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A Portrait of Manon - Great Love Duets / Anna Moffo, et al

2 CD / Testament / 2008-10-14

Works: Jules Massenet: Manon; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Madama Butterfly; La bohème; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Performers: Bergonzi, Carlo; di Stasio, Anna; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Elias, Rosalind [Mezzo-Soprano]; Kerns, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Labo, Flaviano; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Moffo, Anna; Rinaudo, Mari...
Conductors: Leibowitz, René; Previtali, Fernando; Leinsdorf, Erich; Prêtre, Georges
Ensemble: ; Rome Opera House Orchestra

Tchaikovsky, Villa-Lobos, Puccini, Leoncavallo, etc / Licia Albanese

1 CD / Testament / 2008-10-14

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Alfredo Catalani: La Wally; Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Wolfgang Amadeus M...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]
Conductors: Weissmann, Frieder; Marzollo, Dick; Morel, Jean Paul; Trucco, Victor; Stokowski, Leopold

Verdi: I vespri siciliani (highlights) / Kleiber, Callas

2 CD / Testament / 2008-01-08

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: I vespri siciliani
Performers: Bardi, Giorgio Kokolios; Callas, Maria; Carmassi, Bruno; Christoff, Boris; Frosini, Mario; Mascherini, Enzo; Masini, Mafalda; Paoli, Aldo de; Pettini, Lido; Ristori, Brenno; Sarri, Gino
Conductors: Kleiber, Erich
Ensemble: Florence Teatro Comunale Orchestra

Testament scores a major coup with this seminal recording by Maria Callas in its first-ever release made from newly-discovered masters. The high-quality tapes which were...continue...

Verdi: La Traviata / Serafin, Stella, Gobbi, La Scala, et al

2 CD / Testament / 2007-07-10

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata
Performers: Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Dickie, William; Forti, Carlo; Galassi, Elvira; Gobbi, Tito; Maionica, Silvio [Bass vocals]; Mandelli, Luisa; Stella, Antonietta [Soprano Vocals]; Zaccaria, Nicola [Bass Vocal];...
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Testament's La Traviata presents the first CD release of EMI's original 1956 recording. Walter Legge would have preferred Maria Callas for Violetta, but she was...continue...

Verdi: Messa di Requiem / Tullio Serafin

2 CD / Testament / 2007-07-10

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass; I vespri siciliani; Giovanna d'Arco; Nabucco; I lombardi; Ernani; Il Trovatore; Otello
Performers: Christoff, Boris; Cossotto, Fiorenza; Fernandi, Eugenio; Modesti, Giuseppe
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra; Rome Opera House Orchestra

"hearing this 1959 set after many years, it stands up beautifully and can be highly recommended. The hushed opening mesmerizes and the "Dies irae" and...continue...

Margherita Grandi sings Verdi

1 CD / Testament / 2006-12-12

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth; Don Carlos; Il Trovatore
Performers: Frank, Ernst; Grandi, Margherita; McKinley, Andrew; Midgeley, Walter; Tajo, Italo; Terry, Vera; Thomas, Edward; Valentino, Francesco; Vivian, Robert
Conductors: Goldschmidt, Berthold; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Erede, Alberto; Goehr, Walter
Ensemble: ; Glyndebourne Festival Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

"Margherita Grandi, Australian by birth, Italian by musical upbringing, was something of a hit-and-miss meteor in her stuttering career, badly affected by two world wars....continue...

Ten Top Tenors / Caruso, Roswaenge, Gigli, Tauber, et al

1 CD / Testament / 2006-11-14

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Salvatore Cardillo: Core' ngrato; Adolphe Adam: Le postillon de Lonjumeau; Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Fra Diavolo; Charles Gounod: Faust; Giacomo Puccin...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Gigli, Beniamino; Kreisler, Fritz; Martinelli, Giovanni; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Melchior, Lauritz; Rosvaenge, Helge; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Schneider, Ed...
Conductors: Rogers, Walter B.; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Ghione, Franco; Szell, George; Paulik, Anton; Gaubert, Philippe; Heurteur, Fernand; Grevillius, Nils; Ormandy, Eugene; Collingwood, L...

