Opera and Concert Overtures Collection
Featured Composers: Adolphe Adam, Adriën François Boieldieu, Aimé Maillart, Alexander Alyabyev, André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Antonio Salieri, Charles Lecocq, Christoph(er) Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, Domenico Cimarosa, Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, Ferdinand Hérold, François-Joseph Gossec, Franz Berwald, Friedrich Ernst Fesca, Friedrich Gernsheim, Friedrich Kuhlau, Gaetano Donizetti, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Georg Philipp Telemann, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Sarti, Giuseppe Verdi, Henry Purcell, Herman Severin Løvenskiold, Ivar Hallström, Jacob Adolf Hägg, Jacopo Foroni, Jacques Offenbach, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Adolph Scheibe, Johann Christian Bach, Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, Joseph Haydn, Jules Massenet, Justin Heinrich Knecht, Léo Delibes, Leopold Kozeluch, Leonardo Vinci, Louis Spohr, Louise Farrenc, Luigi Cherubini, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Marcos Portugal, Michael Haydn, Muzio Clementi, Niccolò Piccinni, Peter von Winter, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Robert Planquette, Thomas Arne, Tommaso Traetta, Vasily Kalinnikov, William Henry Fry, William Vincent Wallace
Playlist:
1. Jacob Adolf Hägg
Work: Concert Ouverture No.2 in C-minor, Op.26
Orchestra: Gävleborgs Symfoniorkester
Conductor: Mats Liljefors
2. Jacob Adolf Hägg
Work: Concert Ouverture No.1 in D-major, Op.28
Orchestra: Gävleborgs Symfoniorkester
Conductor: Mats Liljefors
3. Jacopo Foroni
Work: Ouverture No.3 in A-major
Orchestra: St. Petersburg Hermitage Orchestra
Conductor: Stig Westerberg
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| Franz Berwald (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Work: Modehandlerskan, operetta in three acts, first performance 26 march 1846, Royal Opera house, Stockholm.
Libretto: Franz Berwald
Orchestra: St. Petersburg Hermitage Orchestra
Conductor: Mats Liljefors
5. Franz Berwald
Work: Jag går i kloster, operetta in two acts, first performance 2 December 1843, Royal Opera house, Stockholm.
Libretto: Franz Berwald
Orchestra: Kungliga Hovkapellet
Conductor: Stig Westerberg
6. Franz Berwald
Work: Drottningen av Golconda, opera in three acts, first performance 3 April 1968, Royal Opera house, Stockholm.
Libretto: Franz Berwald and Ludvig Josephson, after Jean-Baptiste-Charles Vial and Edmond-Guillaume-François de Favière
Orchestra: Malmö Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Niklas Willén
7. Franz Berwald
Work: Estrella de Soria, opera in three acts, first performance 9 April 1862, Royal Opera house, Stockholm.
Libretto: Otto Prechtler translated into swedish by Ernst Wallmark.
Orchestra: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester
Conductor: Okko Kamu
8. Franz Berwald
Work: Estrella de Soria, opera in three acts, first performance 9 April 1862, Royal Opera house, Stockholm.
Libretto: Otto Prechtler translated into swedish by Ernst Wallmark.
Orchestra: Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Stig Westerberg
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| Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner 1759-1833 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Work: Electra, tragedie lyrique in three acts, first performance 22 July 1787, Drottningholm
Libretto: Adolf Frederik Ristell, after Nicolas-François Guillard and Sophocles
Orchestra: Drottningholms Baroque Ensemble
Conductor: Thomas Schuback
10. Friedrich Ernst Fesca
Work: Cantemire, large opera in two acts, first performance 1820, Karlsruhe.
Libretto: Alexander von Dusch
Orchestra: NDR Radiophilharmonie
Conductor: Frank Beermann
11. Herman Severin Løvenskiold
Work: La Sylphide, ballet in two acts, first performance 28 November 1836, Royal Opera House, Copenhagen.
Choreographed by August Bournonville
Orchestra: The Danish Radio Sinfonietta
Conductor: Harry Damgaard
12. Herman Severin Løvenskiold
Work: La Sylphide, ballet in two acts, first performance 28 November 1836, Royal Opera House, Copenhagen.
Choreographed by August Bournonville
Orchestra: Royal Danish Orchestra
Conductor: David Garforth
13. Johann Gottlieb Naumann
Work: Gustaf Wasa, tragedie lyrique in three acts, first performance 19 January 1786, Royal Opera House, Stockholm.
Libretto: Johan Henric Kellgren after Gustaf III.
Orchestra: Dresdner Instrumental-Concert
Conductor: Peter Kopp
14. Henry Purcell
Work: The Fairy-Queen
Orchestra: The English Baroque Soloists
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
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| François-Adrien Boieldieu |
15. Adriën François Boieldieu (Adrien Boieldieu)
Work: Zoraïme et Zulnar, opéra comique in three acts, first performance 10 May 1798, OC Favart, Paris.
Libretto: Saint Just
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
16. Friedrich Kuhlau
Work: Røverborgen, Singspiel in three acts,
first performance 26 May 1814, Royal Theater, Copenhagen.
Libretto: Adam Oehlenschläger after Christian Leberecht Heyne
Orchestra: the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Schønwandt
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| Friedrich Kuhlau |
Work: Trylleharpen, Op.27, / Die Zauberharfe, Singspiel in two acts, first performance 30 January 1817, Royal Opera house, Copenhagen.
Libretto: Jens Baggesen
Orchestra: the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Schønwandt
18. Friedrich Kuhlau
Work: Elisa eller Venskab og Kjærlighed, Op.29, dramma liriche in three
Libretto: Caspar Johannes Boye
Orchestra: the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Schønwandt
19. Friedrich Kuhlau
Work: William Shakespeare, Op.74, play with music in four acts, first performance 28 March 1826, Royal Opera House, Copenhagen.
Libretto: Casper Johannes Boye
Orchestra: the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Schønwandt
20. Friedrich Kuhlau
Work: Lulu, Op.65, romantic opera in three acts, first performance 29 October 1824, Royal Opera House, Copenhagen.
Libretto: Carl Christian Frederik Güntelberg after August Jacob Liebeskind
Orchestra: the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Schønwandt
21. Friedrich Kuhlau
Work: Hugo og Adelheid, Op. 107, Singspiel, first performance 29 October 1827, Royal Opera House, Copenhagen.
Libretto: Caspar Johannes Boye
Orchestra: the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Schønwandt
22. Friedrich Kuhlau
Work: Trillingbrødrene fra Damask, Op.115, comedy in three acts, first performance ??? 1830/31?
Libretto: Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
Orchestra: the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Schønwandt
23. Friedrich Kuhlau
Work: Elverhøj, Op.100, play with music in five acts, first performance 6 November 1828, Royal Opera House, Copenhagen
Libretto: Johan Ludvig Heiberg
Ouverture (Stretta: 09:28 Kong Christian stod ved højen Mast)
Orchestra: the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Schønwandt
24. Christoph(er) Ernst Friedrich Weyse
Work: Sovedrikken, singspiel in two acts, first performance 21 April 1809, Roya Opera House, Copenhagen.
Libretto: Adam Oehlenschläger after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner
Orchestra: Aalborg Symfoniorkester
Conductor: Henrik Vagn Christiansen
25. Peter von Winter (1754 - 1825)
Work: Ouverture à grand Orchestre in C-minor, Op.24 (1817)
Orchestra: Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductor: Johannes Moesus
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| Jan Dismas Zelenka |
Work: Symphonia in D major,
ZWV 175 from Melodrama de S. Wenceslao
Allegro assai - Adagio - Allegro assai da capo
Orchestra: Das Neu-Eröffnete Orchestre
Conductor: Jürgen Sonnentheil
27. Georg Philipp Telemann
Work: Ouverture in F-major "Alster-Echo"
for 4 horns, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo, TWV55:F11
Mov.I: Ouverture 00:00
Mov.II: Die Canonierende Pallas 05:42
Mov.III: Das Alster Echo 07:53
Mov.IV: Die Hamburgischen Glockenspiele 09:47
Mov.V: Der Schwanen-Gesang 12:10
Mov.VI: Der Alster-Schäffer Dorff Music 14:11
Mov.VII: Die concertierenden Frösche und Krähen 16:17
Mov.VIII: Der ruhende Pan 18:38
Mov.IX: Der Schäffer und Nymphen eilfertiger Abzug 20:26
Orchestra: Cappella Coloniensis
Conductor: Hans-Martin Linde
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| Giacomo Meyerbeer |
Work: Wirth und Gast oder Aus Scherz Ernst,
Lustspiel in two acts,
first performance 6 January 1813, Hoftheater,
Stuttgart rev. as Die beiden Kalifen for Wien in 1814 and in
Prague as Alimelek in 1815.
Libretto: Johann Gottfried Wohlbrück
Orchestra: Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
Conductor: Ola Rudner
29. Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda / Jan Křtitel Václav Kalivoda
(February 21, 1801 -- December 3, 1866)
Work: Ouverture No.17 in F-minor, Op.242 (1860)
- Adagio - Molto vivace e con fuoco
Orchestra: Die Kölner Akademie
Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens
30. Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda / Jan Křtitel Václav Kalivoda
Work: Ouverture No.12 in D-major, Op.145
(Composed in 1843 for Prince Egon II of Fürstenberg's Silver Wedding Anniversary,
and dedicated to the members of the court orchestra.)
