The Golden Age of Great Contraltos & Mezzos

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Album Summary

Performers

• Conchita Supervia (Mezzo Soprano)
• George Reeves (Piano)
• Phyllis Spurr (Piano)
• Irene Minghini-Cattaneo (Mezzo Soprano)
• Gustave Cloez (Piano)

Conductors

• Albergoni, Angelo
• Bourdon, Rosario
• Collingwood, Lawrance
• Ormandy, Eugene
• Pitt, Percy
• Sabajno, Carlo

Ensemble

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Composers

• Charles Gounod (Composer) (1818 - 1893)
• Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 - 1864)
• Franz Schubert (Vienna) (1797 - 1828)
• John Pyke Hullah
• Eugen Hildach
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
• Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835)
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)
• Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787)
• Goodhart
• Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
• Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
• English Traditional

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Works Details

Gluck, Christoph Willibald : Orfeo :: What is Life (Che Farò?)

• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta

Gounod, Charles : Faust :: Faites-lui mes aveux

• Performer: Conchita Supervia (Mezzo Soprano)
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1856-1859

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) : Samson et Dalila, Op. 47 :: Softly Awakes My Heart (Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix)

• Conductor: Lawrance Collingwood
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1859-1877

Goodhart : A Fairy went a-marketing

Meyerbeer, Giacomo : Le Prophète :: O Prêtres de Baal

• Conductor: Rosario Bourdon
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta

Brahms, Johannes : Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 94 :: no 4, Sapphische Ode

• Performer: George Reeves (Piano)
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1884

Wagner, Richard : Götterdämmerung :: Höre mit Sinn, Was Ich Dir Sage! (Waltra

• Conductor: Rosario Bourdon
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1869-1874

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) : Samson et Dalila, Op. 47 :: Printemps qui Commence

• Conductor: Percy Pitt
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1859-1877

Schubert, Franz : Der Musensohn, D 764/Op. 92 no 1

• Performer: Phyllis Spurr (Piano)
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1822

Bellini, Vincenzo : Norma, opera :: Sgombra è la Sacra Selva

• Performer: Irene Minghini-Cattaneo (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Carlo Sabajno
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1831

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492 :: Non so piú cosa son, cosa faccio

• Performer: Conchita Supervia (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Angelo Albergoni
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1786

Hullah, John Pyke : Three fishers went sailing

Donizetti, Gaetano : Lucrezia Borgia :: Il segreto per esser felici

• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1833

Brahms, Johannes : Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53

• Conductor: Eugene Ormandy
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1869

Schubert, Franz : An die Musik, D 547

• Performer: Phyllis Spurr (Piano)
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1817

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

• Performers: Gustave Cloez (Piano); Conchita Supervia (Mezzo Soprano)
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1873-1874

Gounod, Charles : Faust :: When All Was Young

• Conductor: Percy Pitt
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1856-1859

Hildach, Eugen : Der Lenz, for voice & piano, Op. 19/5

• Period Time: Romantic

Elgar, Edward : Land of Hope and Glory, for voice & piano (arr. by Benson from March Op.39/1 & Coronation Ode Op.44)

• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1902

Traditional, English : Blow the Wind Southerly (Northumbrian Folk Song)