Chris Merritt on Disc

Composer Title Role/Comments Label
Aldgasser Requiem in
C major
With Sieglinde Damisch & Ingrid Mayr

Salzburg Mozarteum Camarata Academica
Conducted by Ernst Hinreiner


Also on this recording:
Haydn, M., Requiem in C minor

Koch Treasure
(LP) AMS 3529 F
Bellini I Puritani Arturo
With Katia Ricciarelli, Roberto Scandiuzzi

Conducted by Gabriele Ferro
Live recording
Fonit Cetra
CDC 20
Berg Wozzeck Der Hauptmann

With Bo Skovhus, Angela Denoke, & Frode Olsen

Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Conducted by Ingo Metzmacher
Live recording

1997 Grammy Nominee,
"Best Opera Recording"
EMI
56865 2
Donizetti L'elisir d'amore Nemorino
With Adelina Scarabelli, Angelo Romero, & Sesto Bruscantini

Conducted by Hubert Soudant
Live recording
Memories
DR 3104/05
Donizetti Emilia di Liverpool Federico

With Yvonne Kenny, Geoffrey Dolton,
& Sesto Bruscantini

Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by David Parry
Opera Rara
ORC 8
Glinka A Life
for the Tsar
Sobinin

With Alexandrina Pendachanska,
Stefania Toczyska, Konstantin Videv,
& Boris Martinovich

Sofia Festival Orchestra
Conducted by Emil Tchakarov
Sony
S3K 46487
Halevy La Juive Léopold

With Ilona Tokody, Sona Ghazarian,
José Carreras, & Cesare Siepi

Conducted by Gerd Albrecht
Live recording
Legato Classics
LCD 224-2
Haydn, M. Requiem in
C minor
With Sieglinde Damisch & Ingrid Mayr

Salzburg Mozarteum Camarata Academica
Conducted by Ernst Hinreiner

Also on this recording:
Aldgasser, Requiem in C major
Koch Treasure
(LP) AMS 3529 F

Messiaen Saint François d'Assise Le lepreux

With José van Dam, Dawn Upshaw, & John Aler

Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Halle Orchestra

Conducted by Kent Nagano

1999 Grammy Award nominee,
"Best Opera Recording"
Deutsche Grammophon
9779158
Meyerbeer
Meyerbeer in Italy
Meyerbeer, Romilda e Costanza:
"Che barbaro tormento!"

With Bronwen Mills & Anne Mason

The Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Conducted by David Parry
Opera Rara
ORR222
Mozart, L.

Lauretanische Litanei Es-dur

(Litany of Loreto
in E flat major)

With Siglinde Damische, Ingrid Mayr-Kuschee,
& Walter Raninger

Salzburger Rundfunk- und Mozarteumchor
Camerata Academica Salzburg

Conducted by Ernst Hinreiner

Also on this recording:
Leo, Salve Regina

Koch Schwann
3-1714-2 F2

Rossini Armida Rinaldo

With Cecilia Gasdia, William Matteuzzi, Bruce Ford, & Ferruccio Furlanetto

Conducted by Claudio Scimone
Live recording
Europa
CD 350-211
Rossini Bianca e Falliero Contareno

With Katia Ricciarelli, Marilyn Horne,
& Ambrogio Riva

Conducted by Donato Renzetti
Live recording
Legato Classics
LCD 138-3
Rossini La donna
del lago
Rodrigo

With June Anderson, Martine Dupuy,
& Giorgio Surjan

Conducted by Riccardo Muti

Live recording

Also available on DVD
Philips
438 211-2
Rossini Ermione Oreste

With Cecilia Gasdia &
Margarita Zimmermann

Conducted by Claudio Scimone
Erato
ECD 75336
Rossini Ermione Pirro

With Montserrat Caballé
& Marilyn Horne

Conducted by Gustav Kuhn

Live performance
Legato Classics
LCD 159-2
Rossini Guglielmo Tell Arnoldo

With Cheryl Studer
& Giorgio Zancanaro

Conducted by Riccardo Muti

Live recording

Also available on DVD
Phillips
422 391-2
Rossini Rossini Bicentennial Gala Rossini, Guillaume Tell:
"Asil hereditaire"

