The Television Concerts, Vol.5
FRANCK
Rédemption – Symphonic Interlude
SIBELIUS
En Saga, Op.9
DEBUSSY
Trois Nocturnes – Nuages, Fêtes
ROSSINI
William Tell – Overture
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67
RESPIGHI
The Pini di Roma
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini
The Television Concerts, Vol.4
WEBER
Euryanthe – Overture
BRAHMS
Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.68
WAGNER
Lohengrin – Prelude to Act I
Siegfried – Forest Murmurs
Tristan und Isolde – Prelude & Liebestod
Götterdämmerung – Siegfried’s Death & Funeral Music
Die Walküre – Ride of the Valkyries
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini
The Television Concerts, Vol.1
WAGNER
Lohengrin – Prelude to Act III
Tannhäuser – Overture & Bacchanale
Siegfried – Forest Murmurs
Götterdämmerung – Dawn & Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
Die Walküre – Ride of the Valkyries
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini
The Television Concerts, Vol.2
BRAHMS
Double Concerto in A minor, Op.102
Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op.52
Hungarian Dance No.1
MOZART
Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550
DVORÁK
Symphonic Variations, Op.78
WAGNER
Tannhäuser – Overture
Mischa Mischakoff, Frank Miller, Artur Balsam, Joseph Kahn
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini
Songs 1952-1953:
Amicu ventu (Tumminello-Gibilaro) Canzone senza parole (D’Aniello-Cittadini) Suonno (Gargiulo-Di Veroli) Nostalgia ricordo (Cittadini) Notte a’mare (Dante-Bonessi) Nustalgia (Selvaggi) Serenata espanola (Cittadini) Stornellata (Selvaggi) Ritorna amore (Nunzi-Di Veroli) Ave Maria (Kahn) (sung in Latin) Oh, grande sommo Dio (Gigli- Di Veroli) Canario cantatore (Ferraro-Campasi) Tre parole (Bonacci-Cecconi) Chesta canzona (Cangiullo-Piccinelli) Ninna nanna (Ricci) Luna nova (Di Giacomo-Costa) Ninna nanna (Salta) Varca lucente (Mangeri) sempre notte (Cittadini) Bambina bruna (Fedri) Doie stelle (Selvaggi)
Beniamino Gigli
Orchestra/Enrico Sivieri
Orchestra/Stanford Robinson
Songs 1949-1952:
Quando l’amore nasce (Cittadini) Alla danza (Cittadini) Serenata malinconica (Di Giacomo-Giordano) Sona chitarra (Bovio-De Curtis) Paese che ‘ncatena! (Murolo-De Curtis) Ave Maria (Carnevali) Varcarola triste! (Banderano-Cecconi) Canción moresca (Piccinelli) (sung in Spanish) Omaggio a Bellini (Glinski-Chopin) Inno alla patria (Glinski-Chopin) Santa Lucia (Cottrau) Alba e tramonto (Gibilaro) Che sso’ turnato a fa? (Gargiulo-Di Veroli) Con la pioggia o con la luna (Galdieri-Caslar) (from the film ‘Taxi di notte’) Città silente (Galdieri-Caslar) (from the film ‘Taxi di notte’) Luntananza (Ammore luntano) (De Luca-Campanino) Senza piú serenate (Galdieri-Bixio) Ninna nanna (Fedri) Anema e core (Manlio-D’Esposito) Madrigale villereccio (Palminteri-Gibilaro)
Beniamino Gigli
Orchestra/Vito Carnevali, Philharmonia Orchestra/Stanford Robinson, Orchestra/Walter Goehr, Orchestra/Dino Olivieri, Orchestra/Enrico Sivieri
BRITTEN War Requiem
Peter Pears, Heather harper, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
Coventry Festival Choir, Boys of Holy Trinity, Leamington and Holy Trinity, Stratford
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Meredith Davies
Melos Ensemble
Benjamin Britten
A PDF of the sung text can be downloaded from the download section at the top of the Homepage page.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Opera in three acts – Libretto by Benjamin Britten and Peter Peers, after Shakespeare
Alfred Deller, Jennifer Vyvyan, Thomas Hemsley, Marjorie Thomas
April Cantelo, Forbes Robinson, Owen Brannigan, Norman Lumsden, Peter Pears
Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
conducted by Benjamin Britten
World premiere recorded in the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, 11 June 1960
First ever release
GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
Romance No.2 in F sharp, Op.28
Waldszenen, Op.82 No.7 ‘Vogel als Prophet
PALMGREN Refrain de Berceau, West Finnish Dance, Op.31 No.5
Benno Moiseiwitsch
Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Ackermann
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