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Unpublished EMI Recordings 1946-52

2 CD / Testament / 2006-11-14

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 51, "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen," BWV 51; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Exsultate jubilate, K 165 (158a); Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Das Veilchen,...
Performers: Feasey, Norman; Hudez, Karl; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Pougnet, Jean; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth
Conductors: Susskind, Walter; Krips, Josef; Braithwaite, Warwick; Dobroven, Issay

"A glimpse into the singer's workshop" - a phrase from Schwarzkopf's spoken introduction to her excerpts from 'The Magic Flute' - aptly describes this collection...continue...

Verdi: La Traviata / Monteux, Carteri, Valletti, et al

2 CD / Testament / 2005-07-12

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Il Trovatore; Simon Boccanegra; La forza del destino
Performers: Carteri, Rosanna; Caselli, Dario; Keast, Raymond; La Porta, Arturo [Baritone Vocal]; Maccagnani, Rina Allesandri; Marimpietri, Lidia; Monreale, Leonardo; Scarlini, Glauco; Tommaso, Salvatore De; Vall...
Conductors: Monteux, Pierre; Morel, Jean Paul; Cellini, Renato
Ensemble: ; Rome Opera House Orchestra

This 1956 'Traviata' departed from the usual formula in that the conductor chosen was Pierre Monteux, an eminent figure in the field of French music...continue...

Verdi: Aida / Barbirolli, Callas, Baum, Simionato, et al

2 CD / Testament / 2005-04-12

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera
Performers: Baum, Kurt; Callas, Maria; Langdon, Michael; Neri, Giulio; Simionato, Giulietta; Sutherland, Joan, Dame; Thomas, Hector; Walters, Jesse
Conductors: Barbirolli, John

When Sir John Barbirolli first heard that he was to be working with Maria Callas, he wondered what he was in for as the myth...continue...

Verdi: Messa da Requiem / Toscanini, Milanov, et al

2 CD / Testament / 2004-10-12

Works: Recorded Sound: Applause; Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass
Performers: Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]; Moscona, Nicola; Rosvaenge, Helge; Thorborg, Kerstin
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

The performance heard on these discs is particularly remarkable, not only for historical reasons, but also because it seems to be the earliest extant viable...continue...

Verdi: Overtures, etc / Mackerras, Philharmonia Orchestra

1 CD / Testament / 2004-04-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino; Nabucco; Alzira; Charles Mackerras: The Lady and the Fool, romantic ballet suite (after Verdi)
Conductors: Mackerras, Charles, Sir
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

Wolf-Ferrari: Overtures, Intermezzi, etc; Verdi / Mackerras

1 CD / Testament / 2004-04-01

Works: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Il segreto di Susanna; I quattro rusteghi, opera; I gioielli della Madonna; Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller; Il Trovatore; I vespri siciliani; Otello; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioco...
Conductors: Mackerras, Charles, Sir
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

Guido Cantelli - The NBC Broadcast Concerts December 1950

4 CD / Testament / 2003-07-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Semiramide; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento for 2 horns & strings in F major "A Musical Joke", K 522; William Schuman: Undertow, ballet (choreographic episodes); Darius Milha...
Performers: Bauchmann, Edmund; Cooke, George; koff, Mischa; Marlowe, Sylvia; Miller, Frank
Conductors: Cantelli, Guido
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Immersed in the most contemporary music of his time, Guido Cantelli was a virtuoso conductor who used viruosity not as an end in itself, but...continue...

Birgit Nilsson - Opera Arias - Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, etc

1 CD / Testament / 2000-11-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Ah, Perfido!, Op. 65; Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon; Der Freischütz, J 277; Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, opera...
Performers: Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Wallberg, Heinz; Ludwig, Leopold
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

EMI and Walter Legge were the first to bring Nilsson into the recording studio. In those early sessions, during 1957 and 1958, Nilsson recorded the...continue...

The EMI Record of Singing Vol 3 - 1926-1939

10 CD / Testament / 1999-12-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Die Walküre; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Das Rheingold; The Flying Dutchman; Siegfried; Wesendonck Lieder; Rudolf Wille: Königsballade, ...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Allin, Norman; Andrésen, Ivar; Angelis, Nazzareno de; Arangi-Lombardi, Giannina; Austral, Florence; Baccaloni, Salvatore; Badia, Conchita; Badini, Ernesto; Baillie, Isobel; Ba...
Conductors: Barbirolli, John; Viebig, Ernst; Heidenreich, Johannes; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Weissmann, Frieder; Kun, Cornelius; Dobrindt, Otto; Blech, Leo; Muller, Hans Udo; Orthmann, Erich; Alwin, Carl; Schmals...

