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The Very Best of Jussi Björling

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-03-13

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il trovatore; Un ballo in maschera; Aida, opera; Requiem Mass; Gioachino Rossini: Stabat Mater; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Giocond...
Performers: Bjorling, Anna-Lisa; Bjorling, Jussi; de los Angeles, Victoria; Ebert, Harry; Franke, Paul; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Warren, Leonard [Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Grevillius, Nils; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Cellini, Renato

Björling, like Gigli and Caruso before him, was idolised in his time as the operatic tenor par excellence in the Italian repertoire. He was a...continue...

Royal Swedish Opera Archives 1

2 CD / Caprice Records / 2011-01-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Performers: Billengren, Lars; Bjorling, Jussi; Lovberg, Aase Nordmo; Moberg, Ruth
Conductors: Sandberg, Herbert; Grevillius, Nils

Godfathers Of Opera

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-04-20

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; La Traviata; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Requiem; Salvatore Cardillo: Core' ngrato; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; La bohème; Tosca; Turandot; Madame Butterfly; Edua...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Blanc, Ernest; Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Caruso, Enrico; Corelli, Franco; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Domingo, Placido; Gedda, Nicolai; Gigli, Beniamino; Gobbi, Tito; Kraus, Alfredo [T...
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio; Mingardo, Raffaele; Bartoletti, Bruno; Kohn, Eugene; Levine, James; Goehr, Walter; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Guarino, G.M.; Schippers, Thomas; Ferraris, Franc...

Everyone needs a Godfather to look up to and today's crop of young singers need only review the pantheon of greats that came before them....continue...

Romantic Songs

1 CD / Swedish Society Discofil / 2010-02-16

Works: Hugo Alfvén: Jag Längtar Dig, song for voice & piano, Op. 28/5; Saa tag mit hjerte, R 203; Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: Ballads (4) in Swedish folk style, Op. 5; Gustaf Nordqvist: Songs (3); Au...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi
Conductors: Grevillius, Nils; Westerberg, Stig

Golden Operetta of Vienna

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2009-06-30

Works: Franz Lehár: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (You Are My Heart's Delight) (from "Das Land des Lächelns"); Vilja-Lied ("Es lebt eine Vilja") (from "Die lustige Witwe"); The Merry Widow; Meine Lipp...
Performers: Barabas, Sari; Bjorling, Jussi; Gedda, Nicolai; Glawitsch, Rupert; Gueden, Hilde [Soprano Vocals]; Jurinac, Sena; Kunz, Erich; Lipp, Wilma; Loose, Emmy; Patzak, Julius; Rothenberger, Anneliese; Saile...
Conductors: Ackermann, Otto; Stolz, Robert; Mareczek, Fritz; Schuchter, Wilhelm; Moralt, Rudolf; Schmidt-Bolcke, Werner; Grevillius, Nils; Geehl, Henry Ernest; Karajan, Herbert von
Ensemble: ; Philharmonia Orchestra; Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra; Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Vienna Symphony Orchestra

This remarkable 25-CD survey of some of the great Russian pianists of past and present follows the tradition from those who can, through their teachers,...continue...

Henri Marteau - Pupils & Colleagues

4 CD / Caprice Records / 2008-12-23

Works: Göran Olsson-Föllinger: Polka for violin & piano in A minor; Nejlikan for violin & piano; Jämtsägen for violin & piano; Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita for Violin solo no 1 in B mi...
Performers: Allan Pettersson; Anderson, Olof; Andreason, Lottie; Barkel, Charles; Bjork, Gosta; Bjorling, Jussi; Broman, Nathaniel; Broman, Sten; Brostrom, Tage; Erland von Koch; Fritz Ahlberg; Frumerie, Gunnar ...
Conductors: Westerberg, Stig; Frykberg, Sten; Rybrant, Stig; Busch, Fritz; Bendix, Kurt; Grevillius, Nils

Prima Voce: Merrill & Björling

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2008-11-11

Works: Charles Gounod: Faust; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Carmen, opera; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La forza del destino; Un ballo ...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]
Conductors: Cellini, Renato; Grevillius, Nils; Fiedler, Arthur

In the early ’50s, the 78 rpm recording of the lovely duet from Bizet's 'Pearl Fishers' sung by Jussi Bjorling and Robert Merrill, colleagues at...continue...

