Famous Opera Choruses
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Composer or Director: Carl Maria von Weber, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giuseppe Verdi, Pietro Mascagni, Umberto Giordano, Gaetano Donizetti, Richard Wagner
Label: EMI
Magazine Review Date: 12/1989
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 61
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 749849-2
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Fidelio, Movement: O, welche Lust! |
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
Alastair Miles, Bass Bernard Haitink, Conductor John Mark Ainsley, Tenor Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| (Les) Troyens, '(The) Trojans', Movement: Royal Hunt and Storm |
Hector Berlioz, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Hector Berlioz, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Carmen, Movement: Les voici! |
Georges Bizet, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Georges Bizet, Composer Haberdashers' Aske's School Choir Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Lucia di Lammermoor, '(The) Bride of Lammermoor', Movement: ~ |
Gaetano Donizetti, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Gaetano Donizetti, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Lucia di Lammermoor, '(The) Bride of Lammermoor', Movement: D'immenso giubilo |
Gaetano Donizetti, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Gaetano Donizetti, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Andrea Chénier, Movement: O Pastorelle |
Umberto Giordano, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Umberto Giordano, Composer |
| Cavalleria rusticana, Movement: ~ |
Pietro Mascagni, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Helen Field, Soprano Pietro Mascagni, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Aida, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Nabucco, Movement: Va pensiero, sull'ali dorata |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Otello, Movement: Fuoco di gioia! |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| (Il) trovatore, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Lohengrin, Movement: Treulich geführt (Wedding March) |
Richard Wagner, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Richard Wagner, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| (Der) Freischütz, Movement: Was gleicht wohl auf Erden (Huntsmen's Chorus) |
Carl Maria von Weber, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Carl Maria von Weber, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
Composer or Director: Carl Maria von Weber, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giuseppe Verdi, Pietro Mascagni, Umberto Giordano, Gaetano Donizetti, Richard Wagner
Label: EMI
Magazine Review Date: 12/1989
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: EL749849-4
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Fidelio, Movement: O, welche Lust! |
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
Alastair Miles, Bass Bernard Haitink, Conductor John Mark Ainsley, Tenor Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| (Les) Troyens, '(The) Trojans', Movement: Royal Hunt and Storm |
Hector Berlioz, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Hector Berlioz, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Carmen, Movement: Les voici! |
Georges Bizet, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Georges Bizet, Composer Haberdashers' Aske's School Choir Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Lucia di Lammermoor, '(The) Bride of Lammermoor', Movement: ~ |
Gaetano Donizetti, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Gaetano Donizetti, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Lucia di Lammermoor, '(The) Bride of Lammermoor', Movement: D'immenso giubilo |
Gaetano Donizetti, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Gaetano Donizetti, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Andrea Chénier, Movement: O Pastorelle |
Umberto Giordano, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Umberto Giordano, Composer |
| Cavalleria rusticana, Movement: ~ |
Pietro Mascagni, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Helen Field, Soprano Pietro Mascagni, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Aida, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Nabucco, Movement: Va pensiero, sull'ali dorata |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Otello, Movement: Fuoco di gioia! |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| (Il) trovatore, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Lohengrin, Movement: Treulich geführt (Wedding March) |
Richard Wagner, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Richard Wagner, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| (Der) Freischütz, Movement: Was gleicht wohl auf Erden (Huntsmen's Chorus) |
Carl Maria von Weber, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Carl Maria von Weber, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
Composer or Director: Carl Maria von Weber, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giuseppe Verdi, Pietro Mascagni, Umberto Giordano, Gaetano Donizetti, Richard Wagner
Label: EMI
Magazine Review Date: 12/1989
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: EL749849-1
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Fidelio, Movement: O, welche Lust! |
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
Alastair Miles, Bass Bernard Haitink, Conductor John Mark Ainsley, Tenor Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| (Les) Troyens, '(The) Trojans', Movement: Royal Hunt and Storm |
Hector Berlioz, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Hector Berlioz, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Carmen, Movement: Les voici! |
Georges Bizet, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Georges Bizet, Composer Haberdashers' Aske's School Choir Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Lucia di Lammermoor, '(The) Bride of Lammermoor', Movement: ~ |
Gaetano Donizetti, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Gaetano Donizetti, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Lucia di Lammermoor, '(The) Bride of Lammermoor', Movement: D'immenso giubilo |
Gaetano Donizetti, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Gaetano Donizetti, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Andrea Chénier, Movement: O Pastorelle |
Umberto Giordano, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Umberto Giordano, Composer |
| Cavalleria rusticana, Movement: ~ |
Pietro Mascagni, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Helen Field, Soprano Pietro Mascagni, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Aida, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Nabucco, Movement: Va pensiero, sull'ali dorata |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Otello, Movement: Fuoco di gioia! |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| (Il) trovatore, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| Lohengrin, Movement: Treulich geführt (Wedding March) |
Richard Wagner, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Richard Wagner, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
| (Der) Freischütz, Movement: Was gleicht wohl auf Erden (Huntsmen's Chorus) |
Carl Maria von Weber, Composer
Bernard Haitink, Conductor Carl Maria von Weber, Composer Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
Author:
This could prove a popular record, and I hope it does for it is a good ambassador and will make friends for opera. I suppose, yes, it's a car-radio record, one for doing the washing-up to. But, except for people with particularly lofty principles about excerpts or with a feeling that such things are really rather infra dig., the selection is likely to give wide and keen pleasure. For readers who do not manage to get to the opera very often it provides at the least some of the best of your 'hundred best tunes', and at most a moving reminder of the masterpiece in which these choruses have their place. For those who have been regular visitors to Covent Garden over the last ten, 20 years, the record will evoke many memories. Zefflrelli's beautiful staging of Lucia di Lammermoor and Cavalleria rusticana, the firelight on the faces in Act 1 of the old Otello production, the crowd gathering outside the bull ring in the last act of Carmen, with all its colour and expectancy: it's like turning over the pages of a picture-book as the scenes and the evenings come vividly to mind.
The chorus and orchestra are in fine form. Predsion and responsiveness distinguish their work throughout, and the chorus (as recorded here) are further distinguished among their rivals by having no evident wobblers in their ranks. It is also good to hear the Haberdashers' boys sing out boldly in Carmen. As usual, balance favours the orchestra. Huntsmen in Der Freischutz, prisoners in Fidelio, might almost (not quite, perhaps) be singing offstage, and while the orchestra play on the near bank, the chorus-sing from the other side of the Euphrates in Nabucco. Haitink conducts lively sensitive performances, sometimes failing to cap the excitement at the very end. The lovely Pastoral from Andrea Chenier sighs with delicious grace, and in the climax of the Easter Hymn the tempo broadens generously to let the invincible melody have its sway.'
The chorus and orchestra are in fine form. Predsion and responsiveness distinguish their work throughout, and the chorus (as recorded here) are further distinguished among their rivals by having no evident wobblers in their ranks. It is also good to hear the Haberdashers' boys sing out boldly in Carmen. As usual, balance favours the orchestra. Huntsmen in Der Freischutz, prisoners in Fidelio, might almost (not quite, perhaps) be singing offstage, and while the orchestra play on the near bank, the chorus-sing from the other side of the Euphrates in Nabucco. Haitink conducts lively sensitive performances, sometimes failing to cap the excitement at the very end. The lovely Pastoral from Andrea Chenier sighs with delicious grace, and in the climax of the Easter Hymn the tempo broadens generously to let the invincible melody have its sway.'
Famous Opera Choruses
Famous Opera Choruses
Famous Opera Choruses
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