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Treasury of Opera 1906-1942 Volume 2. Manon Lescaut to Die Zauberflöte
Ninety-six Performances by Forty-six Singers from the First Half of the Century
in this unique collection celebrating the artistry of the great opera stars of yesteryear. Highlights include Enrico Caruso in Otello, Lawrence Tibbett in Porgy and Bess, Geraldine Farrar in Tosca and John McCormack in La Traviata.
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Disc One
MANON LESCAUT, Auber
1. Amelita Galli-Curci - C'est I'histoire amoureuse (L'eclat de rire)
MANON LESCAUT, Puccini
2. Beniamino Gigli - Donna non vidi mai
3. Rosa Ponselle - In quelle trine morbide (with recit.)
MARTHA, Flotow
4. Tito Schipa - M'appari tutto amor
MAY NIGHT, Rimsky-Korsakoff
5. Boris Slovtsov - How quiet here ... Sleep, my beauty
MEFISTOFELE , Boito
6. Claudia Muzio - L'altra notte in fondo al mare
7. Beniamino Gigli - Giunto sul passo estremo
DIE MEISTERSINGER, Wagner
8. Lauritz Melchior - Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein
MIGNON, Thomas
9. Conchita Supervia - Connais-tu le pays?
10. Tito Schipa - Addio, Mignon
11. Luisa Tetrazzini - Io son Titania
12. Ezio Pinza - De son coeur j'ai calmé (Berceuse)
MIREILLE, Gounod
13. Frieda Hempel - O légère hirondelle
NORMA, Bellini
14. Rosa Ponselle - Sediziose voci ... Casta Diva
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, Mozart
15. Giuseppe de Luca - Se vuol ballare
16. Conchita Supervia - Non so più
17. Elisabeth Schumann - Voi che sapete?
Disc Two
DER OPERNBALL, Heuberger
1. Herbert Ernst Groh - Im Chambre séparée
OTELLO, Verdi
2. Enrico Caruso - Ora e per sempre addio
3. Lawrence Tibbett - E qual certezza sognate ... Era la notte
4. Eide Norena - Ave Maria
PAGLIACCI, Leoncavallo
5. Lawrence Tibbett - Si puo?
6. Beniamino Gigli - Recitar... Vesti la giubba
7. Tito Schipa - Serenata d'Arlecchino
I PESCATORI DI PERLE, Bizet
8. Beniamino Gigli & Giuseppe de Luca - Del tempio al limitar
9. Beniamino Gigli - Mi par d'udir ancora
LA PÉRICHOLE, Offenbach
10. Maggie Teyte - Tu n'es pas beau
LA PERLE DU BRÉSIL, David
11. Amelita Galli-Curci - Charmant oiseau
PORGY AND BESS, Gershwin
12. Helen Jepson - Summertime
13. Lawrence Tibbett - Where is my Bess?
LE POSTILLON DE LONJUMEAU, Adam
14. Helge Roswaenge - Mes amis, écoutez
PRINCE IGOR, Borodin
15. Feodor Chaliapin - Galitzky's song
16. Nina Koshetz - Jaroslavna's aria
Disc Three
I PURITANI, Bellini
1. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi - A te o cara
2. Amelita Galli-Curci - Qui la voce sua soave
RIENZI, Wagner
3. Lauritz Melchior - Allmächt'ger Vater, blick' herab
RIGOLETTO, Verdi
4. John McCormack - Questa o quella
5. Amelita Galli-Curci - Caro nome
6. Enrico Caruso - Ella mi fu rapita ... Parmi veder le lagrime
7. Giuseppe de Luca & Grace Anthony - Povero Rigoletto ...Cortigiani, vil razza dannata
8. Jussi Björling - La donna è mobile
RINALDO, Handel
9. Ernestine Schumann-Heink - Lascia ch'io pianga
RISURREZIONE, Alfano
10. Mary Garden - Dieu de grâce
LE ROI D'YS, Lalo
11. Beniamino Gigli - Vainement ma bien aimée
ROMEO ET JULIETTE, Gounod
12. Yevgeniya Bronskaya - Je veux vivre dans ce rêve
13. Dmitri Smirnov - Cavatina ... Ah! lève-toi soleil
DER ROSENKAVALIER, Richard Strauss
14. Erna Berger & Tiana Lemnitz - Ist ein Traum, kann nicht wirklich sein
Disc Four
SADKO, Rimsky-Korsakoff
1. Beniamino Gigli - Chanson Hindoue
2. Nina Koshetz - Berceuse
SAMSON ET DALILA, Saint-Saëns
3. Conchita Supervia - Printemps qui commence
4. Marian Anderson - Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix
LO SCHIAVO, Gomes
5. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi - Quando nascesti tu
SEMELE, Handel
6. John McCormack - O sleep, why dost thou leave me?
SIMON BOCCANEGRA, Verdi
7. Alexander Kipnis - A te I'estremo addio ... Il lacerato spirito
THE SNOW MAIDEN, Rimsky-Korsakoff
8. Boris Slovtsov - Full of wonders
LA SONNAMBULA, Bellini
9. Claudia Muzio - Ah, non credea mirarti
10. Luisa Tetrazzini - Ah! non giunge
TANNHAÜSER, Wagner
11. Lauritz Melchior - Dir töne Lob
12. Tiana Lemnitz - Dich teure Halle
13. Kirsten Flagstad - Allmächt'ge Jungfrau (Elisabeth's Prayer)
14. Marcel Journet - O du mein holder Abendstern
TOSCA, Puccini
15. Giovanni Martinelli - Recondita armonia
16. Geraldine Farrar - Vissi d'arte
17. Jussi Björling - E lucevan le stelle
Disc Five
DIE TOTE STADT, Korngold
1. Richard Tauber & Lotte Lehmann - Glück, das mir verblieb
LA TRAVIATA, Verdi
2. Luisa Tetrazzini - Ah! fors'è lui... Sempre libera
3. John McCormack - De'miei bollenti spiriti
4. Luisa Tetrazzini - Addio del passato
5. John McCormack & Lucrezia Bori - Parigi o cara
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, Wagner
6. Frida Leider - Liebestod
IL TROVATORE, Verdi
7. Rosa Ponselle - Tacea la notte placida
8. Heinrich Schlusnus - Il balen del suo sorriso
9. Giovanni Martinelli - Di quella pira
THE TSAR'S BRIDE, Rimsky-Korsakov
10. Alma Gluck - Liuba's Air
TURANDOT, Puccini
11. Lotte Schöne - Signore, ascolta
12. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi - Nessun dorma
LA VESTALE, Spontini
13. Rosa Ponselle - O Nume tutelar
DIE WALKÜRE, Wagner
14. Kirsten Flagstad - Du bist der Lenz
15. Lauritz Melchior - Winterstürme wichen dem Wonne mond
WERTHER, Massenet
16. Ninon Vallin - Va! laisse couler mes larmes
17. Tito Schipa - Ah! non mi ridestar
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, Mozart
18. Gerhard Husch - Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja
19. Richard Tauber - Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön
20. Erna Berger - Der Hölle Rache
21. Tiana Lemnitz - Ach, ich fühl's
| Review | Why purchase a set of archival recordings when you can listen to modern recordings, whose gulf in technical quality is as vast as that separating typewriters from word processors? Buy them for their quaintness. This is the music your parents and grandparents listened to. Buy them for your sense of history. Listening to Marcella Sembrich, who was born in 1858, is comparable to seeing early Edison footage. (Don't you wonder how they perceived music ninety years ago?) Most of all, buy them because they are good, in some cases, better performances than those we hear today. Culled from Nimbus Records' 100+ Prima Voce CD collection, these recordings date from 1906 to 1943. The collection is not only an excellent gateway to the past, but an formidable teaching tool into operatic technique and its metamorphoses over the years. Happily, most of the recordings do not disappoint. Listen to how slowly, how deliberately John McCormack sang, caressing each word. How sensuously Conchita Supervia's voice slithers through Carmen. How forcefully Elisabeth Rethberg imbues Die Fledermaus's Rosalinde with proto-feminist spirit. How skillfully Claudia Muzio and Rosa Ponselle perform just about anything. Malfalda Favero's rendition of Falmmen, perfonami (Lodoletta) makes me wonder why the recording industry stopped featuring such voluptuous contraltos. Of course Caruso and Jussi Björling singing a shopping list can make me melt. I could go on, but you'd be here all day. Buy it ... Peter Bates, classical.net |
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