Complete Decca Recordings - Oratorios & Recitals (37CDs Box Set)

The first set comprises Sutherland’s complete Recitals and Oratorio recordings for Decca, ranging from the 1959 operatic recital recorded in Paris, with Nello Santi (has Verdi’s “Santo di patria” ever rung out with greater thrill?), the truly legendary “Art of the Prima Donna” (an early example of a ‘concept’ record), through to the famous ‘Live from Lincoln Center’ (with longtime collaborators Marilyn Horne and Luciano Pavarotti). It all includes some of her earliest recordings, four of which, recorded in 1958 with Richard Bonynge at the piano are being published on Decca for the first time, and a set of French songs which were discovered some years ago at the end of the tapes for the French Opera Arias set. Sutherland was also invited to participate in recordings of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by Ernest Ansermet and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, and these are included, as are two versions of Handel’s Messiah (Boult, Bonynge) and the Solti recording of Verdi’s Requiem. Relative rarities come in the form of an all-Wagner disc (a composer many thought Sutherland was born to sing), bonused with her appearance as the Woodbird in the Solti Ring; Bliss’s A Song of Welcome (from 1954 – her very first studio recording); and Bach’s Cantata ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’ (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring). For her final Decca recital recording, Sutherland teamed up with fellow Australian, hornist Barry Tuckwell, for a disc of Romantic Trios, with her husband Richard Bonynge at the piano.

CD 1

BLISS: A Song of Welcome

J.S. BACH: Cantata ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’

CD 2

Baroque Arias – Bononcini, Paisello, Shield, Arne

Rarities

CD 3

Operatic Arias

CD 4

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9

CD 5

The Art of the Prima Donna

CD 6

The Art of the Prima Donna

CD 7

HANDEL: Messiah

CD 8

HANDEL: Messiah

CD 9

Command Performance

CD 10

Command Performance

CD 11

The Age of Bel Canto

CD 12

The Age of Bel Canto

CD 13

Joy to the World

CD 14

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9

CD 15

Joan Sutherland sings Noël Coward

CD 16

Love Live Forever

CD 17

Love Live Forever

CD 18

Verdi: Requiem

CD 19

Russian Rarities

CD 20

Romantic French Arias

CD 21

Romantic French Arias

CD 22

HANDEL: Messiah

CD 23

HANDEL: Messiah

CD 24

Songs My Mother Taught Me

CD 25

Darwin – Song for a City

CD 26

Operatic Duets

CD 27

Serate Musicali

CD 28

Serate Musicali

CD 29

Joan Sutherland sings Wagner

CD 30

Joan Sutherland sings Mozart

CD 31

Live from Lincoln Center

CD 32

Live from Lincoln Center

CD 33

HANDEL: Athalia

CD 34

HANDEL: Athalia

CD 35

Bel Canto Arias

CD 36

Talking Pictures

CD 37

Romantic Trios