Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano)
Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Renate Behle (mezzo-soprano)
Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)
Franco Bonisolli (tenor)
Wolfgang Brendel (baritone)
Pavol Breslik (tenor)
Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano)
Bruno Canino (piano)
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Pavel Gililov (piano)
Edita Gruberova (soprano)
Dieter Klocker (clarinet)
Konstantin Lifschitz (piano)
Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo-soprano)
Luigi Magistrelli (basset horn)
Oleg Maisenberg (piano)
Kurt Moll (bass)
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)
Jessye Norman (soprano)
Gerhard Oppitz (piano)
Boris Pergamenschikow (cello)
Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano)
Lucia Popp (soprano)
Michael Rische (piano)
Carl Seemann (piano)
Rudolf Serkin (piano)
Neil Shicoff (tenor)
Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin)
Baiba Skride (violin)
Lauma Skride (piano)
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano)
Anna Tomowa-Sintow (soprano)
Julia Varady (soprano)
Michael Volle (baritone)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
I Mandolini Napoletani di Gino del Vescov
Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Prague Chamber Orchestra
Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductors

Gerd Albrecht
Pavel Baleff
Serge Baudo
Karl Bohm
Lukasz Borowicz
Frederic Chaslin
Kurt Eichhorn
Georg Fritzsch
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Lamberto Gardelli
Neeme Jarvi
Carlos Kleiber
Otto Klemperer
Rafael Kubelik
Patrick Lange
Jesus Lopez-Cobos
Elvio Monti
Andris Nelsons
Vaclav Neumann
Giuseppe Patane
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Ulf Schirmer
Aziz Shokhakimov
Stefan Soltesz
Marcello Viotti
Heinz Wallberg

Works

Arditi, Luigi

Il bacio

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Orchestral Suite no.3 in D major, BWV1068

» II Air 'Air on the G string'

Partita no.1 in B flat major, BWV825

» Praeludium

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Piano Concerto no.4 in G major, op.58

» II Andante con moto

Symphony no.4 in B flat major, op.60

» IV Allegro ma non troppo

Bizet, Georges

Carmen

» Pres des remparts de Seville 'Seguidilla' (Act 1)

Djamileh

» Sans doute, l'heure est prochaine

Brahms, Johannes

Klavierstucke (4), op.119

» no.3 Intermezzo in C major

Cilea, Francesco

Adriana Lecouvreur

» Io son l'umile ancella

Debussy, Claude

Epigraphes antiques (6)

» no.1 Pour invoquer Pan

Dvorak, Antonin

Rusalka, op.114

» Mesicku na nebi hlubokem (Song to the Moon) (Act 1)

Glazunov, Alexander

Symphony no.1 in E major, op.5 'Slavyanskaya'

» II Scherzo. Allegro

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Alceste

» Divinites du Styx

Gounod, Charles

Faust

» Avant de quitter ces lieux 'Valentin's aria'

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Symphony no.88 in G major, Hob.1:88

» IV Finale. Allegro con spirito

Massenet, Jules

Werther

» Toute mon ame est la ...Pourquoi me reveiller (Act 3)

Mendelssohn, Felix

Concert Piece in F minor for clarinet and basset horn, op.113

» III Presto

Moniuszko, Stanislaw

Flis (The Raftsman)

» Plyna tratwy po Wisle

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Cosi fan tutte, K588

» Un'aura amorosa del nostro tesoro

Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, K384

» Oh, wie will ich triumphieren

Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute), K620

» Overture

Puccini, Giacomo

Gianni Schicchi

» O mio babbino caro

La Boheme

» In un coupe?... O Mimi, tu piu non torni

Rossini, Gioachino

La donna del lago

» Tanti affetti in tal momento (Act 2)

Saint-Saens, Camille

Carnival of the Animals

» The Swan

Schubert, Franz

Piano Sonata no.14 in A minor, D784

» II Andante

Symphony no.2 in B flat major, D125

» III Menuetto. Allegro vivace

Schulhoff, Erwin

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

» Danse des tailleurs

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor, op.77

» IV Burlesca

Sibelius, Jean

Pieces (4) for violin/cello and piano, op.78

» no.2 Romance

Spohr, Louis

Jessonda

» Duet 'Lass fur ihn, den ich geliebet (Act 2)

Strauss, Richard

Ariadne auf Naxos, op.60

» Es gibt ein Reich, wo alles rein ist

Suk, Josef

Spring, op.22a

» no.5 V roztouzeni (Longing) (arr. for orchestra)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Souvenir d'un lieu cher, op.42 (orch. Glazunov)

» no.3 Melodie

Symphony no.5 in E minor, op.64

» III Valse

Tosti, Paolo

Marechiare

Verdi, Giuseppe

Il trovatore

» Stride la vampa! (Act 2)

Wagner, Richard

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg

» Verachtet mir die Meister nicht

Tannhauser

» Dich, teure Halle, gruss' ich wieder, 'The Hall Aria'

Wieniawski, Henryk

Etudes-caprices (8), op.18

» no.4 in A minor (arr. Kreisler for violin and piano)

Artists

Conductors

About

When the ORFEO label was established in Munich 40 years ago,surely no one on the music scene back then would have predicted that the record company would develop into a firmly established player in the classical music market. One of the label’s main priorities in the early years was vocal music, with opera rarities top of the list and, since the mid-1980s, the re-use of historic tape recordings. Big names featured on the label’s own productions, while ORFEO also developed into a talent factory by discovering and nurturing young artists.

This ORFEO 40th Anniversary 2-CD sampler well reflects these two aspects of the label by combining highlight tracks of historical recordings with today’s global stars.