Title The record of singing, 1899-1952 : the very best of volumes 1-4

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Description 1 online resource (1 audio file) Contents Ave Maria / Bach ; Gounod (Alessandro Moreschi, castrato, with piano and violin acc.) (3:12) -- La sonnambula. Ah! non credea / Bellini (Adelina Patti, soprano ; Alfredo Barili, piano) (3:22) -- L'été / Chaminade (Emma Albani, soprano ; with orchestra) (2:15) -- Le nozze di Figaro. Sull'aria-- Che soave zeffiretto / Mozart (Marcella Sembrich, Emma Eames, sopranos ; with orchestra) (2:58) -- Les anges pleurent / Bemberg (Nellie Melba, soprano ; Gabriel Lapierre, piano) (2:01) -- Manon Lescaut. C'est l'histoire amoureuse / Aubert (Ellen Beach Yaw, soprano ; with piano acc.) (1:24) -- Im Mai / Goldschmidt (Blanche Marchesi, soprano ; Bruno Seidler-Winkler, piano) (2:52) -- Hunyadi László. Ah rebéges, a mi vadúl / Erkel (Lillian Nordica, soprano ; Romayne Simmons, piano) (3:03) -- Mattinata / Tosti (Geraldine Farrar, soprano ; with piano acc.) (2:57) -- Orfeo. Away with mourning and crying / Gluck (Louise Homer, soprano ; with piano acc.) (3:34) -- Simon the cellarer / Hatton (Charles Santley, baritone ; with piano acc.) (2:49) -- Dichterliebe. Ich grolle nicht ; Lied eines Schmiedes / Schumann (George Henschel, baritone, piano) (2:59) -- La chanson de Fortunio. Sérénade / Offenbach (Emilio de Gogorza, baritone ; with orchestra ; Josef Pasternack, conductor) (2:12) -- Otello. Era la notte / Verdi (Victor Maurel, baritone ; with piano acc.) (3:01) -- Per valli, per boschi / Blangini (Charles Gilibert, baritone ; Nellie Melba, soprano ; with orchestra ; Walter B. Rogers, conductor) (2:10) -- Embarquez-vous? / Godard (Pol Plançon, bass ; with piano acc.) (2:22) -- Martha. Chi mi dira = The porter's song / Flotow (Édouard de Reszke, bass ; Charles A. Prince, piano) (2:06) -- Carmen. L'amour est un oiseau rebelle : habanera / Bizet (Emma Calvé, soprano ; Remualdo Sapio, piano) (2:39) -- Aïda. Les mots sacrés / Verdi (Félia Litvinne, soprano ; with piano acc.) (2:57) -- Le jongleur de Notre Dame. Liberté! / Massenet (Mary Garden, soprano ; with orchestra) (3:11) -- Amour, amour / Tosti (Mattia Battistini, baritone ; Carlo Sabajno, piano) (2:58) -- L'elisir d'amore. Come Paride vezzoso / Donizetti (Antonio Scotti, baritone ; with piano acc.) (3:09) -- Adriana Lecouvreur. Bene! Benissimo! / Cilèa (Giuseppe de Luca, baritone ; Francesco Cilea, piano) (2:34) -- L'elisir d'amore. Udite! Udite! / Donizetti (Antonio Pini-Corsi, baritone) (5:05) -- I due Foscari. Questa dunque / Verdi (Pasquale Amato, baritone ; with chorus and orchestra) (3:04) -- Hamlet. O vin, discaccia la tristezza : brindisi / Thomas (Titta Ruffo, baritone ; Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano ; Carlo Sabajno, conductor) (3:50) Luna-lù / Ricciardi (Fernando de Lucia, tenor ; with chorus and orchestra) (2:42) -- Paride ed Elena. Spiagge amate / Gluck (Alessandro Bonci, tenor ; with piano acc.) (2:48) -- Otello. Niun mi tema / Verdi (Francesco Tamagno, tenor ; with piano acc.) (4:03) -- Andrea Chénier. Colpito qui m'avete-- Un dì all'azzurro spazio / Giordano (Giovanni Zenatello, tenor ; with piano acc.) (2:33) -- L'elisir d'amore. Una furtiva lagrima / Donizetti (Enrico Caruso, tenor ; Salvatore Cottone, piano) (3:18) -- The queen of spades. It is midnight / Tchaikovsky (Medea Mei-Figner, soprano ; with piano accompaniment) (sung in Russian) 3:29) -- Olga. La via, o Dio-- E lo sapevi / Gianelli (Olimpia Boronat, soprano ; with orchestra) (3:37) -- Cavalleria rusticana. Voi lo sapete, o mamma / Mascagni (Gemma Bellincioni, soprano ; with piano acc.) (3:14) -- La Bohème. Mimì Pinson / Leoncavallo (Rosina Storchio, soprano ; with orchestra) (2:23) -- Mireille. O d'amor messagera / Gounod (Luisa Tetrazzini, soprano ; with orchestra) (2:46) -- La dame blanche. Ce domaine / Boieldieu (Marie Gutheil-Schoder, soprano ; Franz Naval, tenor ; with piano acc.) (3:03) -- Lucia di Lammermoor. In tiefem Schweigen / Donizetti (Frieda Hempel, soprano ; with orchestra ; Herr Kark, conductor) (6:32) -- Rigoletto. Caro nome / Verdi (Selma Kurz, soprano ; with orchestra) (3:07) -- Don Giovanni. Or sai chi l'onore / Mozart (Lilli Lehmann, soprano ; with piano acc.) (2:59) -- Oberon. Ozean, du Ungeheuer! / Weber (Anna Bahr-Mildenburg, soprano ; with piano acc.) (2:28) -- Don Giovanni. In quali eccessi!-- Mi tradì / Mozart (Johanna Gadski, soprano ; with orchestra) (4:40) -- Dalibor. Jac je mi / Smetana (Emmy Destinn, soprano ; with orchestra) (2:27) -- Bolero. Leggiero invisibile / Arditi (Ernestine Schumann-Heink, contralto ; with orchestra) (3:57) -- Dalibor. Blickst du, mein Freund / Smetana (Hermann Winkelmann, tenor ; with piano acc.) (3:10) -- Die Königin von Saba. Magisch Töne / Goldmark (Leo Slezak, tenor ; wtih piano acc.) (3:08) -- Die Walküre. Leb wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind / Wagner (Anton von Rooy, baritone ; with piano acc.) (2:35) -- The golden cockerel. Hymn to the sun / Rimsky-Korsakov (Antonina Nezhdanova, soprano ; with orchestra) (sung in Russian) (3:04) -- Oprichnik. I swear before God and thee / Tchaikovsky (Nicolai Figner, tenor ; with piano acc.) (sung in Russian) (2:11) -- Dobrynia Nikitich. Flowers were blooming / Gretchaninov (Leonid Sobinov, tenor ; with orchestra) (sung in Russian) (3:11) Iolanthe. My Lord, if I offend / Tchaikovsky (Lev Sibiriakov, bass ; with orchestra) (sung in Russian) (2:59) -- Robert le diable. Le rovine-- Suore, che riposate / Meyerbeer (Feodor Chaliapin, bass ; with orchestra ; Rosario Bourdon, conductor) (3:49) -- O give me oblivion / Napravnik (Dimitri Smirnov, tenor ; with orchestra) (sung in Russian) (3:30) -- L'africaine. Pays merveilleux-- Ô paradis / Meyerbeer (Fernand Ansseau, tenor ; with orchestra) (3:14) -- La coupe du roi de Thulé. It est venu ce jour de lutte / Diaz (Dinh Gilly, baritone ; with orchestra) (6:27) -- Le reine de Saba. Sous les pieds / Gounod (Marcel Journet, bass ; with orchestra) (4:28) -- Monna Vanna. Ce n'est pas un vieillard / Février (Jean-Émile Vanni Marcoux, bass ; with orchestra ; Piero Coppola, conductor) (4:35) -- Louise. Depuis le jour / Charpentier (Marie-Louise Edvina, soprano ; with orchestra ; Percy Pitt, conductor) (4:33) -- Antar. Air de l'oasis / Dupont (Fanny Heldy, soprano ; with orchestra) (3:06) -- Variations du Carneval de Venise / Massé (Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi, soprano ; with orchestra) (3:23) -- Adriana Lecouvreur. Del sultano Amuratte-- Io son l'unile ancella / Cilèa (Claudia Muzio, soprano ; with orchestra) (3:50) -- Manon. Ah mi rendi il tuo cor-- La tua mano non è / Massenet (Carmen Melis, soprano ; with orchestra) (3:17) -- Isabeau. Questo mio bianco manto / Mascagni (Gilda dalla Rizza, soprano ; with orchestra) (3:07) -- La sonnambula. A te diletta-- Come per me sereno-- Sovra il sen / Bellini (Amelita Galli-Curci, soprano ; with orchestra ; Josef Pasternack, conductor) (6:58) -- La perla de Triana / Yradier (Elvira de Hidalgo, soprano ; with piano acc.) (2:16) -- Il segreto di Susanna. O gioia la nube / Wolf-Ferrari (Lucrezia Bori, soprano ; with orchestra) (4:03) -- Mefistofele. Dai campi, dai prati / Boito (Beniamino Gigli, tenor ; with orchestra) (2:28) -- I puritani. Vieni fra questa braccia / Bellini (Hipolito Lazaro, tenor ; with orchestra) (1:35) -- Carmen. Il fior che avevi a me tu dato / Bizet (Miguel Fleta, tenor ; with orchestra ; Carlo Sabajno, conductor) (4:06) -- Andrea Chénier. Un dì all'azzurro spazio / Giordano (Bernardo de Muro, tenor ; with orchestra ; Carlo Sabajno, conductor) (4:34) Ernani. Mercé, diletti amici-- Come regiada al cespite / Verdi (Giovanni Martinelli, tenor ; with orchestra ; Watler B. Rogers, conductor) (3:27) -- La favorita. A tanto amor / Donizetti (Renato Zanelli, baritone ; with orchestra ; Josef Pasternack, conductor) (3:15) -- Germania. Orsù, finiam-- Ascolta, io morirò / Franchetti (Riccardo Stracciari, baritone ; with orchestra) (2:35) -- Loreley. Ah! dunque ei m'amerà / Catalani (Frances Alda, soprano ; with orchestra) (3:39) -- War schöner als der schönste Tag : canzonetta / Loewe (Alma Gluck, soprano ; Francis Lapitino, harp ; with orchestra ; Richard Hageman, conductor) (2:48) -- Chanson triste / Duparc (Eva Gauthier, soprano ; with piano acc.) (3:35) -- L'éclair. Call me thine own / Halévy (Mabel Garrison, soprano ; with orchestra ; Josef Pasternack, conductor) (4:16) -- Ernani. Surta è la notte-- Ernarni, Ernani, involami / Verdi (Rosa Ponselle, soprano ; with orchestra ; Rosario Bourdon, conductor) (4:38) -- Gianni Schicchi. O mio babbino caro / Puccini (Florence Easton, soprano ; with orchestra) (2:25) -- La Bohème. Che gelida manina / Puccini (Charles Hackett, tenor ; with orchestra) (4:32) -- Her bright smile haunts me still / Wrighton (Edward Johnson, tenor ; with orchestra ; Josef Pasternack, conductor) (3:13) -- Silvana. So soll denn dieses Herz / Weber (Alfred Piccaver, tenor ; with orchestra) (4:16) -- Queen of the earth / Pinsuti (Joseph Hislop, tenor ; with piano acc.) (4:29) -- Morning hymn / Henschel (Gervase Elwes, tenor ; with piano acc.) (2:24) -- Before my window : op. 26, no. 10 / Rachmaninov (John McCormack, tenor ; Fritz Kreisler, violin ; Edwin Schneider, piano) (1:57) -- Il Pompeo. O cessate di piagarmi / A. Scarlatti (Reinald Werrenrath, baritone ; with orchestra ; Ted Levy, conductor) (1:12) -- Israel in Egypt. The Lord is a man of war / Handel (Peter Dawson, baritone ; Robert Radford, bass ; with orchestra ; George W. Byng, conductor) (4:15) -- Fidelio. Abscheulicher!-- Komm, Hoffnung / Beethoven (Helen Wildbrunn, soprano ; with orchestra) (8:05) -- Die Walküre. Hojotoho! / Wagner (Gertrude Kappel, soprano ; with orchestra) (2:13) -- Oberon. Ozean, du Ungeheuer / Weber (Frida Leider, soprano ; with orchestra) (7:50) Mignon. Dort bei ihm ist sie jetzt / Thomas (Claire Dux, soprano ; with orchestra) (4:08) -- Rigoletto. Teurer Name / Verdi (Maria Ivogün, soprano ; with orchestra) (3:52) -- Ariadne auf Naxos. Es gibt ein Reich / Richard Strauss (Maria Jeritza, soprano ; with orchestra) (6:33) -- Wiegenlied : op. 41, no. 1 / Richard Strauss (Elena Gerhardt, mezzo-soprano ; Arthur Nikisch, piano) (3:55) -- Die schöne Magelone : op. 33. Muss es eine Trennung geben / Brahms (Julia Culp, soprano ; Coenraad von Bos, piano) (3:57) -- Fidelio. Hat man nicht auch Gold beineben / Beethoven (Richard Mayr, bass ; with orchestra) (2:25) -- Eugene Onegin. Ein jeder kennt / Tchaikovsky (Alexander Kipnis, bass ; with orchestra) (4:14) -- Idomeneo. Noch tönt mir ein Meer im Busen / Mozart (Hermann Jadlowker, tenor ; with orchestra) (4:21) -- Tannhäuser. Dir töne Lob / Wagner (Lauritz Melchior, tenor ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Sir John Barbirolli, conductor) (3:38) -- Die Walküre. Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond / Wagner (Max Lorenz, tenor ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra ; Ernst Viebig, conductor) (2:36) -- Königsballade. Euren König / Willie (Helge Rosvaenge, tenor ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra ; Bruno Seidler-Winkler, conductor) (3:52) -- Die Fledermaus. Dieser Anstand / Johann Strauss II (Richard Tauber, tenor ; Vera Schwarz, soprano ; Berlin Staatskapelle ; Frieder Weissmann, conductor) (3:50) -- Der Evangelimann. Selig sind / Kielzl (Marcel Wittrisch, tenor ; children's chorus ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra ; Cornelius Kun, conductor) (4:00) -- Die tote Stadt. Glück, das mir verblieb / Korngold (Josef Schmidt, tenor ; with orchestra ; Otto Dobrindt, conductor) (3:12) -- Der Wachtelschlag / Beethoven (Karl Erb, tenor ; Bruno Seidler-Winkler, piano) (3:55) -- Hänsel und Gretel. Ra-la-la-la-- Ach, wir armen / Humperdinck (Gerhard Hüsch, baritone ; with unnamed soprano ; Berlin State Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Hanns Udo Müller, conductor) (4:19) -- Das Nachtlager in Granada. Ein Schütz bin ich / Kreutzer (Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, baritone ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra ; Erich Orthmann, conductor) (2:20) -- Schwanengesang : D957. Die Stadt / Schubert (Herbert Janssen, baritone ; Gerald Moore, piano) (2:52) -- Elijah. Herr Gott Abrahams / Mendelssohn (Friedrich Schorr, bass-baritone ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Sir John Barbirolli, conductor) (3:43) -- Le prophète. Ô prêtres de Baal / Meyerbeer (Sigrid Onegin, contralto ; with orchestra ; Rosario Bourdon, conductor) (4:31) Marienlied / Marx (Elisabeth Schumann, soprano ; Vienna State Orchestra ; Karl Alwin, conductor) (2:52) -- The tsar's bride. In Novgorod / Rimsky-Korsakov (Miliza Korjus, soprano ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra ; Bruno Seidler-Winkler, conductor) (3:59) -- Weine du nicht / Oboussier (Erna Berger, soprano ; Hans Walter Schleif, oboe ; Eta Harich-Schneider, harpsichord) (2:53) -- Arabella. Nacht dem Matteo? / Richard Strauss (Tiana Lemnitz, soprano ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra ; Bruno Seidler-Winkler, conductor) (4:26) -- La bohème. Man nennt mich jetzt mur Mimì / Puccini (Maria Cebotari, soprano ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra ; Fritz Zweig, conductor) (4:10) -- L'africaine. Leb wohl, freundliches Gestade / Meyerbeer (Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano ; Odeon Opera Orchestra ; Frieder Weissmann, conductor) (3:08) -- Der Rosenkavalier. Oh, sei Er gut, Quinquin / Richard Strauss (Lotte Lehmann, soprano ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra ; Manfred Gurlitt, conductor) (4:09) -- Waldeinsamkeit : op. 76, no. 3 / Reger (Maria Müller, soprano ; Ivor Newton, piano) (1:52) -- Siegfried. Ewig war ich / Wagner (Nanny Larsen-Todsen, soprano ; with orchestra ; Eduard Mörike, conductor) (4:02) -- I zingari in fiera. Chi vuol la zingarella / Paisiello (Conchita