1 CD / Preiser /
2012-10-09
Works: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème
Performers:
Albanese, Licia; Arizmendi, Elena; Björling, Jussi; Bori, Lucrezia; Caruso, Enrico; Cebotari, Maria; de Luca, Giuseppe; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Eisinger, Irene; Ferrani, Cesira [Soprano Vocal]; Fr...
This recording offers the opportunity to hear some of the world's famous singers performing the same arias and scenes so the listener can put together...continue...
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PSR 21002
1 CD / Preiser /
2012-10-09
Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mass no 8 for soloists, chorus & orchestra in D major (missa brevis), K. 194 (K. 186h); Church Sonata for Organ and Strings no 13 in G major, K 274 (271d); Mass no 14 for sol...
Performers:
Horak, Cornelia; Kaimbacher, Alexander; Sander, Klemens
Conductors:
Pixner, Andreas
Ensemble:
; St. Augustin Orchestra
The Choral Society of St. Augustine at Vienna's Jesuit Church is a church choir. The choir occupies a special place in the Viennese musical scene...continue...
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PSR 91195
1 CD / Preiser /
2012-09-11
Works: Andreas Hammerschmidt: Machet die Tore weit (Open Wide the Gates); Melchior Vulpius: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, for chorus; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mass no 15 for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestr...
Performers:
Heinrich, Gernot; Horak, Cornelia; Schamschula, Maximilian [Organ]; Sramek, Alfred
Conductors:
Pixner, Andreas
Ensemble:
; Orchestra of St. Augustine Vienna
The Choral Society of St. Augustine at Vienna's Jesuit Church is a church choir. The choir occupies a special place in the Viennese musical scene,...continue...
Recording information: Jesuitenkirche-Univesitätskirche, Vienna, Austria (10/01/2011/10/02/2011)....continue...
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PSR 90805
1 CD / Preiser /
2011-09-13
Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenotten; Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Giuseppe Verdi: Die sizilianische Vesper
Performers:
Cunitz, Maud; Frick, Gottlob; Klose, Margarete; Metternich, Josef; Rosvaenge, Helge; Schock, Rudolf [Tenor Vocal]; Terkal, Karl
Conductors:
Ackermann, Otto; Heger, Robert; Rother, Artur; Schuchter, Wilhelm; Schroder, Kurt
Born in London in 1911, Maud Cunitz returned with her parents to Germany before the outbreak of World War I. She started singing minor roles...continue...
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PSR 93478
1 CD / Preiser /
2011-08-09
Works: Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Tannhäuser; Die Walküre; Götterdämmerung; Parsifal; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Robert Schumann: Lieder (6), Op. 33; My...
Performers:
Baccaloni, Salvatore; Borgatti, Giuseppe; Fagoaga, Isidoro; Nessi, Giuseppe
Giuseppe Borgatti was Italy's first great Wagnerian tenor. His first Wagnerian opera was Lohengrin, when he appeared at the production in Milan in 1894. He...continue...
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PSR 89747
1 CD / Preiser /
2011-02-08
Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe; Don Giovanni; Giuseppe Verdi: Die Macht des Schicksals; Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Das Rheingold; Siegfried; Gött...
Performers:
Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Schock, Rudolf [Tenor Vocal]; Wagner, Sieglinde
Conductors:
Reinhardt, Rolf; Ludwig, Leopold; Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans; Kempe, Rudolf; Krauss, Clemens; Knappertsbusch, Hans; Schuchter, Gilbert
Born in Mainz, Neidlinger sang at the Hamburg Staatsoper and the Staatstheater in Stuttgart. He sang 20 seasons at the Bayreuth Festival and for 25...continue...
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PSR 93475
1 CD / Preiser /
2011-01-11
Works: Cole Porter: Night and day, song (from The Gay Divorcee); Kiss Me, Kate; I've got you under my skin, song (from the film "Born to Dance"); You'd be so nice to come home to, song (from "Something to S...
