Various Composers – Arias and Scenes from Operas – Irmgard Seefried

Arias and Scenes from Opera

CD 1:
Mozart - Il Re Pastore - "L'amerò, sarò costante"
Mozart - "Non temer, amato bene" KV 490
Mozart - Cosi fan tutte - "Temerati Sortite... Come scoglio immoto resta"
Mozart - Cosi fan tutte - "Ei parte... Per pietà, ben mio, perdona"
Bizet - Carmen - "Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante"
Handel - Giulio Cesare - "Tu la mia stella sei"
Handel - Giulio Cesare - "Caro! Più amabile beltà"
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro - "Giunse alfin il momento... Deh vieni, non tardar"
Mozart - Don Giovanni - "Zitto! lascia ch'io senta" / "Vedrai carino"
Beethoven - Fidelio - "O wär'ich schon mit dir vereint"
Respighi - Il tramonto - Der Sonnenuntergang

CD 2:
Mozart - Così fan tutte - "Sorella, cosa dice?" / "Prenderò quel brunettino"
Weber - Der Freischütz - "Wie nahte mir der Schlummer... Leise, leise, fromme Weise!"
Weber - Der Freischütz - "Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle"
Thomas - "Mignon" - "Kam ein armes Kind von fern"
Thomas - "Mignon" - "Dort bei ihm ist sie jetzt"
Lortzing - Der Wildschütz - "Auf des Lebens raschen Wogen"
Lortzing - Der Wildschütz - "Ihr Weib?" / "Mein teures Weib!"
R.Strauss - Der Rosekavalier - "Wie du warst! Wie du bist!"
R.Strauss - Der Rosekavalier - "Rofrano! Rofrano!" / "Er kommt, er kommt, in zwei Karossen"
R.Strauss - Der Rosekavalier - "Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren"
R.Strauss - Der Rosekavalier - "Nein, nein, nein, nein! I trik' kein Wein"

Irmgard Seefried - soprano
Wiener Symphoniker
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Sinfonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Festival Srtrings Lucerne
Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
Bamberger Symphoniker
Staatskapelle Dresden
Ferdinand Leitner - conductor
Karl Böhm - conductor
Ferenc Fricsay - conductor
Eugen Jochum - conductor
Rudolf Baumgartner - conductor
Jean Fournet - conductor
Christoph Stepp - conductor

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Wolfgang Schneiderhan - the 1950 concerto recordings

remembering Wolfgang Schneiderhan on his birthday

(May 28, 1915 – May 18, 2002)

CD 1:
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741):
The Four Seasons
Concerto in D minor for 2 Violins and Cello
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770):
Concerto for Violin D minor

CD 2:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
Concerto for Violin in A minor BWV 1041
Concerto for Violin in E major BWV 1042
Concerto fro 2 Violins BWV 1043
Partita for Violin Solo No.2 in D minor BWV 1004

CD 3:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
Violin Concerto in D major, op.61
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Violin Concerto No.5 in A major K 219

CD 4:
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847):
Concerto for Violin in E minor, op.64
Max Bruch (1838-1920):
Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, op.26
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Violin Concerto No.4 in D major K218

CD 5:
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
Violin Concerto in D major, op.77
Frank Martin (1890-1974):
Violin Concerto

Wolfgang Schneiderhan - violin
Rudolf Baumgartner - violin
Claude Stark - cello
Bamberger Symphoniker
Berliner Philharmoniker
Festival Srtrings Lucerne
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Wiener Symphoniker
Ernest Ansermet - conductor
Rudolf Baumgartner - conductor
Ferenc Fricsay - conductor
Paul van Kempen - conductor
Ferdinand Leitner - conductor
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt - conductor

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Mozart – Piano Concertos N.20 & N.13, Sonata KV 280 – Haskil, Fricsay, Baumgartner

remembering Clara Haskil on her birthday

(7 January 1895 - 7 December 1960)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K.466 *
Piano Concerto No.13 in C major, K.415 +
Piano Sonata in F major, K280
12 Variations in C major on "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman", K.265

Clara Haskil - piano
RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin *
Festival Srtrings Lucerne +
Ferenc Fricsay - conductor *
Rudolf Baumgartner - conductor +

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