Since you are interested in Amoureuse: Sacred and Profane Arias, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
BALFE / WALLACE / SULLIVAN / FARADAY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Power of Love - British Opera Arias Deborah Riedel (soprano) / Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra / Richard Bonynge [ Melba Recordings SACD / CD - released 20/Aug/2000 ] A beautiful recording of neglected British Opera arias... "Obviously this album is a work of great love and every attempt has been to do it right." |
GOUNOD / SAINT-SAENS / PONCHIELLI / CILEA / MASCAGNI / etc
Believe in Love: Rare French and Italian Opera Arias Elizabeth Whitehouse (soprano) / Orchestra Victoria / Richard Bonynge [ Melba Recordings SACD / SACD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] "Whitehouse ... makes a good case for these works ... Bonynge ... there is no one on earth more qualified to lead such a project. The sound is excellent with good depth ... The packaged presentation of the Australian label is a model of its kind."... |
WAGNER
Siegfried (complete opera) Gary Rideout / Richard Greager / John Brocheler / Lisa Gasteen / The State Opera of South Australia / Asher Fisch (Conductor) [ Melba Recordings SACD / 4 SACD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] "The overall sense of the project is one of deserved community and company pride in an enterprise which can stand its ground with pretty much anything elsewhere. I welcome the issue" (MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
John McCormack (tenor) with Nellie Melba, soprano / Mario Sammarco, baritone / Edna Thornton, contralto with various orchestras
John McCormack: Acoustic Recordings (1910-1911) [ Naxos Historical Naxos The McCormack Edition Vol 2 / CD - released 14/Apr/2005 ] Born in the small Irish town of Athlone on 14th June 1884, John McCormack seemed destined for a life in the civil service until he won the gold medal in a Dublin music festival in 1903. |
Nellie Melba (soprano) with Enrico Caruso, tenor, Charles Gilibert, baritone, Studio Orchestra / Walter B. Rogers, conductor
Nellie Melba: American Recordings, Vol. 1 (1907) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "A representative collection of Melba is more of a necessity than a luxury and admirers should have these 1907 sessions in their collection." (MusicWeb March 2005) |
Nellie Melba, soprano, with Harold Craxton, piano & Landon Ronald, piano
Nellie Melba: London and Middlesex Recordings (1921-1926) [ Naxos Great Singers / CD - released 2/Jul/2004 ] The Complete Gramophone Company Recordings, Vol. 4 |
W.A. MOZART
Sublime Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Clarinet Quintet Paul Dean (clarinet) / The Queensland Symphony Orchestra / Grainger Quartet [ Melba Recordings SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Apr/2009 ] 'In both works Paul Dean demonstrates his exemplary fluency and a stylish, marvellously phrased affinity for Mozart's classical demands. Moreover conductor Tourniaire appears to have the measure of the enduringly superlative score.' Music and Vision... |