Playlist Verdi:  Il Trovatore  “Che piu t’arresti . . Tacea la Notte”  Leontyne Price, Laura Londi with the Rome Opera Orchestra conducted by Oliviero de Fabritis  Recorded in Rome in 1959  RCA VICTOR 09026-68883-2 Verdi:  Il Trovatore  “Siam giunti  . . . D’amor sull’ ali rosee”  Zinka Milanov with the RCA VICTOR orchestra conducted by […]

Playlist Grieg:  “Jeg elsker Dig”  Kirsten Flagstad with Edwin MacArthur, piano  Recorded in London in 1956  LONDON 440 493-2 Wagner:  Die Walkure  “Wintersturme wichen dem Wonnemond” . . . “Du bist der Lenz”  Jon Vickers and Gre Brouwenstijn with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf  Recorded in London in 1962  DECCA 289 470 […]

Playlist Schoenberg:  Guerre-lieder  “Song of the Wood Dove”   Lili Chookasian  with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf  Recorded in Boston in 1964  RCA VICTOR 09026-63747-2 Montsalvage: Cinco Canciones Negras: “Canto Negra”   Nan Merriman with Gerald Moore, piano  Recorded in London in 1955  EMI SBT 1134 Rodgers & Hammerstein:  The Sound of Music  “Climb […]

Playlist Adam:  “O Holy Night”  Juan Diego Florez with the Teatro Communale di Bologna conducted by Michele Mariotti  Recorded in Bologna in 2010  Decca B0014875-02 Gruber: Stille Nacht   Elisabeth Schwarzkopf with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Charles Mackerras  Recorded in London in 1957    EMI CDM 7 63574 2 Franck:  Panis Angelicus  Beniamino Gigli with orchestra  […]

Playlist Gluck:  Orfeo ed Ruridice  “Che faro senza Euridice?”  Kathleen Ferrier with the Southern Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Fritz Stiedry  London, 1947  LONDON 478 3589 Mendelssohn:  Elijah  “Woe unto them”   Kathleen Ferrier with Boyd Neel Orchestra  London, 1946  LONDON 478 3589 Schumann:  “Widmung” & Schubert “Gretchen am Spinnerade”  Kathleen Ferrier with John Newmark and Phyllis […]

Playlist Wagner:  Die Walkure  “Ho Jo To Ho !!”  Martha Modl with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler  EMI 289492    Recorded in 1954 Handel:  Scipio  “From the Rage of the Tempest . .Hear me, ye winds and waves”   Oscar Natzke with organ   London, 1939  EMI CHS 7 69741 2 Puccini:  Tosca  “Vissi d’Arte” […]