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COMPOSER ALBUM/WORK TITLE PERFORMER LABEL POSTING DATE

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Cosi fan tutte Malin Hartelius, Martina Janková (soprano); Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano);
Javier Camarena (tenor) Ruben Drole (baritone); Oliver Widmer (bass-baritone)
Zurich Opera House Chorus
& Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst
Arthaus Musik 9/2/2010

Rossini, Gioachino
La Cenerentola Lawrence Brownlee (tenor); Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano); Simone Alberghini, Alessandro Corbelli (bass-baritone); John Relyea (bass); others
Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Maurizio Benini
Deutsche Grammophon 8/29/2010

Rossini, Gioachino
Il barbiere di Siviglia Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano); Juan Diego Florez (tenor); Pietro Spagnoli (baritone); Alessandro Corbelli (bass-baritone); Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass); others
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Antonio Pappano
Virgin Classics 8/29/2010

Rossini, Gioachino
La Cenerentola Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano); Juan Diego Florez (tenor); David Menendez (baritone); Bruno de Simone, Simon Orfila (bass-baritone); others
Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu
Patrick Summers
Decca 8/27/2010

Wagner, Richard
Lohengrin Jonas Kaufmann (tenor); Anja Harteros (soprano); Michaela Schuster (mezzo-soprano); Wolfgang Koch (baritone); Christof Fischesser, Evgeny Nikitin (bass)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Kent Nagano
Decca 6/15/2010

Haydn, Franz Joseph
Orlando Paladino Marlis Petersen, Sunhae Im, Alexandrina Pendatchanska (soprano); Tom Randle, Magnus Staveland (tenor); Pietro Spagnoli, Victor Torres (baritone)
Freiburger Barckorchester
René Jacobs
EuroArts 6/14/2010

Gluck, Christoph Willibald
Orpheus und Eurydike Yann Bridand, Maria Riccarda Wesseling (dancer, mezzo-soprano); Marie-Agnès Gillot, Julia Kleiter (dancer, soprano); Miteki Kudo, Sunhae Im (dancer, soprano)
Ballet de l’opéra national de Paris
Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble & Chorus
Thomas Hengelbrock
Bel Air Classiques 5/8/2010

Verdi, Giuseppe
Otello Aleksandrs Antonenko, Stephen Costello (tenor); Marina Poplavskaya (soprano); Carlos Alvarez (baritone); others
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsoper Salzburger Festspiele Kinderchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
Riccardo Muti
C Major 5/3/2010

Puccini, Giacomo
Turandot Maria Guleghina, Alexia Voulgaridou (soprano); Marco Berti (tenor); Alexander Tsymbalyuk (bass); others
Coro de la Generalitat Valenciana Orquestra de la Communitat Valenciana
Zubin Mehta
Unitel Classica 2/4/2010

Donizetti, Gaetano
Lucrezia Borgia Edita Gruberova (soprano); Pavel Breslik (tenor); Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano); Franco Vassallo (baritone); others
Bavarian State Opera Orchestra & Chorus
Bertrand de Billy
Medici Arts 1/7/2010

Donizetti, Gaetano
Lucia di Lammermoor Anna Netrebko (soprano); Piotr Beczala (tenor); Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone); Ildar Abdrazakov (bass); others
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus, & Ballet
Marco Armiliato
Deutsche Grammophon 12/9/2009

Donizetti, Gaetano
L’Elisir d’amore Anna Netrebko, Inna Los (soprano); Rolando Villazon (tenor); Leo Nucci (baritone); Ildebrando d’Arcangelo (bass)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
Alfred Eschwé
Virgin Classics 11/29/2009

Donizetti, Gaetano
La fille du regiment Natalie Dessay (soprano); Juan Diego Florez (tenor); Alessandro Corbelli, Donald Maxwell (bass-baritone); Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Bruno Campanella
Virgin Classics 11/29/2009

Donizetti, Gaetano
Maria Stuarda Mariella Devia, Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano); Francesco Meli (tenor); Simone ALberghini, Pieri Terranova (bass-baritone)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala
Antonino Fogliani
Arthaus Musik 11/29/2009

Britten, Benjamin
The Turn of the Screw Lisa Milne, Diana Montague, Caroline Wise, Nicholas Kirby Johnson (soprano); Catrin Wyn Davies (mezzo-soprano); Mark Padmore (tenor)
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox
Opus Arte 11/22/2009

Purcell, Henry
Dido and Aeneas Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano); Lucy Crowe (soprano); Lucas Meachum (baritone); others
Dancers of the Royal Ballet
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Christopher Hogwood
Opus Arte 11/16/2009

Tchaikovsky, Peter
Eugene Onegin Mariusz Kweicien (baritone); Tatiana Monogarova (soprano); Andrey Dunaev (tenor); Anatolij Kotscherga (bass); others
The Bolshoi Theatre Soloists, Orchestra & Chorus
Alexander Vedernikov
Bel Air Classiques 11/14/2009

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Die Entführung aus dem Serail Hilmar Thate (actor); Kurt Streit, Wilfried Gahmlich (tenor); Aga Winska, Elzbieta Szmytka (soprano); Artur Korn (bass)
Vienna State Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Deutsche Grammophon 11/9/2009

Rossini, Gioachino
Ermione Sonia Ganassi, Marianna Pizzolato (mezzo-soprano); Gregory Kunde, Antonio Siragusa (tenor); Nicola Ulivieri (bass); others
Prague Chamber Choir
Orchestra of Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Dynamic 11/2/2009

Haydn, Franz Joseph
The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross (orchestral version) Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall
Alia Vox 10/26/2009

Bizet, Georges
Carmen Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano); Placido Domingo (tenor); Isobel Buchanan (soprano); Yuri Mazurok (bass-baritone); others
Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
Carlos Kleiber
TDK 10/25/2009

Bizet, Georges
Carmen Anna Caterina Antonacci (mezzo-soprano); Jonas Kaufmann (tenor); Norah Ansellem (soprano); Ildebrando d’Arcangelo (bass); others
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Antonio Pappano
Decca 10/25/2009

Puccini, Giacomo
La Rondine Ainhoa Arteta, Inva Mila (soprano); Marcus Haddock, Richard Troxell (tenor); William Parcher (bass); others
Washington National Opera Orchestra & Chorus
Emmanuel Villaume
Decca 10/24/2009

Chopin, Frederic
THE LEGENDARY MOSCOW RECITAL--OCTOBER 1, 1964
Polonaise in F-sharp minor Op. 44; Impromptu in G-flat major Op. 51; Nocturne in D-flat major Op. 27 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 35 (“Funeral March”); Etudes: Op. 25 Nos. 1 & 5, Op. 10 Nos. 4 & 5; Waltzes Op. 34 Nos. 2 & 3; Barcarolle in F-sharp major Op. 60; Polonaise in A-flat major Op. 53
Fantasiestücke Op. 12: No. 1 Des Abends
Préludes Book 2: Ondine
O Polichinello
Arthur Rubinstein (piano)

Medici Arts 10/4/2009

Debussy, Claude
THE LEGENDARY MOSCOW RECITAL--OCTOBER 1, 1964
Polonaise in F-sharp minor Op. 44; Impromptu in G-flat major Op. 51; Nocturne in D-flat major Op. 27 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 35 (“Funeral March”); Etudes: Op. 25 Nos. 1 & 5, Op. 10 Nos. 4 & 5; Waltzes Op. 34 Nos. 2 & 3; Barcarolle in F-sharp major Op. 60; Polonaise in A-flat major Op. 53
Fantasiestücke Op. 12: No. 1 Des Abends
Préludes Book 2: Ondine
O Polichinello
Arthur Rubinstein (piano)

Medici Arts 10/4/2009

Humperdinck, Engelbert
Hansel and Gretel Diana Damrau, Anja Silja, Pumeza Matshikiza, Anita Watson, Elizabeth Connell (soprano); Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano); Thomas Allen (baritone)
Tiffin Boys’ Choir & Children’s Chorus
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Colin Davis
Opus Arte 10/4/2009

Schumann, Robert
THE LEGENDARY MOSCOW RECITAL--OCTOBER 1, 1964
Polonaise in F-sharp minor Op. 44; Impromptu in G-flat major Op. 51; Nocturne in D-flat major Op. 27 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 35 (“Funeral March”); Etudes: Op. 25 Nos. 1 & 5, Op. 10 Nos. 4 & 5; Waltzes Op. 34 Nos. 2 & 3; Barcarolle in F-sharp major Op. 60; Polonaise in A-flat major Op. 53
Fantasiestücke Op. 12: No. 1 Des Abends
Préludes Book 2: Ondine
O Polichinello
Arthur Rubinstein (piano)

Medici Arts 10/4/2009

Zandonai, Riccardo
Francesca da Rimini Daniela Dessi (soprano); Fabio Armiliato, Ludovit Ludha (tenor); Alberto Mastromarino (baritone); others
Coro Lirico Marchigiano “V. Bellini”
Filarmonica Marchigiana
Maurizio Barbacini
Arthaus Musik 10/4/2009

Messiaen, Olivier
Saint François d'Assise Camilla Tilling (soprano); Rod Gilfry (bass-baritone); Hank Neven (baritone); Hubert Delamboye, Tom Randle (tenor); Donald Kaasch, Armand Arapian
Chorus of the Netherlands Opera
The Hague Philharmonic
Ingo Metzmacher
Opus Arte 9/26/2009

Donizetti, Gaetano
Don Gregorio Giorgio Valerio, Paolo Bordogna (bass); Livio Scarpellini, Giorgio Trucco (tenor); Elizaveta Martirosyan (soprano); Alessandra Fratelli (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Bergamo Music Festival “Gaetano Donizetti”
Stefano Montanari
Dynamic 8/22/2009

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