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Great Baritone Arias - Mattei, Renes

BIS  BIS-1749

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Vocal

Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Gounod, Rossini, Verdi, Britten

Peter Mattei (baritone)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Lawrence Renes (conductor)

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Works (14)

• Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd, Op. 50 Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray
• Charles-Francois Gounod: Faust, CG 4 Avant de quitter ces lieux
• Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816) Largo al factotum della citta
• Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo (1846) Son io, mio Carlo - Per me giunto e il di supremo - O Carlo, ascolta
• Peter Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Op. 24 Uzhel ya zasluzhil ot vas nasmyeshku etu?
• Peter Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades, Op. 68 Ya vas liubliu
• Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70 Act II: Blick ich umher in diesem edlen Kreise
• Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70 Act III: Wie Todesahnung Dämmerung deckt die Lände - O du mein holder Abendstern
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527 Deh, vieni alla finestra
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527 Finch'han dal vino
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527 Meta di voi qua vadano
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 Hai gia vinta la causa! Cosa sento!
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 Se vuol ballare
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, K. 584