Bill Parker


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Liner notes author and longtime classical radio host for Minnesota Public Radio. He wrote the book The International Guide to Building a Classical Music Library. Born August 9, 1941; died January 15, 2018.

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Richard Wagner, Clemens Krauss, Bayreuth Festival Chorus* And Orchestra*
Der Ring Des Nibelungen
2013
Handel* / Luigi Alva, Mirella Freni, Rolando Panerai, Fiorenza Cossotto, Piero Bellugi
Serse (Xerxes)
2009, 2xCDr, Album, RE, Opera D'Oro, Opera D'Oro, ,
Baroque/Opera
Spontini* - Pilar Lorengar, Fiorenza Cossotto, Franco Tagliavini, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Olimpia
2009, 2x CD, ,
Opera
Wagner* / Wilhelm Furtwängler
Der Ring Des Nibelungen
2008
Mozart*
The Greatest Operas - Idomeneo, Re Di Creta / The Marriage Of Figaro / Don Giovanni / Così Fan Tutte / The Magic Flute
2007, 14xCD + Box, Comp, Bravissimo Opera Library, ,
Opera/Classical
Camille Saint-Saëns – Jon Vickers, Oralia Dominguez, Ernest Blanc / Jean Fournet, Netherlands Radio Orchestra & Chorus*
Samson et Dalila
2006
Gaetano Donizetti, Gabriella Tucci, Ugo Savarese, Nicola Filacuridi, Franco Capuana
Il Furioso All'Isola di San Domingo
2006
Verdi* - Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Piero Cappuccilli, Carlos Kleiber
Otello
2005, 2xCD, RE, Opera D'Oro Grand Tier
Nino Rota
Il Cappello Di Paglia Di Firenze
2005
Rick Nelson*
Rick's Rarities 1964-1974
2004, CD, Comp, Mono, Ace
Mozart* – José van Dam, Mirella Freni, Frederica von Stade, Herbert von Karajan
Le Nozze Di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro]
2004, 3x CD, ,
Classical/Opera
Cilea*, Magda Olivero, Franco Corelli, Giulietta Simionato, Ettore Bastianini, Mario Rossi
Adriana Lecouvreur
2004
Schnittke* - Oleg Kagan, Natalia Gutman, Yuri Bashmet
Concerto Grosso No. 2 / Viola Concerto
2004
Berlioz* - Franco Bonisolli, Teresa Żylis-Gara, Wolfgang Brendel, Seiji Ozawa
Benvenuto Cellini
2003, 2xCD, RE, RM, Opera D'Oro
Pizzetti*, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Leyla Gencer, Aldo Bertocci, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, La Scala Orchestra*, Chorus*
Assassinio Nella Cattedrale
2003, 2x CD, ,
Opera
Giacomo Puccini, Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Sesto Bruscantini, Thomas Schippers
La Bohème
2003
Mozart*, Furtwängler*
The Magic Flute [Die Zauberflöte] - Live Performance, Salzburg, 1949
2003
Wagner* – Jon Vickers, Birgit Nilsson, Walter Berry, Karl Böhm
Tristan Und Isolde
2003
B. B. King And His Orchestra*
B.B. King Wails
2003, ,
Electric Blues
Jacques Thibaud, Franck* • Fauré* • Debussy*
Violin Sonatas
2002, CD, Comp, Classica d'Oro (2)
Artur Schnabel • Mozart*
Piano Concertos 20, 21, 24 & 27
2002, 2xCD, Comp, Mono, Classica d'Oro (2)
Georges Bizet – Shirley Verrett • Placido Domingo • José van Dam • Kiri Te Kanawa / Sir Georg Solti*
Carmen
2002, 3x CD, ,
Opera/Romantic
Dennis Brain, Mozart*
Horn Concerto No. 2 • Divertimento No. 17
2002
Gluck*, Maria Callas, Dino Dondi, Fiorenza Cossotto, Nino Sanzogno
Ifigenia In Tauride
2002
Meyerbeer*, Giorgio Merighi, Boris Christoff, Renata Scotto, Nino Sanzogno
Roberto Il Diavolo
2002
Emil Gilels
Schumann - Piano Sonata No. 1 • Liszt & Chopin - Piano Works
2001, CD, Comp, Classica d'Oro (2)
Stravinsky*
Oedipus Rex
2001, CD, Album, Opera D'Oro
Andrés Segovia
The Early Recordings, Vol 1 & 2
2001, 2xCD, Classica d'Oro (2)
Herbert von Karajan • Vienna Philharmonic* – J. Strauss*
Waltzes & Overtures
2001, CD, Comp, Mono, RE, Classica d'Oro (2)
Wagner* – Jon Vickers, Birgit Nilsson, Walter Berry, Karl Böhm
Tristan Und Isolde
2001, 3xCD, Opera D'Oro
Wilhelm Furtwängler, Beethoven*, Berliner Philharmoniker
Symphony No. 9 "Choral"
2001, CD, Classica d'Oro (2)
Pablo Casals, Brahms*, Dvořák*
Double Concerto • Cello Concerto
2001, CD, Comp, Mono, Classica d'Oro (2)
Verdi*, Boris Christoff, Giangiacomo Guelfi, Margherita Roberti
Attila
2001
Strauss*, Montserrat Caballé, Siegmund Nimsgern, René Kollo, Wolfgang Rennert
Arabella
2001
Herbert von Karajan
Brahms – Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op.45
2001
Handel* : Alfred Deller, Helen Watts, William Herbert, Anthony Lewis*
Sosarme
2001, 2x CD, ,
Baroque/Opera
Debussy*
Pelléas Et Mélisande
2001
Rimsky-Korsakov* - Vladimir Petrov*, Vera Firsova*, Larissa Andrejeva*
Sadko
2000, 3xCD, RE, RM, Opera D'Oro
Verdi*, Piero Cappuccilli, Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Claudio Abbado
Simon Boccanegra (Milan 1972)
2000, 2xCD, Opera D'Oro, ,
Opera/Romantic
Bizet* – Fiorenza Cossotto • Placido Domingo • José van Dam / Georges Prêtre
Carmen
2000, 3xCD, Album, Mono, Opera D'Oro, ,
Opera/Romantic
Massenet*, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Leyla Gencer, Orchestra* & Chorus Of The Verdi Theater, Trieste*, Carlo Felice Cillario
Werther
2000
Vincenzo Bellini – Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano / Guido Picco
I Puritani
2000
Boito* - Nicolai Ghiaurov, Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Lamberto Gardelli
Mefistofele
2000
Monteverdi* - Claudia Parada, Mirto Picchi, Boris Christoff
L'Incoronazione Di Poppea
2000, 2x CD, ,
Renaissance/Baroque/Opera
Mascagni*, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giulietta Simionato, Antonino Votto
Cavalleria Rusticana
2000, CD, ,
Opera/Romantic
Boito*, Samuel Ramey, Daniela Dessì, Alfredo Cupido, Bruno Bartoletti
Mefistofele
1999, 3xCD, Album, Opera D'Oro
Mario del Monaco
An Evening With Mario Del Monaco
1999, CD, Comp, Opera D'Oro Recitals
Giordano*, Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco
Andrea Chenier
1999, 2xCD, Opera D'Oro
Maria Callas
An Evening With Maria Callas – Volume III
1999, CD, Comp, Mono, Opera D'Oro
Honegger* - Marthe Dugard, Raymond Gérôme, Frédéric Anspach
Jeanne D'Arc Au Bûcher
1999, CD, Album, RE, Opera D'Oro, ,
Modern/Oratorio
Gounod*
Roméo Et Juliette
1999, 2xCD, Opera D'Oro
Donizetti*, Luciano Pavarotti, Fiorenza Cossotto, Piero Cappuccilli
La Favorita
1999, 2xCD, Album, Opera D'Oro,
Maria Callas
An Evening With Maria Callas – Volume II
1999, CD, Comp, Mono, Opera D'Oro
Leontyne Price
An Evening With Leontyne Price (Volume I)
1999, CD, Comp, Opera D'Oro
Verdi* - Ruggero Raimondi, Antonietta Stella, Riccardo Muti
Attila
1999
Mozart* - Luciano Pavarotti, Gundula Janowitz, Richard Lewis
Idomeneo
1999
Handel*, Joan Sutherland, Janet Baker, Raymond Herincx*
Rodelinda
1999
R. Strauss*, Leonie Rysanek, Eberhard Wächter, Hans Hopf, Kurt Böhme
Salome
1999, 2x CD, ,
Opera/Romantic
