MASSENET Manon
DEBUSSY La Damoiselle Élue
BERLIOZ Les Nuits d’étè
Victoria de los Angeles, Henri Legay, Michel Dens,
Jean Borthayre, René Hérent
Chæurs et Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique
Pierre Monteux
Carol Smith, Radcliffe Choral Society
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch
A PDF of the libretto can be downloaded from the download section at the top of the Homepage page.
RICHARD STRAUSS
Aus Italien, Op.16
Salome, Op.54 – Dance of the Seven Veils; Closing Scene
Christel Goltz, Julius Patzak, Margareta Kenney, Hans Braun,
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Clemens Krauss
Debussy:
Pelléas et Mélisande
Opera in 5 acts / Opéra en 5 actes
Libretto: Maurice Maeterlinck
Broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, 1 June 1951
Camille Maurane, Suzanne Danco, Henri-Bertrand Etcheverry
Oda Slobodskaya, André Vessières, Marjorie Westbury, Ernest Frank
BBC Chorus (chorus-master: Leslie Woodgate)
Philharmonia Orchestra (leader: Max Salpeter)
Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht
A PDF of the libretto can be downloaded from the download section at the top of the Homepage page.
WAGNER
Wesendonck-Lieder
Siegfried, Act III, scene 3
Eileen Farrell
Leopold Stokowski & his Symphony Orchestra
Set Svanholm
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
Opera Arias by:
GLUCK Alceste
WEBER Oberon
VERDI Ernani
PONCHIELLI La Gioconda
TCHAIKOVSKY Jeanne d’Arc
MASSENET Hérodiade
DEBUSSY L’Enfant prodigue
MENOTTI The Consul
Song Recital:
Summertime; Where is dis road a-leadin? me to?; There shall be more joy; Hickory Hill; Sing to me, Sing; Through the years; To the Children; A Dream; Down by the Sally Gardens; Danny Boy
Eileen Farrell
Philharmonia Orchestra
Thomas Schippers
George Trovillo
BRAHMS Regenlied; Das Mädchen; Geheimnis;
Mädchenlied & Wiegenlied
GRIEG Peer Gynt – Solveig’s Song & Solvieg’s Cradle Song
SCHUBERT Suleikas Gesang II; Auf dem Wasser zu singen;
Wiegenlied; Rastlose Liebe; Vor meiner Wiege;
Die Forelle & Fischerweise
VERDI Otello – Love duet; Willow song & Ave Maria
Elisabeth Grümmer
with various accompaniments
Arias by:
MOZART Le nozze di Figaro; Don Giovanni; Die Zauberflöte
LORTZING Der Waffenchmied; Zar & Zimmermann; Der Wildschütz
ZELLER Der Vogelhändler
J STRAUSS II Der lustige Krieg; Eine Nacht in Venedig; Der Zigeunerbaron
Erich Kunz
with various accompaniments
RAVEL
L’Enfant et les Sortilèges
Nadine Sautereau, Denise Scharley, André Vessières,
Solange Michel, Yvon le Marc’Hadour, Joseph Peyron,
Odette Turba-Rabier, Martha Angelici, Maurice Prigent,
Marguerite Legouhy, Claudine Verneuil
Choeurs et Maîtrise de la Radiodiffusion Française
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Ernest Bour
MOZART
Così fan tutte
(Highlights from the 1950 Glyndebourne Festival production, including rehearsal ‘takes’)
Sena Jurinac, Blanche Thebom, Richard Lewis, Erich Kunz,
Mario Borriello, Alda Noni,
Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
Fritz Busch
Philharmonia Orchestra
Walter Susskind
WAGNER Götterdämmerung Act III
Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gottlob Frick, Marie Collier, Thomas Stewart
Barbara Holt, Gwyneth Jones, Maureen Guy
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Georg Solti
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