Solo Vocal Works

Cantata BWV 202, 'Wedding Cantata' (Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Emma Kirkby

Cantata BWV 208, 'Hunt Cantata' (Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Emma Kirkby, Jennifer Smith, Simon Davies, Michael George

Cantata BWV 211, 'Coffee Cantata' (Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Emma Kirkby, David Thomas, Rogers Covey-Crump

Cantata BWV 212, 'Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet' (Peasant Cantata)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Cantata BWV 51, 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen'

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Emma Kirkby

Cantata BWV 56, 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen'

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Cantata BWV 82, 'Ich habe genug'

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Hans Hotter

Hermit Songs

Samuel Barber

Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Samuel Barber

Top Choice: Leontyne Price

An die ferne Geliebte

Ludwig van Beethoven

Top Choice: Peter Schreier, András Schiff

Adelaide

Ludwig van Beethoven

Top Choice: Fritz Wunderlich, Hubert Giesen

Les Nuits d'été

Hector Berlioz

Top Choice: Régine Crespin

Alto Rhapsody

Johannes Brahms

Top Choice: Christa Ludwig

Die schöne Magelone

Johannes Brahms

Top Choice: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jörg Demus

Lieder (Selected)

Johannes Brahms

Top Choice: Jessye Norman, Daniel Barenboim

Vier ernste Gesänge (Four Serious Songs)

Johannes Brahms

Top Choice: Hans Hotter, Gerald Moore

Les Illuminations

Benjamin Britten

Nocturne

Benjamin Britten

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

Benjamin Britten

Top Choice: Peter Pears, Barry Tuckwell

Chants d'Auvergne (Songs of the Auvergne)

Joseph Canteloube

Top Choice: Netania Davrath

Old American Songs

Aaron Copland

Top Choice: William Warfield, Aaron Copland

Mélodies (Selected)

Claude Debussy

Top Choice: Gérard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin

Sea Pictures

Edward Elgar

Top Choice: Janet Baker

Mélodies (Selected)

Gabriel Fauré

Top Choice: Gérard Souzay, Jacqueline Bonneau

Dies Natalis

Gerald Finzi

Top Choice: Wilfred Brown

Let Us Garlands Bring

Gerald Finzi

Top Choice: Bryn Terfel, Malcolm Martineau

Panis angelicus

César Franck

Top Choice: Luciano Pavarotti

Ave Maria (after Bach)

Charles Gounod

Top Choice: Kathleen Battle

Songs (Selected, incl. Haugtussa)

Edvard Grieg

Top Choice: Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg

Arias (Selected)

George Frideric Handel

Top Choice: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)

Gustav Mahler

Top Choice: Kathleen Ferrier, Julius Patzak

Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Gustav Mahler

Top Choice: Maureen Forrester, Heinz Rehfuss

Lieder (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder, Rückert-Lieder)

Gustav Mahler

Top Choice: Janet Baker

Six Monologues from Jedermann

Frank Martin

Top Choice: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Sacred Vocal Music (Selected)

Claudio Monteverdi

Top Choice: Emma Kirkby, Ian Partridge, David Thomas

Exsultate, jubilate

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Top Choice: Edith Mathis

Songs (Complete, incl. Songs and Dances of Death)

Modest Mussorgsky

Top Choice: Boris Christoff, Alexander Labinsky

Stabat Mater

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Top Choice: Mirella Freni, Teresa Berganza

Mélodies (Selected)

Francis Poulenc

Top Choice: Régine Crespin

Vocalise

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Top Choice: Anna Moffo

Mélodies (Histoire Naturelle, Chansons madécasses, etc.)

Maurice Ravel

Top Choice: Gérard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin

Shéhérazade

Maurice Ravel

Top Choice: Régine Crespin

Pierrot Lunaire

Arnold Schoenberg

Top Choice: Jan DeGaetani

Ave Maria (Ellens dritter Gesang)

Franz Schubert

Top Choice: Barbara Bonney, Geoffrey Parsons

Die schöne Müllerin

Franz Schubert

Top Choice: Fritz Wunderlich, Hubert Giesen

Lieder (Selected)

Franz Schubert

Top Choice: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore

Schwanengesang

Franz Schubert

Top Choice: Bryn Terfel, Malcolm Martineau

Winterreise

Franz Schubert

Top Choice: Olaf Bär, Geoffrey Parsons

Dichterliebe

Robert Schumann

Top Choice: Gérard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin

Frauenliebe und -leben

Robert Schumann

Top Choice: Kathleen Ferrier, John Newmark

Zwölf Gedichte (Kerner-Lieder)

Robert Schumann

Liederkreis, Op. 39 & Op. 24

Robert Schumann

Top Choice: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore, Hertha Klust

Songs (Selected)

Wilhelm Stenhammar

Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder)

Richard Strauss

Top Choice: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Lieder (Selected)

Richard Strauss

Top Choice: Barbara Bonney, Geoffrey Parsons

English, Irish & Scottish Songs (Collection)

Various Composers

Top Choice: Kathleen Ferrier, Phyllis Spurr, John Newmark

On Wenlock Edge

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Top Choice: Ian Partridge

Songs of Travel

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Top Choice: Bryn Terfel, Malcolm Martineau

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Top Choice: Anna Moffo

Stabat Mater

Antonio Vivaldi

Top Choice: Andreas Scholl

Wesendonck Lieder

Richard Wagner

Top Choice: Kirsten Flagstad, Gerald Moore

Lieder (Selected)

Hugo Wolf

Top Choice: Barbara Bonney, Geoffrey Parsons