Joan Sutherland Joan Sutherland Oratorios & Recitals
Product Type: 37 CD-Box
The first set of the extensive Sutherland edition includes the complete Recitals and Oratorio recordings for Decca, ranging from the 1959 operatic recital recorded in Paris, with Nello Santi (has Verdi’s “Santo di patria” ever rung out with greater thrill?), the truly legendary “Art of the Prima Donna” (an early example of a ‘concept’ record), through to the famous ‘Live from Lincoln Center’ (with longtime collaborators Marilyn Horne and Luciano Pavarotti). It all includes some of her earliest recordings, four of which, recorded in 1958 with Richard Bonynge at the piano are being published on Decca for the first time, and a set of French songs which were discovered some years ago at the end of the tapes for the French Opera Arias set. Sutherland was also invited to participate in recordings of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by Ernest Ansermet and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, and these are included, as are two versions of Handel’s Messiah (Boult, Bonynge) and the Solti recording of Verdi’s Requiem. Relative rarities come in the form of an all-Wagner disc (a composer many thought Sutherland was born to sing), bonused with her appearance as the Woodbird in the Solti Ring; Bliss’s A Song of Welcome (from 1954 – her very first studio recording); and Bach’s Cantata ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’ (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring). For her final Decca recital recording, Sutherland teamed up with fellow Australian, hornist Barry Tuckwell, for a disc of Romantic Trios, with her husband Richard Bonynge at the piano.
Tracklist:
CD 1 BLISS: A Song of Welcome
J.S. BACH: Cantata ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’
CD 2 Baroque Arias – Bononcini, Paisello, Shield, Arne
Rarities
CD 3 Operatic Arias
CD 4 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9
CDs 5-6 The Art of the Prima Donna
CDs 7–8 HANDEL: Messiah
CDs 9–10 Command Performance
CDs 11-12 The Age of Bel Canto
CD 13 Joy to the World
CD 14 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9
CD 15 Joan Sutherland sings Noël Coward
CDs 16-17 Love Live Forever
CD 18 Verdi: Requiem
CD 19 Russian Rarities
CDs 20-21 Romantic French Arias
CDs 22-23 HANDEL: Messiah
CD 24 Songs My Mother Taught Me
CD 25 Darwin – Song for a City
CD 26 Operatic Duets
CDs 27-28 Serate Musicali
CD 29 Joan Sutherland sings Wagner
CD 30 Joan Sutherland sings Mozart
CDs 31-32 Live from Lincoln Center
CDs 33-34 HANDEL: Athalia
CD 35 Bel Canto Arias
CD 36 Talking Pictures
CD 37 Romantic Trios