John McCormack
Arias, Recitals, Songs









Disc One
1LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, Donizetti, Fra poco a me ricovero3.29
Rec: 3 Jan 1910 Matrix: C8535-1 Victor Cat: 88215
2LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, Donizetti, Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali3.51
Rec: 23 Mar 1910 Matrix: C8740-1 Victor Cat: 88249
3L'ELISIR D'AMORE, Donizetti, Una furtiva lagrima l'ali4.07
Rec: 1 Feb 1910 Matrix: C8536-2 Victor Cat: 88217
4LA TRAVIATA, Verdi, De' miei bollenti spiriti3.55
Rec: 10 Mar 1910 Matrix: C8693-1 Victor Cat: DB 631
5LA TRAVIATA, Verdi, Parigi o cara3.22
with Lucrezia Bori (soprano)
Rec: 8 Apr 1914 Matrix: C14686-1 Victor Cat: 88453
6LA BOHEME, Puccini, Che gelida manina4.09
Rec: 1 Feb 1910 Matrix: C8589-2 Victor Cat: 88218
7CARMEN, Bizet, Il fior che avevi a me tu dato4.00
Rec: 7 Jan 1910 Matrix: C8538-1 Victor Cat: 88216
8LAKME, Delibes, Vieni al contento profondo3.13
Rec: 25 Mar 1910 Matrix: C8750-1 Victor Cat: 87063
9FAUST, Gounod, Salve, dimora casta e pura4.24
Rec: 10 Mar 1910 Matrix: C8694-1 Victor Cat: 88230
10LA FIGLIA DEL REGGIMENTO, Donizetti, Per viver vicino3.40
Rec: 23 Mar 1910 Matrix: C8739-1 Victor Cat: 88245
11LA GIOCONDA, Ponchielli, O grido di quest' anima4.38
with Mario Sammarco (baritone)
Rec: 18 July 1911 Matrix: 5206F HMV Cat: 2-054022
12MEFISTOFELE, Boïto, Dai campi, dai prati2.23
Rec: 11 Dec 1912 Matrix: B12705-1 Victor Cat: 64303
13MEFISTOFELE, Boïto, Giunto sul passo estremo3.06
Rec: 11 Dec 1912 Matrix: B12706-1 Victor Cat: 64304
14I PESCATORI DI PERLE, Bizet, Mi par d'udir ancora3.19
Rec: 11 Dec 1912 Matrix: B12707-1 Victor Cat: 64305
15MANON, Massenet, Il sogno3.10
Rec: 3 Jan 1913 Matrix: B12764-2 Victor Cat: 64312
16RIGOLETTO, Verdi, Questa o quella2.09
Rec: 1 May 1913 Matrix: B13223-1 Victor Cat: 64344
17DON GIOVANNI, Mozart, Il mio tesoro4.22
Rec: 9 May 1916 Matrix: C17647-1 Victor Cat: 74484
18DIE MEISTERSINGER, Wagner, Prize song [sung in English]4.05
Rec: 10 May 1916 Matrix: C17656-1 Victor Cat: 74479
19NATOMAH, Herbert, Paul's address3.35
Rec: 3 Apr 1912 Matrix: C11822-1 Victor Cat: 74295
20SEMELE, Handel, O sleep, why dost thou leave me?3.31
Rec: 1 Apr 1920 Matrix: B23901-1 Victor Cat: 66096
21ATALANTA, Handel, Come, my beloved3.07
Rec: 4 Sept 1924 Matrix: Bb 5034-1 HMV Cat: DA 645 with Edward Schneider, piano
Disc Two
Acoustic Recordings
1Edmund O'Rourke, writing as Edmund Falconer/Michael William Balfe, Killarney3.51
Rec: 3 January 1910 Matrix: C 8594-1 Victor Cat: 74157
2Thomas Moore/Old Irish Air, 'The Moreen'/The Minstrel Boy2.58
Rec: 1 February 1910 Matrix: B 8590-1 Victor Cat: 64117
3Harold Lake, writing as Harold Harford/Charles Marshall, I Hear You Calling Me3.55
Rec: 16 March 1911 Matrix: B 8695-2 Victor Cat: 64120
