The Back To Bach Anniversary Channel The Bel Canto Channel The Romantic Channel The Oratorio Channel The Baroque Channel The Performance Channel The Archive Channel The Orchestral Channel
“The
immortal God of harmony” – the words of Beethoven describing Bach
in a letter to Christoph Breitkopf in 1801. In our Back to Bach Channel
we mark the 250th Anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach by
presenting his greatest compositions from the breadth of his repertoire
– including the Brandenburg Concerti, Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Cello
Suites, Goldberg Variations, the two mighty Passions, St. John and St.
Matthew, his B Minor Mass, Cantata 140, “Wachet auf” – and many, many
more, performed by such artists as The Münchner Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter,
Yo-Yo Ma, Glenn Gould, Rosalyn Tureck, Jascha Heifetz, Philippe Herreweghe,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Janet Baker, Andreas Scholl and Ian Bostridge.
Join us in our celebration and listen in wonder to the music of J.S. Bach,
the father of all composers.
Meaning simply 'beautiful singing', this is a title which really applies
to more or less all our channels here at OperadiO.com! But here you can
specifically listen to the music of the composers from the Bel Canto period
plus a little more. We've included Mozart too - so you'll find scenes
and arias from The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte
(to name but three) as well as the works of the great Italian composers,
Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini.
Here the temperature rises! Our Romantic Channel is the home of Grand
Opera. You'll find composers such as Verdi, Puccini, Massenet, Gounod
and Wagner. The orchestrations are big and rich and the singers are charged
with passion. Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras, Corelli, Callas, Tebaldi,
Gobbi, Merrill, Christoff and Ghiaurov - you'll find them all here - plus
many more!
At the service of religion some of the greatest composers in history have
provided us with some of the most beautiful music ever written. On the
Oratorio Channel you'll find the father of all composers - Johann Sebastian
Bach. He's joined by members of his family - C.P.E. and J.C. as well as
Mozart, Handel, Faure, Mendelssohn, Brahms - the list is enormous!! This
music is not just relaxing and ethereal, it's charged with drama too.
Enjoy!
Baroque music is incredibly popular and extremely pleasing to listen too.
We enlisted the assistance of the distinguished conductor Trevor Pinnock
while compiling the playlist for this channel and we've extended our time
scale to encompass music from earlier periods still. Here you'll discover
the music of such composers at Monteverdi, Corelli, Albinoni, Bach, Handel
and the young Mozart.
Would you like to hear Pavarotti, Domingo, Alagna, Terfel, Bartoli, Fleming
and Gheorghiu singing their party pieces? Here's where you'll find them!
You'll hear everything from Kurt Weill and Rogers and Hammerstein to Bernstein
and Gershwin to Schubert and Brahms to Puccini and Verdi. This is the
home of the great artists on the concert and recital platform.
The Archive channel is our gem. This is where you can hear the great singers
of the Golden Era. You can hear the legendary voices of Caruso, Gigli
and Schipa - the 3 tenors of their day. Ruffo, De Luca, Battistini, Ponselle,
Tetrazzini, Flagstad, Pinza and Kipnis. These were the greatest singers
in the world during the first half of this century. They were the pioneers
in the recording of the human voice - the first to be committed to record.
The world was a very different place when these singers plied their trade.
Listen to their art - one which many argue is now dead! - here on the
Archive Channel
Here
at OperadiO.com we're mostly dedicated to the human voice. However, there
are instrumental sections in all operas - Intermezzos, Prologues and Overtures,
all of which you can hear on our other channels. We've extended that 'instrumental'
theme here on the Orchestral Channel. It's absolutely what it says it
is - you'll find no voices here! But you'll discover the greatest orchestral
works ever written by the greatest composers. This channel encompasses
all periods - from Baroque to the early 20th Century. You'll find concerti
here too. So, for instance, as well as Rachmaninov's Symphony No.2, you'll
also find his Piano Concerto No.2...and No.3. As well as Tchaikovsky's
Symphonies, you'll find his great Violin Concerto. And all these works
played by the top musicians in the top orchestras in the world.
The Interview
Channel Richard Morrison and his colleagues talk to the top young
artists and biggest stars of Opera and Classical Music, including Angela
Gheorghiu, Bernard Haitink, Sir Thomas Allen, Nelly Miricioiu, Anja Harteros
and Ingo Metzmacher.