Ralph Moore's Surveys

“Untouchable” and ”Most Recommendable” Opera Recordings

Bach's Goldberg Variations Bartók's Duke Bluebeard Beethoven's Fidelio Beethoven's Missa Solemnis Bellini's Norma Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été Berlioz's Les Troyens Berlioz's Requiem Bizet's Carmen Boito's Mefistofele Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer Cherubini's Medea Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande Favourite Recordings of Ten Donizetti Operas Elgar’s Sea Pictures Giordano's Andrea Chenier  Haydn’s The Seven Last Words Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel Lalo’s Le roi d’Ys Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana Robert Massard (baritone): Part I ~ Part II Massenet's Manon Massenet's Werther Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea Mozart's Cosi fan tutte Mozart’s Don Giovanni Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro Mozart's Die Zauberflöte Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov Ponchielli's La gioconda Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky

Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi Puccini’s Il tabarro Puccini’s La fanciulla del West Puccini's Manon Lescaut Puccini's La rondine Puccini’s Suor Angelica Purcell's Dido and Aeneas Rossini’s Guillaume Tell Rossini selection Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila Schoenberg's Gurrelieder Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht Schubert's Winterreise Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie Strauss's Arabella Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos Strauss's Capriccio Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten Strauss's Elektra Strauss' Four Last Songs Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben Strauss's Metamorphosen Strauss's Salome Strauss's Sinfonia domestica Tallis's Spem in Alium  Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades Verdi's Aida Verdi's Don Carlo Verdi's Falstaff Verdi's Il trovatore Verdi’s La forza del destino Verdi's La Traviata Verdi's Luisa Miller Verdi's Otello Verdi Requiem - Part I Verdi Requiem - Part II: A Partial Survey of the Mono Discography Verdi's Rigoletto Verdi's Simon Boccanegra Verdi’s Un ballo in Maschera Verdi's Macbeth Verdi's early & less well-known operas Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer Wagner's Die Meistersinger Wagner's Parsifal Wagner's Ring cycle Wagner's Tristan und Isolde Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder