The first three collections celebrating the Capriccio label’s 40th anniversary focused respectively on sacred, orchestral and chamber/solo music. This fourth and final Anniversary Box Set features singing stars from the label’s history. For example, there’s that pioneer of ‘counter-tenorism’, Jochen Kowalski. We also hear unexpected works from icons such as Peter Schreier (with lute accompaniment) and Hermann Prey (singing operetta), Italian fare from Alfredo Kraus and Ramón Vargas, and Cecilia Bartoli – discovered and first recorded by Capriccio – in her first and presumably only Wagner role! There are also the opera rarities that helped Capriccio establish a name for itself, with casts that would have turned heads even in the finest opera houses.
Artists
Jochen Kowlaski, Peter Schreier, Alfredo Kraus, Ramon Vargas, Hermann Prey, Anne Schwanewilms, Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Konrad Ragossnig, Cecilia Bartoli, Michele Pertusi, Sumi Jo, Daniela Lojarro, Gisella Pasino, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Michael Knapp, Marco Chingari, Gertrud Ottenthal, Claudio Otelli, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Renato Bruson, Lucia Aliberti, Andreas Juffinger, Edelmiro Arnaltes, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Die Wannsee-Sanger, Kolner Rundfunkorchester, Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pamela Coburn, Michele Crider, Regina Klepper, Martina Borst, Bo Skovhus, Franz Hawlata, Muncher Rundfunkorchester, Josef Protschka, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Bbc Symphony Orchestra, Celina Lindsley, Robert Worle, Roland Bracht, Markus Sandmann, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Christiane Berggold, Harmut Haenchen, Roberto Paternostro, Riccardo Frizza, Cornelius Meister, Gerd Albrecht, Stefan Soltesz, Marek Ja
