Joan Sutherland Oratorios & Recitals (37 CD Box Set)

Decca embarks on a Joan Sutherland edition comprising her complete recordings for the label.

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This, the first set to be released, comprises Sutherland’s 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 also 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, together with a set of French songs which were discovered some years ago at the end of the tapes for the ‘Arias from French Opera’ 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.

TRACK LIST

CD 1
BLISS: A Song of Welcome
SIR ARTHUR BLISS
J.S. BACH: Cantata ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’
GERAINT JONES
CD 2
Baroque Arias – Bononcini, Paisello, Shield, Arne
ANTHONY LEWIS
Rarities
RICHARD BONYNGE
CD 3
Operatic Arias
NELLO SANTI
CD 4
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9
ERNEST ANSERMET
CDs 5-6
The Art of the Prima Donna
FRANCESCO MOLINARI-PRADELLI
CDs 7–8
HANDEL: Messiah
SIR ADRIAN BOULT
CDs 9–10
Command Performance
RICHARD BONYNGE
CDs 11-12
The Age of Bel Canto
RICHARD BONYNGE
CD 13
Joy to the World
RICHARD BONYNGE
CD 14
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9
HANS SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT
CD 15
Joan Sutherland sings Noël Coward
RICHARD BONYNGE
CDs 16-17
Love Live Forever
RICHARD BONYNGE
CD 18
Verdi: Requiem
SIR GEORG SOLTI
CD 19
Russian Rarities
RICHARD BONYNGE
CDs 20-21
Romantic French Arias
RICHARD BONYNGE
CDs 22-23
HANDEL: Messiah
RICHARD BONYNGE
CD 24
Songs My Mother Taught Me
RICHARD BONYNGE
CD 25
Darwin – Song for a City
RICHARD BONYNGE
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE
CD 26
Operatic Duets
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI · RICHARD BONYNGE
CDs 27-28
Serate Musicali
RICHARD BONYNGE
CD 29
Joan Sutherland sings Wagner
RICHARD BONYNGE
CD 30
Joan Sutherland sings Mozart
RICHARD BONYNGE
CDs 31-32
Live from Lincoln Center
MARILYN HORNE · LUCIANO PAVAROTTI
RICHARD BONYNGE
CDs 33-34
HANDEL: Athalia
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
CD 35
Bel Canto Arias
RICHARD BONYNGE
CD 36
Talking Pictures
RICHARD BONYNGE
CD 37
Romantic Trios
BARRY TUCKWELL · RICHARD BONYNGE