Adagio maestoso - Allegro assai
Orchestra: Hamburger Symphoniker
Conductor: Johannes Moesus
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| English: Czech composer, conductor and violinist Jan Kalivoda (1801-1866) by Gustav Schlick (1804-1869). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
31. Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda / Jan Křtitel Václav Kalivoda
Work: Ouverture No.16 in A-minor, Op.238 (1859 / 1860)
Adagio - Allegro non tanto
Orchestra: Das Neue Orchester
Conductor: Christoph Spering
32. Jan Dismas Zelenka
Work: Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis conspicua orbi regia Bohemiae Corona: Melodrama de Sancto Wenceslao, ZWV 175. (1723)
Written for the coronation of Charles VI.
Libretto: Matouš Zill
Symphonia 00:00
Chorus: Fortitudo mea 05:53
Chorus: Boni Pueri
Orchestra: Musica Florea,
Musica Aeterna & Ensemble Philidor
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
33. Tommaso Traetta
Work: Ouverture in D-major
Mov.I: Allegro 00:00
Mov.II: Andante 03:45
Mov.III: Allegro 06:09
Orchestra: Ensemble Giovanile Ambrosiano
Conductor: Italo Lo Vetere
34. Etienne-Nicolas Méhul
Work: Stratonice, opéra comique in one act, first performance 3 May 1793, Théâtre Favart, Paris.
Libretto: François-Benoît Hoffman
Orchestra: Cappella Coloniensis
Conductor: William Christie
35. Domenico Cimarosa
Work: I matrimoni impensati ossia La bella Greca, intermezzo in musica in two acts first performance carnevale 1784, Teatro Della alla Valle, Rome
Sinfonia: Allegro con spirito - Adagio - Presto
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos
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| Gaetano Donizetti |
Work: L'aio nell'imbarazzo, Melodramma giocoso in two acts,
first performance 4 February 1824, Teatro Valle, Roma.
Libretto: Jacopo Ferretti
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: David Parry
37. Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1710 - 1791)
Work: Catone in Utica, dramma per musica in three acts,
first performance 12 October 1753,
for the opening of the Neuen Theaters, (Residenztheaters) München.
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
Orchestra: Neue Hofkapelle München
Conductor: Christoph Hammer
38. Niccolò Piccinni
Work: Le donne vendicate, intermezzo in two acts, first performance carnevale 1763, Teatro Valle, Rome.
Libretto: Giuseppe Petrosellini after Carlo Goldoni
Orchestra: I Barocchisti
Conductor: Diego Fasolis
39. Ivar Hallström
Work: Hertig Magnus och sjöjungfrun / Duke Magnus and the Mermaid, romantic operetta in three acts, first performance 28 January 1867, Royal Opera House, Stockholm.
Libretto: Franz Hedberg
Orchestra: Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Niklas Willén
40. André Ernest Modeste Grétry
Work: Le Jugement de Midas, comédie mêlée d'ariettes in three acts, first performance 28 March 1778, Palais royal, Paris.
Libretto: Thomas D'Hèle after Kane O'Hara
Orchestra: Orchestre de Bretagne
Conductor: Stefan Sanderling
41. André Ernest Modeste Grétry
Work: L'épreuve villageoise, opéra bouffon in two acts, first performance 24 January 1784, Comédie-Italienne, Paris. Reworked as Théodore et Paulin, comédie lyrique in three acts, first performance 18 March 1784, Comédie-Italienne, Paris.
Libretto: Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Choudard, "Desforges"
Orchestra: Orchestre de Bretagne
Conductor: Stefan Sanderling
42. André Ernest Modeste Grétry
Work: Guillaume Tell, drame mis en musique in three acts, first performance 9 April 1791, Comédie-Italienne, Paris.
Libretto: Sedaine after Antoine-Marin Lemierre.
Orchestra: Orchestre de Bretagne
Conductor: Stefan Sanderling
43. Georg Christoph Wagenseil
Work: Vincislao, re di Polonia, Dramma per musica in three acts, first performance 8 December 1750, Burgtheater, Wien.
Libretto: Apostolo Zeno
Sinfonia / Symphony in C-major, WV 351
Orchestra: L'Orfeo Barockorchester
Conductor: Michi Gaigg
44. André Ernest Modeste Grétry
Work: Pierre le Grand, comédie mêlée de chants in four acts, first performance 13 January 1790, Comédie-Italienne, Paris.
Libretto: Jean-Nicolas Bouilly after Voltaire, Histoire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand.
Orchestra: Chorus and Orchestra of the Helikon Opera
Conductor: Sergey Stadler
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| Muzio Clementi |
Work: Ouverture in C-major
Orchestra: The Philharmonia
Conductor: Francesco d'Avalos
46. Muzio Clementi
Work: Ouverture in D-major
Orchestra: The Philharmonia
Conductor: Francesco d'Avalos
47. Johann Christian Bach
Work: Adriano in Siria, Opera seria in three acts, first performance 1765 London.
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
Allegro con brio - Andante - Allegro assai
Orchestra: The Academy of Ancient Music
Conductor: Simon Standage
48. Johann Adolph Scheibe
Work: Sinfonia in B-minor to Sörge- og Klagesange over Dronning Lovise
Mov.I: Andante e maestoso 00:00
Mov.II: Molto adagio 06:09
Mov.III: Poco presto 08:55
Orchestra: Concerto Copenhagen
Conductor: Andrew Manze
49. Johann Adolph Scheibe
Work: Sinfonia in D-major to Der Tempel des Ruhmes
Mov.I: Allegro assai 00:00
Mov.II: Larghetto 03:33
Mov.III: Presto 06:23
Orchestra: Concerto Copenhagen
Conductor: Andrew Manze
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| Antonio Salieri |
Work: Daliso e Delmita, azione pastorale in three acts,
first performance 29 July 1776, Burgtheater. Wien.
Libretto: Giovanni De Gamerra
Orchestra: Mannheimer Mozartorchester
Conductor: Thomas Fey
51. Antonio Salieri
Work: Armida, dramma per musica in three acts,
first performance 2 June 1771, Burgtheater , Wien.
Libretto: Marco Coltellini after Torquato Tasso.
Sinfonia in Pantomima
Orchestra: Mannheimer Mozartorchester
Conductor: Thomas Fey
52. Antonio Salieri
Work: Il mondo alla rovescia, dramma giocoso in two acts, first performance 13 January 1795, Burgtheater, Wien.
Libretto: Caterino Mazzolà after L'isola capricciosa
Orchestra: Mannheimer Mozartorchester
Conductor: Thomas Fey
53. Antonio Salieri
Work: Tarare, opéra in prologue and five acts, first performance 8 June 1787, Opéra, Paris.
Libretto: Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Orchestra: Mannheimer Mozartorchester
Conductor: Thomas Fey
54. Antonio Salieri
Work: Axur, Re d'Ormus, dramma tragicomico in five acts, first performance, 8 January 1788, Burgtheater, Wien.
Libretto: Lorenzo Da Ponte after Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais Tarare
Picciola Sinfonia
Orchestra: Mannheimer Mozartorchester
Conductor: Thomas Fey
55. Antonio Salieri
Work: Palmira regina di Persia, dramma eroicomo in two acts, first performance 14 October 1795, Kärnterthortheater, Wien.
Libretto: Giovanni De Gamerra after Voltaire "La Princesse de Babylone"
Orchestra: Mannheimer Mozartorchester
Conductor: Thomas Fey
56. Antonio Salieri
Work: Die Neger, Singspiel in two acts, first performance 10 November 1804, Wien.
Libretto: Georg Friedrich Treitschke
Orchestra: Mannheimer Mozartorchester
Conductor: Thomas Fey
57. Antonio Salieri
Work: Die Neger, Singspiel in two acts, first performance 10 November 1804, Wien.
Libretto: Georg Friedrich Treitschke
Picciola Sinfonia
Orchestra: Mannheimer Mozartorchester
Conductor: Thomas Fey
58. Antonio Salieri
Work: La calamita de' cuori, dramma giocoso in three acts, first performance 11 October 1774, Kärnterthortheater, Wien.
Libretto: Carlo Goldoni
Orchestra: Mannheimer Mozartorchester
Conductor: Thomas Fey
59. Antonio Salieri
Work: Die Hussiten vor Naumberg, stage play with music, first performance 2 March 1803, Kärnterthortheater, Wien.
Libretto: August von Kotzebue
Orchestra: Mannheimer Mozartorchester
Conductor: Thomas Fey
60. Antonio Salieri
Work: Die Hussiten vor Naumberg, stage play with music, first performance 2 March 1803, Kärnterthortheater, Wien.
Libretto: August von Kotzebue
Entr'acte I 00:00
Entr'acte II 03:40
Entr'acte III 05:57
Entr'acte IV 07:35
Orchestra: Mannheimer Mozartorchester
Conductor: Thomas Fey
61. Vasily Kalinnikov (January 13 [O.S. January 1] 1866 -- January 11, 1901 [O.S. December 29, 1900])
Work: Tsar Boris, Incidental Music to the tragedy, 1898)
Libretto: Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Orchestra: Scottish National Orchestra
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
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| Luigi Cherubini |
Work: Médée, opera in three acts,
first performance 13 March 1797, Théâtre Feydeau, Paris.
Libretto: François-Benoît Hoffmann (Nicolas Étienne Framéry),
after Euripides and Pierre Corneille)
Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo
Conductor: Piero Bellugi
63. Luigi Cherubini
Work: Anacréon, ou L'Amour fugitif, Opéra-ballet in two acts,
first performance 4 October 1803, Grand Opéra, Paris.
Libretto: C. R. Mendouze
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
64. William Henry Fry (August 10, 1813 -- December 21, 1864)
Work: Macbeth - Ouverture (1864)
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conductor: Tony Rowe
65. Joseph Haydn
Work: Il mondo della luna, dramma giocoso in three acts, first performance 3 August 1777, Esterháza.
Libretto: Carlo Goldoni
Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien
Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
66. Giuseppe Sarti
Work: Giulio Sabino, dramma per musica in three acts, first performance 3 January 1781 Teatro S. Benedetto, Venice.
Libretto: Pietro Giovannini
Sinfonia
Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina
Conductor: Ottavio Dantone
67. Louise Farrenc (1804 - 1875)
Work: Ouverture No.1 in E-minor, Op.23 (1834)
Orchestra: NDR Radiophilharmonie
Conductor: Johannes Goritzki
68. Louise Farrenc (1804 - 1875)
Work: Ouverture No.2 in E-flat major, Op.24 (1834)
Orchestra: NDR Radiophilharmonie
Conductor: Johannes Goritzki
69. Giuseppe Sarti
Work: Armida e Rinaldo, dramma per musica in two acts, first performance 15./26 january 1786, Eremitage, St. Peterburg
Libretto: Marco Coltellini
Sinfonia
Orchestra: Pro Arte-Marche
Conductor: Marco Berdondini
70. Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Work: Le Malade imaginaire, comédie, proloque et intermèdes, first performance 10 February 1673, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris.
Libretto: Molière
Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants
Conductor: William Christie
71. Giacomo Meyerbeer
Work: Semiramide, dramma per musica in two acts, first performance march 1819, Teatro Regio, Torino.
Libretto: Gaetano Rossi after Pietro Metastasio
Orchestra: Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
72. Giacomo Meyerbeer
Work: Margherita d'Anjou, melodramma semiserio in two acts, first performance 14 November 1820, Teatro alla Scala, Milano.
Libretto: Felice Romani after Réné-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt.
Sinfonia militare
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: David Parry
73. Giuseppe Sarti
Work: Enea nel Lazio, dramma per musica in two acts, first performance 15./26 October 1799, Gačina, St Petersburg.
Libretto: Ferdinando Moretti
Sinfonia 00:00
Marcia con coro: Sempre d'allori il crine 04:28
Chorus: Jugendchor St. Petersburg
Orchestra: Camerata St. Petersburg
Conductor: Arcady Steinlucht
74. Tommaso Traetta
Work: Ippolito ed Aricia, tragedia in five acts, first performance 9 May 1759, Teatro Ducale, Parma.
Libretto: Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni
Sinfonia
Orchestra: Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia
Conductor: David Golub
75. Giacomo Meyerbeer
Work: Festive ouverture for the International Exhibition 1862
Orchestra: Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR
Conductor: Michail Jurowski
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| François-Joseph Gossec |
Work: Toinon et Toinette,
opéra comique oder comédie mise en musique in two acts,
first performance 20 June 1767, Comédie Italienne, Paris.
Libretto: Jean August-Julien Desboulmiers
Orchestra: Les Talents Lyriques
Conductor: Christophe Rousset
77. Giacomo Meyerbeer
Work: Struensee, play with music in five acts
Libretto: Michael Beer (1800 - 1833)
Orchestra: Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR
Conductor: Michail Jurowski
78. Giacomo Meyerbeer
Work: L'Africaine, Grand opéra in five acts, first performance 28 April 1865, Opéra, Paris.
Libretto: August Eugène Scribe / Birch-Pfeiffer
Prelude
Orchestra: Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR
Conductor: Michail Jurowski
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| Georg Philipp Telemann |
Work: Jubeloratorium für die Hamburger Admiralität TWV 23:1
Ouverture in D-major
Orchestra: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
80. Antonio Salieri
Work: La Passione di Gesù Cristo, oratorio in two parts, 1776
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
Ouverture
Recitative: Dove son? Dove Corro? (Pietro)
Pietro: Florian Mock (Tenor)
Orchestra: Das neue Orchester
Conductor: Christoph Spering
81. Johann Christian Bach
Work: Endimione, opera seria in two acts, first performance 1772
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
Sinfonia
Orchestra: Capella Coloniensis
Conductor: Bruno Weil
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| Louis Spohr |
Work: Der Zweikampf mit der Geliebten, WoO 50, opera in three acts, first performance 15 November 1811, Theater Hamburg.
Libretto: Johann Friedrich Schink
Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Conductor: Howard Shelley
83. Louis Spohr
Work: Grand Concert Ouverture in F-major, WoO1 (1819)
Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Conductor: Howard Shelley
84. Louis Spohr
Work: Der Zweikampf mit der Geliebten, WoO 50, opera in three acts, first performance 15 November 1811, Theater Hamburg.
Libretto: Johann Friedrich Schink
Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Conductor: Howard Shelley
85. Louis Spohr
Work: Introduzione in D-major, WoO5 (1830)
Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Conductor: Howard Shelley
86. Leopold Kozeluch
Work: Moisè in Egitto ossia la Liberazione degl'Israeliti dalla servitù Egizia, oratorio in two parts, 1787
Libretto: Unknown
Sinfonia
Orchestra: Das Kleine Konzert
Conductor: Hermann Max
87. Louis Spohr
Work: Der Fall Babylons, WoO 63, oratorio
Ouverture: Andante - Allegro moderato
Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Conductor: Howard Shelley
88. Louis Spohr
Work: Das befreite Deutschland, WoO 64, cantata
Ouverture: Adagio - Allegro moderato
Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Conductor: Howard Shelley
89. Marcos Portugal
Work: Le donne cambiate, farsa in one act, first performance 22 October 1797, Venice.
Libretto: Giuseppe Maria Foppa
Sinfonia
Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia
Conductor: Álvaro Cassuto
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| Lithographie de H.E. von Wintter représentant le compositeur Etienne Nicolas Méhul (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
90. Etienne-Nicolas Méhul
Work: Mélidore et Phrosine, drame lyrique in three acts, first performance 6 May 1794, Théâtre Favart, Paris.
Libretto: Antoine-Vincent Arnault after Pierre Joseph Bernard, Phrosine et Mélidore.
Orchestra: Orchestre de Bretagne
Conductor: Stefan Sanderling
91. Etienne-Nicolas Méhul
Work: Ariodant, drame mêlée de musique in three acts, first performance 11 October 1799, Théâtre Favart, Paris.
Libretto: François Bernoît Hoffmann after Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso.
Orchestra: Orchestre de Bretagne
Conductor: Stefan Sanderling
92. Etienne-Nicolas Méhul
Work: Joseph, drame mêlé de chants in three acts, first performance 17 February 1807, Théâtre Feydeau, Paris.
Libretto: Alexandre Duval.
Orchestra: Orchestre de Bretagne
Conductor: Stefan Sanderling
93. Etienne-Nicolas Méhul
Work: Horatius Coclés, opéra in One act, first performance 18 February 1794, Opéra, Paris.
Libretto: Antoine-Vincent Arnault.
Orchestra: Orchestre de Bretagne
Conductor: Stefan Sanderling
94. Etienne-Nicolas Méhul
Work: Bion, comédie mêlée de musique in One act, first performance 27 December 1800, Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Libretto: (François Bernoît Hoffmann after Etienne-François de Lantier, Les Voyages d'Anténor.
Orchestra: Orchestre de Bretagne
Conductor: Stefan Sanderling
95. Etienne-Nicolas Méhul
Work: Le Trésor supposé ou Le Danger d'écouter aux portes, comédie mêlée de musique in One act, first performance 29 July 1802, Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Libretto: François Bernoît Hoffmann.
Orchestra: Orchestre de Bretagne
Conductor: Stefan Sanderling
96. Etienne-Nicolas Méhul
Work: Les Deux aveugles de Tolède, opéra comique in One act, first performance 18 January 1806, Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Libretto: Marsollier de Vivetières.
Orchestra: Orchestre de Bretagne
Conductor: Stefan Sanderling
97. Etienne-Nicolas Méhul
Work: La Chasse du Jeune Henri, drame lyrique in two acts, first performance 1 may 1797, Théâtre Favart, Paris.
Libretto: Jean-Nicolas Bouilly.
Orchestra: Orchestre de Bretagne
Conductor: Stefan Sanderling
98. Étienne-Nicolas Méhul
Work: L'irato ou l'Emporté, opéra-comique in one act, first performance 17 February 1801, Théâtre Favart, Paris.
Libretto: Benoît-Joseph Marsollier
Orchestra: L'arte del mondo
Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt
99. Luigi Cherubini
Work: Ifigenia in Aulide, opera in three acts, first performance 12 January 1788 Teatro Regio, Turin.
Libretto: Moretti
Orchestra: Orchestra delle Toscana
Conductor: Donato Renzetti
100. Luigi Cherubini
Work: Le Crescendo, opéra comique in one act, first performance 1 September 1810 Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Libretto: Charles-Augustine de Bassompierre de Sewrin
Orchestra: Orchestra delle Toscana
Conductor: Donato Renzetti
101. Luigi Cherubini
Work: Il Giulio Sabino, opera seria in two acts, first performance, 30 March 1786, King's Theatre, London.
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio (?)
Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester
Conductor: Howard Griffiths
102. Luigi Cherubini
Work: La prisionnière, opéra comique in one act, first performance 12 September 1799, Théâtre Montansier, Paris.
Libretto: Etienne de Jouy, Charles de Longchamps and Claude Godard d'Aucort de Saint-Just
Orchestra: State Academy Symphony Orchestra of the USSR
Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
103. Adolphe Adam
Work: Danilowa, opéra comique in three acts, first performance 23 April 1830, Salle Ventadour, Paris.