Performers:
Siepi, Cesare
Conductors:
Gallino, Cesare
Siepi's career was an exceptionally long one and apart from some wear and tear in later years, the voice remained largely intact until the end....continue...
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PSR 89743
1 CD / Preiser /
2011-01-11
Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenotten; Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Giuseppe Verdi: Die Macht des Schicksals; Peter Cornelius: De...
Performers:
Buchsbaum, Harald; Cunitz, Maud; Edelmann, Otto; Equiluz, Kurt [Tenor Vocal]; Frick, Gottlob; Fuchs, Franz; Grummer, Elisabeth; Heppe, Leo; Herrmann, Josef; Hoffgen, Marga [Contralto Vocals]; Klose, ...
Conductors:
Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Heger, Robert; Schuchter, Wilhelm; Kempe, Rudolf; Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans; Hollreiser, Heinrich; Elmendorff, Karl; Kraus, Richard
Gottlob Frick (1906-1994) was called by Wilhelm Furtwängler the "blackest bass" of his generation. Frick had no competitors capable of surpassing or even matching his...continue...
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PSR 93473
1 CD / Preiser /
2010-10-12
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller; Il trovatore; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chenier; Fedora; Rodolfo Falvo: Dicitencello vuie; C.O. Lardini: Voce'e no...
Performers:
Argine, Simona dall'; Neri, Giulio; Poggi, Gianni; Signore, Gino del; Ticozzi, Ebe
Conductors:
Erede, Alberto; Nicello, Ernesto; Capuana, Franco
This is the second volume on Preiser devoted to this popular singer's recordings. Given his undisputed vocal abilities, he would no doubt be considered an...continue...
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PSR 89736
1 CD / Preiser /
2010-08-16
Works: Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48; Romances and Ballades i, Op. 45; Belsatzar, Op. 57; Mein Wagen rollet langsam, song for voice & piano, Op. 142/4; Romances and Ballades ii, Op. 49; An Anna I ("...
Performers:
Beenhouwer, Jozef de; Holl, Robert
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PSR 93403
1 CD / Preiser /
2010-04-13
Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Gioachino Rossini: Der Barbier von Sevilla; Giuseppe Verdi: Arnoldo; Rigoletto; La Traviata; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Jacques Offenbach: Hoffmans Erz...
Performers:
Cordes, Marcel; Kohn, Karl; Koth, Erika; Stoll, Walter; Wagner, Sieglinde
Conductors:
Schuchter, Wilhelm; Schmidt-Bolcke, Werner; Gaebel, Kurt
Born Kurt Schumacher, Marcel Cordes spent the war years in a French prisoner-of-war camp. He resumed his singing career in 1948 and changed vocal roles...continue...
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PSR 93464
1 CD / Preiser /
2010-04-13
Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; La sonnambula, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; La forza del destino; Simon Boccanegra; Don Carlo; Aida, opera; Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov; King Saul; The wild wi...
Performers:
Björling, Jussi; Christoff, Boris; Neri, Giulio
Conductors:
Gui, Vittorio; Santini, Gabriele; Perlea, Jonel; Dobroven, Issay; Tzipine, George
Boris Christoff (b.1914) had 120 roles in his repertoire. The most famous were Boris Godunov, which he reportedly sang close to 600 times, Mephistopheles in...continue...
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PSR 89734
1 CD / Preiser /
2010-04-13
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth; Der Troubadour; Aida, opera; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson und Dalila; Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung; Richard Strauss: Elektra
Performers:
Grefe, Gustav; Hongen, Elisabeth; Kupper, Annelies; Ludwig, Walther; Plumacher, Hetty; Vocals], Christel Goltz [Soprano
Conductors:
Leitner, Ferdinand; Solti, Sir Georg
Born in 1906 in Germany, Elisabeth Hongen completed her musical studies at the Academy of Music in Berlin. Championed by Karl Bohm, she sang at...continue...