Ludwig Weber - Opera Arias

1 CD / Testament / 1999-05-10

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, J 277; ...
Performers: Vocals], Torsten Ralf [Tenor; Weber, Ludwig [Bass Vocal]
Conductors: Ackermann, Otto; Prohaska, Felix; Moralt, Rudolf; Schuchter, Wilhelm; Dobroven, Issay
Ensemble: ; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Mattiwilda Dobbs - Arias & Songs

1 CD / Testament / 1999-03-10

Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Golden Cockerel; Jules Massenet: Manon; Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Franz Schubert: Die Entzückung a...
Performers: Dobbs, Mattiwilda; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Panerai, Rolando; Walton, Bernard
Conductors: Galliera, Alceo
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

The 1952 Holland Festival was the scene of Mattiwilda Dobbs' stage debut. The opera was Stravinsky's 'The Nightingale.' The critic for Opera magazine wrote, "I...continue...

Joan Hammond by Request - Charpentier, Massenet, et al

1 CD / Testament / 1999-01-10

Works: Gustave Charpentier: Louise; Jules Massenet: Hérodiade; Le Cid; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt (The Dead City); Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; La forza ...
Performers: Hammond, Joan, Dame
Conductors: Braithwaite, Warwick; Robinson, Stanford; Susskind, Walter; Curiel, Glauco; Tausky, Vilem; Collingwood, Lawrance
Ensemble: ; Hallé Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra

Antonietta Stella - Verdi & Puccini Arias

1 CD / Testament / 1998-12-10

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani; Il Trovatore; Un ballo in maschera; I vespri siciliani; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Otello; Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera; Manon Lescaut; Tosca; La Fanciulla ...
Performers: Stella, Antonietta [Soprano Vocals]
Conductors: Sanzogno, Nino; Curiel, Glauco; Erede, Alberto
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra; Orchestra

Charles Craig - Operatic Arias & Italian Songs

1 CD / Testament / 1998-12-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Aida, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Charles Gounod: Faust; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Umberto Giordano: Fedo...
Performers: Craig, Charles
Conductors: Collins, Michael

Joan Hammond and Charles Craig Sing Opera Arias and Duets

1 CD / Testament / 1998-11-10

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; Madama Butterfly; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Charles Gounod: Faust; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Aida, opera
Performers: Craig, Charles; Griffiths, Gwyn; Hammond, Joan, Dame
Conductors: Tausky, Vilem; Curiel, Glauco; Balkwill, Bryan; Moores, Michael

The Young Giuseppe Di Stefano - Opera Arias & Songs

1 CD / Testament / 1997-11-01

Works: Cesare Andrea Bixio: Vola, vola, vola; Canto, ma sotto voce; Se vuoi goder la vita; Mamma; Traditional: A la barcillunisa; Cantu a timùni; Abballati; Mutteti di lu paliu; Gaetano Donizetti: L'...
Performers: Dawson, Herbert; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Moser, Edoardo
Conductors: Consiglio, Mario; Erede, Alberto; Cellini, Renato; Votto, Antonino; Olivieri, Dino
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; New London Light Opera Orchestra; Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

"...Fortunately, all of these recordings were made in De Stefano's prime, for it was not until 1955 that he began the disastrous venture in the...continue...

Eileen Farrell - Opera Arias & Songs

1 CD / Testament / 1996-06-01

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste; Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon; Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Maid of Orleans; Jules Massenet: Hérodiade;...
Performers: Farrell, Eileen [Soprano Vocals]; Trovillo, George
Conductors: Schippers, Thomas
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

Mario del Monaco - Opera Arias

1 CD / Testament / 1996-01-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Otello; Ruggero Leoncavallo: La bohème, opera; Pagliacci, opera; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Turandot; Pietro Mascagni: L'Amico Fritz; Cavalleria rusticana, op...
Performers: Del Monaco, Mario
Conductors: Quadri, Argeo; Benintende-Neglia, Tomaso
Ensemble: Milan Symphony Orchestra

Tito Gobbi - Opera and Song

1 CD / Testament / 1996-01-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Otello; La traviata; Rigoletto; Macbeth; Giacomo Puccini: La Fanciulla d...
Performers: Gobbi, Tito
Conductors: Berrettoni, Umberto; Erede, Alberto; Robertson, James; Susskind, Walter; Braithwaite, Warwick; Green, Philip; Parodi, Armando La Rosa
Ensemble: ; London Symphony Orchestra; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra