[ Decca Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 20 October 2008
A Christmas evening with the greatest of sopranos including Barbara Bonney, Renee Fleming, Leontyne Price & Joan Sutherland.
Adam:
O Holy Night
(Leontyne Price, soprano)
Bach, J S:
Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben': Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
(Renée Fleming)
Brahms:
Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4 (Lullaby)
(Angela Gheorghiu)
Fauré:
Requiem: Pie Jesu
(Kiri Te Kanawa)
Grüber, F:
Silent Night
(Renata Tebaldi)
Handel:
Messiah: I know that my Redeemer liveth
(Sylvia McNair)
Let the bright seraphim (from Samson)
(Kiri Te Kanawa)
Mascagni:
Ave Maria (arranged from Intermezzo sinfonico from Cavalleria Rusticana)
(Angela Gheorghiu)
Mendelssohn:
Hark! the herald angels sing
(Leontyne Price)
Mozart:
Laudate Dominum from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K339
(Barbara Bonney)
Exsultate, jubilate, K165 - Alleluia
(Sylvia McNair)
Schubert:
Ave Maria, D839
(Renée Fleming)
trad.:
Good King Wenceslas
(Dame Joan Sutherland)
It came upon the midnight clear
(Dame Joan Sutherland)
Verdi:
Ave Maria (from Otello)
(Mirella Freni)
Wade:
O come, all ye faithful
(Renata Tebaldi)