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PSR 93465
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2010-03-09
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani; Rigoletto; Il trovatore; La forza del destino; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda
Performers:
Campora, Giuseppe; Cappeli, Mario [Vocals]; Corridori, Anita; Fazzini, Guglielmo; Maionica, Silvio [Bass vocals]; Vocals], Anselmo Colzani [Baritone; Wilson, Dolores
Conductors:
Capuana, Franco; Tonini, Antonio; Parodi, Armando La Rosa
Born in 1918, Anselmo Colzani could not begin vocal instruction until after World War II. Originally a typewriter repairman, he was plagued by doubt about...continue...
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PSR 89731
1 CD / Preiser /
2010-01-12
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Ein Maskenball; Aida, opera; Othello; Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Parsifal; Hans Pfitzner: Palestrina
Performers:
Ahlersmeyer, Mathieu; Alsen, Herbert; Ilitsch, Daniza; Kamann, Karl; Konetzni, Anny; Konetzni, Hilde [Soprano Vocals]; Lorenz, Max; Manowarda, Josef von; Nikolaidi, Elena; Vocals], Paul Schoffler [Ba...
Conductors:
Böhm, Karl; Ludwig, Leopold; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Krips, Josef; Kleiber, Erich; Reichwein, Leopold; Kempe, Rudolf
This collection of scenes from works by Verdi, Wagner and Pfitzner presents the singing actor Max Lorenz in live recordings from the years 1937 to...continue...
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PSR 91167
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2010-01-12
Works: Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Gaetano Donizetti: La favorita; Linda di Chamounix; L' elisir d'amore, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: I vespri siciliani; Don Carlo; Aida, opera
Performers:
Bianchini, Giovanni; de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Gaudioso, Gerardo; Mazzoli, Ferruccio; Padis, Leo [Vocals]; Poggi, Gianni; Sacchetti, Antonio; Stella, Antonietta [Soprano Vocals]; Taddei, Giuseppe
Conductors:
Serafin, Tullio; Rapolo, Ugo; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Santini, Gabriele
This historic recording of Tosca was made in 1957 and originally released on Philips. There is a synopsis but no libretto or notes included....continue...
Recording information: Teatro San Carlo di Napoli (1957)....continue...
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PSR 20055
1 CD / Preiser /
2009-12-08
Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Lohengrin; Tristan und Isolde; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Jacques Offenbach: Hoffmanns Erzählungen; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Performers:
Anders, Peter; Greindl, Josef; Hoffmann, Ludwig; Klose, Margarete; Lorenz, Max; Muller, Anneliese; Muller, Maria; Prohaska, Jaro; Soot, Fritz; Suthaus, Ludwig; Zimmermann, Erich
Conductors:
Rother, Artur; Heger, Robert; Furtwängler, Wilhelm
One of the most outstanding bass-baritones between 1920 and 1950 was Jaro Prohaska. For 12 years he was among the leading performers at the Bayreuth...continue...
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PSR 89727
1 CD / Preiser /
2009-11-10
Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Eugen d'Albert: Tiefland; Albert Lortzing: Der Wildschütz
Performers:
Czubok, Engelbert; Hann, Georg; Varnay, Astrid; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]; Wissmann, Lore
Conductors:
Heger, Robert; Leitner, Ferdinand; Ludwig, Leopold; Rother, Artur
Wolfgang Windgassen's name is inseparably linked with the Bayreuth Festival and Wieland Wagner. He first performed there in 1951 in a production of Parsifal. A...continue...
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PSR 93457
1 CD / Preiser /
2009-11-10
Works: Eduardo di Capua: O sole mio; Paolo Tosti: Il pescatore pensa, for voice & piano/orchestra; Canzoni-stornelli (3); Pour un baiser; L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra; Romanze (3); T'amo ancora; Mauro C...
Performers:
Albanese, Licia; Bjorling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Cazette, Louis; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Giacomo, Salvatore di; Gigli, Beniamino; Gobbi, Tito; Lucia, Fernando de; Muratore, Lucien [Vocals]; Pertile, A...
Rooted in popular culture, the Neapolitan canzoni's lyrics and music are inspired by everyday themes. They are plain and simple miniatures that attain a higher...continue...
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PSR 90766
3 CD / Preiser /
2009-10-13
Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Mentre ti lascio, o figlia, K 513; Per questa bella mano, K 612; Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, K 584
Performers:
Berry, Walter; Jurinac, Sena; London, George [Baritone Vocal]; Neikrug, George; Sciutti, Graziella [Soprano Vocals]; Simoneau, Leopold [Tenor Vocals]; Wachter, Eberhard; Weber, Ludwig [Bass Vocal]; Z...
Conductors:
Moralt, Rudolf; Walter, Bruno
Ensemble:
Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Vienna Symphony Orchestra
This historic recording of Don Giovanni was originally issued on Philips in 1955. Included as bonus tracks is George London singing Mozart arias. No libretto...continue...
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PSR 90762
1 CD / Preiser /
2009-10-13
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; L' elisir d'amore, opera; Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff; Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; August...
Performers:
Badini, Ernesto; Corena, Fernando; Donaggio, Luciano; Nessi, Giuseppe; Noni, Alda; Petrella, Clara; Poli, Afro; Rizzoli, Bruna; Saraceni, Adelaide; Signore, Gino del; Stabile, Mariano; Valletti, Cesa...
Conductors:
Sabajno, Carlo; Nastrucci, Gino; Ghione, Franco; Erede, Alberto; Basile, Arturo; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Parodi, Armando La Rosa; Olivieri, Dino
The baritone Afro Polis was born in Pisa in 1902. His voice had neither an unusually big sound nor a particularly beautiful timbre. Nevertheless, he...continue...
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PSR 89726
2 CD / Preiser /
2009-09-08
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Turandot; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele
Performers:
Campora, Giuseppe; Caselli, Dario; Cavallari, Rina; Ferretti, Edo; Neri, Giulio; Noli, Rosetta; Olini, Giulia; Poggi, Gianni; Serpo, Ottavio; Sperti, Cesare Masini; Tagliabue, Carlo
Conductors:
Berrettoni, Umberto; Erede, Alberto; Capuana, Franco
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Orchestra De La Suisse Romande; Rome Opera House Orchestra
This recording, part of the Paperback Opera series on Preiser, presents the seventh recording ever made of 'La Traviata'. It was recorded in 1952 and...continue...
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PSR 20054
2 CD / Preiser /
2009-09-08
Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; Hermann Goetz: Der Widersp...
Performers:
Aldenhoff, Bernd; Frantz, Ferdinand; Frick, Gottlob; Höngen, Elisabeth; Katona, Julius; Löbel, Hans; Lorenz, Max; Plumacher, Hetty; Vocals], Christel Goltz [Soprano; Windgassen, Wolfgang [T...
Conductors:
Rother, Artur; Heger, Robert; Striegler, Kurt; Leitner, Ferdinand; Schmitz, Paul; Solti, Sir Georg; Böhm, Karl; Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans
Ensemble:
; Bavarian State Orchestra; Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Dresden Staatskapelle; Dresden State Opera Orchestra; Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra; Munich Philharmonic Orchestra; Württemberg State...
Christel Goltz (1912-2008) was one of the most outstanding dramatic singers of German origin. Singing and acting were combined in her case and there were...continue...
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PSR 93455
1 CD / Preiser /
2009-05-12
Works: Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; I Puritani, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir d'amore, opera; Anna Bolena; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème
Performers:
Rossi-Lemeni, Nicola; Vocals], Virginia Zeani [Soprano
Conductors:
Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Simonetto, Alfredo
Ensemble:
; Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Born in Romania, Virginia Zeani studied in Bucharest and Italy. She made her debut in 1948 at Bologna's Teatro Duse singing the role that was...continue...
