Opera Gala

From Adam to Zandonai , from 1954 to 1996, 20 CDs made up of no less than 28 Decca opera recordings, most of them recorded as highlights albums, ma ny long unavailable, newly remastered and all featuring the greatest singers of their age. In bygone years, before 24/7 streaming, recorded music was less readily available than it is now. Complete opera sets were an ex pensive luxury; yet opera, and singers, still captured the classical music public’s imagination like no other genre. The advent of LP allowed for up to an hour’s highlights from a stag e w ork, including the most popular arias and numbers, to be issued in a single, cost effective product. Listeners who baulked at the cost of Solti’s Ring cycle could nevertheless acquire Birgit Nilsson singing the Immolation Scene on one side the climactic scene of Salome on the other. But with John Pritchard in charge she also recorded a sequence of scenes from Verdi’s Aida in 1963, and four years earlier the first act scena from Tristan with Grace Hoffman as Brangäne and Knappertsbusch in Vienna. Many of these ‘highlights only’ recordings have fallen from currency, but now we can all relive the pleasures of Regina Resni k’s Mistress Quickly and Luigi Alva’s Fenton (excerpts from Falstaff , 1963) and Marilyn Horne’s first recorded Carmen (with her husband Henry Lewis, 1970). A sequence of rare Baroque operas featu res the most famous husband and wife team of all, Richard Bonynge and Joan Sutherland, in vocally spectacular excerpts

Tracks

1~1~Intro
1~2~D.I.S.C.O.
1~3~Encore Une Fois
1~4~Lift Me Up
1~5~Get Ready To Bounce
1~6~Footprint
1~7~I've Got No Time
1~8~Sunstroke
1~9~Reflect
1~10~La Vache
1~11~To Be Loved
1~12~Beat Of The Night
1~13~Sweet Kisses
1~14~Dolce Vita
1~15~Solo Amante
1~16~This Is Your Night
1~17~In The Evening
1~18~Suddenly
1~19~Da Beat Goes...
1~20~Flash
1~21~You &Amp; You / You Swaying Arms
1~22~Why Love
1~23~Solidarity
1~24~In The Evening
1~25~Uh La La La
1~26~Remember Me
1~27~Saturday Night
1~28~Mmm Bop
1~29~Samba De Janeiro
1~30~Rhythm Of The Night
1~31~Oh Pretty Woman
1~32~Oh La La La
1~33~Encore Une Fois
1~34~Café Del Mar
1~35~Lover Why
1~36~I Have A Dream
1~37~Sweet Kisses
1~38~I Want You Back
1~39~Faithless (Hablame Luna)
1~40~Ecuador
1~41~Oh La La La
1~42~I'm Not A Taxman
1~43~Keep It Goin'
1~44~Free
1~45~Wings Of Love
1~46~L'Ultimo Dei Mohicani
1~47~Spending My Time
1~48~Number One
1~49~We Are The World
1~50~Ex-3-A-2
1~51~Extasia
1~52~Generation Of Love
1~53~Summer Dream Of Love
1~54~A Love Song
1~55~Kill Me Dearly
1~56~Sister Golden Hair
1~57~Love &Amp; Respect
1~58~Tic Tic Tac
1~59~Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
1~60~Land Down Under
1~61~Singin' In My Mind
1~62~Your Woman
1~63~Tarzan Boy
1~64~D.I.S.C.O.
1~65~Let A Boy Cry
1~66~Your Woman
1~67~(Gonna Get Along) Without You Now
1~68~Encore Une Fois
1~69~Let's Groove
1~70~Shake Your Body
1~71~Bailando
1~72~Belissimadr. Dj Cerla
1~73~Mary Go Wild !
1~74~The Dj (It's Saturday Night)
1~75~The Opera / Meet Her At The Loveparade
1~76~Crazy Duck

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Various Artists
Release Date: 20 November 2020
Genre: Classical Music
Label: ELOQUENCE / DECCA
Distributor: Universal Music