Libretto: Jean Baptiste Charles Vial and Paul Duport
Orchestra: State Academy Symphony Orchestra of the USSR
Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
104. Alexander Alyabyev (1787 - 1851)
Work: Three Tens, or The new two-day adventure / Tri desyatki, ili Novoe dvuhdnevnoe prikljuchenie. Vaudeville
Orchestra: Musica Viva Orchestra
Conductor: Alexander Rudin
105. Alexander Alyabyev
Work: The Apostate, or The Siege of Corinth (Otstupnik, ili Osada Korinfa), drama with music
Cello: Alexei Kropotov
Orchestra: Musica Viva Orchestra
Conductor: Alexander Rudin
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| Irish composer William Vincent Wallace (1812-1865) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
106. William Vincent Wallace
Work: Lurline, grand romantic opera in three acts, first performa
nce 23 February 1860, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London.
Libretto: Edward Fitzball
Orchestra: Victorian Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
107. Friedrich Gernsheim (17 July 1839 -10 September 1916)
Work: Zu einem Drama. Tondichtung für grosses Orchester, Op.82 (1902)
Orchestra: SWR Radiofunkorchester, Kaiserslauten
Conductor: Klaus Arp
108. Alexander Alyabyev (1787 - 1851)
Work: Young Mother and the 48 year old fiancé / Molodaya mat' i zhenih v 48 let, ili Domashnij spektakl. Vaudeville
Orchestra: Musica Viva Orchestra
Conductor: Alexander Rudin
109. Alexander Alyabyev
Work: Morning and Evening or The Wind has Changed / Utro il vecher, ili Veter peremenilsy. Vaudeville
Orchestra: Musica Viva Orchestra
Conductor: Alexander Rudin
110. Alexander Alyabyev
Work: The Magic Drum, or A Sequel to the Magic Flute / Volshebniy baraban, ili Sledstviye Volshebnoy fleyti. Ballet suite.
Orchestra: Musica Viva Orchestra
Conductor: Alexander Rudin
111. Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann
Work: Guldhornene, Op.11 / Golden Horns of Gallehus - Moderato con passione - Moderato con brio - Allegro non troppo. Ouverture
Libretto: Adam Oehlenschläger
Narrator: Bodil Udsen
Orchestra: The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard
112. Luigi Cherubini
Work: Les deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eau, opéra comique in three acts, first performance 16 January 1800, Théâtre Feydeau, Paris.
Libretto: Jean Nicolas Bouilly
Ouverture (scored for strings, 2 flutes, piccolo, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, 3 horns, trombone and timpani.)
Orchestra: Das Neue Orchester
Conductor: Christoph Spering
113. Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny
Work: Le déserteur, drame in three acts, first performance 6 march 1769 Comédie-Italienne, Paris.
Libretto: Michel-Jean Sedaine
Orchestra: Opera Lafayette Orchestra
Conductor: Ryan Brown
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| Domenico Cimarosa |
Work: Oreste, dramma per musica in two acts,
first performance 13 August 1783, Teatro S. Carlo, Napoli.
Libretto: Luigi Serio
Orchestra: Toronto Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Kevin Mallon
115. Domenico Cimarosa
Work: La Circe, dramma per musica in three acts,
first performance carnavale 1783, La Scala, Milano.
Libretto: D. Perelli
Orchestra: Toronto Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Kevin Mallon
116. Domenico Cimarosa
Work: Alessandro nell'Indie, dramma per musica in three acts, first performance 11 February1781, Teatro della Torre Argentina, Roma.
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
Orchestra: Toronto Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Kevin Mallon
117. Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730)
Work: Artaserse, dramma per musica in three acts, first performance 4 February 1730, Teatro delle dame, Roma.
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
Orchestra: Concerto Köln
Conductor: Diego Fasolis
118. Domenico Cimarosa
Work: Gli Orazi e i Curiazi, tragedia per musica (azione tragica) in three acts, first performance 26 December 1796, La Fenice, Venice.
Libretto: Antonio Simone Sografi, after the tragedy Horace by Pierre Corneille.
Orchestra: Chor und Orchester der Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele
Conductor: Michael Hofstetter
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| Michael Haydn |
Work: Die Hochzeit auf der Alm, interludium,
first performance 27 April 1768, Salzburg.
Libretto: Florian Reichssiegel
Introduction for 2 alpenhörner
Sinfonia: Allegro molto
Orchestra: Salzburger Hofmusik
Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner
120. Thomas Arne
Work: Artaxerxes, opera seria in three acts,
first performance 2 February 1762, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London.
Libretto: Thomas Arne himself after Pietro Metastasio
Ouverture: Poco più che andante -- Larghetto -- Gavotta
Orchestra: Classical Opera Company
Conductor: Ian Page
121. Justin Heinrich Knecht
Work: Overture to Zum Prolog auf die Vermählungsfeier der königlich-württembergischen Prinzessin Katharine mit ihrem französisch-kaiserlichen Prinzen Jérome
Orchestra: Hofkapelle Stuttgart
Conductor: Frieder Bernius
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| Adolphe Adam (1803–1856), French composer (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Work: Giralda ou La Nouvelle Psyché, opéra comique in three acts, first performance 20 July 1850, Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Libretto: Eugène Scribe
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
123. Adolphe Adam
Work: La Poupée de Nuremberg, opéra comique in one act, first performance 21 February 1852, Opéra-National, Paris.
Libretto: Adolphe de Leuven / Arthur de Beauplan after E.T.A. Hoffmanns Nachtstücke, Der Sandmann
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
124. Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Work: Lestocq ou L'Intrigue et l'amour, opéra comique in four acts, first performance 24 May 1834, Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Libretto: Eugène Scribe
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
125. Georges Bizet
Work: Don Procopio, opera buffa in two acts, first performance 10 March 1906, Monte Carlo.
Libretto: Carlo Cambiaggio, after Luigi Prividali, I pretendenti delusi
Entr'acte
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
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| Daniel François Auber |
Work: La Neige ou Le Nouvel Eginard, opéra comique in four acts,
first performance 9 October 1823, Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Libretto: Eugène Scribe / Germain Delavigne
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
127. Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Work: Marco Spada, opéra comique in three acts,
first performance 21 December 1852, Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Libretto: Eugène Scribe / Delavigne;
Final scene after La Confession du bandit by Horace Vernet.
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
128. Jules Massenet
Work: Le Cid, opéra in four acts, first performance 30 November 1885, Opéra, Paris.
Libretto: Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery / Louis Gallet / Edouard Blau after Pierre Corneille
Orchestra: Opera Orchestra of New York
Conductor: Eve Queler
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| Léo Delibes |
Work: Le Roi l'a dit, opéra comique in three acts,
first performance 24 May 1873, Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Libretto: Edmond Gondinet
Entr'acte
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
130. Gaetano Donizetti
Work: Roberto Devereux, tragedia lirica in three acts,
first performance 28 October 1837, Teatro di S. Carlo, Napoli.
Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano after the tragedy by Jacques Arsène François Polycarpe Ancelot,
Elisabeth d'Angleterre.
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
131. Ferdinand Hérold
Work: Zampa ou La Fiancée de marbre (Zampa, or the Marble Bride), opéra comique in three acts, first performance 3 May 1831, Opéra-Comique (Salle Ventadour), Paris.
Libretto: Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
132. Charles Lecocq
Work: La Fille de Madame Angôt, opéra comique in three acts, first performance 4 December 1872, Fantaisies parisiennes, Brussels.
Libretto: Nicolaie Clairville, Paul Siraudin and Victor Koning
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
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| Louis Aimé Maillart (1817-1871), French composer (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Work: Les Dragons de Villars, opéra comique in three acts,
first performance 19 September 1856, Théâtre-Lyrique, Paris.
Libretto: Eugène Cormon / Lockroy
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
134. Jules Massenet
Work: La Navarraise, épisode lyrique in two acts,
first performance 20 June 1894, Covent Garden, London.
Libretto: Jules Claretie / Henri Cain after Claretie, La Cigarette.
Nocturne
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
135. Jules Massenet
Work: Les Érinnyes, tragédie antique in two acts,
first performance 6 January 1873, Odéon, Paris.
Libretto: Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle
Invcation
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
136. Jules Massenet
Work: Chérubin, comédie chantée in three acts, first performance 14 February 1905, Opéra, Monte Carlo.
Libretto: François de Croisset / Henri Cain
Entr'acte
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
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| Jules Massenet |
Work: Don César de Bazan, opéra comique in three acts,
first performance 30 November 1872, Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Libretto: Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery / Philippe François Pinel Dumanoir /
Jules Chantepie after Victor Hugo, Ruy Blas
Entr'acte Sevillana
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
138. Jacques Offenbach
Work: La Fille du Tambour-Major, opéra comique in three acts,
first performance 13 December 1879, Folies-Dramatiques, Paris.
Libretto: Henri Chivot / Alfred Duru
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
139. Robert Planquette
Work: Les Cloches de Corneville, opéra comique in three acts 19 April 1877, Folies Dramatiques, Paris.
Libretto: Charles Clairville & Charles Gabet
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
140. Gioachino Rossini
Work: Torvaldo e Dorliska, dramma semiserio in two acts, 26 December 1815, Teatro Valle, Rome.
Libretto: Cesare Sterbini after Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvrayVie et amours du Chevalier de Faublas, 1790, and Francesco Gonella, Lodiska.
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
141. William Vincent Wallace
Work: Maritana, grand opera in three acts, first performance 15 November 1845, Drury Lane Theatre, London.
Libretto: Edward Fitzball
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
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| Giuseppe Verdi |
Work: Giovanna d'Arco, dramma lirico with a prologue and three acts,
first performance 15 February 1845, Teatro alla Scala, Milano.
Libretto: Temistocle Solera
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
143. Carlo Maria Giulini: Rossini Overtures
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