Igor Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress

Igor STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)

The Rake's Progress (1951)

The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress (1733–1735) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on 2 May 1947, in a Chicago exhibition.

Ian Bostridge (Tom Rakewell), 

Bryn Terfel (Nick Shadow), 

Deborah York (Anne Trulove), 

Anne Sofie von Otter (Baba the Turk), 

Anne Howells (Mother Goose), 

Peter Bronder (Sellem), 

Martin Robson (Trulove), 

Julian Clarkson (Keeper of the Madhouse)

Monteverdi Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, 

John Eliot Gardiner

Recording: London, Abbey Road Studios, Studio 1, 6/1997

A Summer's Day - Swedish Romantic Songs (Anne Sofie von Otter & Bengt Forsberg)

Anne Sofie von Otter & Bengt Forsberg

A Summer's Day

Swedish Romantic Songs

Songs by

Adolf Fredrik LINDBLAD (1801-1878)

Erik Gustaf GEIJER (1783-1847)

Franz BERWALD (1796-1868)

August SÖDERMAN (1832-1876)

Fredrik Zetterström (Baritone on tracks: 7, 8)

Anne Sofie Von Otter sings Baroque

Anne Sofie von Otter

George Frideric HANDEL (1685-1759)
Hercules (1745): Where shall I fly? (5:24), Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724): E pur così … Piangerò la sorte mia (6:23)

Claudio MONTEVERDI (1567-1643)
Scherzi musicali (1607): O rosetta che rosetta (1:48), La violetta (3:06), Arianna (1608): Lasciate mi morire (3:47)

Johan Helmich ROMAN (1694-1758)
Then Svenska Messan (1752): O Herre Gud Gudds Lamb (3:28)

Georg Philipp TELEMANN (1681-1767)
Trauer-Music eines kunsterfahrenen Canarienvogels (1737) (15:07)

George Frideric HANDEL (1685-1759)
Semele (1744): Where’er you walk (4:03)

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)

Drottingholm Baroque Ensemble

Recorded 28th February-March 2nd 1983 at Sa Gertrud Church, Stockholm

Wilhelm Stenhammar - Songs

Wilhelm STENHAMMAR (1871-1927): 

Sanger / Songs

Anne Sofie von Otter, Hakan Hagegar, Bengt Forsberg, Thomas Schuback.

Rendezvous with Korngold - Songs and Chamber Music

Rendezvous With Korngold

Songs and Chamber Music

Anne Sophie Von Otter

Bent Forsberg & Friends