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PSR 89720
1 CD / Preiser /
2009-02-10
Works: Alexander Nikolayevich Serov: Shrove Tuesday, for voice & chorus; Russian Traditional: Song of the Lumberjacks; The Bandore; Down Peterskaya Street; Down the Mother Volga, folksong; The Lonely Autumn...
Performers:
Christoff, Boris; Moore, Gerald [Piano]
Conductors:
Tzipine, George
Boris Christoff, a great but not uncontroversial singer, had 120 roles in his repertoire, the most famous of which were Boris Godunov, Mephistopheles and King...continue...
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PSR 89713
2 CD / Preiser /
2009-02-10
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Domenico Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto; Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola; Ambroise Thomas: Le caïd; Camille Saint-Saëns: Le pas d'armes du Roi Jean; Char...
Performers:
Corena, Fernando; Gatta, Dora; Lazzari, Agostino; Poli, Afro; Signore, Gino del
Conductors:
Parodi, Armando La Rosa; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Walker, James
This latest offering in Preiser's Paperback Opera Series is taken from a 1952 recording by Urania Records. As a bonus, a recital by Fernando Corena...continue...
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PSR 20053
1 CD / Preiser /
2009-01-13
Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Un ballo in maschera; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Camille Saint-Sa&...
Performers:
Arangi-Lombardi, Giannina; Merli, Francesco; Molinari, Enrico; Pasero, Tancredi; Solari, Christy; Zambelli, Corrado; Zinetti, Giuseppina
Zinetti made her debut in 1913 at Teatro Massimo in Palermo and then toured South America with the opera company. She was engaged by Teatro...continue...
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PSR 89715
1 CD / Preiser /
2008-10-14
Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Otello; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet; Georges Bi...
Performers:
Bjorling, Jussi; Calabrese, Franco; Cehanovsky, George; de los Angeles, Victoria; Lenchner, Paula; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Roggero, Margaret; Stevens, Rise [Mez...
Conductors:
Bellezza, Vincenzo; Perlea, Jonel; Toscanini, Arturo; Reiner, Fritz; Beecham, Thomas, Sir
The fact that Robert Merrill generally is remembered more for his singing than for his interpretations does in no way reduce his artistic merits. His...continue...
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PSR 89711
2 CD / Preiser /
2008-07-08
Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera
Performers:
Barthelemy, Vivette; Benoit, Jean-Christophe; Filacuridi, Nicola; Geay, Robert; Hamel, Michel; Madeira, Jean; Marty, Daniel; Roux, Michel [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Sicot, Irène; Vivalda, Janette
Conductors:
Dervaux, Pierre
Ensemble:
Pasdeloup Concert Association Orchestra
This Carmen continues the Preiser paperback series: no libretto and scant notes, but great historic performances at a budget price. Jean Madeira, the Carmen of...continue...
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PSR 20052
1 CD / Preiser /
2008-07-08
Works: Harold Arlen: Mr. Imperium; Kurt Weill: September Song, song for voice & piano (from "Knickerbocker Holiday"); Jerome Kern: Roberta; Very Warm for May; Swing Time; Agustín Lara: Solamente una ...
Performers:
Henderson, Florence; Pinza, Ezio; Tabbert, William; Warren, Frank
Conductors:
Green, Johnny; Layden, Norman; King, Peter [Organ]; Engel, Lehman
Ensemble:
; Orchestra
The great Ezio Pinza never learned to read music. He was the leading bass of his time, performing at the Metropolitan Opera from 1926 to...continue...
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PSR 89707
1 CD / Preiser /
2008-06-10
Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: The Seasons; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor; Albert Lortzing: Der Wildschütz; Zar und Zimmermann; Giuseppe Verdi: N...
