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Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
The Very Best of Glyndebourne on Record

Compil. 2009 on Warner Classics label
Classical (Opera, Classical, Romantic, Modern, Baroque)

This compilation ℗ & © 2009 Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. Digital remastering ℗ as shown Recording Dates and Venues (all No1 Studio Abbey Raod, London unless stated): CD1 1935-1940 Figaro 24&28 VI 1935 (1-2); 6 VI 1934 (3-5) The Theatre Glyndebourne ℗ 2009 & 1994 Cosi 25-28 VI 1935 The Theatre Glyndebourne ℗ 1991 Giovanni 29 VI - 5 VII 1936 The Theatre Glyndebourne ℗ 1988 Beggar's Opera 11,12,15 IV 1940 ℗ 1994 & 2009 CD2 1947-1955 Rape of Lucretia 16-19 VII & 19 X 1947 ℗ 1993 Macbeth 16 I 1948 ℗ 2000 Cosi 14-15 VII 1950 The Theatre Glyndebourne ℗ 1994 Idomeneo 2-3 VII 1951 ℗ 1980/1994 & 2009 Cenerentola 17-21 XI 1953 (11-12); 15 II 1954 (13) ℗ 1992 Arlecchino 27 VII & 24 IX 1954 ℗ 1994 Soldier's Tale 12,13,25&28 IV & 25 V 1955 ℗ 2009 CD3 1955-1963 Figaro 4-9 & 11-12 VII 1955 ℗ 2009 Idomeneo 5&30 VII 1956 Kingsway Hall & 7 VII & 4,6,813,26,27 VIII 1956 ℗ 2000 Comte Ory 28-31 VIII & 1,2,5 IX 1956 ℗ 1992 Barber of Seville 4-7 & 9-10 IX 1962 ℗ 1963/2002 Poppea VII & VIII 1963 ℗ 1964/2000 CD4 1963-1987 Flight 22-24 VII 1972 The Organ Room, Glyndebourne ℗ 1972/1998 Giovanni 3-12 I 1984 ℗ 1984 Cosi 16-27 II 1986 ℗ 1987 Figaro 17-26 II 1987 ℗ 1988 CD5 1988-1997 Porgy and Bess 8-19 II 1988 ℗ 1989 Merry Widow 18,20,22 VII 1993 Royal Festival Hall, London ℗ 1994 Figures in the Garden 22 XI 1991 Henry Wood Hall, London ℗ 1992 EMI Centenary Gala at Glyndebourne, 1997 - Recorded Live 27 IV 1997, The Theatre Glyndebourne ℗ 1997 The Double Bass player on the Soldiers Tale excerpt is credited in booklet as Edmund Chesterton but should be Edmund Chesterman

