The Complete Decca Recordings – Recitals and Oratorios

The first set comprises Sutherland’s complete Recitals and Oratorio recordings for Decca, ranging from the 1959 operatic recital recorded in Paris, with Nello Santi (has Verdi’s “Santo di patria” ever rung out with greater thrill?), the truly legendary “Art of the Prima Donna” (an early example of a ‘concept’ record), through to the famous ‘Live from Lincoln Center’ (with longtime collaborators Marilyn Horne and Luciano Pavarotti). It all includes some of her earliest recordings, four of which, recorded in 1958 with Richard Bonynge at the piano are being published on Decca for the first time, and a set of French songs which were discovered some years ago at the end of the tapes for the French Opera Arias set. Sutherland was also invited to participate in recordings of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by Ernest Ansermet and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, and these are included, as are two versions of Handel’s Messiah (Boult, Bonynge) and the Solti recording of Verdi’s Requiem. Relative rarities come in the form of an all-Wagner disc (a composer many thought Sutherland was born to sing), bonused with her appearance as the Woodbird in the Solti Ring; Bliss’s A Song of Welcome (from 1954 – her very first studio recording); and Bach’s Cantata ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’ (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring). For her final Decca recital recording, Sutherland teamed up with fellow Australian, hornist Barry Tuckwell, for a disc of Romantic Trios, with her husband Richard Bonynge at the piano.CD 1
BLISS: A Song of Welcome
SIR ARTHUR BLISS 
J.S. BACH: Cantata ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’
GERAINT JONESCD 2
Baroque Arias – Bononcini, Paisello, Shield, Arne
ANTHONY LEWIS
Rarities
RICHARD BONYNGECD 3
Operatic Arias
NELLO SANTICD 4
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9
ERNEST ANSERMETCDs 5-6
The Art of the Prima Donna
FRANCESCO MOLINARI-PRADELLICDs 7–8
HANDEL: Messiah
SIR ADRIAN BOULTCDs 9–10
Command Performance
RICHARD BONYNGECDs 11-12
The Age of Bel Canto 
RICHARD BONYNGECD 13
Joy to the World
RICHARD BONYNGECD 14
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9
HANS SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDTCD 15
Joan Sutherland sings Noël Coward
RICHARD BONYNGECDs 16-17
Love Live Forever
RICHARD BONYNGE
CD 18
Verdi: Requiem
SIR GEORG SOLTICD 19
Russian Rarities
RICHARD BONYNGECDs 20-21
Romantic French Arias 
RICHARD BONYNGECDs 22-23
HANDEL: Messiah
RICHARD BONYNGECD 24
Songs My Mother Taught Me
RICHARD BONYNGECD 25
Darwin – Song for a City
RICHARD BONYNGE
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASECD 26
Operatic Duets
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI · RICHARD BONYNGECDs 27-28
Serate Musicali
RICHARD BONYNGECD 29
Joan Sutherland sings Wagner
RICHARD BONYNGECD 30
Joan Sutherland sings Mozart
RICHARD BONYNGECDs 31-32
Live from Lincoln Center
MARILYN HORNE · LUCIANO PAVAROTTI
RICHARD BONYNGECDs 33-34
HANDEL: Athalia
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOODCD 35
Bel Canto Arias
RICHARD BONYNGECD 36
Talking Pictures
RICHARD BONYNGECD 37
Romantic Trios
BARRY TUCKWELL · RICHARD BONYNGE