Since you are interested in The Beggar's Opera (complete), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
BIZET
Carmen Suite, Jeux D'Enfants Orchestre De L'Opera Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung(Conductor) [ DG / CD ] If the suites from Bizet's Carmen and L'Arlésienne have become overly familiar and even stale from too many humdrum recordings, then this lively disc may rescue them - and listeners - from the Slough of Despond. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: The String Quintets Amadeus Quartet [ DG The Originals / 2 CD - released 19/Apr/2005 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1761-1800) - The Amadeus' 1960s recordings of the String Quintets are now reissued on 2 CDs compared with the 3 they occupied in the DG Chamber Music series. The bargain is obvious when compared to... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies 6, 7, 8 The Hanover Band / Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1761-1800) - 'Immensely inventive works that, had there not been another hundred to follow, every music-lover would know and which would be widely performed and recorded' (Early Music Review) |