Performers:
Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Frick, Gottlob; Gorgen, Martin; Krukowski, Ernst; Schock, Rudolf [Tenor Vocal]; Westenberger, Erna
Conductors:
Forster, Karl; Schuchter, Wilhelm; Matzerath, Otto; Konwitschny, Franz; Striegler, Kurt; Rother, Artur
Ensemble:
; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Dresden State Opera Orchestra; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Called by Furtwangler the "blackest bass" of his generation, Frick had no competitors capable of surpassing or even matching his powerful voice in either force...continue...
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PSR 93452
1 CD / Preiser /
2008-05-01
Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; La forza del destino; Requiem Mass; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda...
Performers:
Conley, Eugene; Conner, Nadine; Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]; Moscona, Nicola; Nelli, Herva; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Tibbett, Lawrence; Turrini, Roberto
Conductors:
Levin, Sylvan; Toscanini, Arturo; Merola, Gaetano; Herbert, Walter; Cantelli, Guido; Newman, Alfred
The American singer Claramae Turner was born as Claramae Haas in 1920. Her contralto voice was naturally opulent and had what one critic called a...continue...
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PSR 89696
2 CD / Preiser /
2008-05-01
Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin
Performers:
Belov, Eugene; Lemeshev, Sergei; Mikhailov, Igor; Pankov, Georgy; Petrov, Ivan; Petrova, Valentina; Sokolov, Andrei; Verbizakaya, Evgenia; Vishnevskaya, Galina
Conductors:
Khaikin, Boris
Ensemble:
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Another fine release in the Paperback Opera Series from Preiser. This series does not include librettos, but features historic performances of the literature. With Vishnevskaya,...continue...
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PSR 20051
1 CD / Preiser /
2008-05-01
Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Albert Lortzing: Der Waffenschmied; Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor;...
Performers:
Borg, Kim; Wächter, Eberhard
Conductors:
Rother, Artur; Leitner, Ferdinand
The Finnish singer Kim Borg was born in 1919. His studies in chemistry were interrupted by the war and it wasn't until 1946 that he...continue...
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PSR 89698
1 CD / Preiser /
2008-04-01
Works: Richard Wagner: Rienzi; The Flying Dutchman; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; ...
Performers:
Cunitz, Maud; Edelmann, Otto; Vocals], Hans Hopf [Tenor; Zadek, Hilde
Conductors:
Moralt, Rudolf; Kleiber, Erich; Albert, Rudolf; Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Ackermann, Otto; Loibner, Wilhelm
Hans Hopf was one of the last true heldentenors in opera history. Alongside Hans Beirer, Hopf was probably the last authentic proponent of that type...continue...
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PSR 89695
1 CD / Preiser /
2008-03-01
Works: Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Ruggero Leoncavallo: La bohème, opera; Charles Gounod: Faust; Jules Massenet: Ma...
Performers:
Basi, Leonildo; Fanelli, Luisa; Masini, Guglielmo; Oltrabella, Augusta; Palai, Nello; Pauli, Piero; Saraceni, Adelaide; Tassinari, Pia
Conductors:
Sabajno, Carlo; Ghione, Franco
Born in Barcelona, Pauli's stage career was from 1929 to 1946; his performance in the November 1929 HMV recording of Tosca in the role of...continue...
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PSR 89694
3 CD / Preiser /
2007-08-01
Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya; The rainy day has waned (Nenastnïy den' potukh), song for voice & piano, Op. 51/5; Redeyet oblakov letuc...
Performers:
Bogdanov, Ilya; Chernyakov, Tihon; Dobrin, Boris; Ivanovsky, Vladimir; Koltypin, Sergei; Ktitorov, Leonid; Kulagina, Nina; Melnikova, L.; Petrov, Ivan; Rozhdestvenskaya, Natalya; Shevtzov, Venyamin; ...