Musicians

	Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra , GB album by, orchestra
	Glyndebourne Festival Chorus , album by, chorus
	Roy Henderson , 1899-2000 GB baritone vocals, count, baritone vocals, masetto, baritone vocals, peachum
	Willy Domgraf-Faßbaender voc, 1897-1978 DE baritone vocals, figaro, baritone vocals, guglielmo
	Norman Allin voc, b, 1884-1973 GB bass vocals, bartolo
	Fritz Busch , 1890-1951 DE conductor
	Lorenzo da Ponte , 1749-1838 US libretto by
	Aulikki Rautawaara , 1906-1990 FI soprano vocals, countess
	Constance Willis voc, 1893-1940 GB soprano vocals, marcellina, soprano vocals, mrs peachum
	Audrey Mildmay voc, 1900-1953 CA soprano vocals, susanna, soprano vocals, zerlina, soprano vocals, polly peachum
	Morgan Jones bvoc, b, tenor vocals, antonio
	Heddle Nash voc, 1894-1961 GB tenor vocals, basilio, tenor vocals, ferrando
	John Brownlee voc, 1900-1969 AU baritone vocals, don alfonso, baritone vocals, don giovanni)
	Irene Eisinger voc, 1903-1994 DE soprano vocals, despina
	Luise Helletsgruber voc, 1898-1967 AT soprano vocals, dorabella, soprano vocals, donna elvira
	Ina Souez voc, 1903-1992 US soprano vocals, fiordiligi, soprano vocals, donna anna
	Salvatore Baccaloni b, 1900-1969 IT baritone vocals, leporello
	David Franklin voc, b, bass vocals, commendatore
	Koloman Von Pátaky voc, tenor vocals, don ottavio
	Michael Mudie , 1914-1962 GB conductor
	Linda Gray , soprano vocals, lucy
	Bruce Flegg , vocals, filch
	Michael Redgrave , *1908 GB vocals, macheath
	Reginald Goodall p, 1901-1990 GB conductor, piano
	Ronald Duncan , libretto by
	Flora Nielson , mezzo-soprano vocals, bianca
	Nancy Evans voc, GB mezzo-soprano vocals, lucretia
	The English Opera Group , 1946-1980 GB orchestra
	Joan Cross , 1900-1993 GB soprano vocals, female chorus
	Peter Pears voc, 1910-1986 GB tenor vocals, male chorus
	Ernest Frank voc, FR bass vocals, medico
	Sir Thomas Beecham p, 1879-1961 GB conductor
	Francesco Maria Piave , IT libretto by
	The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , orchestra
	Vera Terry , soprano vocals, dama
	Margherita Grandi voc, AU soprano vocals, lady macbeth
	Mario Borriello voc, 1914-2000 IT baritone vocals, don alfonso
	Erich Kunz voc, 1909-1995 AT baritone vocals, guglielmo
	Blanche Thebom voc, 1915-2010 US soprano vocals, dorabella
	Sena Jurinac voc, 1921-2011 BA soprano vocals, fiordiligi, soprano vocals, ilia, soprano vocals, countess
	Abbate Giambattista Varesco , 1735-1805 AT libretto by
	Dorothy MacNeil voc, US soprano vocals, elettra
	Richard Lewis voc, 1914-1990 GB tenor vocals, idomeneo, tenor vocals, nerone
	Sesto Bruscantini voc, 1919-2003 IT baritone vocals, dandini, baritone vocals, figaro
	Ian Wallace voc, 1919-2009 GB baritone vocals, don magnifico, baritone vocals, bartolo
	Hervey Alan voc, 1910-1982 GB bass vocals, alidoro
	Vittorio Gui , *1885 IT conductor
	Jacopo Ferretti , 1784-1852 IT libretto by
	Fernanda Cadoni , IT mezzo-soprano vocals, tisbe
	Marina De Gabarain , ES soprano vocals, angelina - la cenerentola
	Alda Noni voc, 1916-2011 IT soprano vocals, clorinda
	Juan Oncina voc, 1921-2009 ES tenor vocals, don ramiro, tenor vocals, le comt ory
	Kurt Gester , 1914-1997 DE baritone vocals, arlecchino
	John Pritchard hps, p, 1921-1989 GB conductor
	Ferruccio Busoni p, 1866-1924 IT libretto by
	Elaine Malbin ss, *1932 US soprano vocals, colombina
	Murray Dickie voc, 1924-1995 GB tenor vocals, leandro
	Gwydion Brooke bsn, 1912-2005 GB bassoon
	Jack Brymer cl, 1915-2003 GB clarinet
	Richard Walton , cornet
	Edmond Chesterman , double bass
	Stephen Whittaker , percussion
	Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz voc, 1878-1947 FR text by
	Sidney Langston tb, GB trombone
	Arthur Leavins vn, violin
	Robert Helpman , 1909-1986 AU voice actor, the devil
	Anthony Nicholls , voice actor, the narrator
	Terence Longdon , 1922-2011 GB voice actor, the soldier
	Franco Calabrese , 1923-1992 IT baritone vocals, count
	Monica Sinclair voc, 1925-2002 GB contralto vocals, marcellina
	Jeanette Sinclair , soprano vocals, barbarina
	Graziella Sciutti voc, ss, 1927-2001 IT soprano vocals, susanna
	Gwyn Griffiths , tenor vocals, antonio
	Hugues Cuénod voc, CH tenor vocals, basilio
	Daniel McCoshan , tenor vocals, don curzio
	Lucille Udovick , 1930-1999 US soprano vocals, elettra
	Leopold Simoneau voc, 1908-2006 CA tenor vocals, idamante
	Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson , libretto by
	Eugène Scribe , 1791-1861 FR libretto by
	Cora Canne Meijer , *1929 NL mezzo-soprano vocals, isoller
	Sari Barabas voc, 1914-2012 DE soprano vocals, la contesse adèle
	John Rhys Evans , baritone vocals, an official
	Carlo Cava voc, IT bass vocals, basilio
	Cesare Sterbini , 1784-1831 IT libretto by
	Laura Sarti voc, *1924 IT soprano vocals, berta
	Victoria De Los Angeles voc, 1923-2005 ES soprano vocals, rosina
	Luigi Alva voc, *1927 PE tenor vocals, count
	Giovanni Francesco Busenello voc, 1598-1659 FR libretto by
	Magda Laszlo voc, 1919-2002 HU soprano vocals, poppea
	Noel Mangin voc, b, 1931-1995 NZ bass vocals, osmin
	Christoph Friedrich Bretzner , libretto by
	Gottlieb Stephanie Der Jüngere , 1741-1800 AT libretto by
	The London Philharmonic Orchestra , orchestra
	Margaret Price voc, 1941-2011 GB soprano vocals, constanze
	Ryland Davies voc, *1943 GB tenor vocals, belmonte
	Thomas Allen voc, *1944 GB baritone vocals, don giovanni
	Richard Van Allan voc, 1935-2008 GB baritone vocals, leporello
	John Rawnsley voc, *1950 GB baritone vocals, masetto
	Bernard Haitink vn, *1929 NL conductor
	Carol Vaness voc, *1952 US soprano vocals, donna anna, soprano vocals, fiordiligi
	Maria Ewing voc, *1950 US soprano vocals, donna elvira
	Elizabeth Gale voc, *1948 GB soprano vocals, zerlina
	Keith Lewis voc, *1950 tenor vocals, don ottavio
	Claudio Desderi , 1943-2018 IT baritone vocals, don alfonso, baritone vocals, figaro
	Dale Duesing voc, *1947 US baritone vocals, guglielmo
	Delores Ziegler voc, *1951 US mezzo-soprano vocals, dorabella
	Lilian Watson ss, *1947 GB soprano vocals, despina
	John Aler voc, *1949 US tenor vocals, ferrando
	Richard Stillwell voc, baritone vocals, count
	Anne Dawson voc, GB soprano vocals, barbarina
	Faith Esham voc, *1948 US soprano vocals, cherubino
	Felicity Lott voc, *1947 GB soprano vocals, countess, soprano vocals, hanna glawari
	Gianna Rolandi , soprano vocals, susanna
	Willard White voc, b, *1946 GB bass vocals, porgy
	Sir Simon Rattle , *1955 GB conductor
	Marietta Simpson , US mezzo-soprano vocals, maria
	Cynthia Clarey , *1949 US mezzo-soprano vocals, serena
	Cynthia Haymon voc, acg, *1958 US soprano vocals, bess
	Harolyn Blackwell , *1955 US soprano vocals, clara
	Maureen Brathwaite , soprano vocals, lily
	Barrington Coleman , tenor vocals, mingo
	Damon Evans voc, *1949 US tenor vocals, sporting life
	Thomas Hampson voc, *1955 US baritone vocals, count danilo danilowitsch
	Franz Welser-Möst , *1960 AT conductor
	Andrew Watts bsn, bassoon
	Frances Eustace bsn, GB bassoon
	Nicholas Bucknall cl, clarinet
	Timothy Lines cl, clarinet
	Jonathan Dove , *1959 GB conductor
	Robert Maskell alp, horn
	Roger Montgomery alp, horn
	Catherine Latham ob, rec, oboe
	Paul Goodwin ob, GB oboe
	Andrew Davis org, hps, *1944 GB conductor
	Amanda Roocroft voc, *1966 GB soprano vocals
	Alison Hagley acg, *1961 GB soprano vocals
	John Mark Ainsley voc, *1963 GB tenor vocals
	Natalie Dessay voc, *1965 FR soprano vocals

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