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List of Disc Contents:
1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006
1993:
Bemberg: “Nymphes et Sylvains” - Grete Forst, Soprano
Halevy: “Rachel quand du seigneur” (La Juive) - Hector Dupeyron, Tenor
Catalani: “Dove son?” (Loreley) - Ester Mazzoleni, Soprano
Elgar: “And King Olaf Heard the Cry” (King Olaf) - Tudor Davies, Tenor
Tchaikovsky: “None But the Lonely Heart” - Elisabeth Rethberg, Soprano
Bizet: “Quand la flamme de l’amour” (Jolie Fille de Perth) - Hector Dufranne, Baritone
Massenet: “Duo de Saint Sulpice” (Manon) - Berthe César, Soprano & Léon Campagnola, Tenor
Donizetti: “Come è gentil” (Don Pasquale) - Luigi Simonetta, Tenor
Meyerbeer: “En chasse, en chasse” (Dinorah) - André Balbon, Baritone
Santoliquido: “L’Assiolo Canta” - Conrad Thibault, Baritone
Massenet: “Du gai soleil plein de flamme” (Werther) - Germaine Corney, Soprano
Massenet: “Legende de la Sauge” (Le Jongleur de Notre Dame)- Robert Couzinou, Baritone
Gounod: “Que les songe sont heureux” (Philémon et Baucis) - Paul Payan, Bass
Nevin: “La Rosaire” - Germaine Cernay, Mezzo Soprano
Bizet: “Je crois entendre encore” (Pêcheurs de Perles) - Gennadi Pischaev, Tenor
Mozart: “Non piu andrai” (Nozze di Figaro) - Dennis Noble, Baritone
Spoliansky: “La Chanson d’une Nuit” -José Luccioni, Tenor
Gounod: “Dio possente, Dio d’amor” (Faust) - Giuseppe Manacchini, Baritone
Wagner: “Leb’ wohl” (Die Walküre) - Luigi Rossi-Morelli, Baritone<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
1994:
Traditional: “Der Chazan un der Gabal” - Moshe Kusevitsky, Tenor
Padilla: “Princesita” - Gil Valeriano, Tenor
Lecocq: “Oh Paris gai séjour” (Les Cent Vierges) - Anna Tariol-Baugé, Soprano
Tchaikovsky: “The Three Treasures” (Mazeppa) - Adolfs Kaktins, Baritone
Gastaldon: “Musica Proibita” - Ines Maria Ferraris, Soprano
??: (Zaklety Princ) - Behumil Benoni, Baritone
Giordano: “La mamma morta” (Andrea Chenier) - Florence Quartararo, Soprano
Petrie: “Asleep in the Deep” - Oscar Natzke, Bass
Donizetti: “Mad Scene” (Lucia) - Marimi Del Pozo, Soprano
Casadesus: “La Vendetta” (Colomba [film]) - Gaston Micheletti, Tenor
Grieg: “Ich liebe dich” - Rosa Olitzka, Contralto
Thomas: “Doute de la lumiére” (Hamlet) - Germaine Féraldy, Soprano & Pierre Deldi, Baritone
Wagner: “Siegmund heiss ich” (Die Walküre) - Hendrik Appels, Tenor
Massenet: “Va! laisse” (Werther) - Germaine Pape, Mezzo Soprano
Cui: “The General” - Vladimir Kastorsky, Bass
Mascagni: “Voi lo sapete” (Cavalleria Rusticana) - Maria Nemeth, Soprano
Rabaud: “Dans le jardin fleuri” (Marouf) - Charles Friant, Tenor
Paladilhe: “Psyché” - Berthe de Montalant, Mezzo Soprano
Pinelli: “Fior di campo” - Afro Poli, Baritone
Raymond: “Meine Mutter war ein Rheinisches Kind” (Nur am Rhein [film]) - Marcel Wittrisch, Tenor
Scott: “Lullaby” - Maggie Teyte, Soprano & John McCormack, Tenor<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
1995:
Giordano: “Improviso” (Andrea Chenier) - Giovanni Voyer, Tenor
Meyerbeer: “Fille de rois” (L'Africaine) - Louis Lestelly, Baritone
Zeller: “Ich bin die Christie..” (Der Vögelhandler) - Elisabeth Reichelt, soprano
Handel: “Love in her eyes...” (Acis and Galatea) - Evan Williams, Tenor
Halévy: “Vous qui du Dieu” (La Juive) - Francois Audiger, Bass
Giordano: Rigida..O grand Occhi...” (Fedora) - Ebe Stignani, Mezzo soprano
Mozart: “Der Odem der Liebe” (Così fan tutte) - Max Altglass, Tenor
Borodin: “Air du Prince Igor” (Prince Igor) - Pierre Nougaro, tenor
Gounod: “Vincennette á votre áge” (Duet) (Mireille) - Germaine Corney, soprano & Max De Rieux, Tenor
Bruneau: “Adieux á la forêt” (L'attaque du Moulin) - Georges Jouatte, Tenor
Saint-Saens: “Amour, viens aider..” (Samson et Dalilah) - Georgette Frozier-Marrot, Mezzo Soprano
Puccini: “Oui l'on me dit vénal” (Tosca) - Willy Tubiana, Bass
Lecocq: “Bolero” (Le Coeur et la Main) - Clementine Devere, Soprano
Wagner: “Preislied” (Die Meistersinger) - Lambert Murphy, Tenor
Hallén: “Junker Nils sjunger...” (Gustaf Vasa's Saga) - Joel Berglund, Baritone
Meyerbeer: “O beau pays” (Les Huguenots) - Deborah Pantofel-Nechetskaya, Soprano
Verdi: “La mia letizia” (I Lombardi) - Giovanni Consiglio, Tenor
Puccini: “Nessun dorma” (Turandot) - Giovanni Consiglio, Tenor<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
1996 - 40th Anniversary: Dedicated to the Memory of Edwin Steffe (1907-1996)
Handel: “The Trumpet Shall Sound” (Messiah) - Edwin Steffe, Baritone
Koechlin: “Si tu le veux” - José Delaquerriére, Tenor
Mascagni: “Serenata” - Onelia Fineschi, Soprano
Napravnik: “O give me oblivion” (Dubrovsky) - Gennadi Pischaev, Tenor
Hahn: “Reverie” - Maurice Decléry, Baritone
Fourdrain: “Chevauchée Cosaque” - Richard Crooks, Tenor
Rocca: “Il canto della culla” - Graziella Valle, Soprano
Glazunov: “Eastern Melody” - Alexandr M. Bragin, Baritone
Messager: “A tone amour simple” - Edmond Tirmont, Tenor
Faure: “Poeme du Jour” (Song Cycle of three songs) - Eidé Norena, Soprano
Grechaninov: “Berceuse” - Charles Soix, Bass
Verdi: “Di tu se fedele” (Un Ballo in Maschera) - Salvatore Pollicino, Tenor
Meyerbeer: “Shadow Song” (Dinorah) - Maria Michailowa, Soprano
Schumann: “Wanderlied” - Paul Knüpfer, Bass
Verdi: “Ora e per sempre addio” (Otello) - Augusto Scampini, Tenor
Tchaikovsky: “The Gypsy” - Mascia Predit, Soprano
Bizet: “Quand la flamme” (Jolie Fille de Perth) - Louis Morturier, Bass-Baritone
Donizetti: “Una furtiva lagrima” (L'Elisir d'Amore) - Folke Andersson, Tenor
Richepin: “L'Amour qui passe” - Yvonne Brothier, Soprano
Darquier: “Poulido!” - Louis Izar, Tenor
Massenet: “L'Air de Fanny” (Sapho) - Marthe Nespoulous, Soprano
Traditional Hebrew: “Zur Jiroel” - Cantor Savel Kwartin, baritone
Verdi: Act I Trio Finale (Il Trovatore) - Caterina Mancini, Soprano, Antonio Salvarezza, Tenor & Rolando Panerai, baritone<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
1997: Dedicated to the Memory of Philip Lieson Miller (1906-1996)
Leoncavallo: “Prologo” (I Pagliacci) - Inocenio Navarro, Baritone
Bizet: “A la voix d'un amant fidele” (Jolie Fille de Perthe) - Jean Planel, Tenor
Mussorgsky: “Hopak” - Vera Petrova-Zvantseva, Mezzo-soprano
Temple: “Love's Nocturne”- George Hamlin, Tenor
Lecocq: “Jadis les Rois” - (Fille de Madame Angot) - Sim Viva, Soprano
Rossini: “Numero quindici a mano manca” (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) - Vittorio Weinberg, Baritone & Agostino Casavecchi, Tenor
