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Engel Lund"s Book of Folk Songs

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2008-01-08

Works: Traditional: Maria Wiegenlied
Performers: Lehner, Daniela; Sturrock, Kathron

Engel Lund’s Book of Folk Songs is a unique published collection of 49 folk songs from 14 countries, performed by young singers in their native...continue...

Prima Voce - Leonard Warren

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2007-06-12

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Il Trovatore; Simon Boccanegra; Rigoletto; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Otello; Falstaff; Traditional: Blow the man down; The drummer and the cook; The Dru...
Performers: Keast, Raymond; Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Varnay, Astrid; Warren, Leonard [Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Cellini, Renato; Perlea, Jonel; Bellezza, Vincenzo; Shaw, Robert; Black, Frank

Leonard Warren (1911-1960) was the acknowledged Metropolitan Opera successor to the previous leading baritone, Lawrence Tibbett. He dominated the Met stage, especially in Verdi roles,...continue...

Prima Voce - Great Singers Vol 2 (1903-1939)

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2006-02-14

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Ernani; Traditional: Ma Lisette; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; Giacomo Meyerbeer: L'Africaine; Les Huguenots; George Frederic...
Performers: Björling, Jussi; Calvé, Emma; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cottone, Salvatore; de Luca, Giuseppe; Ebert, Harry; Farrar, Geraldine; Favero, Mafalda; Flagstad, Kirsten; Garden, Mary; Gluck, Alma; Ivo...
Conductors: Blech, Leo; Barbirolli, John, Sir
Ensemble: Berlin State Opera Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra

...An utterly splendid collection, winners every one...a tour from one superlative to another. Gramophone. Very popular selection of arias and featuring the greatest singers recorded...continue...

Chinese Traditional & Contemporary Pipa Music / Wu Man

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-01-11

Works: Traditional: Lanterns and moon competing in brilliance; Ancient melodies of Wulin; The tyrant removes his armour; Chen Sui; The moon on high; Flute and Drum at Sunset; Birds in the Forest; Autumn Moo...
Performers: Man, Wu; Qi-Chao, Liu; Wang, Tien-Juo; Yi, Yang

Alleluia - An American Hymnal / Bruffy, Kansas City Chorale

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1998-10-20

Works: American Traditional: Hark, I Hear The Harps Eternal (Invitation); William Walker: Come Away to the Skies; George Allen: Precious Lord, Take My Hand; Sister Betsy Spalding: I Want to Shake with Indig...
Performers: Higdon, James; Taylor, Anne; Williamson, Pamela
Conductors: Bruffy, Charles
Ensemble: Kansas City Chorale

This is the fifth collection of choral music that the Kansas City Chorale, consisting of twenty four professional singers, has made for Nimbus. The music...continue...

Prima Voce - The Spirit of Christmas Past

3 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-10-01

Works: John Francis Wade: Adeste fideles; Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Hallelujah; Adolphe-Charles Adam: Minuit, Chrétiens "O holy night"; Charles Gounod: Ave Maria; Hanns Eisler: The oldest Christmas stor...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Caruso, Enrico; Crooks, Richard [Tenor]; Destinn, Emmy; Erb, Karl; Gigli, Beniamino; Gluck, Alma; Hollister, Carroll; Laughton, Charles; Lehmann, Lotte; Lush, Ernest; Lutsky, Eugene;...
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef; Molajoli, Lorenzo; Rogers, Walter; O'Connell, Charles; Weigert, Hermann
Ensemble: Chorus; Orchestra

You are invited to be a guest at the 'Prima Voce' Christmas party! Includes seasonal songs, carols and readings from the greatest opera stars of...continue...

Nativitas - American Carols / The Kansas City Chorale

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-10-01

Works: Conrad Susa: Three Mystical Carols; John Carter: In time of softest snow; Ned Rorem: Shout the glad tidings; Franz Xaver Gruber: Silent Night; Jean Belmont Ford: Nativitas; Leo Sowerby: Love came dow...
Conductors: Bruffy, Charles
Ensemble: Kansas City Chorale

In this recording, the Kansas City Chorale explores the Christmas music of American composers in all its variety: from the 19th century to our own...continue...

Prima Voce - Caruso in Song

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Vincenzo di Crescenzo: Tarantella sincera; Henry Ernest Geehl: For you alone; Helen Guy: Because; Gioachino Rossini: Les soirées musicales; Petite Messe solennelle; Josef Zygmunt Szulc: Hantis...
Performers: Caruso, Enrico

Prima Voce - John McCormack in Song

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Traditional: The Minstrel Boy; Killarney; Ben Bolt; She is far from the land; The snowy-breasted pearl; Rose of Tralee; Charles Marshall: I hear you calling me; Frederick Crouch: Kathleen Mavoureen; ...
Performers: McCormack, John

McCormack was just as famous, if not more so, in these simple national and popular songs, as in opera; and his genius and respectful approach...continue...

Prima Voce - John Charles Thomas

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Arthur Sullivan: HMS Pinafore; Lily Strickland: My Lindy Lou; Albert Hay Malotte: Sing a song of sixpence; The Lord's Prayer; Ernest Charles: The Green-Eyed Dragon; Oscar Rasbach: Trees; May Foster: ...
Performers: Hodges, Lester; Hollister, Carroll; Thomas, John Charles [voice]
Conductors: O'Connell, Charles; Shilkret, Nathaniel; Tours, Frank Edward
Ensemble: Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

Prima Voce - McCormack & Kreisler in Recital

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Beatrice Parkyns: Le portrait; Xavier Leroux: Le nil; Erno Balogh: Caprice antique; Benjamin Godard: Jocelyn, Op 100; Moritz Moszkowski: Serenade for Violin, Op. 15; Fritz Kreisler: Liebesfreud; Capr...
Performers: Falkenstein, George; Kreisler, Fritz; Lamson, Carl; McCormack, John; O'Brien, Vincent; Schneider, Edwin; Werrenrath, Reinald
Conductors: Rogers, Walter; Pasternack, Josef
Ensemble: Orchestra

An incomparable alliance of the legendary violinist and equally legendary tenor, with a mix of arias, songs, and violin solos. Over 69 minutes of music,...continue...

Prima Voce - Eidé Norena

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Die Entführung aus dem Ser...
Performers: Noréna, Eidé
Conductors: Défosse, Henri; Coppola, Piero; Messner, Joseph

Jakajan - Music From New Siam / Fong Naam

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Bruce Gaston: Chao Praya Concerto; The Golden Bath and Transformation; Kaiwan Tilokavichai: Cambodian Night Music; Traditional: Dance of the Pygmy; Cherd Nawk; Boonyong Khetkhong: Fong Naam
Performers: Andrade, Levine; Aroonrung, Manrut; Gaston, Bruce; Phuakthongkham, Lamoon; Pianpong, Pairoj; Ruffer, Nancy; Sawangwibulphong, Dusadee; Sirirattanapan, Boonrut; Tilokavichai, Kaiwan; Webb, Hugh; Wonwi...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Fong Naam

Prima Voce - Ernestine Schumann-Heink

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia; Luigi Arditi: Leggero invisible "Bolero"; John Joseph Becker: Frühlingszeit; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète; Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Götter...
Performers: Schumann-Heink, Ernestine; Witherspoon, Herbert
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario

Songs of Chivalry / Martin Best Mediaeval Ensemble

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Guillaume IX of Aquitaine: Estampie; The Song of Nothing; Huon D'Oisy: Coda; En L'Anque Chevaliers sont abaubi (In Times When Knights are Disconcerted); Thibault IV, King of Navarre: Tant ai amours; ...
Performers: Martin Best Medieval Ensemble
Conductors: Best, Martin [Lute]
Ensemble: Martin Best Medieval Ensemble

Recording information: Wyastone Concert Hall, Monmouth, Wales....continue...

Prima Voce - Maria Ivogün

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Henry Bishop: Comedy of errors; George Frederick Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55; Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Lucia di Lammermoor; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Sivigl...
Performers: Ivogün, Maria; Raucheisen, Michael
Conductors: Blech, Leo
Ensemble: Berlin State Opera Orchestra

Prima Voce - Björling

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-10-03

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il trovatore; Aida, opera; Requiem Mass; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; La Fanciulla del West; La Bohème; Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, op...
Performers: Björling, Jussi
Conductors: Grevillius, Nils
Ensemble: Orchestra; Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra