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Cat. No.: 477 7471 |
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Bryn Terfel, baritone
TRACK LISTING Carrickfergus Following the success of his previous popular albums Favourites and Simple Gifts, Bryn Terfel turns his attention to the folk songs of the British Isles. The Album features multi-platinum selling Irish pop-star Ronan Keating, teaming up with Bryn in the famous classic tune Danny Boy. Further well-loved favourites include the Irish My Lagan Love, English traditional Scarborough Fair and other favourites such as The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, all famous around the world and richly orchestrated for Bryn by Chris Hazell. Next to Ronan Keating the featured guest musicians include Sharon Corr from Irish pop-band The Corrs and upward-coming English soprano Kate Royal Bryn’s previous popular albums have been extraordinarily successful, together selling almost 850,000 copies worldwide and becoming best-sellers in the UK, USA and Australia. Bryn’s foray into British song will coincide with a BBC documentary series in which he explores the beautiful countryside of his native Wales. |
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Cat. No.: 176 5304 |
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Lee Ritenour
TRACK LISTING 1. Dave Grusin arr. Dave Grusin Three Latin Dances
A romantic and rhythmic mix of timeless melodies from Classical and South American music. This is the second album that pianist/composer Dave Grusin and guitarist/producer Lee Ritenour have released together. The first album 'Two Worlds' has sold over 100k. It is a collection of love songs and dances with special guests including James Taylor, Joshua Bell, Renée Fleming and Chris Botti. Both Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour are well known and lauded critically and commercially beyond the jazz world.
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Cat. No.: 478 0473 |
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Erwin Schrott, bass-baritone
TRACK LISTING 1 MOZART: "Madamina, il catalogo e questo" from Don Giovanni (Leporello)
Uruguayan bass-baritone, Erwin Schrott, joins Decca with a deliciously charismatic, seductive and witty debut album. This album showcases his portrayals of some of opera's most famous roles, and which have wowed both audiences and critics across the world's greatest opera houses. Erwin Schrott has astonished audiences and critics across Europe, the US and South America with his sensuous, dark bass-baritone and onstage magnetism. This album shows off Erwin at his best, singing the wide range of roles that have made him famous. His charismatic portrayals have won him global acclaim, and for the Mozart roles in particular he is now first choice at the world's greatest opera houses, including the Met, La Scala, the Royal Opera House and Vienna's Staatsoper. Schrott's debut disc is the perfect disc to showcase his distinctive, chocolaty voice and his wonderful talents for characterisation. Amongst the arias are his favourite Mozart roles as well as repertoire from the great 19th-century opera composers such as Verdi, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, and Gounod. |
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Cat. No.: 478 0254 |
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Rodolfo: Luciano Pavarotti
TRACK LISTING PUCCINI: La bohème Mark the Puccini 150th anniversary in style! BONUS CD |
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Cat. No.: 476 6888 |
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Alesa Lajana guitar
TRACK LISTING Ceol Si/Banish Misfortune/The Twins In this new release on the Atmospheres sub-label, ABC Classics presents the magical guitar playing of Alesa Lajana. On this new album she combines original compositions with the traditional music of Ireland and Scotland, celebrating the wild, untamable Celtic spirit in music of breathtaking beauty. |
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Cat. No.: 476 6904 |
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Australian String Quartet
TRACK LISTING DEBUSSY: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 For its exciting debut CD on ABC Classics, the multi-award-winning Australian String Quartet turns its talents to the breathtaking beauty of Debussy and Ravel. Two sparkling gems of the quartet repertoire, full of French sophistication and elegance, performed with loving affection and exuberance by the nation’s top young chamber musicians. |
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Cat. No.: 476 6905 |
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Yvonne Kenny
TRACK LISTING J. STRAUSS II Entrance of the Countess from The Spirit of Vienna The glittering ballrooms of Vienna come alive in this swirling, vibrantly-coloured new album from Yvonne Kenny. In a blaze of gypsy fire, Australia's premier soprano teams up with conducting legend Richard Bonynge in operetta's greatest hits. From The Merry Widow to The Gypsy Princess to The White Horse Inn, this is a lavishly-produced feast for the ears filled with the romance, passion and sparkling humour of Vienna, city of dreams and delights. |
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Cat. No.: 480 1379 |
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Various
TRACK LISTING J. STRAUSS II: Alfred and Adele’s duet (Die Fledermaus) Anni Frind soprano, Marcel Wittrisch tenor BENEDICT: The Carnival of Venice Mado Robin soprano R. STRAUSS: Herr Kavalier (Der Rosenkavalier) Else Ruziczka mezzo-soprano, Alexander Kipnis bass BIZET: Flower Song (Carmen) Albert Lance tenor MASCAGNI: Easter Hymn (Cavalleria rusticana) Jeanne Dusseau soprano VERDI: Act I Quartet (Rigoletto) Amelita Galli-Curci soprano, Louise Homer mezzo-soprano, Beniamino Gigli tenor, Giuseppe de Luca baritone PUCCINI: Act II Duet (Le Villi) Renata Scotto soprano, Placido Domingo tenor PUCCINI: Ernani involami (Ernani) Rosa Ponselle soprano LERNER & LOEWE: There But For You Go I (Brigadoon) David Brooks baritone LERNER & LOEWE: I Talk to the Trees (Paint Your Wagon) Ken Cantril baritone, Sally Ann Howes soprano ALLEGRI: Miserere (excerpt) Roy Goodman treble, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge THOMAS: Mad Scene (Hamlet) Glenda Raymond soprano BOÏTO: Three arias from Mefistofele Mirella Freni soprano, Luciano Pavarotti tenor, Nicolai Ghiaurov bass-baritone KORNGOLD: Mariettalied (Die tote Stadt) Lotte Lehmann soprano, Richard Tauber tenor GERSHWIN: Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Porgy and Bess) Helen Jepson soprano, Lawrence Tibbett baritone BERNSTEIN: It Must Be So (Candide) Robert Rounseville tenor BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival Overture Sydney Symphony Orchestra MASCAGNI: Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana) West Australian Symphony Orchestra, David Measham conductor THE BEATLES arr. Lanchbery: The Fool on the Hill (Yesterday’s Concerto) Isador Goodman piano, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, John Lanchbery conductor KHACHATURIAN: Waltz (Masquerade) Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Thomas conductor DELIBES: Flower Duet (Lakmé) Glenys Fowles soprano, Heather Begg mezzo-soprano R. STRAUSS: Intermezzo (Le Bourgeois gentilhomme) NATHAN: Overture (Don John of Austria) FAURÉ: Pavane HAYDN: First movement (Trumpet Concerto) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: March of the Kitchen Utensils (The Wasps) HILL: Gloria in excelsis (Symphony No. 2 ‘Joy of Life’) BEETHOVEN: Theme to Music for Pleasure – Rondo for Piano and Orchestra, Op. Posth.
For over 40 years, listeners around Australia have tuned in week after week to the sheer audio pleasure of John Cargher’s Singers of Renown. The finest voices, the soaring melodies, plus Cargher’s unique insights into the lives of the great performers all combine to create one of the most popular Australian radio programs of all time. To honour the passing of this dearly loved personality, ABC Classics is proud to present two complete programs of Singers of Renown, and highlights from Music for Pleasure, with bonus tracks from Cargher’s personal collection of historic 78rpms and LPs. |
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Cat. No.: 476 6907 |
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The Raga Dolls Salon Orchestra
TRACK LISTING Afternoon Visitors
Inspired by the pioneering paintings of Frederick McCubbin and Arthur Streeton, the Raga Dolls Salon Orchestra creates in music a vision of turn-of-the-century Australia. Impressions from the Victorian goldfields, a family vineyard, bush picnics and bustling St Kilda, with reminiscences from the Great War, recall the lives and loves of the men and women who shaped the new nation. |
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Cat. No.: 476 6906 |
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CHOIR OF TRINITY COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne
TRACK LISTING VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne, is renowned for its fine singing of music from the Anglican Cathedral tradition. This disc features the luminous beauty of some of Vaughan Williams’ best-loved anthems, as well as his wonderful Mass in G minor. Also included is the world premiere recording of Five Mystical Songs in the version with piano quintet accompaniment and chorus. |
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Cat. No.: 177 9468 Cat. No.: 178 4919 [DELUXE] |
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André Rieu
TRACK LISTING CD 1
CD 2 André’s biggest musical spectacular – his Schönbrunn concert – will be emblazoned across Australia for his November/December tour. The DVD is his best selling to date – nearly 10 x Platinum. Now, for the first time, we release the 2CD audio version of this concert. Note, these are studio recordings of the DVD, so they are new performances and without the coughing, spluttering and general audience carry-on, so perfect for audio listening. Two versions will simultaneously be released – one “regular”, the other “deluxe”, featuring several additional photos from Schönbrunn and gorgeously packaged in a digipack. The title will be TV-advertised. |
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Cat. No.: 478 0647 |
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Renée Fleming
TRACK LISTING RICHARD STRAUSS: THE BEST-SELLING DECCA CLASSICAL VOCALIST IN AUSTRALIA Renée Fleming and Christian Thielemann, today's foremost interpreters of Richard Strauss, in a brand new recording of the Four Last Songs, plus other arias and songs by R. Strauss. Renée Fleming, the world's leading lyric soprano, records the exquisitely beautiful Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss in a brand new recording. Fleming recorded these songs once before, ten years ago before she had ever sung them live. Since then, these enduringly popular showcases for the soprano voice have become signature pieces for Fleming and a regular and much-loved part of her concert repertoire. With years of experience of live performances behind her, Fleming is ready now to revisit these works, bringing more insight, fresh interpretations and greater maturity. She is conducted by Christian Thielemann, a renowned interpreter of Strauss, with the Münchner Philharmoniker. The disc also includes other Strauss scenes from his operas Ariadne auf Naxos and Die Agyptische Helena as well as Richard Strauss's songs Freundliche Vision, Verfuehrung, Winterweihe and Zueignung, several of which Fleming has sung live to critical acclaim. |
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Cat. No.: 477 7450 |
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Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin and conductor; Trondheim Soloists [BACH]
TRACK LISTING BACH: Concerto for Violin, Strings and Continuo in A minor, BWV 1041 Anne-Sophie Mutter's first Bach recording for DG couples his Concertos BWV 1041 and BWV 1042 with the world-premiere recording of the Concerto commissioned by her from Sofia Gubaidulina, the Russian composer who regards Bach as her greatest source of inspiration. Mutter gave the premiere performance of Gubaidulina's Concerto at the 2007 Lucerne Festival and will record the work with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev at the beginning of 2008. For the Bach Concertos Mutter reunites with the Trondheim Soloists, with whom she recorded the Vivaldi Four Seasons album that has sold more than 350,000 units. The combination of Bach and Gubaidulina will appeal to lovers of Bach and instrumental music in general as well as to listeners interested in discovering something new. It also offers a unique marketing angle for the specialist music press as a follow-up to Mutter’s 2006 Mozart project. A TV documentary which explains the process of this creation has been made. It features interviews with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Sofia Gubaidulina, footage of the rehearsals and of the world premiere in Lucerne. The TV production is a co production of Pars media, Swiss T'V and ZDF, in collaboration with Arte, NRK, RTV, Sky arts, VRT and YLE. |
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Cat. No.: 477 6665 |
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Magdalena Kozená, mezzo-soprano
TRACK LISTING TRADITIONAL: Kebych bola jahodú
Magdalena Kozená, one of the most acclaimed recitalists of today, presents a personal collection of songs she has known since childhood and that form some of her earliest musical influences. A haunting collection of songs by Czech composers such as Dvorák, Janácek, Martin?, Schulhoff and Eben, all deeply rooted in the rich Czech folk song tradition. Like Magdalena explains in the press/booklet text about the songs on the album: “They are just the sort a mother would sing to her baby. My mother is not a professional singer, but she loved to sing and knew a lot of songs! There is a particular tradition of singing to children in our country, much stronger, I would say, than one sees any more in the West. It was really important that in each family these songs would be handed down, taught to the children.” Kozená’s musical partners on the album include her long-standing recital partner Malcolm Martineau, and soprano Dorothea Röschmann, who joins her in Dvorák’s Moravian duets. Magdalena Kozená’s most personal album so far, exploring the richness of her cultural background and her own musical memories. |
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