Noskowski: “Stach“ - Waclaw Brzeinski, Bass
Mozart: “Air de la Reine de la Nuit” - Lise Landouzy, Soprano
Brahms: “Von Ewiger Liebe” - Todd Duncan, Baritone
Greene: “Sing Me To Sleep” - Nevada Van Der Veer, Contralto
Saint-Saens: “Le pas D'armes du Roi Jean” - Albert Huberty, Bass
Mascagni: “Le grida e il clamore” (Parisina) - Alessandro Dolci, Tenor & F. Solari, Soprano
Halevy: “Er kommt zuruck” (Die Judin) - Riza Eibenschutz-Malata, Soprano
Taneev: “Do not let it sound” - Sergei Shaposhnikov, Baritone
Micelli: “La Alegria Que Vuelve” - Vincente Ballester, Baritone
Gounod: “Schumuckwalzer” (Faust) - Lucille Marcel, Soprano
Donizetti: “Fra poco a me ricovero” (Lucia) - Guido Ciccolini, Tenor
Reger: “Maria Wiegenlied“ - Hedwig Francillo-Kauffmann, Soprano
Wood: “I bless the dawn that brought me you” - Dennis Noble, Baritone
Jassinowsky: “The Prophecy of Isaiah” - Cantor Mordechay Hershman, Tenor<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
1998: Dedicated to the Memory of Julian Morton Moses (1911-1997)
Gelmund: “I am Waiting for You” - Konstantin Isachenko, Tenor
Lilljebjorn: “Nar Jag Blev Sjutton Ar” - Lydia Lindgren, Soprano
Rubenstein: “Prologue “Accursed World” - George Baklanov, Baritone
Saint-Saens: “Printempts qui commence” (Samson et Dalila) - Eliette Schenneberg, Mezzo-soprano
[traditional]: “Bendemeer's Stream”- Thomas L. Thomas, Baritone
Benatzky: “Deux Sous de Fleurs” (Deus Sous de Fleurs) - Deva-Dassy, Mezzo-soprano
Cilea: “Pur dolente son io” (Gloria) - Licinio Francardi, Tenor
Herbert: “Italian Street Song” (Naughty Marietta) - Marie Kaiser, Soprano
Flegier: “Stances” - Edmond Rambaud, Tenor
Pietri: “Uno strano senso arcano” (Maristella) - Rosetta Pampanini, Soprano
Reissiger: “Der schlesische Zecher und der Teufel“ - Paul Knupfer, Bass
Offenbach: “Giulietta-Hoffmann duet” (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) - Zara Dolukhanova, Mezzo-soprano & Ivan Kozlovsky, Tenor
Schubert: “Wohin” - Susanne Dessoir, Soprano)
Meyerbeer: “Land so wunderbar” (Die Afrikanerin) - Lorenz Fehenberger, Tenor
Meyer-Helmund: “Dein gedenk' ich, Margaretha” - Rita Fornia, Soprano
Saint-Saens: “Israel, romps ta chaine” (Samson et Dalila) - Cesar Vezzani, Tenor
Strickland: “Ma Li'l' Batteau” - Sophie Braslau, Contralto
Mussorgsky: “Air de la Puce” - Jose Beckmans, Baritone
Tchaikovsky: “A Weak Candle Light is Fading” - Sofia Preobrazhenskaya, Contralto
Reyer: “Ave Maria” - Ferruccio Corradetti, Baritone
Massenet: “Air d'Eros” (Thais) - Suzanne Cesbron-Veisuer, Soprano
Lebedeff: “Roumania, Roumania” - Aaron Lebedeff, Tenor<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
1999: Dedicated to the Memory of William Violi (1914-1989) & Richard Porter (1923-1984)
Godard: “Viens avec nous” (La Vivandière) - Abby Richardson, Mezzo-Soprano
Rossini: Acte 1, Air de Figaro - “Place au factotum de la Ville” (Le Barbier de Séville) - Pierre Deldi, Baritone
Hervé: “Babet und Cadet” (Mam'zelle Nitouche) - Lina Abarbanell, Soprano
Mèhul: “Champ paternel” (Joseph) - Albert Alvarez, Tenor
Gounod: “L'Invocation” (Faust) - B.S. Veprinsky, Bass
Montanari: “Via…!” (Il reno fischia) - Giannina Russ, Soprano
Giordano: “Son sessant'anni” (Andrea Chenier) - Francesco Maria Bonini, Baritone
Offenbach: “Puppenarie” (Hoffmanns Ezrählungen) - Aurelie Révy, Soprano
Giordano: “Canzone Guerresca” - Fausto Castellani, Tenor
Fürst: “Der Wagen rollt”, Op. 11, No.3 - Adolf Lieban, Bass
Wallace: “Scenes That Are Brightest” (Maritana) - Clementine de Vere-Sapio, Soprano
Massenet: “C'est peu pour le soldat” (Grisélidis) - André Allard, Bass/Baritone
Verdi: “Caro nome” (Rigoletto) - Florence Macbeth, Soprano
Giordano: “Un dì all'azzurro spazio” (Andrea Chenier) - Giulio Crimi, Tenor
Mozart: “O Isis und Osiris” (Die Zauberflöte) - Einar NØrby, Bass
Schreker: “Klein war ich noch” (Der Schatzgräber) - Else Gentner-Fischer, Soprano
Puccini: “Recondita armonia” (Tosca) - Antonio Cortis, Tenor
Traditional: “Ich bin a Bal-agole” (I Am a Driver) - Joseph Winogradoff, Baritone
Bizet: “Les Tringles des sistres tintaient” (Chanson Bohême) (Carmen) - Suzanne Juyol, Mezzo-Soprano
von Ritter: “You Jested” - Alexandr M. Davidov, Tenor
J. Strauss, Jr.: “Mein Herr Marquis” (Adele's Laughing Song) (Die Fledermaus) - Edith Oldrup, Soprano
Fauré: “L'Absence” Op. 5 No. 3 - Gérard Souzay, Baritone
Sadero: “L'Altra sera la mia Nina” - Rosa Ponselle, Soprano
Verdi: “Niun mi tema” (Otello) - Giovanni Zenatello, Tenor<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
2000: Dedicated to the Memory of Robert Reid (1918-2000), Henry Pleasants (1910-2000) & George Bennette (1929-1999)
SCHUBERT: “Die Allmacht” - Jussi Björling, Tenor
VARNEY: Romance de Marie - “Mon dieu, de mon âme incertaine” (Les Mousquetaires au Convent) - Germaine Féraldy, Soprano
BEETHOVEN: “The Flea” - Mark Reizen, Bass
BRAHMS: “Liebestreu”, Op. 3, No. 1 - Elsa Alsen, Soprano
LECOCQ: “Couplets du casque” (Le Coeur et la Main) - Alexis Boyer, Baritone
VERDI: “Rivedrai le foreste” (Aïda) - Bianca Scacciati, Soprano & Augusto Beuf, Baritone
MOZART: “Dalla sua pace” (Don Giovanni) - George Meader, Tenor
ROSSINI: Récit et Prière-“Sois immobile” (Guillaume Tell) - Paul Lanteri, Baritone
ALVAREZ: “Los Ojos Negros” - Josefina Huguet, Soprano
WAGNER: “Preislied” (Die Meistersinger) - Max Lipmann, Tenor
CAWLEY: “Song of the seraphs” - Malcolm McEachern, Bass
COLVILLE/WALDTEUFEL: “The Skaters-Waltz” - Gwen Catley, Soprano
VERDI: Duet -“Solenne in quest'ora” (La Forza del Destino) - Niels Hansen, Tenor & Albert HØeberg, Baritone
HAGEMAN: “Do not go, my love” - Arthur Hackett, Tenor
PUCCINI: “Tu che di gel sei cinta” (Turandot) - Rosina Torri, Soprano
GASTALDON: “Musica proibita” - Fritz Schrödter, Tenor
&. RAVEL: “La Flûte enchantée”/“L'Indifférent” (Sheherazade) - Suzanne Cesbron-Viseur, Soprano
GOUNOD: “Judex” - Kim Borg, Bass
RICHARD STRAUSS: Duet, Act One – “Aber der Richtige, wenn's einen gibt für mich auf dieser Welt” (Arabella) - Marta Fuchs, Soprano & Elsa Wieber, Soprano
MASCAGNI: “Voi lo sapete, o Mamma” (Cavalleria Rusticana) - Giuseppina Cobelli, Soprano
attr. BACH: “Bist du bei mir” - Blanche Marchesi, Soprano<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
2001 - 45th ANNIVERSARY: Dedicated to Philip H. Stern (1917-2001)
ROSSINI: Act 4, No. 19 – “Asile héréditaire” (Guillaume Tell) - Georges Granal, Tenor
