Joan Sutherland Recital Guide

This is my video guide to collecting Joan Sutherland recitals. Included pictures are of the various CD and LP releases of each recital. Decca is usually tight-lipped about whether a CD is a compilation or an actual recital; I hope this video helps discern the difference.

List of Joan Sutherland Recitals (and excerpts included in video):

1957 Bel Canto Disc - Rossini: La Fiorala Fiorentina
1959 Baroque Arias - Arne: The traveller benighted (Love in a Village)
1959 Operatic Arias - Donizetti: O luce di quest'anima (Linda di Chamounix)
1960 Art of the Prima Donna - Thomas: A vos jeux, mes amis (Hamlet)
1962 Command Performance - Bishop: Home sweet home
1963 Age of Bel Canto (w/ Horne and Conrad) - Verdi: Santo di Patria (Attila)
1965 Joy to the World Christmas - The 12 days of Christmas
1966 Love Live Forever Recital - Romberg: Student's Chorus (The Student Prince)
1966 Noël Coward Recital: I'll follow my secret heart (Conversation Piece)
1968 Russian Jewels - Gliere: Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, Op. 82
1969 Romantic French Arias - Meyerbeer: Veille sur eux... Vaisseau que le flot balance (L' Etoile du Nord)
1972 Songs My Mother Taught Me - Grieg: Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt)
1976 Duets (with Pavarotti) - Verdi: O terra addio (Aida)
1978 Mozart Recital - Ch'io mi scordi di te... Non temer (K505)
1978 Wagner Recital - Wagner: O Sachs, mein Freund (Meistersinger)
1978 Serate Musicali - Delibes: Les Filles de Cadix
1985 Bel Canto Arias - Donizetti: In questo semplice modesto asilo (Betly)
1986 Talking Pictures - J. Strauss II/Tiomkin/Hammerstein II: One day when we were young
1987 Romantic Horn Trios (with Tuckwell) - NA

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[Richiesutherland]

Thank you for this lovely listing, which makes for gorgeous listening as well. I bought the new box, even though I have everything in it. Alas, the notes are only slightly interesting, nothing more. But it is nice to have all the recitals in one box with the proper integrity, even if it makes for some short CDs. Unreleased items? One night I heard her sing Norina's aria backstage and she said she had recorded it, but "Moystro didn't like me variants." So, there must be other items!

[CaptFitzbattleaxe]

@Richiesutherland I do hope your right. You'd think Decca would try to scrape up something...

[jhs777]

Wonderful to hear the Barcarole from L'ETOILE du NORD performed by Joan Sutherland in the "Romantic French Arias" album. Her singing of the rapid passages over the men’s chorus is exhilarating!

I remember attending my first Joan Sutherland recital at the newly-opened Kennedy Center in D.C., where she wore the gown from the cover of the "Romantic French Arias" album. There was much great singing that night, but I've never forgotten an audience member's interruption of the recital.

[leprincebeaumont]

Thank you sooo much!

[CaptFitzbattleaxe]

@vonFalkenstein77 Hehe. Sounds like Dame Joan all right.

I'm not sure about unreleased studio items. If there is anything, it's something "undiscovered" like the 6 French Songs. Every scrap of music she recorded in the studio has, to my knowledge, been released.

[vonFalkenstein77]

@CaptFitzbattleaxe

Do you know of any unreleased studio items? It was quite suprising that her recording of "Ernani" was released years after the recording. Back in 1999 I asked Dame Joan why DECCA does not release her Wagner recital on CD. She told me "I never know what they are doing".

[CaptFitzbattleaxe]

@DanRobSo Just looked at the track listing. I own every minute of the music there. Bah, Decca. They don't even bother to include the 6 newly discovered French Songs released on The Art of Joan Sutherland. Also: kind of odd how they pushed the 1959 Baroque Arias to the last disc to mate with the 1968 Russian Gems pieces (padded out by the 1959 Acis & Galatea). Whatevs, Decca. If they included texts and translations though, it would be worth every penny. Maybe I'll get it for Christmas. :D

[DanRobSo]

@CaptFitzbattleaxe the UK Amazon site lists the contents (amazon.co.uk/Joan-Sutherland-­Complete-Studio-Recitals/dp/tr­acks/B005DWWVS4). Nope, no unreleased items (boo!) Yes, I will repurchasing A LOT of it (some of it for the third or fourth time!) but that the sacrifice of being a complete Sutherlandian!

[CaptFitzbattleaxe]

@DanRobSo Unreleased materials? Oh, that makes the set even more tempting! But yes, I wish Decca released all her recitals in the manner of The Art of the Prima Donna. I too have pieced together the original LPs for my computer & iPod. The Noel Coward recital is on CD now, but I image you'll want to wait for the set.

And yes, I have thought of doing a guide of her studio recordings. That would be an adventure!

[DanRobSo]

Shame on Decca for doing so much repackaging, but I'm hoping the October release has everything in chrnological order, exactly as it came out in the original vinyl releases. I've had to "piece together" from various CDs to get Command Performance in the same LP order on my Ipod! My collection is still missing items from Noel Coward, Operetta. Let's hope some previously unreleased studio items make it to release (my understanding there's a LOT of it!)