Various Artists - Liszt: His Life & Music / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The first volume of the Naxos selection of operatic excerpts includes music ranging from Mozart to Puccini. The first of these composers is represented by the famous aria of the Queen of the Night from The Magic Flute. Mozart had settled in Vienna, independent of a patron and of his father's guidance, in 1781. Ten years later, after variable successes, his fortunes seemed about to take a turn for the better. In 1791, the year of his death, he w rote two operas, the coronation opera La clemenza di Tito for Prague and the German Singspiel Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) for a suburban theatre in Vienna. The latter was still running at the time of his death in early December. The opera, imbued with Masonic symbolism and with a libretto by the actor-manager Emanuel Schikaneder, who took a leading comic role in the work, deals with the ordeals and initiation of Tamino and his earthier companion, the bird-catcher Papageno, into the mysteries of enlightenment and his final union with Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night. In the first act of the opera the latter appears to Tamino, seeking his help in the rescue of her daughter from Sarastro, whom she brands as evil, although it later transpires that he is the leader of the enlightened band into which Tamino is eventually admitted. In Der Hölle Rache she declares, in brilliant coloratura, her enmity to her former consort Sarastro. Album Tracks 1. Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg Ov - Polish Nrso/Johannes Wildner 2. Aida Ritorna Vincitor! - Maria Dragoni 3. Il Trovatore Manrico?... Di Quella Pira - Daniela Longhi/Maurizio Frusoni/Jozsef Mukk/Budapest Festival Chor 4. Cosi Fan Tutte Come Scoglio - Johanna Borowska 5. Thais Meditation - Janos Selmeczi 6. Manon Lescaut Sola, Perduta, Abbandonata - Miriam Gauci 7. L'elisir D'amore Una Furtiva Lagrima - Vincenzo la Scola 8. La Traviata Follie!... Se

The still-dazzling piano pyrotechnics, the rich tone poems 2 CDs of the greatest works of Franz Liszt! Includes Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 2; Nocturne in a Flat Major from Liebestreume; Mephisto Waltz No. 1; Piano Concerto No. 2 in a Major; Prometheus; Rapsodie Espagnole; Final Chorus from a Faust Symphony; Die Forelle, and more! Album Tracks 1. Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 - Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra 2. No.3 Nocturne in a Flat Major - Jeno Jando 3. No.5 Feux Follets - Jeno Jando 4. Sonetto 104 Del Petrarca - Jeno Jando 5. Mephisto Waltz No.1 - Peter Nagy 6. I. Adagio Sostenuto Assai - Joseph Banowetz 7. Au Bord D'une Source - Jeno Jando 8. III. Lento Placido - Philip Thomson 9. Les Preludes - Michael Halasz 1. Prometheus - Michael Halasz 2. III. Un Sospiro - William Wolfram 3. III. La Campanella - Jeno Jando 4. III. Allegro Marziale Animato - Joseph Banowetz 5. Les Jeux D'eau a la Villa D'este - Jeno Jando 6. Funerailles - Philip Thomson 7. No.1 - Peter Nagy 8. Rhapsodie Espagnole - Xiangdong Kong 9. Die Forelle - Valerie Tryon 10. Gnomenreign - William Wolfram 11. Final Chorus - Andras Ligeti

Album Tracks 1. Prelude a L'apres-Midi D'un Faune - Alexander Rahbari 2. Walzer - Peter Hill 3. I. Andante-Scherzo - Rebecca Hirsch 4. Sehr Ruhig Und Zart - Ulster Orchestra 5. Lebhaft Und Zart Bewegt - Ulster Orchestra 6. Sehr Langsam Und Ausserst Zart - Ulster Orchestra 7. Fliessend, Ausserst Zart - Ulster Orchestra 8. Sehr Fliessend - Ulster Orchestra 9. Forlane Allegretto - Klara Kormendi 10. First Tableau The Shrove-Tide Fair - Philharmonia Orchestra 11. The Mountebank - Philharmonia Orchestra 12. Vivo - Bournemouth Sinfonietta 13. III. Moderato Pesante - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 14. Hymn to St. Cecilia - Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge 15. IV. Allegretto - Ondrej Lenard 16. Introduzione Andante Non Troppo-Allegro Vivace - Alexander Rahbari 1. Romance - Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra (Kosice) 2. II. Allegro - Ladislav Slovak 3. III. Allegro Agitato - Stephen Gunzenhauser 4. Main Theme from Schindler's List - Paul Bateman 5. The Unanswered Question - Northern Sinfonia 6. Second Electonic Interpolation (Conclusion) - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra 7. Third Electronic Interpolation (Beginning) - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra 8. I. Liturgie de Cristal - Amici Ensemble 9. IV. Commentaire - Idil Biret 10. Warming Up, Leading to Model 1, Bass - Gregory Rose 11. 'Gott Nochmal' Sun God - Gregory Rose 12. 'Vishnu' God of Storms - Gregory Rose 13. God of the Earth - Gregory Rose 14. First Interlude - Boris Berman 15. I. - Roger Heaton 16. Short Ride in a Fast Machine - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 17. The Lord's Prayer - Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge 18. II. Lento E Largo-Tranquillissimo - Zofia Kilanowicz 19. Lullaby - Philharmonia Orchestra 20. Vision of the Hunt I - Philharmonia Orchestra 21. Voice for Solo Flute - Robert Aitken