4Annie Barry Crawford/Frederick Nicholls Williams Crouch, Kathleen Mavourneen3.47
Rec: 16 March 1911 Matrix: C 10061-1 Victor Cat: 74236
5Josephine V. Rowe/Dermot MacMurrough, Macushla3.12
Rec: 30 March 1911 Matrix: B 10134-1 Victor Cat: 64205
6Thomas Dunn English/Nelson Kneass, Ben Bolt3.05
Rec: 7 April 1914 Matrix: B 14675-2 Victor Cat: 64433
7Thomas Moore/Old Irish Air, 'Open the Door' arr. Frank Lambert/She is Far from the Land4.27
Rec: 31 March 1911 Matrix: C 10138-1 Victor Cat: 74242
8Sir Stephen Edward De Vere/Old Irish Air, 'Pearl of the White Breast' arr. Joseph Robinson/The Snowy Breasted Pearl5.35
Rec: 23 March 1910 Matrix: C 8741-1 Victor Cat: 74166
9Stephen Foster, Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming3.22
with Harry Macdonough (tenor), Lambert Murphy (tenor),
Reinald Werrenrath (baritone)
Rec: 8 April 1914 Matrix: B 14678-2 Victor Cat: 64423
10George F. Root/H.S. Washburn, The Vacant Chair3.09
with Harry Macdonough (tenor), Reinald Werrenrath (baritone),
William F. Hooley (bass)
Rec: 31 March 1915 Matrix: B 15417-3 Victor Cat: 64499 with celeste
11Eileen Newton/Arthur F. Tate, Somewhere a Voice is Calling2.58
Rec: 23 November 1914 Matrix: B 15419-1 Victor Cat: 64405 with orchestra conducted by Walter B. Rogers
12Adelaide A. Proctor/Sir Arthur Sullivan, The Lost Chord4.18
Rec: 20 October 1922 Matrix: C 27043-1 Victor Cat: 74791 with orchestra conducted by Josef A. Pasternack
13Sara Teasdale/A. Walter Kramer, Swans (from 'Rivers to the Sea')2.30
Rec: 26 September 1923 Matrix: B 28613-1 Victor Cat: 1081-B with Edwin Schneider piano
Electric Recordings
14Trad. Old Irish Air, arr. Herbert Hughes, Norah O'Neale3.22
Rec: 18 October 1929 Matrix: BVE 56198-2 Victor Unpublished
Francis J. Lapitino harp with orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret
15C. Mordaunt Spencer/Charles W. Glover, The Rose of Tralee3.28
Rec: 19 February 1930 Matrix: BVE 58586-2 Victor Cat: 1452 with orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret
16Robert Louis Stevenson/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, She Rested by the Broken Brook3.27
Rec: 1 October 1926 Matrix: BVE 35891-1 Victor Unpublished with Edwin Schneider piano
17M. Ashworth-Hope/Ernest Torrance, God Gave Me Flowers2.22
Rec: 6 July 1931 Matrix: PBVE 61097-2 Victor Unpublished with Edwin Schneider piano
18William Butler Yeats/Thomas F. Dunhill, The Cloths of Heaven (from 'The Wind Among the Reeds')2.37
Rec: 23 July 1935 Matrix: OEA 2182-1 Victor Cat: DA 1445 with Edwin Schneider piano
19Harold Boulton/Sir Granville Bantock, Song to the Seals (from 'Songs of the Western Isles')3.44
Rec: 27 June 1935 Matrix: OEA 2126-1 Victor Cat: DA 1444
with Edwin Schneider piano. Spoken introduction by McCormack
20Harold Boulton/Old Irish Air, arr. Herbert Hughes, The Little Boats2.19
