SCHNEITZHOEFFER
La Sylphide (complete ballet recorded in 2004) Aurélie Dupont / Mathieu Ganio / Mélanie Hurel / Le Corps De Ballet And Opéra National De Paris / Ermanno Fl [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 12/May/2011 ] Arthaus presents Pierre Lacotte's landmark reconstruction of the Romantic Ballet La Sylphide, long regarded as a classic in its own right. |
JOHN RUTTER
Rutter: A Christmas Festival The Cambridge Singers / Directed by John Rutter with Melanie Marshall, Clara Sanabras & Elin Manahan Thomas [ Collegium / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] No living composer has come to be more closely associated with Christmas than John Rutter: for more than thirty years, his carols and other seasonal choral music have been an indispensable feature of Christmas celebrations worldwide. |
SCHOENBERG
Complete Songs Claudia Barainsky & Melanie Diener (sopranos) Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Christa Mayer (contralto) Konrad Jarnot (baritone) Markus Schäfer (tenor) [ Capriccio / 4 CD Box Set - released 2/Nov/2012 ] |
IGOR BORODIN
Borodin: Prince Igor (complete opera recorded in 1955) Dragomir Ninkovich, Biserka Cvejic, Melanie Bugarinovich, Dragutin Petrovich, Dushan Popovich / Belgrade National Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Oskar Dano [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 3 CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] "Popović strikes me as an excellent baritone, a muscular sound with ringing top notes. His is one of the best Prince Igors on disc - heroic and noble...Bugarinović has a dark, almost contralto-ish tone and no Slavic wobble" Gramophone Editor's Choice |
HANDEL
Messiah (highlights) Joanne Lunn, Melanie Marshall, James Gilchrist, Christopher Purves / Cambridge Singers / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 23/Nov/2007 ] John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first... |
HANDEL
Messiah (complete) Joanne Lunn, Melanie Marshall, James Gilchrist, Christopher Purves / Cambridge Singers / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / John Rutter [ Collegium / 2 CD - released 29/Nov/2007 ] John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first... |
Melanie
The Four Sides Of [ 2 CD - released 2/Jul/2011 ] |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor Op.125 'Choral' Melanie Diener / Petra Lang / Endrik Wottrich / Dietrich Henschel / Collegium Vocale / Orchestre des Champs Alysees / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] his title was released for the first time in 1999 and was one of the first to use Jonathan del Mar's edition in which textual errors and ambiguities are corrected. |
SCHOENBERG
Gurre-Lieder Melanie Diener (soprano) Ernst Haefliger (narrator) Martyn Hill (tenor) Jennifer Lane (mezzo) Stephen O'Mara (tenor) / Simon Joly Chorale Philharmonia [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 1 / 2 CD - released 28/Dec/2004 ] "This is not only recommended but a bit of a bargain as well." -- Bruce Hodges, MusicWeb |
REINHARD KEISER
Pomona Melanie Hirsch, Doerthe Maria Sandmann, Olivia Vermeulen, Magdalene Harer / Capella Orlandi Bremen, Thomas Ihlenfeldt [ CPO / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2014 ] Reinhard Keiser is regarded as one of the most important German opera composers of the baroque era, and his Pomona forms the ideal introduction to the world of the German-language baroque opera. A few deities come together to participate in a... |
JOHN RUTTER
Feel The Spirit & Birthday Madrigals Melanie Marshall (mezzo-soprano) / Cambridge Singers / BBC Concert Orchestra, Malcolm Creese, Wayne Marshall [ Collegium / CD - released 9/Nov/2001 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (Oct 2001) |
Melanie Martinez
K-12 (LP) [ Atlantic / Warner / LP - released 6/Sep/2019 ] As with her debut album Cry Baby, K-12's music is a vibrant and singular melting pot of low-key hip-hop, soulful pop and indie-leaning electro. K-12's universe is an expansion of the one introduced in Cry Baby. Using lyrics rich with metaphor, songs... |
Melanie Pain
Bye Bye Manchester [ Cartell / CD - released 25/Jan/2013 ] The lead singer of Nouvelle Vague who seduced millions with her breathy vocals returns with a second album of personal pop and electro-acoustic goodies. |
Melanie Pain
My Name [ Cartell Music / CD - released 4/May/2009 ] Melanie is best known as the lead singer of the French band Nouvelle Vague who seduced millions around the world with her breathy renditions of 80s pop. Now the talented chanteuse turns her musical charms to a solo career with her impressive debut album. |
MERULA
Merula: Musica Sacra; Melanie Remaud, Antonella Gianese, Martha Fumagalli, Paolo Borgonovo, Salvo Vitale, Il Demetri, Maurizio Schiavo [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2017 ] |
FRANZ LISZT
Die Legende von der Heiligen Elisabeth (complete Oratorio) Renatus Mészár, Dagmar Peckova, Mario Hoff, Melanie Diener & Alexander Guenther / Staatskapelle Weima, Carl St. Clair [ CPO / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2012 ] The Legend of St. Elizabeth, begun in Weimar in 1857, completed in Rome in 1862, and premiered in Budapest in 1865, is certainly one of Lizst's key works. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Paulus Op. 36 (complete oratorio) Melanie Diener, Annette Markert, James Taylor, Matthias Goerne / La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi HMHeritage / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] "Like all Herreweghe's performances of choral works, this one has a welcome unity of purpose in a reading notable for finely moulded choral singing and sensitively executed orchestral playing, all controlled by the conductor's disciplined yet flexibl |