Since you are interested in Cosi fan Tutte (Complete opera recorded in 1994), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: The Complete Songs [6 CDs special price] Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano), Roger Vignoles, Ilmo Ranta & Love Derwinger (piano) [ BIS / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2010 ] 'Something of a landmark in the Grieg discography… Monica Groop penetrates the very essence of the Grieg spirit with the artlessness that conceals art', wrote International Record Review |
BIZET
Les Pêcheurs de Perles [The Pearl Fishers] Desirée Rancatore, Celso Albelo, Alastair Miles / Orchestra Filarmonica Salernitana 'Giuseppe Verdi', Daniel Oren [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] Parisian composer Georges Bizet was enrolled in the Consevatoire at the age of nine and won a premier prix in solfège within six months of his arrival. |
HUMPERDINCK
Hansel und Gretel (complete opera) Gisela Litz, Rita Streich, Res Fischer / Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Munchner Philharmoniker, Fritz Lehmann [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "The casting of a mezzo-soprano, as Humperdinck intended, rather than a soprano in the part of Hansel, means that there is more differentiation of voice here than in the Columbia (Karajan) disc…Rita Streich is very well cast as Gretel….That admirable... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Complete opera recorded in 1964) Jess Thomas / Ingrid Bjoner / Dietrich Fischer Dieskau / Inge Borkh / Bavarian State Opera Orchestra and Chorus / Joseph Keilberth [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2009 ] 'This is an historical document of some importance in the recorded history of this piece … Inge Borkh's utter commitment to the part of the Dyer's wife … probably remains unsurpassed.' Gramophone |
DONIZETTI
Lucia di Lammermoor (Complete opera) [Recorded 1953] Maria Callas / Giuseppe Di Stefano / Tito Gobbi / Raffaele Arie / Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Tullio Serafin [ EMI Classics / Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] 'Here is certainly some of the finest singing of our time, and there is one moment in the repeat of Spargi d'amaro when the voice is recorded with all the actuality of 3-dimensional sound. It is startling.' Gramophone 1954 |
HINDEMITH
Das Marienleben (1948 version) Soile Isokoski (soprano) Marita Viitasalo (piano) [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "…the cycle's angular vocal lines… are powerfully compelling when sung with such smoothness of phrase as Isokoski supplies here. Her strong sense of story-telling matches the pictorialism of the piano part, magnificently played by Marita Viitasalo."... |
W.A. MOZART
Die Zauberflote [The Magic Flute] (complete opera recorded in 2004) Suzie LeBlanc, Christoph Genz, Stephan Genz, Cornelius Hauptmann, Isolde Siebert / La Petite Bande / Sigiswald Kuijken [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD Box Set - released 11/Sep/2011 ] The cast is highly recognisable from many other fine productions of Baroque and early music, including Suzie LeBlanc (Pamina); Cornelius Hauptmann (Tamino); Stephan Genz (Papageno) and Isolde Siebert (Queen of Night). |