Orchestra of St. Luke's
Concert Chorale of New York

Conducted by Roger Norrington 
EMI
7-54643-2
Rossini Rossini Bicentennial Gala

Rossini, Guillaume Tell:
"Asil hereditaire"

Rossini, Bianca e Falliero
"Cielo, il mio labbro ispira"
[With Marilyn Horne]

Orchestra of St. Luke's
Concert Chorale of New York

Conducted by Roger Norrington

[Note: Issue of complete gala on a 2-disc set)

Angel Classics
62078
Rossini Stabat mater With Daniela Dessi, Gloria Scalchi,
& Roberto Scandiuzzi

Conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti

[This release also contains
Verdi: Messa di requiem]
Serenissima
C360155/6
Rossini Stabat mater With Daniela Dessi, Gloria Scalchi,
& Roberto Scandiuzzi

Conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti
Erato
514789-1
Rossini Zelmira Antenore

With Cecilia Gasdia, Bernarda Fink, William Matteuzzi,
& José Garcia

Conducted by Claudio Scimone
Erato
2292-45419-2
Schoenberg Moses
und Aron
Aron

With David Pittman-Jennings

Conducted by Pierre Boulez

[Recording awarded
Grand Prix du Disque
]
Deutsche
Grammophon
449174
Various Great Tenor Cabalettas Rossini, Bianca e Falliero:
"Il piacer di mia ventura"

Rossini, Otello:
"Amor, dirada il nemo"
Legato Classics
LCD 192-1
Various Ilona Tokody:
A Portrait of
the Artist

Halévy, La Juive:
"O mon Dieu, que j'implore"
Legato Classics
(Standing Room Only)
Verdi Messa di requiem With Daniela Dessi, Gloria Scalchi,
& Roberto Scandiuzzi

Conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti

[This release also contains
Rossini: Stabat mater]
Serenissima C360155/6
Verdi I vespri Siciliani Arrigo

With Cheryl Studer, Giorgio Zancanaro, & Ferruccio Furlanetto

Conducted by Riccardo Muti
Live recording

Also available on DVD videocassette
EMI 754032
Wagner Das Rheingold Loge  

 

Recitals

Chris Merritt in Concert
Bongiovanni GB 2508-2

Bellini:
I Puritani
"A te o cara"
"Son Salvo...Corre a valle"
(With Alessandra Althoff, soprano)

Donizetti: Anna Bolena
"Vivi tu...Nel veder la tua costanza"

Meyerbeer: Gli Ugonotti
"Bianca al par di neve alpina"

Verdi: I due Foscari
"Brezza del suol natìo...Dal più remoto esilio...
Sì lo sento"

Rossini: Tancredi
"Oh Dio! Crudel!...Sì ti sento...Perdonate
questo pianto"

Rossini: Guglielmo Tell
"O muto asil del pianto...Corriam! Voliam!"

Donizetti: La figlia del reggimento
"Pour mon âme"

Recorded live 24 May, 1987
at Teatro civico di Verdelli

The Heroic bel canto Tenor
Philips CD 434-102-2

Donizetti
Caterina Cornaro: "Io trar non voglio"
Don Sebastiano: "Deserto in terra"
Il duca d'Alba: "Angelo casto e bel"
Poliuto: "Fu macchiato l'onor mio"

Rossini
Cantata in onore del Sommo Pontefice Pio IX:
"La sua possente voce"
Otello: "Ah! si, per voi già sento"
Ermione: "Balena in man del figlio"
Elisabetta: "Della cieca fortuna"

Münchner Runfunkorchester
Conducted by John Fiore



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