TRADITIONAL SPANISH: “Malagueña” - Maria Gay, Mezzo-Soprano
LOEWE: “Heinrich der Vogler“ - Sir George Henschel, Baritone
KIENZL: Act 2 - “O schöne Jugendtage” (Lied der Madgdalena) (Der Evangelimann) - Marie-Luise Schlip, Alto
HAHN: “Paysage“ - Rodolphe Plamondon, Tenor
NICOLAI: Act 2 – “In einem Waschkorb…Wie freu'ich mich” (Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor) - Jacques Bilk, Baritone & Adolf Schöpflin, Bass :
SCHUBERT/BELANGER: “Le Roi des Aulnes” - Georgette Frozier-Marrot, Mezzo-Soprano
MENDELSSOHN: No. 39 – “Then Shall the Righteous Shine Forth” (Elijah) - Theo Karle, Tenor
MEYERBEER: Act 1 – “Une dame noble et sage” (Page's Aria) (Les Huguenots) - Editha Fleischer, Soprano
MASSENET: Act 1 – “Il pleure…Un peu de foi” (Air de Prieur) (Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame) - Étienne Billot, Bass-Baritone
VERDI: Act 2 - “Amami Alfredo” (La Traviata) - Maria Zamboni, Soprano
DELIBES: Act 2 - “Air des Clochettes” (Lakmé) - Odette Turba-Rabier, Soprano (& André Pernet, Bass-Baritone)
WAGNER: Act 3 – “Brünnhilde, heilige Braut!” (Siegfried's Death) (Götterdämmerung) - Jacques Urlus, Tenor
WAGNER: Act 1 – “Der Männer Sippe” (Die Walküre) - Cléontine de Méo, Soprano
BRÜLL: “Bombardonlied” (Das Goldene Kreuz) - Wilhelm Hesch, Bass
BOYER/HEYMANN: “Serait-ce un Rêve?” (Fox-trot from the film Le Congrès s'amuse) - Edmée Favart, Soprano
TRADITIONAL/WORDS BY BEN JONSON: “Have You Seen But a Whyte Lillie Grow?” - Frank Mullings, Tenor
HALÉVY: Act 2 - “Für ihn, für mich erflehe” (Terzett) (La Juive) - Henriette Gottlieb, Soprano, Heinz Arensen, Tenor, & Paul Hansen, Tenor
GIORDANO: Act 4 – “Come un bel dì Maggio” (Andrea Chenier) - Jussi Björling, Tenor
VERDI: Act 4 - “La donna è mobile” (Rigoletto) - Jussi Björling, Tenor
GRIEG: “Jeg elsker dig” - Jussi Björling, Tenor<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
2002: Dedicated to the Memory of Dr. Joseph Greene (1949-2002)
Marais/van Bruggen: “Heimwee” - Jan Peerce, Tenor
Richard Strauss: “Wiegenlied”, Op. 41 No. 1 - Gertrude Förstel, Soprano
Vives: Maruxa: “Final del Acto 1” - Inocencio Navarro, Baritone & Miracle, Bass
Hahn: Chansons Grises: “L’Heure Exquise” - Edmond Rambaud, Tenor
Rachmaninoff: “O Thou Billowy Harvest Field”, Op. 4 No. 5 - Claudine Boons, Soprano
Schumann: “Die beiden Grenadiere”, Op. 49 No. 1 - Arthur Middleton, Baritone
Rimsky-Korsakoff: Maid of Pskov: “Sing, Cuckoo” - Vasili P Damayev, Tenor
“Wiener Fiakerlied“ (Viennese Cab Song) - Viola Philo, Soprano
Messager: Fortunio: Act 3 – “Si vous croyez que je vaìs dire…” (Chanson de Fortunio) - Pierre Fouchy, Tenor
Hülsen-Häseler/Blech: “Gott, Kaiser, Vaterland!” - Paul Knüpfer, Bass
Marchetti: Ruy Blas: “Larva dorata del mio pensiero” (Aria della Regina) - Tina Desana, Soprano
Korngold: Die Tote Stadt, Op. 12: “Glück, das mir verblieb” - Jozef Sterkens, Tenor
Offenbach: Les Contes D’Hoffmann: Act 2 – “Je me nomme Coppélius….” - Jules Baldous, Bass-Baritone
Weber: Der Freischütz: Act 3 –“Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle” - Alice Marturell, Soprano
Lazzari: “Une femme” - Léon Campagnola, Tenor
Rubinstein: The Demon: Act 2 – “Do not weep my child“ - Eugeniusz Mossakowski, Baritone
