Cantata BWV 82, 'Ich habe genug'
Johann Sebastian Bach
4 recordingsTop Choice: Hans Hotter
Solo Vocal Works
Explore the finest recordings of solo vocal repertoire, from cantatas to art songs.
Cantata BWV 51, 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen'
Johann Sebastian Bach
1 recordingTop Choice: Emma Kirkby
Cantata BWV 56, 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen'
Johann Sebastian Bach
1 recordingTop Choice: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Cantata BWV 202, 'Wedding Cantata' (Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten)
Johann Sebastian Bach
1 recordingTop Choice: Emma Kirkby
Cantata BWV 208, 'Hunt Cantata' (Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!)
Johann Sebastian Bach
1 recordingTop Choice: Emma Kirkby, Jennifer Smith, Simon Davies, Michael George
Cantata BWV 211, 'Coffee Cantata' (Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht)
Johann Sebastian Bach
1 recordingTop Choice: Emma Kirkby, David Thomas, Rogers Covey-Crump
Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Samuel Barber
3 recordingsTop Choice: Leontyne Price
An die ferne Geliebte
Ludwig van Beethoven
2 recordingsTop Choice: Peter Schreier, András Schiff
Adelaide
Ludwig van Beethoven
1 recordingTop Choice: Fritz Wunderlich, Hubert Giesen
Les Nuits d'été
Hector Berlioz
3 recordingsTop Choice: Régine Crespin
Lieder (Selected)
Johannes Brahms
4 recordingsTop Choice: Jessye Norman, Daniel Barenboim
Vier ernste Gesänge (Four Serious Songs)
Johannes Brahms
4 recordingsTop Choice: Hans Hotter, Gerald Moore
Die schöne Magelone
Johannes Brahms
1 recordingTop Choice: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jörg Demus
Alto Rhapsody
Johannes Brahms
2 recordingsTop Choice: Christa Ludwig
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Benjamin Britten
3 recordingsTop Choice: Peter Pears, Barry Tuckwell
Chants d'Auvergne (Songs of the Auvergne)
Joseph Canteloube
2 recordingsTop Choice: Netania Davrath
Old American Songs
Aaron Copland
1 recordingTop Choice: William Warfield, Aaron Copland
Mélodies (Selected)
Claude Debussy
4 recordingsTop Choice: Gérard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin
Sea Pictures
Edward Elgar
1 recordingTop Choice: Janet Baker
Mélodies (Selected)
Gabriel Fauré
6 recordingsTop Choice: Gérard Souzay, Jacqueline Bonneau
Dies Natalis
Gerald Finzi
1 recordingTop Choice: Wilfred Brown
Let Us Garlands Bring
Gerald Finzi
1 recordingTop Choice: Bryn Terfel, Malcolm Martineau
Panis angelicus
César Franck
1 recordingTop Choice: Luciano Pavarotti
Ave Maria (after Bach)
Charles Gounod
1 recordingTop Choice: Kathleen Battle
Songs (Selected, incl. Haugtussa)
Edvard Grieg
2 recordingsTop Choice: Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg
Arias (Selected)
George Frideric Handel
2 recordingsTop Choice: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)
Gustav Mahler
10 recordingsTop Choice: Kathleen Ferrier, Julius Patzak
Lieder (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder, Rückert-Lieder)
Gustav Mahler
5 recordingsTop Choice: Janet Baker
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Gustav Mahler
1 recordingTop Choice: Maureen Forrester, Heinz Rehfuss
Six Monologues from Jedermann
Frank Martin
1 recordingTop Choice: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Sacred Vocal Music (Selected)
Claudio Monteverdi
1 recordingTop Choice: Emma Kirkby, Ian Partridge, David Thomas
Exsultate, jubilate
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1 recordingTop Choice: Edith Mathis
Songs (Complete, incl. Songs and Dances of Death)
Modest Mussorgsky
1 recordingTop Choice: Boris Christoff
Stabat Mater
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
2 recordingsTop Choice: Mirella Freni, Teresa Berganza
Mélodies (Selected)
Francis Poulenc
3 recordingsTop Choice: Régine Crespin
Vocalise
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1 recordingTop Choice: Anna Moffo
Shéhérazade
Maurice Ravel
2 recordingsTop Choice: Régine Crespin
Mélodies (Histoire Naturelle, Chansons madécasses, etc.)
Maurice Ravel
1 recordingTop Choice: Gérard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin
Pierrot Lunaire
Arnold Schoenberg
1 recordingTop Choice: Jan DeGaetani
Winterreise
Franz Schubert
12 recordingsTop Choice: Olaf Bär, Geoffrey Parsons
Die schöne Müllerin
Franz Schubert
7 recordingsTop Choice: Fritz Wunderlich, Hubert Giesen
Schwanengesang
Franz Schubert
3 recordingsTop Choice: Bryn Terfel, Malcolm Martineau
Lieder (Selected)
Franz Schubert
9 recordingsTop Choice: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore
Ave Maria (Ellens dritter Gesang)
Franz Schubert
5 recordingsTop Choice: Barbara Bonney, Geoffrey Parsons
Dichterliebe
Robert Schumann
8 recordingsTop Choice: Gérard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin
Frauenliebe und -leben
Robert Schumann
3 recordingsTop Choice: Kathleen Ferrier, John Newmark
Liederkreis, Op. 39 & Op. 24
Robert Schumann
1 recordingTop Choice: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore, Hertha Klust
Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder)
Richard Strauss
8 recordingsTop Choice: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Lieder (Selected)
Richard Strauss
4 recordingsTop Choice: Barbara Bonney, Geoffrey Parsons
On Wenlock Edge
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1 recordingTop Choice: Ian Partridge
Songs of Travel
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1 recordingTop Choice: Bryn Terfel, Malcolm Martineau
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
Heitor Villa-Lobos
1 recordingTop Choice: Anna Moffo
Stabat Mater
Antonio Vivaldi
1 recordingTop Choice: Andreas Scholl
Wesendonck Lieder
Richard Wagner
1 recordingTop Choice: Kirsten Flagstad, Gerald Moore
Lieder (Selected)
Hugo Wolf
4 recordingsTop Choice: Barbara Bonney, Geoffrey Parsons
English, Irish & Scottish Songs (Collection)
Various Composers
3 recordingsTop Choice: Kathleen Ferrier