Melichar, Alois > Post Romantic Period

Icon: Beniamino Gigli (7 CDs)

7 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-03-23

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: La favorita; Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir d'amore, opera; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Pietro Mascagni: Iris; L'amico Fritz; Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Isab...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Bada, Angelo; Baldosseri, Nerina; Bechi, Gino; Caniglia, Maria; Conti, Gino; de Luca, Giuseppe; Elmo, Cloe; Fedri, Dino; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Giannini, Dusolina; Gigli, Beniamino; M...
Conductors: Pasternack, Joseph; Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio; Sabajno, Carlo; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Ghione, Franco; Barbirolli, John; Goehr, Walter; Berrettoni, Umberto; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Mascagni, Pie...
Ensemble: ; Neapolitan Novelty Band

Beniamino Gigli was the most popular and successful Italian tenor in the first half of the 20th century. Acclaimed as the second Caruso, he was...continue...

Fritz Wunderlich - The Legend

2 CD / Profil Edition Gunter Hanssler / 2008-01-29

Works: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; La bohème; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Zaide, K 344 (334b); Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermau...
Performers: Brauer, Herbert; Eipperle, Trude; Gunter, Horst; Kretschmar, Anni; Paul, Lore; Robert, Henriette; Roth-Erang, P.; Samland, Bruno; Schirrmacher, Ursula; Siemeling, Marlies; Stader, Maria; Wenglor, Ing...
Conductors: Kraus, Richard; Rischner, Alfons; Melichar, Alois; Müller-Kray, Hans; Becker, Gerhard; Smola, Emmerich

This CD is dedicated to the young Fritz Wunderlich's earliest commercial recordings. We hear a young, twenty-five-year-old singer who is getting ready to win the...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Adele Kern

1 CD / Preiser / 2004-03-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio...
Performers: Kern, Adele; Marherr, Elfriede; Ohms, Elisabeth
Conductors: Prüwer, Julius; Melichar, Alois; Weissmann, Frieder; Weigert, Herman
Ensemble: ; Berlin City Opera Orchestra; Berlin State Opera Orchestra

Romantic Nights / Bocelli, Pavarotti, Domingo, Lanza, et al

1 CD / RCA Records / 1999-04-13

Works: Eberhard Schoener: La Luna; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; La bohème; Turandot; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Testa: Il corrag...
Performers: Araiza, Francisco [Tenor Vocals]; Bjorling, Jussi; Bocelli, Andrea; Caruso, Enrico; Domingo, Placido; Heppner, Ben [Tenor Vocals]; Lanza, Mario [Actor/Singer]; Pavarotti, Luciano; Peerce, Jan [Tenor ...
Conductors: Schoener, Eberhard; Mehta, Zubin; Rother, Artur; Pasternack, Josef A.; Morricone, Ennio; Callinicos, Constantin; Previtali, Fernando; Bass, Warner; Bonavolontà, Nino; Sinatra, Ray; Perlea, Jonel...
Ensemble: ; Berlin Symphony Orchestra; Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra; Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra; New Philharmonia Orchestra; Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra; Rome Opera House Chorus; Rome Oper...

Julius Patzak - The Early Operatic Recordings 1929-1938

2 CD / Preiser / 1999-02-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Aida, opera; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; Jules Massenet: Manon; Werther; Bedrich Smetana: Prodaná nevesta (The Bartered Bride), opera, JB 1; Pyo...
Performers: Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Patzak, Julius; Runger, Gertrud
Conductors: Gurlitt, Manfred; Weigert, Herman; Melichar, Alois; Blech, Leo; Martin, Wolfgang; Schuler, Johannes

Helge Rosvaenge und die leichte Muse 1927-1937

2 CD / Preiser / 1996-09-24

Works: Johann Strauss II: Der Zigeunerbaron; Franz Lehár: Da geh' ich zu Maxim, for voice & piano (or orchestra) (from "Die lustige Witwe"); The Merry Widow; Lippen schweigen (Lips Stay Silent) (from "...
Performers: Claus, Lillie; Rosvaenge, Helge
Conductors: Melichar, Alois; Schweiger, Hans
Ensemble: Orchestra

Franz Völker im Reich der Operette 1927-1938

2 CD / Preiser / 1996-05-21

Works: Franz Lehár: Paganini; Der Zarewitsch; Friederike, operetta in 3 acts; The Land of Smiles; Der Rastelbinder; Der Göttergatte; Giuditta; Johann Strauss II: Eine Nacht in Venedig; Der Zigeune...
Performers: Bassth, Emma; Eisinger, Irene; Henke, Waldemar; Kandl, Eduard; Kern, Adele; Klust, Hertha; Kochhann, Elsa; Völker, Franz [Tenor Vocals]; Witting, Gerhard
Conductors: Heidenreich, Johannes; Gurlitt, Manfred; Prüwer, Julius; Snaga, Joseph; Schutz, Walter; Melichar, Alois; Zweig, Fritz
Ensemble: ; Operetten Ensemble

Heinrich Schlusnus - Liederalbum Vol I

2 CD / Preiser / 1993-05-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Adelaide, song Op. 46; Ich liebe dich, WoO 123; In questa tomba oscura, WoO 133; Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur ("Himmel ruhmen des ewigen Ehre"), song for voice & piano, Op. 48/...
Performers: Rupp, Franz; Schlusnus, Heinrich
Conductors: Weigert, Herman; Melichar, Alois

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Erna Berger

1 CD / Preiser / 1991-01-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Don Giovanni, K 527; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; La traviata; Otto Nico...
Performers: Berger, Erna; Lemnitz, Tiana; Muller, Charlotte; Schlusnus, Heinrich; Ursuleac, Viorica
Conductors: Krauss, Clemens; Zweig, Fritz; Schmalstich, Clemens; Blech, Leo; Reuss, Wilhelm Franz; Schütze, Walter; Melichar, Alois; Schüler, Johannes
Ensemble: Berlin City Opera Orchestra; Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Orchestra

Recital

1 CD / HBDirect Import / 1989-11-13

Works: George Frederick Handel: Xerxes; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Giuseppe Giordani: Caro mio ben, for voice & piano (or orchestra); Albert Lortzing: Undine; F...
Performers: Wunderlich, Fritz
Conductors: Becker, Gerhard; Rother, Artur; Schmidt-Bolcke, Werner; Melichar, Alois