Rossini* – Teresa Berganza • Sesto Bruscantini
La Cenerentola
1998
Wagner* - Kirsten Flagstad, Ferdinand Frantz, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Die Walküre
1998, 4x CD, ,
Romantic/Opera
Verdi* – Luciano Pavarotti • Renata Scotto • Ruggero Raimondi
I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata
1998
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni
1998
Puccini*, Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi
Tosca
1998, 2x CD, ,
Opera
Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco
1998
Verdi*, Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto
Rigoletto
1998, 2x CD, ,
Opera/Romantic
Rossini* - Fiorenza Cossotto, Luigi Alva
Il Barbiere Di Siviglia
1998, 2x CD, ,
Romantic/Opera
Various
The Overture
1993, 2xCD, Comp, Critic's Choice,
Various
The Concerto
1993, 2xCD, Comp, Critic's Choice, ,
Baroque/Classical/Romantic
Brahms*
Highlights From: Piano Concerto No. 1, Symphonies 1 - 4, Academic Festival Overture
1993, 2xCD, Comp, Intersound
Various
The Dance
1993, 2xCD, Comp, Critic's Choice
Various
The Baroque
1993, 2xCD, Critic's Choice
Bach*
Toccata And Fugue / Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring / Brandenburg Concertos 3 And 6
1993
Various
The Symphony
1993
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart
1993
Berg*, Ilona Steingruber, Heinz Rehfuss, Eugenia Zareska, Bruno Maderna
Lulu
1989
Philip Brunelle
A Very Merry Minnesota
1986, LP, Plymouth Music Series
Ravel* / Debussy* / Fauré* / Chabrier* - Daniel Varsano
French Piano Masterpieces
1985, LP, Pro-Arte Digital
Copland*, Ives*, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra*, Dennis Russell Davies
Appalachian Spring / Short Symphony / Symphony No. 3
1984, CD,
I Salonisti
Serenata • I Salonisti Play Music Of The Grand Salon
1983
Rimsky-Korsakov* - Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra*, Konstantin Ivanov
Antar (Symphony No. 2, Op. 9) / Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
1982
Martinů*, Josef Suk, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra*, Václav Neumann
Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
1982
Schubert*, Schumann*, Emil Gilels
Moments Musicaux, Nachstücke For Piano
1981
Martinů*
Concerto No. 5 In B-Flat For Piano And Orchestra, H. 366 (Fantasia Concertante) / Concerto For Two Pianos And Orchestra, H. 292
1981
Johannes Brahms, Odeon Trio
Piano Trio In A
1981
Sergei Prokofiev, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra*, Zdeněk Košler
Symphony No. 6 Op. 111
1981
Martinů*, Václav Neumann • Czech Philharmonic Orchestra*
Symphony No. 2 / "Fantaisies Symphoniques" (Symphony No. 6)
1981
Franz Joseph Haydn* - Varsovia Quartet*
String Quartet In C "Emperor" Op. 76, No. 3 / String Quartet In F With "Serenade" Op. 3, No. 5 (Attrib.)
1981, Vinyl Gatefold, ,
Classical
W. A. Mozart*, RIAS Sinfonietta, Berlin*, Gustav Kuhn
Symphony No. 31 "Paris" In D Major, K.297, Symphony No. 21 In A Major, K.134
1981
Chopin*, Ivan Moravec
24 Preludes, Op. 28
1981
Brahms* - Gina Bachauer, Antal Dorati, London Symphony Orchestra
Piano Concerto No. 2
1980
The Ink Spots*
The Ink Spots' Greatest Hits
1959
Rossini* - Cesare Valletti, Flora Rafanelli, Gino Orlandini, Bruno Bartoletti
La Gazza Ladra
2xCD, Album, Mono, Liv, Opera D'Oro