Mozart
1 The Abduction from the Seraglio Osmin's Revenge
'When they lead you to the scaffold'
2 The Magic Flute Sarastro's Prayer
'O Isis and Osiris, listen'
with Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Beethoven
3 Fidelio Pizarro's Revenge
'Now, now for my victory!'
with Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
4 Rocco's Aria 'If you don't have any money'
Weber
5 Der Freischütz Caspar's Song
'On this earth we could not bear'
6 Caspar's Aria 'Go! Go! The fatal die is cast!'
Wagner
7 The Rhinegold Wotan's monologue
'The bridge leads you homeward...'
- 'Evening rays flood the sky with splendour'
with Colin Lee, tenor
& Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano (PMF Scholar)
8 The Flying Dutchman Dutchman's Monologue
'The time comes round'
9 Daland's Aria
'Senta, my child,
please make this stranger warmly welcome'
10 The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
Pogner's Monologue 'Now hear and attend me well.
The feast of John, Midsummer day'
11 Hans Sachs's Flieder Monologue 'My elder tree...'
12 Hans Sachs's Wahn Monologue 'Mad, mad...'
R. Strauss
13 Der Rosenkavalier Baron Ochs's Waltz
'Look for my glasses...' with Elizabeth Vaughan, contralto
Lortzing
14 The Armourer Hans Stadlinger's Song 'I used to be young with a fine head of hair'
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra (tracks 4, 9 & 11)
David Parry - conductor
Recorded in Blackheath Halls, London 14-16 & 18 December 1998, 16-17 October 1999,
24-27 September 2001
Producer - Brian Couzens, Sound engineer - Ralph Couzens,
Assistant engineers - Christopher Brooke & Michael Common
