To close out my music-listening-reporting for 2010, it's been more opera. And while the picture above is posted in jest, I actually love Wagner. And note the three non-opera albums at the bottom. Great stuff all around.
Opera:
- Isaac Albéniz
- Marie Nelson Bennett
- Gaetano Donizetti
- John Eaton
- Carl Orff
- Thomas Pasatieri
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Gioachino Rossini
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Jaromír Weinberger
- Scott Wheeler
Choral:
- Anonymous 4
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Vocalists:
- Barbara Bonney
- Carlo Bergonzi
- Cecilia Bartoli
- Christa Ludwig
- Diana Damrau
- Fritz Wunderlich
- Joan Sutherland
- Jon Vickers
- José Carreras
- Jussi Björling
- Kathleen Battle
- Kiri Te Kanawa
- Leontyne Price
- Magdalena Kožená
- Michael Chance
- René Pape
- Titta Ruffo
- Will Perkins (my brilliant nephew, current working on a doctorate at Indiana University!)
Others:
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's piano sonatas
- James Carter "Present Tense" (amazing saxophonist)
- Digital version of "Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films"