Rec: 25 June 1941 Matrix: OEA 9328-1 Victor Cat: AGSA 52 with Gerald Moore piano
21Harold Boulton/Old Irish Air arr. Arthur Somervell, The Gentle Maiden (from 'Songs of Four Nations')2.44
Rec: 9 August 1940 Matrix: OEA 8851-1 Victor Cat: AGSA 55 with Gerald Moore piano
Disc Three
1Parkyns, Le Portrait3.13
Rec: 2 May 1913 Matrix: B 13235-1 Victor Cat: 64374 with Edwin Schneider piano
2Leroux, Le Nil4.20
Rec: 25 March 1914 Matrix: C 14625-1 Victor Cat: 88482 Vincent O'Brien piano
3Balogh arr. Kreisler, Caprice antique2.19
Rec: 25 February 1925 Matrix: B 31871-4 Victor Cat: 1093 with Carl Lamson piano
4JOCELYN, Godard, Beneath the quivering leaves... Angels guard thee5.14
Rec: 25 March 1914 Matrix: C 14626-1 Victor Cat: 88483 Vincent O'Brien piano
5Moszkowski, Serenata2.48
Rec: 10 June 1915 Matrix: B 16090-1 Victor Cat: 87230 Orchestra conducted by Walter B. Rogers
6Kreisler, Liebesfreud3.24
Rec: 13 May 1910 Matrix: C 8951-2 Victor Cat: 74196 with George Falkenstein piano
7Arr. de Curtis, Carmé3.21
Rec: 10 June 1915 Matrix: B 16091-2 Victor Cat: 87231 Orchestra conducted by Walter B. Rogers
8Kreisler, Cradle Song (Arr. from Caprice Viennois)3.25
Rec: 11 May 1916 Matrix: B 17672-2 Victor Cat: 64606 with harp, bells & orchestra conducted by Walter B. Rogers
9Kreisler, Caprice Viennois3.41
Rec: 18 May 1910 Matrix: C 8940-3 Victor Cat: 74197 with George Falkenstein piano
10Richard Strauss, Morgen2.54
Rec: 24 September 1924 Matrix: Bb 5115-III HMV Cat: DA 644 Edwin Schneider piano
11Rakhmaninov, O cease thy singing, maiden fair3.40
Rec: 2 April 1920 Matrix: B 23906-1 Victor Cat: 87574 Edwin Schneider piano
12Rakhmaninov, When night descends3.05
Rec: 2 April 1920 Matrix: B 23905-1 Victor Cat: 87571 Edwin Schneider piano
13Cottenet, Chanson Méditation4.32
Rec: 23 December 1912 Matrix: C 8982-4 Victor Cat: 74330 with George Falkenstein piano
14LILY OF KILLARNEY, Benedict, The moon hath raised her lamp above3.28
Rec: 9 April 1914 Matrix: B 14693-1 Victor Cat: 64440
15Schubert arr. Kreisler, Rosamunde von Cypern: No. 9 Ballet Music II in G3.10
Rec: 1 March 1917 Matrix: B 19323-1 Victor Cat: 64670 with orchestra conducted by Josef Pasternack
16Brahms-Joachim, Hungarian Dance No. 5 in F sharp2.14
Rec: 7 February 1916 Matrix: B 8969-2 Victor Cat: 64131 with Carl Lamson piano
17Tosti, Goodbye4.06
Rec: 1 May 1913 Matrix: C 13219-1 Victor Cat: 74346
18Braga, Angel's Serenade4.50
Rec: 25 March 1914 Matrix: C 14623-1 Victor Cat: 88479 Vincent O'Brien piano
19Arr. Hughes, I saw from the beach (Old Irish Air)2.27
Rec: 24 September 1924 Matrix: Bb 5119-1 HMV Cat: DA 636 Edwin Schneider piano
20Larchet, Padraic the fiddler2.56
Rec: 24 September 1924 Matrix: Bb 5118-II HMV Cat: DA 636 Edwin Schneider piano
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