The Complete Decca Recordings – Recitals and Oratorios

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
SIR ARTHUR BLISS 
J.S. BACH: Cantata ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’
GERAINT JONES

CD 2
Baroque Arias – Bononcini, Paisello, Shield, Arne
ANTHONY LEWIS
Rarities
RICHARD BONYNGE

CD 3
Operatic Arias
NELLO SANTI

CD 4
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9
ERNEST ANSERMET

CDs 5-6
The Art of the Prima Donna
FRANCESCO MOLINARI-PRADELLI

CDs 7–8
HANDEL: Messiah
SIR ADRIAN BOULT

CDs 9–10
Command Performance
RICHARD BONYNGE

CDs 11-12
The Age of Bel Canto 
RICHARD BONYNGE

CD 13
Joy to the World
RICHARD BONYNGE

CD 14
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9
HANS SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT

CD 15
Joan Sutherland sings Noël Coward
RICHARD BONYNGE

CDs 16-17
Love Live Forever
RICHARD BONYNGE

CD 18
Verdi: Requiem
SIR GEORG SOLTI

CD 19
Russian Rarities
RICHARD BONYNGE

CDs 20-21
Romantic French Arias 
RICHARD BONYNGE

CDs 22-23
HANDEL: Messiah
RICHARD BONYNGE

CD 24
Songs My Mother Taught Me
RICHARD BONYNGE

CD 25
Darwin – Song for a City
RICHARD BONYNGE
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE

CD 26
Operatic Duets
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI · RICHARD BONYNGE

CDs 27-28
Serate Musicali
RICHARD BONYNGE

CD 29
Joan Sutherland sings Wagner
RICHARD BONYNGE

CD 30
Joan Sutherland sings Mozart
RICHARD BONYNGE

CDs 31-32
Live from Lincoln Center
MARILYN HORNE · LUCIANO PAVAROTTI
RICHARD BONYNGE

CDs 33-34
HANDEL: Athalia
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD

CD 35
Bel Canto Arias
RICHARD BONYNGE

CD 36
Talking Pictures
RICHARD BONYNGE

CD 37
Romantic Trios
BARRY TUCKWELL · RICHARD BONYNGE