Conductors:
Nebolsin, Vasili
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PSR 90735
1 CD / Preiser /
2007-07-01
Works: Alessandro Scarlatti: Work(s); Il Tigrane; Antonio Lotti: Pur dicesti, o bocco bella, song; Francesco Durante: Vergin, tutto amor; Giovanni Battista Bassani: Ah se tu dormi ancora, for voice & piano;...
Performers:
Lio, Tosca Da; Maero, Philip; Marzollo, Dick; Ongaro, Renata Ferrari; Pontiggia, Luigi; Prandelli, Giacinto; Scott, Norman
Conductors:
Perlea, Jonel
Still vital in his nineties, Giacinto Prandelli is a living testament to the great traditions of Italian vocalizing between the World Wars, with its roots...continue...
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PSR 89680
1 CD / Preiser /
2007-07-01
Works: Charles Gounod: Faust; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; Jules Massenet: Manon; Thaïs; Hérodiade; Emile...
Performers:
Angelici, Martha; Borthayre, Jean; de los Angeles, Victoria; Jeantet, Robert; Legay, Henri; Linsolas, Jacques; Luca, Libero de; Mans, Lucien; Robin, Mado; Semser, Ethel
Conductors:
Cluytens, André; Erede, Alberto; Leibowitz, René; Monteux, Pierre; Dervaux, Pierre
Although he began his career relatively late, Jean Borthayre's distinctive voice became internationally known through his many recordings. He was perhaps the only French baritone...continue...
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PSR 89681
2 CD / Preiser /
2007-06-01
Works: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Saint Matthew Passion, H 782
Performers:
Durmuller, Jorg; Gottwald, Franziska; Mertens, Klaus; Steur, Rene; Velez Isidro, Orlanda; York, Deborah
Conductors:
Koopman, Ton
Ensemble:
Amsterdam Baroque Choir; Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
This was one of the first substantial works C.P.E. Bach composed shortly after assuming the post of Music Director in Hamburg. No doubt influenced by...continue...
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PSR 316
1 CD / Preiser /
2007-06-01
Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Così dunque tradisci...Aspri rimorsi atroci, recitative and aria for bass & orchestra, K. 432 (K. 4; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride;...
Performers:
Christoff, Boris
Conductors:
Schuchter, Wilhelm; Pradella, Massimo; Bour, Ernest; Fistoulari, Anatole; Simonetto, Alfredo; Cluytens, André
With his commanding stage presence and thunderous voice, Boris Christoff was the heir to a long tradition of Slavonic basses. The singer courted controversy and...continue...
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PSR 89684
2 CD / Preiser /
2007-05-01
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; Ernani; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Ave Maria
Performers:
Binci, Mario; Cassinelli, Antonio; Francardi, Licinio; Gaggi, Albino; Gatti, Gabriella; Mancini, Caterina; Preziosa, Beatrice; Silveri, Paolo
Conductors:
Previtali, Fernando; Braithwaite, Warwick; Erede, Alberto; Rignold, Hugo; Rankl, Karl; Patanè, Franco
Ensemble:
; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Rome
This release in the Paperback Opera series focuses attention on the acclaimed Verdi bass Paolo Silveri (1913-2001). He began his career in 1944 that took...continue...
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PSR 20049
1 CD / Preiser /
2007-04-01
Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Otello; Umberto Giordano: Andrea ...
Performers:
Caroli, Paolo; Filippeschi, Mario; Mancini, Caterina; Neri, Giulio; Panerai, Rolando; Simionato, Giulietta; Taddei, Giuseppe; Tozzi, Giorgio [Bass Vocals]
Conductors:
Serafin, Tullio; Rossi, Mario; Quadri, Argeo; Gui, Vittorio
Filippeschi was intelligent enough in his early years to limit his repertoire strictly to lyric roles: Pinkerton, Rodolfo, Alfredo and Faust. The war years were...continue...
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PSR 89671
1 CD / Preiser /
2007-04-01
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:
Björling, Sigurd; Brivkalne, Paula; Dahlberg, Friedrich; Hermann, Dagmar; Weber, Ludwig [Bass Vocal]
Conductors:
Ackermann, Otto; Prohaska, Felix; Kraus, Richard; Dobroven, Issay; Keilberth, Joseph; Karajan, Herbert von; Moralt, Rudolf; Leonhardt, Carl
All of the big bass roles were in Weber's repertoire: Mozart's Sarastro and Commendatore, Beethoven's Rocco, Kaspar in Weber's Der Freischutz, the great Wagner roles...continue...
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PSR 89673
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2007-04-01
Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola; Semiramide; Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani; Aida, opera; Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Tristan und I...
Performers:
Bampton, Rose; Cordon, Norman; Johnson, Hardesty; O'Connell, Charles; Pelletier, Wilfred
Conductors:
Pelletier, Wilfred; Steinberg, William
family moved to Buffalo, New York, she began singing in the church choir. The director, recognizing her talents, suggested she study at the renowned Curtis...continue...
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PSR 89675
2 CD / Preiser /
2007-03-01
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass
Performers:
Brouwenstijn, Gre; Czerwenka, Oskar; Monteanu, Petre
Conductors:
Kempen, Paul van
Yes, this release is part of Preiser's mid-price Paperback Opera series. But certainly this is not an opera, you say. Yet, as the renowned Hans...continue...
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PSR 20047
1 CD / Preiser /
2007-03-01
Works: Albert Lortzing: Der Wildschütz; Zar und Zimmermann; Undine; Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; I vespri sicili...
Performers:
Borst, Heinz; Fehenberger, Lorenz; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Frick, Gottlob; Metternich, Josef; Streich, Rita; Trotschel, Elfriede
Conductors:
Schuchter, Wilhelm; Busch, Fritz; Rossi, Mario; Fricsay, Ferenc; Schmitz, Paul
Ensemble:
; Berlin Comic Opera Orchestra; Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra; Cologne West German Radio Orchestra
There are few other singers whose careers can be so completely traced in recorded documents from the very beginning as can that of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau....continue...
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PSR 93450
2 CD / Preiser /
2007-03-01
Works: Johann Theile: Saint Matthew Passion; Heinrich Schütz: Saint John Passion, SWV 481; Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 11; Anthony Holborne: Image of Melancholy; Thomas Tomkins: Pavan a 5 in F minor; Gal...
Performers:
Chum, Johannes; Hobiger, Bernhard; Horak, Cornelia; Volpert, Markus
Conductors:
Kärgl, Otto
Ensemble:
Cappella Nova Graz; Private Musicke
The symbol of the Cross forms a central aspect of theological thought alongside belief in the Eastertide Resurrection, particularly in the Western Church which developed...continue...
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PSR 361
1 CD / Preiser /
2007-03-01
Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Heinrich August Marschner: Hans Heiling, opera, Op. 80; Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; Don Carlos; Aida, opera; C...
Performers:
Aldenhoff, Bernd; Altmuller, Christoph; Borkh, Inge; Konetzni, Hilde [Soprano Vocals]; Proebstl, Max; Schech, Marianne; Vogel, Adolf; Welitsch, Alexander
Conductors:
Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans; Schuchter, Wilhelm; Blech, Leo; Baltzer, Erwin; Müller-Kray, Hans; Albert, Rudolf
Alexander Welitsch was born in Macedonia as Alexander Asgaruh. He began his studies in his hometown, later moving to Hanover for further training. In 1936...continue...
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PSR 89669
1 CD / Preiser /
2007-01-01
Works: Johannes Brahms: German Requiem, Op. 45
Performers:
Bankl, Wolfgang; Raimondi, Ildiko
Conductors:
Wolf, Friedrich
Ensemble:
Vienna "St Augustin" Chorus; Vienna "St Augustin" Orchestra
Since the 1991/92 season soprano Ildiko Raimondi has been a member of the Vienna State Opera, where she has appeared in more than 40 roles....continue...
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