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RECORDINGS:
composer / work / label
OPERA
Britten - PETER GRIMES - Philips Classics 462 847-2
Jon Vickers, Heather Harper and Sir Colin Davis conducting the orchestra and chorus of The Royal Opera House Covent Garden circa. 1979
Grammy Award for the best opera recording 1979
Puccini - LA BOHEME - Golden Melodram GM 6.0004-2 CD
Contrubas, Aragall, Ghazarian, Rawnsley, Howell, Dobson, Garrett and Carlos Kleiber conducting the orchestra and chorus of The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, live recording London 7 Nov 1979
Saint-Saens - SAMSON ET DALILA - Philips
Josè Carreras, Agnes Baltsa and Sir Collin Davis conducting the orchestra and chorus of Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, recorded Feb 1989
Leoncavallo - LA BOHEME - Nuovo Era
Martha
Senn, Bruno Pratico, Mario Malagnini, Lucia Mazzaria and Jan Latham-Koenig conducting
the orchestra and chorus of
La Fenice, Venice, recorded Jan 1990
Balfe - THE BOHEMIAN GIRL - Decca/Argo
Nova Thomas, Patrick Power, Bernadette Cullen, Richard Bonynge conducting the orchestra and chorus of RTE, Dublin, recorded Jan 1991
Britten - GLORIANA - Decca/Argo
Philip
Langridge, Josephine Barstow, Yvonne Kenny, Della Jones,
Bryn Terfel, Richard Van Allen and Sir Charles Mackerras conducting the orchestra
and chorus of Welsh National Opera, recorded Oct/Nov 1992
ORCHESTRAL
Orff - CARMINA BURANA - EMI
Arleen Auger, John Van Kesterin and Riccardo Muti conducting the Philharmonia orchestra and chorus recorded at Studio 1, Abbey Road, London, recorded circa 77/78
BBC
Radio 3 "Building a Record Library" best recording, all available
recordings compared.
Vaughan Williams - A SEA SYMPHONY - EMI
Felicity Lott and Sir Bernard Haitink conducting the Philharmonia orchestra
and chorus recorded at Studio 1, Abbey Road, London, recorded Mar 1989
Gramaphone Magazine's Best Symphonic recording 1989