Lebendige Vergangenheit - Nan Merriman

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Album Summary

Performer

• Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)

Conductors

• Bernstein, Leonard
• Monteux, Pierre
• Stokowski, Leopold
• Susskind, Walter
• Toscanini, Arturo
• Weissmann, Frieder

Ensembles

• Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
• London Symphony Orchestra
• NBC Symphony Orchestra
• RCA Victor Orchestra
• San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
• St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Composers

• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
• Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946)
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)
• Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
• Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
• Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
• Ambroise Thomas (1811 - 1896)

Notes & Reviews:

Nan Merriman was born in 1920 in Pittsburgh. She grew up in Los Angeles where she took lessons from Lotte Lehmann. She was singing on radio and film soundtracks before she was 20, which drew her to the attention of Laurence Olivier, who hired her for a 1940 US tour. In 1943 Merriman participated in a competition staged by NBC and Toscanini heard the singer for the first time. This was the beginning of a long association with the maestro. Toscanini's preference for Merriman was based on the fact that she reminded him of the mezzo-sopranos of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with whom he had worked: singers with light, slender voices.

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Works Details

Gluck, Christoph Willibald : Orfeo :: Che farò senza Euridice

• Performer: Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Frieder Weissmann
• Ensemble: RCA Victor Orchestra
• Running Time: 4 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta

Donizetti, Gaetano : La Favorita :: O mio Fernando

• Performer: Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Frieder Weissmann
• Ensemble: RCA Victor Orchestra
• Running Time: 6 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1840

Rossini, Gioachino : Otello :: Assisa a piè d'un salice

• Performer: Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Walter Susskind
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 14 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1816

Verdi, Giuseppe : Don Carlos :: O don fatale

• Performer: Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
• Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra
• Notes: Composition written: 1884.
• Running Time: 4 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1884

Verdi, Giuseppe : Rigoletto :: Un dì, se ben rammentomi

• Performer: Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
• Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 15 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1851

Bizet, Georges : Carmen, opera :: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle

• Performer: Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Pierre Monteux
• Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1873-1874

Bizet, Georges : Carmen, opera :: Près des remparts de Séville

• Performer: Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Pierre Monteux
• Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 1 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1873-1874

Bizet, Georges : Carmen, opera :: Voyons, que j'essaie à mon tour

• Performer: Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Pierre Monteux
• Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1873-1874

Thomas, Ambroise : Mignon :: Me voici dans son boudoir

• Performer: Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Frieder Weissmann
• Ensemble: RCA Victor Orchestra
• Running Time: 2 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1866

Falla, Manuel de : El Amor Brujo :: Canción del amor dolido

• Performer: Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
• Ensemble: Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 1 min. 50 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Ballet
• Written: 1915

Falla, Manuel de : El Amor Brujo :: Canción del fuego fatuo

• Performer: Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
• Ensemble: Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 1 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Ballet
• Written: 1915

Falla, Manuel de : El Amor Brujo :: Danza del juego de amor

• Performer: Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
• Ensemble: Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 4 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Ballet
• Written: 1915

Bernstein, Leonard : Symphony no 1 "Jeremiah" :: Lamentation

• Performer: Nan Merriman (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
• Ensemble: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
• Notes: Composition written: 1942.
• Running Time: 10 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1942