Amor, vida de mi vida concert.  Plácido Domingo and Ana María Martínez sing zaruelas. In 2007, Jesús López Cobos conducts the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg at the Großes Festspielhaus as part of the Salzburg Festival. Here are the selections:

• Frederico Chueca Preludio to El bateo

• Frederico Moreno Torroba "Amor, vida be me vida" from La Maravilla

• Pablo Luna Carné "De España vengo" from El niño judío

• Frederico Moreno Torroba "Tienes razón, amigo" from La chulapona

• Frederico Moreno Torroba "Tres horas antes del día" from La marchenara

• Manuel de Falla Danza ritual del fuego from El amor brujo

• Frederico Moreno Torroba "¡Cállate, corazón!" from Luisa Fernanda

• José Serrano "Qué te importa que no venga?" form Los claveles

• Reveriano Soutullo Otero "Quiero desterrar de tu pecho el temor" from La del Soto del Parral

• Jerónimo Giménez Bellido Interludio from La boda de Luis Alonso, o La noche del encierro

• Manuel Penella "Todas las mañanitas" from Don Gil de Alcalá

• Pablo Sorozábal "En un país de fábula" from La tabernera del puerto

• Frederico Moreno Torroba "Luché la fe por el triunfo" from Luisa Fernanda

• Manuel de Falla Jota from El sombrero de tres picos

• José Serrano "Junto al puente de la peña" from La canción de olvido

• Ruperto Chapí "Al pensar en el dueño de mis amores" from Las hijas del Zebedeo

• Frederico Moreno Torroba "En mi tierra extremeña" from Luisa Fernanda

• Pablo Sorozábal "No puede ser" from La tabernera del puerto

• Ernesto Lecuona "Mulata infeliz, tu vida acabó" from María la O

• Manuel Penella "¡Soleá!" -- "¿Me llamabas, Rafaeliyo?" from El gato montés

• Franz Léhar "Lippen schweigen" from Die lustige Witwe

Directed for TV by Karina Fibich. Sung in Spanish. Released 2009, disc has 5.1 PCM sound. Grade: B+

2007 Europakonzert: Program includes:

1. Wagner Prelude to "Parsifal"
2. Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello
3. Brahms Symphony No. 4

Played and recorded at the the Kabelwerk Oberspree in Berlin, 2007. This was the traditional Europakonzert performed on May 1 each year by the Berliner Philharmoniker in a special venue, usually in a different European city. Sir Simon Rattle conducts; features violinist Lisa Batiashvili and cellist Truls Mørk. Released in 2014, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

Menahem Pressler - Paavo Järvi Concert. Paavo Järvi conducts the Orchestre de Paris with solo pianist Menahem Pressler. They perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, Rondo in A Minor, Piano Concerto No. 27; and Debussy's Clair de lune. Released 2014, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

Annette Dasch - Die Gretchenfrage (The Crucial Question) concert. In 2011, Soprano Annette Dasch sings selections on the theme of women under extreme stress. Marc Piollet conducts the Münchner Rundfunkorchester in the Herkulessaal of the Münchner Residenz. The selections are:

• Schubert: excerpts from Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus, "Gretchen am Spinnrade," and "Ave Maria"

• Verdi: excerpts from Composizioni da camera, from Otello: "Ave Maria, piena di grazia," and  "Prayer of Desdemona"

• Schumann excerpts from Genoveva: "O Du, der uber alle wacht", "Steil und steiler ragen die Felsen", and  "Aria of Genoveva"

• Berlioz excerpts from La Damnation de Faust: "D'amour l'ardente flamme" and "Aria of Marguerite"

• Gonoud excerpts from Faust: "Concert Waltz", "Recitative", "Song of the King of Thule", and "Jewel Aria of Marguerite"

Directed for TV by Michael Beyer. Released 2014, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 concert. Performed 2014 at the Europakonzert in Berlin. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker. Here is the program:

• Nicolai, Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor

• Elgar, Falstaff - Symphonic Study in C minor

• Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5

Released 2020, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

Fauré Requiem concert. Performed 2011 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. Features the following pieces by Fauré for orchestra and chorus:

1. Pavane in F sharp minor, Op. 50  [6:44] (Popular piece based on a Spanish dance called the pavane)
2. Élégie in C minor, Op. 24  [7:23] (cello Eric Picard) (chorus rests)
3. Super flumina Babylonis  [11:00]  ("By the rivers of Babylon")
4. Cantique de Jean Racine in D flat major, Op. 11  [6:08] ("Hymn of Racine")
5. Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 [37:30] (soprano Chen Reiss and baritone Matthias Goerne)

Paavo Järvi conducts the Orchestre de Paris and the Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris (Chorus Director Stephen Betteridge). Directed for TV by Isabelle Soulard; film edited by  Richard Poisson; audio by Aurélie Messonnier; produced by Sabrina Iwanski.  Released 2012, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: C