VA - The Classic 100 Voice: The Top 10 And Selected Highlights (2017)

At number one was Beethoven’s triumphant Choral Symphony, featuring the ‘Ode to Joy’, closely followed by Bizet’s opera The Pearl Fishers, with its famous duet ‘Au fond du temple saint’, and in third place Handel’s beloved oratorio Messiah. This highlights from The Classic 100: Voice, including the complete top ten as well as selections from throughout the countdown. From the divine choral works of Bach to the passionate operas of Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, and from the majestic grandeur of Handel’s Zadok the Priest to the pure serenity of Tallis’ Spem in Alium, this is the ultimate celebration of the musical instrument with which we are all born: the human voice.

Track List:

1. Teddy Tahu Rhodes - Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D Minor, Op.125 - "Choral" - 4. Finale (Presto - Allegro assai) 21:25
2. Teddy Tahu Rhodes - Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles, WD 13 / Act 1 - Au fond du temple saint 5:50
3. Antony Walker - Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 44. "Hallelujah!" 3:37
4. Antony Walker - Fauré: Requiem, Op.48 - 4. Pie Jesu 4:15
5. Antony Walker - Allegri: Miserere 12:28
6. Antony Walker - Mozart: Requiem In D Minor, K.626 - 3f. Sequentia: Lacrimosa 3:18
7. Andrew Greene and Milica Ilic and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Victoria Lambourn - Delibes: Lakmé / Act 1 - Viens, Mallika, … Dôme épais 5:18
8. Erin Wall and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis - R. Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder, TrV 296 - 4. Im Abendrot 8:05
9. Antony Walker and Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir and Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra and Sydney Philharmonia Symphonic Choir - Orff: Carmina Burana, "Ave formosissima " - "O Fortuna" 4:22
10. Johannes Fritzsch and Opera Queensland Chorus and Queensland Symphony Orchestra - Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Act 2 - 27. Humming Chorus 3:13
11. Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Brandenburg Choir and Paul Dyer - Handel: 4 Coronation Anthems, HWV 258 - 1. Zadok The Priest 4:57
12. Antony Walker - Mozart: Ave, verum Corpus, K. 618 2:32
13. Andrea Molino and Nicole Car and The Australian Opera And Ballet Orchestra - Dvorák: Rusalka, Op.114, B. 203 / Act 1 - Mesicku na nebi hlubokém 6:36
14. Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Nicholas Milton and Sally-Anne Russell - Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3 - Thy Hand, Belinda… When I Am Laid In Earth 4:36
15. Orchestre Philharmonique De Monte Carlo - Puccini: Turandot / Act 3 - "Nessun dorma" 3:04
16. Teddy Tahu Rhodes - Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 / Act 2 - Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre - Toréador, en garde 5:11
17. Emma Matthews and Marko Letonja and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra - Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K.620 / Act 2 - Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen 3:02
18. Johannes Fritzsch and Opera Queensland Chorus and Queensland Symphony Orchestra - Verdi: Nabucco / Act 3 - "Va', pensiero" 4:43
19. Teddy Tahu Rhodes - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 1 - "Non più andrai" 3:53
20. Brett Weymark and Cantillation and Orchestra of the Antipodes - J.S. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147 - 10. "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" 2:31
21. Jane Sheldon and Ola Rudner and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra - Kats-Chernin: Wild Swans - Concert Suite - 2. Eliza Aria 3:21
22. Antony Walker - Tallis: Spem in alium 9:39
23. Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Elizabeth Campbell and Nicholas Braithwaite - Elgar: Sea Pictures, op.37 - 1. Sea Slumber Song 5:45
24. Johannes Fritzsch and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus - Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op.45 - 4. "Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, Herr Zebaoth!" 5:15
25. Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Rosario La Spina and Stephen Mould - Puccini: Tosca / Act 3, S.69 - E lucevan le stelle 2:59
26. Brian Nixon and Cantillation and Ian Cleworth and Jane Sheldon and Jim Franklin and Lyn Williams and Matthew Doyle and Rixon Thomas and Sydney Children's Choir - Edwards: Dawn Mantras 7:17