenbuch (Clavier-Buchlein III): Bist du bei mir, BWV 508 (attrib. to G.H. Stolzel) (more info)
Performed by: London Philharmonic Orchestra Budapest Camerata Mostly Mozart Orchestra
Composed by: Anonymous Johann Sebastian Bach
Conducted by: Christopher Stokes Laszlo Kovacs Gerard Schwarz Walter Weller Hans Gruss
Peter Schreier, tenor
Emily Gray, soprano
Ingrid Kertesi, soprano
Alastair Young,
Susanne Beer,
Luc Beausejour, harpsichord
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Arleen Auger, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano


18.   Bach - Bist du bei mir (If you are near), BWV 508 - 2:54

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