[FOR PROMOTIONAL PURPOSES ONLY - DO NOT REPRODUCE.]

 

 

 

MP3 SELECTIONS

 

RICHARD WAGNER

 

GUSTAV MAHLER

 

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

 

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

 

GIACOMO PUCCINI

 

ERNEST CHAUSSON

 

 

RICHARD WAGNER

Die Walküre - Recorded live New York 2008

Friedmund darf ich nicht heissen

Ein starkes Jagen auf uns

Ein trauriges Kind

Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater

Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond

Seigmund heiss ich!

Zauberfest

 

RICHARD WAGNER

Parsifal - Recorded live Rome 2008

Amfortas! die Wunde!

Nur eine Waffe taugt!

 

RICHARD WAGNER

Lohengrin - Recorded live New York 2006

In fernem Land

 

GUSTAV MAHLER

Das lied von der Erde - Recorded live Glasgow 2008

Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde

Von der Jugend

Der Trunkene im Frühling

 

 

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Idomeneo - Recorded live New York 2006

Volgi intorno lo sguardo

 

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Fidelio - Recorded live London 2007

Gott! Welch dunkel hier

 

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 9 - Recorded live London 2007

Froh wie seine Sonnen

 

GIACOMO PUCCINI

Turandot - Recorded live Auckland 2006

Nessun dorma

 

GIACOMO PUCCINI

Tosca - Recorded live Adelaide 2007

E lucevan le stelle

 

ERNEST CHAUSSON

Le Roi Arthus - Studio recording London 2005

Le Roi Arthus selection

 

LE ROI ARTHUS

Editor's Choice Award from Gramophone Magazine.
Leon Botstein returns with another rarely heard opera jewel. Chausson’s Le Roi Arthus on Telarc features Andrew Schroeder as Arthus, Susan Bullock as Genièvre, Simon O’Neill as Lancelot, François Le Roux as Merlin and the Apollo Voices.

Leon Botstein - conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Schroeder -- baritone (Arthus)
Susan Bullock -- soprano (Genievre)
Simon O'Neill -- tenor (Lancelot)
Francois Le Roux -- baritone (Merlin)
Daniel Okulitch -- baritone (Mordred)
Garret Sorenson -- tenor (Lyonnel)
Sir Donald McIntyre -- bass baritone (Allan)
Andrew Kennedy -- tenor (Plowman)
Apollo Voices
Stephen Betteridge -- chorus master

DAME KIRI AND FRIENDS

On February 28, 2004, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa gave an historic gala concert at The Aotea Centre to launch the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation, a cause truly close to her heart that she has created with the stated mission of providing financial and career support for talented young New Zealand singers and musicians at the start of their careers. She was accompanied by the Auckland Philharmonia & she invited some of her NZ's friends to come & share into this world-class occasion - including Dame Malvina Major, Simon O'Neill & Helen Medlyn.
 

SAVITRI

This all English album is a wonderful mix of the known and little known. Gustav Holst's opera in one act "Savitri" is based on an episode from the Indian classic Mahabharta. Holst created this work as a result of an almost obsessive fascination with spiritualism and Asian culture that swept through Europe prior to World War I.

 

Glen Barton Cortese, conductor

Jessica Miller, mezzo soprano

Kyu Won Han, baritone

Simon O'Neill, tenor

Manhattan School Of Music

TE PAPA - Gareth Farr

“We now live in a unique multi-cultural society. Our many and varied contemporary art forms reflect this fact, and display something that could only be created here. This piece is a recognition of the similarities and differences of all of the cultures of New Zealand. It is a musical analogy to my ideal that cultures can co-exist without overshadowing or changing one another. And finally, it is a musical celebration that we all have ended up here on the same soil.”
Gareth Farr

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Young
Mere Boynton (kaikaranga)
Virginia-Marie Stack (mezzo-soprano)
Simon O’Neill (tenor)