Voice: Audio Recordings

This recording with Elly Ameling (soprano) and Dalton Baldwin (piano) has Debussy and Fauré's settings the poetry of Paul Verlaine and Pierre Louÿs.

Frederica Von Stade (mezzo-soprano) and Jean Philippe Collard (piano) interpret eighteen Fauré songs with the text of poets such as Prudhomme, Hugo, Verlaine, and Mendès.

Susan Graham (soprano) and Roger Vignoles (piano) play songs by Reynaldo Hahn. "L'énamourée", "L'heure exquise", and "Si mes vers avaient des ailes" are standout favorites!

Mezzo-soprano Janet Baker and pianist Gerald Moore interpret the songs of Duparc, Debussy, and Fauré.

Singers Heather Harper (soprano), Jill Gomez (soprano), Jessye Norman (soprano), and José Van Dam (baritone) perform songs by Ravel with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble intercontemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez.

Gérard Souzay (baritone) and Dalton Baldwin (piano) perform Gounod, Chabrier, Bizet, Franck, Roussel, Poulenc, Fauré, Ravel, and Hahn.

Baritone Graham Trew and pianist Roger Vignoles perform various settings of Shakespeare's sonnets, including settings by Haydn and Quilter.

Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano, sings with both an instrumental ensemble (in the pre-1800 songs) and Gerald Moore, piano (in the modern songs), in this compilation of English art songs.

Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Phyllis Spurr (piano), and Frederick Stone (piano) perform songs by Handel, Purcell, and others.

A number of different American art songs sung by 15 different singers. Two standouts are "Heav'n, Heav'n" sung by Marian Anderson and "When I Have Sung My Songs" sung by Kirsten Flagstad.

Famed contralto Marian Anderson performs with pianist Franz Rupp on her final recital. Highlights include works by Handel, Schubert, Burleigh, and more!

Wolf’s Mörike Lieder performed by Elly Ameling (soprano) and Dalton Baldwin (piano). “Der Knabe und das Immlein” is a lovely selection off of this lovely recording!

Anne Sofie Von Otter (mezzo-soprano) and Bengt Forsberg (piano) play some of Brahm’s beloved lieder. Nils-Erik Sparf (viola) features with the two on Zwei Gesänge op. 91.

Linda Finnie (mezzo-soprano) and Anthony Legge (piano) with John Harrington (viola) play/sing Brahms and Schumann lieder. Works included are Frauenliebe und -leben op. 42, Maria Stuart Lieder op. 133, Gestillte Sehnsucht op. 91 no. 1, Geistliches Wiegenlied op. 91 no. 2, and Vier ernste Gesänge op. 121.

Wonderful baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and pianist Jörg Demus play Schumann’s Dichterliebe (Poet’s love) and 6 different song selections from Brahms’s lieder.

Jessye Norman, soprano, Christa Ludwig, soprano, Fritz Wunderlich, tenor, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone, sing a variety of Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann lieder in this compilation CD of German romantic art song.

Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) and Julius Patzak (tenor- 1st work) sing Mahler’s Das Lied von Der Erde and Three Ruckert songs with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter.