Opera arias and songs. Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (disc 1, tracks 1-4, 6-9) ; Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra (disc 1, track 5; disc 2, tracks 8-9) ; Columbia Concert Orchestra (disc 2, track 3) ; Columbia Symphony Orchestra (disc 2, tracks 4-7) ; Frank La Forge, piano (disc 2, tracks 17-18) ; unidentified orchestras (remainder) ; Pietro Cimara, (disc 1, tracks 1-4, 6-11), Andre Kostelanetz (disc 1, tracks 5, 12-14; disc 2, tracks 1-9, 12-16, 19-20), Maurice Abravanel (disc 2, tracks 10-11), conductors. Recorded between July 14, 1941 and May 1, 1950 at Leiderkranz Hall and the Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City. Previously recorded materials originally released by Columbia, 1941-1950. Compact discs. Program notes by the Earl of Harewood in English, with French and German translations (51 pages : illustrations) bound in container.
Contents:
(4:10). Home, sweet home / Chacun le sait (3:24) ; Il faut partir (4:20) ; Et mon cœur va changer (4:18) ; Salut à la France (4:33) / Henry R. Bishop ; text, John Howard Payne Sadko. Song of India / Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (3:36) -- Lakmé. Pourquoi dans les grand bois / Léo Delibes (4:32) -- Dinorah. Ombre légère = Shadow song / Giacomo Meyerbeer (5:33) -- Lucia di Lammermoor. Renava del silenzio-- Quando rapita in estasi (7:15) ; Il dolce suono mi colpì-- Ardon gl'incensi (14:25) / Gaetano Donizetti -- Rigoletto. Caro nome / Giuseppe Verdi (5:06) -- Lakmé. Où va la jeune hindoue? = Bell song / Léo Delibes (7:03) -- Mireille. O légère hirondelle (2:53) ; Roméo et Juliette. Je veux vivre (3:31) / Charles-François Gounod -- La traviata. Ah, fors'è lui-- Sempre libera / Giuseppe Verdi (7:08). -- Disc 2. Le coq d'or. Hymne au soleil / Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (4:15) -- Les contes d'Hoffmann. Les oiseaux dans la charmille / Jacques Offenbach (3:58) -- Zémire et Azor. La Fauvette / André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (7:50) -- Mignon. Je suis Titania / Ambroise Thomas (4:28) -- I puritani. Son vergin vezzosa / Vincenzo Bellini (3:57) -- Linda di Chamounix. O luce di quest'anima / Gaetano Donizetti (3:18) -- La sonnambula. An, non credea-- Ah, non giunge / Vincenzo Bellini (7:00) -- Porgy and Bess. Summertime / George Gershwin ; text, DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin (2:35) -- The Russian nightingale / Alexander M. Alaviev ; arr. Frank la Forge (3:31) -- Fledermaus fantasy : excerpts from Die Fledermaus / Johann Strauss ; arr. Frank La Forge (7:28) -- Les roses d' Ispahan / Gabriel Fauré ; text, Leconte de Lisle (3:40) -- L'invitation au voyage / Henri Duparc ; text, Charles Baudelaire / (3:59) -- Chansons de Ronsard. À un fountaine (1:56) ; À Cupidon (2:52) ; Tais-toi, babillarde (1:19) ; Dieu vous gard (2:18) / Darius Milhaud ; text, Pierre de Ronsard -- Clair de lune (2:52) ; Fantoches (1:17) / Claude Debussy ; text, Paul Verlaine -- Plaisir d'amour / Giovanni Battista Martini (4:12) -- Home, sweet home / Henry R. Bishop ; text, John Howard Payne (4:10).
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