The Time-Life Library of Classical Favorites: Choral Classics II
Robert Shaw · Georg Solti · Neville Marriner · John McCarthy · Charles Mackerras · Herbert von Karajan · James Levine · John Eliot Gardiner · Jörg-Peter Weigle · Riccardo Muti
The Time-Life Library of Classical Favorites: Choral Classics II (1998), CD, on Time–Life Music. Music by Giuseppe Verdi, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Robert Shaw, Georg Solti, Neville Marriner, John McCarthy; 32 tracks.
Composers
Tracklist
Disc 1
Don Pasquale: “Que interminabile andirivieni!” (Servants' Chorus)
Gaetano Donizetti - Don Pasquale: Atto III. “Che interminabile andirivieni” (Coro di Servi)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: „Wach'auf!”
Richard Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96: Akt III, Scene V. "Sankt Krispin, lobet ihn!"
Mass in C Minor, K.427 (“Great“): Gloria: Qui tollis
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Missa in c-Moll, K.427/417a ('Große Messe'): IIe. Gloria: “Qui tollis”
Christ on the Mount of Olives: Hallelujah
Ludwig van Beethoven - Christ on the Mount of Olives: Hallelujah
Otello: “Fuoco di gioia“ (Bonfire Chorus)
Giuseppe Verdi - Otello: Atto I, scena 1. Coro “Fuoco di gioia …” (Ciprioti)
Cavalleria rusticana: “Regina Coeli“ (Easter Hymn)
Pietro Mascagni - Cavalleria rusticana: “Regina coeli laetare” (Coro)
Boris Godunov: “Zhivi i zdravstvui“(Coronation Scene)
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov: Prologue. "I am sick at heart" (Coronation Scene)
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: “O sacred head sore wounded”
Johann Sebastian Bach - Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244: Teil II, LIV. Choral "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden"
Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus
Dido and Aeneas: “With Drooping Wings”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 38. “With drooping wings” (Chorus)
Fidelio: „O welche Lust!” (Prisoners’ Chorus)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Fidelio, op. 72: Act I, Scene II, no. 10a. Prisoner’s Chorus „O welche Lust, in freier Luft“ (Chor, 1st Prisoner, 2nd Prisoner)
Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite no. 2, op. 55
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Ambrosian Singers
The Magic Flute, K.620: „O Isis und Osiris, welche Wonne!” (Priests’ Chorus)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Die Zauberflöte: Akt II. No. 18 Chor der Priester „O Isis und Osiris, welche Wonne!” (Priester)
Disc 2
George Frideric Handel - Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene I. Chorus "From the censer" (Chorus)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Vespers, Op. 37: “Having Seen the Resurrection of the Lord“
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Всенощное бдение, op. 37: 10. Воскресение Христово видевше
Don Carlo: Atto II, scena 2. N°5 “Spuntato ecco il dì d’esultanza”
Giuseppe Verdi - Don Carlo: Atto II, scena 2. N°5 “Spuntato ecco il dì d’esultanza” (coro)
The Flying Dutchman: Spinning Chorus (excerpt)
Richard Wagner - Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63: Akt II, Nr. 4. Lied, Scene, Ballade und Chor "Summ und brumm, du gutes Rädchen" … "Jo ho hoe, traft ihr das Schiff"
Herbert von Karajan, Walter Hagen-Groll, Berlin Philharmonic
Missa Solemnis D-Dur, op. 123: II. Gloria (excerpt)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: “Ye spotted snakes“
Felix Mendelssohn - Ein Sommernachtstraum, op. 61: 3. Lied mit Chor "Bunte Schlangen". Allegro ma non troppo
Stabat Mater: In sempiterna saecula
Gioachino Rossini - Stabat Mater
Riccardo Muti, Roberto Gabbiani, Stabile Orchestrale Fiorentina
L’enfance du Christ: The Shepherds’ Farewell
Hector Berlioz - L'Enfance du Christ, op. 25 : Deuxième partie no. 8. Adieu des bergers à la sainte famille « Il s'en va loin de la terre » (Les bergers)
A German Requiem, Op.45: “How lovely are thy dwelling places“ (Fourth Movement)
Rigoletto: “Zitti, Zitti“ (Consplrators’ Chorus)
Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto: Atto I, scena 2. Coro “Zitti, zitti, moviamo a vendetta” (Coro)
Mass No.ll in D Minor: Missa in angustiis (“Lord Nelson Mass“): Kyrie
Joseph Haydn - Missa angustiis, Hob. XXII:11 "Nelsonmesse"
Jörg-Peter Weigle, Neville Marriner, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Mass No.6 in E Flat major, D.950: Gloria (excerpt)
Tannhäuser: „Freudig begrüssen wir” (Entrance of the Guests)
Richard Wagner - Excerpt from Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, WWV 70: Aufzug II, Scene IV. Festmarsch
Vincenzo Bellini - Norma: Atto II, scena 3. “Guerra! Guerra!” (Coro, Oroveso, Norma)
James Levine, John McCarthy, National Philharmonic Orchestra