Hahn: O Mon Bel Inconnu: “O Mon Bel Inconnu” (Valse chantée) - Hélène Regely, Soprano
Traditional: “Little Mary Cassidy” - Harry Plunket Greene, Bass-Baritone
Verdi: Falstaff: Act 2, Scene 2 – “Quand’ero Paggio” - Antonio Pini-Corsi, Baritone
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act 1, Scene 2 - “Am stillen Herd” - Hendrik Appels, Tenor
Mascagni: Iris: Act 2 - “Io pingo” - Antoniette Castelli, Soprano
Rubinstein: “Gold rolls here below me” (“Persian Love Song”), Op. 34 No. 9” Charles Soix, Bass
Hebrew Prayer: “Odon jesudu meofor” - Gerson Sirota, Tenor/Cantor<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
2003: Dedicated to Lauritz Melchior - In Memoriam,
30th Anniversary (1973-2003)Alvárez: “Los ojos negros” - Francesco Viñas, Tenor
Verdi: Il Trovatore: Act 1 – “Tacea la notte placida” (Cavatina di Leonora) - Amelia Talexis, Soprano
Napravnik: “Serenade of Don Juan” - Oskar Kamionsky, Baritone
Meyerbeer: Le Prophète: Act 1 - “Ah! mon fils” - Helene Jung, Contralto
Giordano: Siberia: Act 1 - “Orride steppe” - Mario Gilion, Tenor
Verdi: Aïda: Act 3 - “O Patria mia” - Rosalia Chalia, Soprano
Delibes: Lakmé: Act 2, No. 18 – “Lakmé, ton doux regard se voile” (“Stances”) - André Gresse, Bass
Weber: Der Freischütz: Act 2 – “Kommt ein schlanker Bursch gegangen” - Milly Stephan, Soprano
Verdi: Il Trovatore: Act 3 – “Ah! Si, ben mio coll’essere” - Francesco Signorini, Tenor
Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-bleue: Act 1 – “Oh! Mes clairs diamants!” (“Air des Diamants”) - Marcelle Bunlet, Soprano
Halévy: La Juive: Act 1 – “Si la rigeur ou la vengeance” - Edward Lankow, Bass
Silberta: “Yohrzeit” (Kadish) - Sophie Braslau, Contralto
Verdi: La Traviata: Act 2 – “De’ miei bollenti spiriti” - Fernand Francell, Tenor
Maillart: Les Drangons de Villars: Act 1 – “Maitre Thibaud, vos mules” (“Air de Rose”) - Claire Hansen Schulthess, Soprano
Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers: Act 2, No 12 – “Air de Pluton” - Lucien Muratore, Tenor
Harty: “Sea Wrack” - Muriel Brunskill, Contralto
Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor: “Als Büblein klein” (Falstaff’s Trinklied) - Carl Braun, Bass
Bohm: “Still wie die Nacht” - Clara Cséry, Contralto
Tosti: “Non t’amo piu” - Waclaw Brzezinski, Baritone
Roussel: “Jazz dans la nuit” (Valse) - Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi, Soprano
Lauritz Melchior, Tenor - Guest on “THE FRED ALLEN SHOW”<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
2004: Dedicated to Dr. John C. Powers, Jr. (1931-2004)
Rachmaninoff: The Cherry Tree (“Before My Window”), Op. 26, No. 10 - John McCormack, Tenor / Fritz Kreisler, Violin
Luigi/Federico Ricci: Crispino e la Comare: “Io non sono più l’Annetta” - Frieda Hempel, Soprano
Giordano: Andrea Chénier: Act 3 – “Nemico della patria” (“Monologo”) - Giovanni Polese, Baritone
Massenet: Marie-Magdeleine: Act 3 – “O bien-aimé” - Marguerite Mérentié, Soprano
Dargomyzschki: “I Repent, Uncle…”; Arensky: “The Mosquito”; Russian Song: “Down the Piterskaja Street” - Vladimir Kastorsky, Bass
Rossini: La Cenerentola: Act 2 – “Nacqui all’ affanno…Non più mesta” - Eugenia Mantelli, Mezzo-Soprano
Tirindelli: “Ama” - Florencio Constantino, Tenor
