BORODIN
Prince Igor – Overture; Prelude – Polovtsian March (Act/Akt/Acte III)
Polovtsian Dances (Act/Akt/Acte II)
TCHAIKOVSKY
Overture – The Storm, Op.76
Capriccio italien, Op.45
Eugene Onegin – Introduction; Waltz (Act/Akt/Acte II);
Polonaise (Act/Akt/Acte III)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Lovro von Matacic
Opera Arias:
MOZART Die Entführung aus dem Serail
BEETHOVEN Fidelio
WEBER Der Freischütz
MUSSORGSKY Boris Godunov
Verdi I Vespri siciliani
STRAUS Der Rosenkavalier
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal
Ludwig Weber, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf,
Wiener Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Ackermann, Felix Prohaska, Rudolf Moralt, Wilhelm Schüchter, Issay Dobrowen
CILEA Adriana Lecouvreur
Magda Olivero, Juan Oncina, Sesto Bruscantini, Adriana Lazzarini
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli
Oliviero de Fabritiis
MAHLER/COOKE
Symphony No.10
1960 lecture performance 1964 Proms performance
Philharmonia Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Berthold Goldschmidt
PDFs of the transcripts from the booklet can be downloaded from the download section at the top of the Homepage page.
ELGAR
The Dream of Gerontius, Op.38
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85
Heddle Nash, Gladys Ripley, Dennis Noble, Norman Walker,
Huddersfield Choral Society
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Paul Tortelier
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent
DONIZETTI L’Elisir d’Amore
Lucia di Lammermoor – Lucia perdona…Sulla Tomba
MASCAGNI L’Amico Fritz – Suzel, buon dì
Margherita Carosio, Nicola Monti, Tito Gobbi,
Melchiorre Luise, Loretta di Lelio
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Gabriele Santini
Carlo Zampighi
Symphony Orchestra
Nino Sanzogno
VERDI
Scenes from Macbeth
Don Carlo – Tu che le vanità
Il trovatore – Timor di me?…D’amor sull’ali rosee
Margherita Grandi, Francesco Valentino
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Scottish Orchestra/Berthold Goldschmidt
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Alberto Erede
London Symphony Orchestra/Walter Goehr
Maria Callas VERDI Aïda
Maria Callas, Kurt Baum, Giulietta Simionato, Jess Walters,
Giulio Neri, Michael Langdon, Joan Sutherland, Hector Thomas
Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Maria Callas BELLINI
La sonnambula
Maria Callas, Nicola Zaccaria, Fiorenza Cossotto, Edith Martelli, Nicola Monti, Dino Mantovani, Franco Ricciardi
Coro e Orchestra della Piccola Scala di Milano
Antonino Votto
A PDF of the libretto can be downloaded from the download section at the top of the Homepage page.
Maria Callas VERDI
I vespri siciliani
Recorded on 26 May 1951 at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Maria Callas, Giorgio Kokolios-Bardi, Enzo Mascherini, Boris Christoff, Bruno Carmassi, Mario Frosini, Mafalda Masini, Gino Sarri, Aldo de Paoli, Lido Pettini, Brenno Ristori
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Erich Kleiber
Great Arias from French Operas
Gluck, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Gounod, Thomas, Massenet, Charpentier
Maria Callas
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Georges Prétre
VERDI Aida, Otello
LEONCAVALLO La Bohème, I Pagliacci
PUCCINI Manon Lescaut, Turandot
MASCAGNI L’Amico Fritz, Cavalleria rusticana
GIORDANO Andrea Chénier
CILEA Adriana Lecouveur
MEYERBEER L’Africana
FLOTOW Marta
BIZET Carmen
MASSENET Werther
WAGNER Lohengrin
Mario del Monaco
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano
Argeo Quadri, Tomaso Benintende-Neglia