Supervia, mezzo-soprano ; with orchestra ; Maestro Capdevila, conductor) (1:58) -- I lombardi. Te, vergin santa / Verdi (Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, soprano ; with orchestra ; Lorenzo Molajoli, conductor) (3:44) -- La forza del destino. Pace, pace mio Dio / Verdi (Dusolina Giannini, soprano ; with orchestra ; Sir John Barbirolli, conductor) (4:15) -- Siberia. Qual vergogna / Giordano (Maria Caniglia, soprano ; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano ; Giuseppe Antonicelli, conductor) (2:38) -- La fanciulla del West. L'amore è un'altra cosa/Laggiù nel Solidad / Puccini (Gina Cigna, soprano ; with orchestra ; Lorenzo Molajoli, conductor) (2:37) -- Madama Butterfly. Con onor muore / Puccini (Margaret Sheridan, soprano ; Browning Mummery, tenor ; with orchestra) (4:30) -- Manon Lescaut. In quelle trine morbide / Puccini (Licia Albanese, soprano ; with orchestra ; Dino Olivieri, conductor) (2:35) -- Il Guarany. Gentile di cuore / Gomes (Bidu Sayão, soprano ; Orchestra of RCA Victor Brasiliana ; Maestro Giannetti, conductor) (3:29) -- Maori lullaby / James (Toti dal Monte, soprano ; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano ; Carlo Sabajno, conductor) (2:57) -- Rigoletto. Gualtier Maldé/Caro nome / Verdi (Lina Pagliughi, soprano ; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano ; Carlo Sabajno, conductor) (4:52) -- Requiem. Confutatis maledictis / Verdi (Ezio Pinza, bass ; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano ; Carlo Sabajno, conductor) (3:31) -- Crispino e la comare. Fermola!/Dapprima, figuratevi / Ricci (Salvatore Baccaloni, bass ; Irma Mion, soprano ; with orchestra ; Lorenzo Molajoli, conductor) (3:12) -- Falstaff. L'onore! Ladri! / Verdi (Mariano Stabile, baritone ; with orchestra ; Lorenzo Molajoli, conductor) (3:19) Zaza. Buona Zazà / Leoncavallo (Apollo Granforte, baritone ; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano ; Carlo Sabajno, conductor) (2:02) -- Do not go, my love / Hageman (Dino Borgioli, tenor ; Ivor Newton, piano) (2:44) -- Werther. Tradure-- Ah! non mi ridestar / Massenet (Tito Schipa, tenor ; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano ; Franco Ghione, conductor) (3:42) -- Manon Lescaut. Donna non vidi mai / Puccini (Francesco Merli, tenor ; with orchestra ; Lorenzo Molajoli, conductor) (2:36) -- Aprile / Tosti (Beniamino Gigli, tenor ; with orchestra ; Lawrance Collingwood, conductor) (4:01) -- Manon Lescaut. Che avvien?-- Ah, non m'avvicinate / Puccini (Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, tenor ; Luigi Borgonovo, baritone ; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano ; Franco Ghione, conductor) (3:00) -- Adriana Lecouvreur. La dolcissima effigie / Cilèa (Aureliano Pertile, tenor ; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano ; Carlo Sabajno, conductor) (2:14) -- Le rossignol et la rose / Saint-Saëns (Lily Pons, soprano ; with orchestra ; Gustav Cloëz, conductor) (2:46) -- Les berceaux : op. 23, no. 1 / Fauré (Ninon Vallin, soprano ; Marguerite Long, piano) (2:46) -- Une jeune fille parle / De Bréville (Claire Croiza, mezzo-soprano ; Pierre de Bréville, piano) (2:56) -- Sigurd. Le bruit des chants-- Esprits, gardiens de ces lieux vénérés / Reyer (Georges Thill, tenor ; with orchestra ; Eugène Bigot, conductor) (4:29) -- La damnation de Faust. Esprits des flammes! / Berlioz (Charles Panzera, baritone ; Pasdeloup Orchestra ; Piero Coppola, conductor) (2:23) -- Aurore : op. 39, no. 1 / Fauré (Pierre Bernac, baritone ; Francis Poulenc, piano) (1:49) -- La grande duchesse de Gérolstein. Dites-lui / Offenbach (Yvonne Printemps, soprano ; Henri Busser, piano) (2:44) -- La boulangère a des écus. Les charbonniers et les fariniers ; Que voulez-vous faire? / Offenbach (Reynaldo Hahn, tenor, piano) (2:38) -- Falstaff. È sogno, o realtà / Verdi (Lawrence Tibbett, baritone ; with orchestra ; Rosario Bourdon, conductor) (4:19) -- Hamlet. Ô vin, dissipe la tristesse / Thomas (John Charles Thomas, baritone ; with orchestra ; Nathaniel Finston, conductor) (3:14) -- Il barbiere di Siviglia. I'm the factotum / Rossini (Dennis Noble, baritone ; with orchestra ; Clarence Raybould, conductor) (4:00) -- Hamlet. Comme une pâle fleur / Thomas (John Brownlee, baritone ; with orchestra ; Georges Lauweryns, conductor) (2:51) -- Onaway, awake beloved / Cowan (Harold Williams, baritone ; with orchestra ; Clarence Raybould, conductor) (2:20) -- Les contes d'Hoffmann. Ha, wie in meiner Seele / Offenbach (Charles Kullman, tenor ; with orchestra) (2:40) -- La jolie fille de Perth. She is there-- Hear the voice of one who adores thee / Bizet (Heddle Nash, tenor ; with orchestra ; Clarence Raybould, conductor) (4:26) -- Tosca. Wie sich die Bilder gleichen / Puccini (Richard Crooks, tenor ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra ; Clemens Schmalstich, conductor) (2:50) -- The lost chord / Sullivan (Clara Butt, contralto ; wtih piano and organ acc.) (4:10) -- Der Tod und das Mädchen : D. 531 / Schubert (Marian Anderson, contralto ; Kosti Vehanen, piano) (2:58) Psyche / Paladilhe (Maggie Teyte, soprano ; Gerald Moore, piano) (2:50) -- Theodora. Angels ever bright and fair / Handel (Isobel Baillie, soprano ; with orchestra ; Charles Prentice, conductor) (4:24) -- Madama Butterfly. One fine day / Puccini (Joan Cross, soprano ; with orchestra ; Lawrance Collingwood, conductor) (3:56) -- Sigurd. O palais radieux! / Reyer (Marjorie Lawrence, soprano ; Pasdeloup Orchestra ; Piero Coppola, conductor) (3:44) -- Turandot. In questa reggia / Puccini (Eva Turner, soprano ; with orchestra ; Lorenzo Molajoli, conductor) (5:41) -- Stabat Mater. Inflammatus / Rossini (Florence Austral, soprano ; Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ; Sir John Barbirolli, conductor) (4:23) -- Rusalka. My hair is golden / Dvořák (Jarmila Novotná, soprano ; Arpad Sándor, piano) (3:07) -- Lullaby, op. 1, no. 5 / Grechaninov (Oda Slobodskaya, soprano ; Percy Kahn piano) (sung in Russian) (2:25) -- Salvator Rosa. Di sposo, di padre / Gomez (Mark Reizen, bass ; Albert Coates, piano) (2:54) -- La rondine. Chi il bel sogno di Doretta / Puccini (Dorothy Kirsten, soprano ; RCA Victor Orchestra ; Jean Paul Morel, conductor) (2:38) -- Louise. Depuis le jour / Charpentier (Eleanor Steber, soprano ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Walter Susskind, conductor) (4:47) -- Lohengrin. Einsam in trüben Tagen / Wagner (Helen Traubel, soprano ; Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York ; Artur Rodzinski, conductor) (6:35) -- Carmen. Quand je vous aimerai?-- L'amour est un oiseau rebelle : habanera / Bizet (Jennie Tourel, soprano ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Walter Susskind, conductor) (3:55) -- Mass in B minor. Qui sedes / J.S. Bach (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto ; Vienna Symphony Orchestra ; Herbert von Karajan, conductor) (3:36) -- The king is gone a-hunting / trad. French, arr. Britten (Peter Pears, tenor ; Benjamin Britten, piano) (2:19) -- Naughty Marietta. Ah! sweet mystery of life / Herbert (Jan Peerce, tenor ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Anatole Fistoulari, conductor) (3:38) -- La Gioconda. Cielo e mar! / Ponchielli (Richard Tucker, tenor ; Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera Association, New York ; Emil Cooper, conductor) (4:25) -- Hérodiade. Ce breuvage-- Vision fugitive / Massenet (Robert Merrill, baritone ; RCA Orchestra ; Jean Paul Morel, conductor) (4:20) -- Boris Godunov. I have attained the highest power / Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov (George London, bass-baritone ; Virginia Pleasants, piano) (sung in Russian) (5:28) Scipio. From the rage of the tempest-- Hear me, ye winds / Handel ; arr. Somervell (Oscar Natzke, bass ; H. Robinson Cleaver, organ) (4:02) -- Chanson provençale / Dell'Acqua (Mado Robin, soprano ; with orchestra ; Georges Briez, conductor) (3:24) -- Le rossignol des lilas / Hahn (Géori Boué, soprano ; André Collard, piano) (1:06) -- Stornellatrice / Respighi (Victoria de los Angeles, soprano ; Gerald Moore, piano) (1:49) -- Amor amaro / anon. 15th century, ed. F. Ghisi (Suzanne Danco, soprano ; Professor E. Bellinzona, vielle) (3:02) -- La vivandière. Viens avec nous / Godard (Solange Michel, mezzo-soprano ; Orchestre de l'Opéra-Comique ; Louis Fourestier, conductor) (1:50) -- Sensation / Lipatti (Hugues Cuénod, tenor ; Madeleine Lipatti, piano) (1:53) -- Fidelio. O wär' ich schon / Beethoven (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano ; Philharmonic Orchestra ; Alceo Galliera, conductor) (3:47) -- Elfenlied / Wolf (Irmgard Seefried, soprano ; Gerald Moore, piano) (1:47) -- The queen of spades. Es geht auf Mitternacht / Tchaikovsky (Sena Jurinac, soprano ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Lawrance Collingwood, conductor) (4:31) -- Aïda. Ritorna vincitor! / Verdi (Ljuba Welitsch, soprano ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Josef Krips, conductor) (6:02) -- Arabella. Das war sehr gut / Richard Strauss (Leonie Rysanek, soprano ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Wilhelm Schüchter, conductor) (4:36) -- The consul. Mein Kind ist tot / Menotti (Inge Borkh, soprano ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra ; Artur Rother, conductor) (4:38) -- Die schöne Müllerin. Der Müller und der Bach / Schubert (Julius Patzak, tenor ; Michael Raucheisen, piano) (3:47) -- Liederkreis, op. 39. Mondnacht / Schumann (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone ; Gerald Moore, piano) (4:13) -- Die Zauberflöte. Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja / Mozart (Erich Kunz, baritone ; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra ; Rudolf Moralt, conductor) (2:34) -- Fidelio. Ha! welch ein Augenblick! / Beethoven (Paul Schöffler, baritone ; Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Karl Böhm, conductor) (2:50) -- Flow my tears / Dowland (Aksel Schiøtz, tenor ; Jytte Gorki Schmidt, guitar) (3:07) -- Khovanshchina. Mysterious powers / Mussorgsky (Zara Dolukhanova, mezzo-soprano ; All-Union Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Alexei Kovaliev, conductor) (sung in Russian) (5:47) -- La Périchole. Ah! quel dîner! / Offenbach (Claudia Novikova, mezzo-soprano ; with orchestra) (sung in Russian) (2:31) -- Dalibor. Ah, whose is the spell? / Smetana (Beno Blachut, tenor ; Prague Opera Orchestra ; Jožka Charvát, conductor) (2:36) -- The sleeping princess / Borodin (Boris Christoff, bass ; Gerald Moore, piano) (sung in Russian) (4:43) L'elisir d'amore. Una furtiva lagrima / Donizetti (Ferrucio Tagliavini, tenor ; RCA Victor Orchestra ; Antal Doráti, conductor) (4:15) -- Mignon. Addio, Mignon / Thomas (Giuseppe di Stefano, tenor ; La Scala Orchestra ; Emidio Tieri, conductor) (3:37) -- Dicitencello vuje / Falvo (Luigi Infantino, tenor ; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; Alberto Erede, conductor) (3:50) -- Otello. Esultate! / Verdi (Mario del Monaco, tenor ; Milan Symphony Orchestra ; Argeo Quadri, conductor) (1:09) -- La favorita. Leonora!-- A tanto amor / Donizetti (Paolo Silveri, baritone ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Walter Goehr, conductor) (4:42) -- Tosca. Tre sbirri, una carozza / Puccini (Giampiero Malaspina, baritone ; Keith Hardwick, tenor ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ; Michael Mudie, conductor) (4:12) -- Don Carlo. O Carlo, ascolta / Verdi (Gino Bechi, baritone ; Milan Symphony Orchestra ; Argeo Quadri, conductor) (4:03) -- A life for the Tsar. They guess the truth / Glinka (Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, bass ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Tomaso Benintende-Neglia, conductor) (sung in Russian) (5:00) -- Boris Godunov. I have attained the highest power / Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov (Tancredi Pasero, bass ; with orchestra ; Dick Marzollo, conductor) (sung in Italian) (6:02) -- Werther. Mi scrivo qui / Massenet (Giulietta Simionato, mezzo-soprano ; Milan Symphony Orchestra ; Argeo Quadri, conductor) (4:53) -- Il trovatore. Condotta ell'era in ceppi / Verdi (Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano ; Mariano Caruso, tenor ; with orchestra ; Argeo Quadri, conductor) (4:32) -- Samson et Dalila. La notte cadente / Saint-Saëns (Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano ; with orchestra ; Umberto Berrettoni, conductor) (3:11) -- Les pêcheurs de perles. Siccome un dì caduto il sole / Bizet (Alda Noni, soprano ; Milan Symphony Orchestra ; Argeo Quadri, conductor) (4:37) -- I Capuleti e i Montecchi. O quante volte / Bellini (Margherita Carosio, soprano ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Anatole Fistoulari, conductor) (4:04) -- Su venite e consiglio / A. Scarlatti (Magda László, soprano ; Luigi Cortese, piano) (3:15) -- Don Carlo. Tu che le vanità / Verdi (Margherita Grandi, soprano ; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; Alberto Erede, conductor) (9:47) -- Il trovatore. Vanne!-- D'amor sull'ali rosee / Verdi (Zinka Milanov, soprano ; with orchestra ; Frieder Weissmann, conductor) (5:02) Performer Various performers and ensembles Notes Sung in Latin, Italian, French, German, English, Hungarian, Russian, and Czech; many in translation Subject Operas -- Excerpts, Arranged. Operas -- Excerpts. Songs with instrumental ensemble. Songs with piano. Songs with orchestra. Vocal duets with orchestra. Oratorios -- Excerpts Masses -- Excerpts Songs (High voice) with guitar. Masses -- Excerpts Operas -- Excerpts Operas -- Excerpts, Arranged Oratorios -- Excerpts Songs (High voice) with guitar Songs with instrumental ensemble Songs with orchestra Songs with piano Vocal duets with orchestra Genre/Form Streaming audio Form Streaming audio Author Warner Classics (Firm), publisher. Parlophone Company, publisher.

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