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Includes work(s) by various composers. Soloists: Kirsten Flagstad, Rosa Ponselle.
Includes work(s) by various composers. Soloists: Kirsten Flagstad, Rosa Ponselle. Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Lakmé: Où va la jeune indoue? "Bell Song" by Léo Delibes
Performer:
Amelita Galli-Curci ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1883; France
Date of Recording: 1917
Length: 4 Minutes 16 Secs.
2.
La traviata: Addio del passato by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Claudia Muzio ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1853; Italy
Date of Recording: 1918
Length: 3 Minutes 7 Secs.
3.
Carmen: Près des ramparts de Seville "Seguidilla" by Georges Bizet
Performer:
Conchita Supervia ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1873-1874; France
Date of Recording: 1927
Length: 2 Minutes 3 Secs.
4.
Tosca: Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:
Magda Olivero ()
Conductor:
Ugo Tansini
Period: Romantic
Written: 1900; Italy
Date of Recording: 1940
Length: 3 Minutes 7 Secs.
5.
La forza del destino: La Vergine degli angeli by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Rosa Ponselle ()
Period: Romantic
Written: Italy
Date of Recording: 1918
Length: 3 Minutes 16 Secs.
6.
Otello: Ave Maria by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Elisabeth Rethberg ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887; Italy
Date of Recording: 1930
Length: 4 Minutes 11 Secs.
7.
Orfeo ed Euridice: Che puro ciel! by Christoph W. Gluck
Conductor:
Fritz Stiedry
Period: Classical
Written: 1762/1774; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1947
Length: 7 Minutes 35 Secs.
8.
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Deh! vieni, non tardar by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
Toti dal Monte ()
Period: Classical
Written: 1786; Austria
Date of Recording: 1924
Length: 4 Minutes 8 Secs.
9.
Louise: Depuis le jour by Gustave Charpentier
Performer:
Nellie Melba ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1900; France
Date of Recording: 1913
Length: 4 Minutes 45 Secs.
10.
Faust: Ah! je ris de me voir si belle "Jewel Song" by Charles Gounod
Performer:
Adelina Patti (),
Landon Ronald (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1859; France
Date of Recording: 1905
Length: 2 Minutes 39 Secs.
11.
Mélodies (20), Volume 1: Si mes vers avaient des ailes by Reynaldo Hahn
Performer:
Marcella Sembrich (),
Frank La Forge (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1888; France
Date of Recording: 1908
Length: 1 Minutes 55 Secs.
12.
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D 118/Op. 2 by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Emma Eames (),
Henri Gilles (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1814; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1911
Length: 3 Minutes 50 Secs.
13.
Ruslan and Lyudmila, opera in 5 acts, G. xiv: O my Ratmir! by Mikhail Glinka
Performer:
Marianne Cherkasskaya ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1837-1842; Russia
Date of Recording: 1907
Length: 3 Minutes 26 Secs.
14.
Un ballo in maschera: Morrò, ma prima in grazia by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Zinka Milanov ()
Conductor:
Hector Panizza
Period: Romantic
Written: 1859; Italy
Date of Recording: 1940
Length: 4 Minutes 16 Secs.
15.
Schwanengesang, D 957: no 5, Aufenthalt by Franz Schubert
Performer:
George Reeves (Piano),
Maria Olszewska ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1828; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1929
Length: 3 Minutes 24 Secs.
16.
Tannhäuser: Dich, teure Halle by Richard Wagner
Performer:
Emmy Destinn ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1845/1861; Germany
Date of Recording: 1906
Length: 3 Minutes 0 Secs.
17.
Rusalka, Op. 114/B 203: O moon high up "Song to the moon" by Antonín Dvorák
Performer:
Ljuba Welitsch ()
Conductor:
Richard Kraus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1900; Bohemia
Date of Recording: 1949
Length: 6 Minutes 39 Secs.
18.
La traviata: Ah, fors' è lui...Sempre libera by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Beniamino Gigli (),
Maria Caniglia ()
Conductor:
Vittorio Gui
Period: Romantic
Written: 1853; Italy
Date of Recording: 1939
Length: 8 Minutes 12 Secs.
19.
Aida: Ritorna vincitor! by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Dusolina Giannini ()
Conductor:
Carlo Sabajno
Period: Romantic
Written: 1871; Italy
Date of Recording: 1928
Length: 5 Minutes 56 Secs.
20.
La Bohème: Si, mi chiamano Mimì by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:
Licia Albanese ()
Conductor:
Umberto Berrettoni
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Italy
Date of Recording: 1938
Length: 5 Minutes 8 Secs.
21.
Don Pasquale: Quel guardo il cavaliere...So anch'io la virtù by Gaetano Donizetti
Performer:
Adelaide Saraceni ()
Conductor:
Carlo Sabajno
Period: Romantic
Written: 1843; Italy
Date of Recording: 1932
Length: 4 Minutes 18 Secs.
22.
La Gioconda: Suicidio! by Amilcare Ponchielli
Performer:
Celestina Boninsegna ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1876; Italy
Date of Recording: 1907
Length: 4 Minutes 14 Secs.
23.
Lucia di Lammermoor: Spargi d'amaro pianto "Mad Scene" by Gaetano Donizetti
Performer:
Lily Pons ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1835; Italy
Date of Recording: 1930
Length: 8 Minutes 6 Secs.
24.
Alceste: Divinités du Styx by Christoph W. Gluck
Performer:
Helen Traubel ()
Period: Classical
Written: 1767; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1940
Length: 4 Minutes 36 Secs.
25.
I vespri siciliani: Mercè, dilette amiche "Bolero" by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Rosa [Soprano Vocals] Raisa ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1855; Italy
Date of Recording: 1921
Length: 3 Minutes 27 Secs.
26.
Dichterliebe, Op. 48: no 7, Ich grolle nicht by Robert Schumann
Performer:
Elena [Mezzo Soprano Vocals] Gerhardt (),
Arthur Nikisch (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1840; Germany
Date of Recording: 1911
Length: 2 Minutes 42 Secs.
27.
Les feuilles blessés, song cycle for voice & piano: Belle lune d'argent, song by Reynaldo Hahn
Performer:
Maggie Teyte (Piano),
Elena [Mezzo Soprano Vocals] Gerhardt ()
Period: Post-Romantic
Written: 1901-1906
Date of Recording: 1944
Length: 2 Minutes 53 Secs.
28.
Chanson provençale by Eva Dell'Acqua
Performer:
Mado Robin ()
Conductor:
Georges Briez
Period: Romantic
Date of Recording: 1942
Length: 3 Minutes 25 Secs.
29.
Die Zauberflöte, K 620: Ach, ich fühl's, es ist verschwunden by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
Dorothy Maynor ()
Conductor:
Serge Koussevitzky
Period: Classical
Written: 1791; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1939
Length: 4 Minutes 21 Secs.
30.
Le rossignol des lilas by Reynaldo Hahn
Performer:
André Collard (Piano),
Géori Boué ()
Period: 20th Century
Written: France
Date of Recording: 1942
Length: 1 Minutes 8 Secs.
31.
Amor Amaro, for voice & vielle by Anonymous
Performer:
E. Bellinzona (),
Suzanne Danco ()
Period: Renaissance
Written: 14th Century
Date of Recording: 1941
Length: 3 Minutes 3 Secs.
32.
Eva (Das Fabriksmädel), operetta in 3 acts: Im heimlichen Dämmer by Franz Lehár
Performer:
Maria Reining ()
Conductor:
Franz Lehár
Period: Post-Romantic
Date of Recording: 1942
Length: 4 Minutes 41 Secs.
33.
Ist der Himmel darum im Lenz so blau?, for voice & piano, Op. 2/2 by Hans Pfitzner
Performer:
Friedel Beckmann (),
Bruno Seidler-Winkler (Piano)
Period: Modern
Date of Recording: 1939
Length: 2 Minutes 25 Secs.
34.
Semiramide: Bel raggio lusinghier by Gioachino Rossini
Performer:
Luisa Tetrazzini ()
Conductor:
Percy Pitt
Period: Romantic
Written: 1823; Italy
Date of Recording: 1910
Length: 4 Minutes 19 Secs.
35.
Nebbie by Ottorino Respighi
Performer:
Giorgio Favaretto (Piano),
Alba Anzellotti ()
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1906; Italy
Date of Recording: 1941
Length: 3 Minutes 2 Secs.
36.
Tristan und Isolde: Mild und leise "Liebestod" by Richard Wagner
Performer:
Kirsten Flagstad ()
Conductor:
Issay Dobroven
Period: Romantic
Written: 1859; Germany
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 7 Minutes 11 Secs.
37.
Variazioni di bravura (on "Ah! Vous dirai-je Maman") for Soprano, Flute and Piano by Adolphe Adam
Performer:
Ada Sari ()
Period: Romantic
Length: 3 Minutes 17 Secs.
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