Joan Sutherland and Jon Vickers

Gaetano Donizetti (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Gioachino Rossini (Composer), Louis Spohr (Composer), Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Rafael Kubelik (Conductor), Orchestra of The Royal Opera (Orchestra), Richard Bonynge (Performer), Joan Sutherland (Performer), Jon Vickers (Performer), James Pease (Performer), John Lanigan (Performer), Michael Langdon (Performer), Noreen Berry (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Richard Bonynge, Joan Sutherland, Jon Vickers, James Pease, John Lanigan, et al.
• Orchestra: Orchestra of The Royal Opera
• Conductor: Rafael Kubelik
• Composer: Gaetano Donizetti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioachino Rossini, Louis Spohr, Richard [Classical] Wagner
• Audio CD (November 23, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pearl
• ASIN: B00065MJ76
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #488,706 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Overture - Joan Sutherland

2. Who Treads The Path Of Toil - Joan Sutherland

3. Prelude - Joan Sutherland

4. Fools, Fools, Everywhere Fools - Joan Sutherland

5. 'Good Day My Eva'... Prize Song - Joan Sutherland

6. Quintet - Joan Sutherland

7. Cavatina And Rondo Finale - Richard Bonynge

8. Rose Softly Blooming - Richard Bonynge

9. Rossini: La Fioraia Fiorentina - Richard Bonynge

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Covent Garden Glows, October 13, 2010

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This review is from: Joan Sutherland and Jon Vickers (Audio CD)

Stemming from a 1957 television concert, this recording from Lord Harewood's private collection is pretty irresistible.
Joan Sutherland and John Vickers in youthful top form in English language excerpts from ZAUBERFLOTE (Act I Finale)and MEISTERSINGER (Just under thirty minutes of excerpts from Act III) under the sure direction of Rafael Kubelik. What more could you want ? The sound recording is clear and listenable. James Pease also makes a strong contribution as Hans Sachs.
Sutherland and Vickers are simply glorious ! (Sutherland's diction notably clearer than it was to be just a few years later.)
This is a very strong recommend.
The filler, Sutherland's first studio recording, I believe originally released as a 45, of arias and songs by Donizetti, Spohr and Rossini accompanied by Richard Bonynge on piano, is also quite wonderful, but it has had several incarnations on CD. It is a pity that some other rarer Sutherland or Vickers materiel might have been included instead.