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Act 1, No. 7 – “Una voce poco fa” - Stella Power, Soprano
Verdi: Il Trovatore: Act 2 – “Il balen del suo sorriso” - Nicola Geisse-Winkel, Baritone
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera: Act 1, Scene 2 – “Re dell’ abisso” - Jeanne Gordon, Contralto
Yashnev: “Serene Starlit Nights” - Konstantin Isachenko, Tenor
Tosti: “La Serenata” - Emmy Bettendorf, Soprano
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Act 1, No. 8 – “La calunnia è un venticello” - Wilhelm Tisch, Bass
Auber: Fra Diavolo: Act 2 - “Quel bonheur” - Margarita Salvi, Soprano
Réne-Baton: “Heures d’étés” - Maggie Teyte, Soprano
Gröndahl/Póroarson: “Vögguljóo” - Stéfán Islandí, Tenor
Bassani: “Ardo, o caro” - Magda László, Soprano
Pfitzner: “Ist der Himmel darum im Lenz so blau” - Friedel Beckmann, Mezzo-Soprano
Szulc/Rivoire/Coolus: Mandrin: “Les yeux de femme” - Georges Jouatte, Tenor
Purcell: The Indian Queen: “I Attempt From Love’s Sickness to Fly” - Irmgard Seefried, Soprano
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier: Finale, Act 2 – “Da lieg’ich…Herr Kavalier!” - Albert Huberty, Bass (with Marie-Antoinette Almona, M)<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
2005:
Chopin/Viardot: “Aime-Mot” - Rita Fornia, Soprano
Magnus/Schütt: “Persischer Liebesreim” - Franz Navál, Tenor
Verdi: Don Carlo: Act IV - “Dormirò sol” - Oreste Luppi, Bass
Ponchielli: La Gioconda: Act I - “Voce di donna...A te questo rosario” - Rosa Olitzka, Contralto
Verdi: Rigoletto: Act II - “Cortigiani, vil razza damnata” - Jacques Bilk, Baritone
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West: Act I - “Laggiù nel Soledad” - Linda Cannetti, Soprano
Schubert: “Ständchen” - Paul Reimers, Tenor
Catalani: Dejanice: Act II - “Romanza di Admeto” - Salvatore Pollicino, Tenor
Verdi: Otello: Act IV - “Ave Maria” - Grete Stückgold, tenor
Tosti: “Ideale” - Louis Nucelly, Baritone
Grieg: “Jeg elsker dig” Op. 5 No. 3 - Otakar Maràk, Tenor
Mascagni: Il Piccolo Marat: Act II - “Sei tu? Che cosa vieni a fare” - Giuseppina Baldassari-Tedeschi, Soprano/Luigi Abrate, Tenor
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West: Act II - “Or son sei mesi” - Icilio Calleja, Tenor
Puccini: Turandot: Act III - “Tu che di gel sei cinta” - Marcelle Denya, Soprano
Puccini: Tosca: Act II - “Ella verrà” - Luigi Rossi-Morelli, Baritone
Thomas: Mignon: Act II - “Je suis Titania la blonde” - Hélène Cals, Soprano
Pescoli: “Mai più... Mai più” - Ines Maria Ferraris, Soprano
Verdi: Rigoletto: Act III - “Ella mi fu rapita!... Parmi veder le lagrima” - Nicolai S. Fokin, Tenor
Adam: “Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman” (after Mozart , K. 265) - Elfrida Pakul, Soprano
Bizet: Carmen: Act I - “Pres des remparts de Séville” (“Séguedilla”) - Madeleine Sibille, Soprano
Saint-Saëns/Casalis: “Danse Macabre” - Todd Duncan, Bass
“My Johann” (After Grieg: Norwegian Dance No.2, Op. 35) - Vivian Della Chiesa, Soprano<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
2006: 50th Anniversary of the VRCS - 2-CD Set
CD 1:
Wagner: Tannhäuser: Act II - "Dich teure Halle" - Jane Cros, Soprano
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana: "Siciliana" ("Oh Lola!") - Forrest Lamont, Tenor
Thomas: Mignon: Act II - "Elle est là ... Elle est aimée" - Laura Del Lungo, Mezzo-Soprano
Paër: Le Mâitre de Chapelle - "Pour imiter ton charme séducteur" - Alexis Boyer, Baritone
J. Gordon: Sappho: "Matouschka Golobouschka" ("Mother Dearest") - Berthe Kalich, Mezzo-Soprano
Becker: "Frühlingszeit" - Johannes Sembach, Tenor
Catalani: La Wally: Act I - "Ebben, ne andró lontana" - Ebe Boccolini, Soprano
Wagner: Tannhäuser: Act II - "O du mein holder Abendstern" - Erich Bye, Baritone
Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots: Act III - "Au beau pays de la Touraine" - Lily Dupré, Soprano
Moussourgsky: "Song of the Flea" - Kapiton Denisovich Zaporozhets, Bass
Gounod: Sapho: Act III - "O ma lyre immortelle" - Jane Bourgignon, Mezzo-Soprano
Ware: "Boat Song" - Lambert Murphy, Tenor
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette: Act III - "Que fais tu, blanche tourterelle?" - Livine Mertens, Mezzo-Soprano
Verdi: Il Trovatore: Act II - Il Balen, del suo sorriso" - Carlo Morelli, Baritone
Puccini: Tosca: Act II - "Vissi d'arte" - Helen Gahagan Douglas, Soprano
Montemezzi: L'Amore Di Tre Re: Act I - "Italia, Italia e Tutti il mio Ricordo" - Fernando Autori, Bass
Pizzetti: "I Pastori" - Margherita Carosio, Soprano
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Act III - "Liebestod" ("Mild und Leise") - Elsa Alsen, SopranoCD 2:
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia: Prologue - "Come è bello" - Maria Macchi, Soprano
Van der Stucken: "O Come with Me in the Summer Night" - Ellison van Hoose, Tenor
David: La perle du Bresil: Act III - "Charmant oiseau" - Regina Pinkert, Soprano
Massenet: Hérodiade: Act III - "Salomé! Demande au prisonnier" - Mario Laurenti, Baritone
Arensky: "A Broken Vase" - Evgenis Ivanova Zbruyeva, Mezzo-Soprano
Helmer/Krier: "Le Rêve Passe" - Jean Vallier, Bass
Marchetti: Ruy Blas: "O madre mis dall'intimo" - Tina Desana, Soprano
Boito: Mefistofele: Epilogue - "Giunto sul Passo estremo" - Fernando Carpi, Tenor
Wagner: Lohengrin: Act II, Scene 2 - "Euch Lüften, die mein Klagen" - Jeanne Korolewicz-Wayda, Soprano
Traditional: "By the Short Cut to the Roses" - Herbert Witherspoon, Bass
Meyerbeer: Le Prophetè, Act II - "Ah! mon fils" - Marie Delna, Mezzo-Soprano
Ronald: "O Lovely Night" - Rosina Buckman, Soprano/Walter Hyde, Tenor
Verdi: Ernani: Act I - "Infelice! e tuo credevi" - Virgilio Lazzari, Bass
Wagner: Rienzi: Act III - "In seiner Blüte bleicht mein Leben" - Magda Spiegel, Mezzo-Soprano
Torroba: Maria La Tempranica: "Romanza de Miguel" - Hipolti Lázaro, Tenor
Auber: Manon Lescaut: Act I - "L'Éclat de rire - C'est l'histoire amoureuse" - Yvonne Brothier, Soprano
Halévy: La Juive: Act V - "Rachel, quand de signeur" - Theo Beets, Tenor
Goetz: Der Wilderspentstigen Zähmung: Act IV - "DieKraft versagt" (Arie der Katerina) - Vera Schwarz, Soprano
Botrel: "Le Petit Grégoire" - Charles Soix, Bass
Adam: Si J'étais Roi: "Des Souverains du rivage" - Hjördis Schymberg, Soprano
"Special Holiday Greetings Record" - Reinald Werrenrath, Baritone<--back | Top of Page | Buy This Disc
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