Icon - Jussi Björling, The Swedish Caruso sings Verdi, Puccini, etc

5 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-10-28

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Rigoletto; Requiem Mass; Il Trovatore; Un ballo in maschera; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; La Fanciulla del West; Turandot; Manon Lescaut; Madama Butterfly; A...
Performers: Amara, Lucine; Bjorling, Anna-Lisa; Bjorling, Jussi; de los Angeles, Victoria; de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Ebert, Harry; Franke, Paul; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Newton, Ivor; Reardon, Joh...
Conductors: Grevillius, Nils; Waldimir, Sune; Bokstedt, Bertil; Cellini, Renato; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Santini, Gabriele

Swedish opera star Jussi Bjorling (1911–1960) was essentially a lyric tenor with the added ability to sing dramatic roles, which enabled him to excel in...continue...

Jussi Björling in Song

1 CD / Testament / 2008-09-09

Works: Henry Geehl: For you alone; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Mattinata; Ernesto de Curtis: Torna a Surriento; Emil Sjögren: I drömmen di är mig nära; August Körling: Vita rosor; Gerald A...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Schauwecker, Frederick
Conductors: Grevillius, Nils
Ensemble: Orchestra

Historic Masters Ltd., a company formed to continue historic reissues of vocal recordings initiated by the British Institute of Recorded Sound, contributed to this release...continue...

Jussi Björling in Concert - Live at Carnegie Hall

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2008-02-05

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Adelaide, song Op. 46; Franz Schubert: Frühlingsglaube, D 686/Op. 20 no 2; Der Jüngling an der Quelle, D 300; Schwanengesang, D 957; Die schöne Müllerin, D 7...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Bjorling, Jussi; Calabrese, Franco; Campi, Enrico; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]; Schauwecker, Frederick; Warren, Leonard [Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Perlea, Jonel; Cellini, Renato; Grevillius, Nils

"Bjorling was sadly underused as a concert singer; recordings of renowned recitals such as here offer glimpses of his musicianship even in unfamiliar territory... Included...continue...

The Essential Collection - Great Tenors / McCormack, et al

2 CD / West End Records Import / 2007-02-20

Works: Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Salvatore Fucito: Sultanto a Te for voice & orchestra; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; George Frederick Handel: Semele; Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller; Aida, op...
Performers: Ancona, Mario; Bjorling, Jussi; Bourdon, Rosario; Burke, Tom; Caruso, Enrico; Cortis, Antonio; Crooks, Richard; Gigli, Beniamino; Martinelli, Giovanni; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Melba, Nellie; M...
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Rogers, Walter B.; Goehr, Walter; Sabajno, Carlo; Ormandy, Eugene; Hye-Knudsen, Johan; Harty, Hamilton, Sir; Hauke, Ernst; Weissmann, Frieder; Bourdon, Rosario; Grevillius, Nils...

The Essential Collection takes its first foray into classical music in this set, which features some of the greatest tenor voices of the first half...continue...

The Very Best of Jussi Björling

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2003-04-22

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; Un ballo in maschera; Aida, opera; Requiem Mass; Gioachino Rossini: Stabat mater; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Giocond...
Performers: Bjorling, Anna-Lisa; Bjorling, Jussi; de los Angeles, Victoria; Ebert, Harry; Franke, Paul; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Warren, Leonard [Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Grevillius, Nils; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Cellini, Renato

Jussi Björling - Opera Recordings 1948-1951

1 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2003-01-01

Works: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Tosca; La bohème; Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette; Faust; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos;...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi
Conductors: Grevillius, Nils; Cellini, Renato
Ensemble: Orchestra

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Jussi Björling

1 CD / Preiser / 2002-06-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; La forza del destino; Don Carlos; Aida, opera; Otello; Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette; Faust; Giacomo Meyerb...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Markow, Emil; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]
Conductors: Grevillius, Nils; Cellini, Renato

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; Andresen, Ivar; Angelis, Nazzareno de; Arangi-Lombardi, Giannina; Austral, Florence; Baccaloni, Salvatore; Badia, Conchita; Badini, Ernesto; Baillie, Isobel; Balbon, A...
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...

Prima Voce - Björling Vol 2

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-10-03

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Adelaide, song Op. 46; Franz Schubert: An Sylvia; Heidenröslein, D 257/Op. 3 no 3; An die Leier ("Ich will von Atreus Söhnen"), song for voice & piano, D. 737 (Op. 56/...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Ebert, Harry; Schymberg, Hjordis
Conductors: Grevillius, Nils

3 Tenors of the Golden Age / Peerce, Bjoerling, Lanza

1 CD / RCA Records / 1996-07-16

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; La bohème; Turandot; Gioachino Rossini: Les soirées musicales; Franz Lehár: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (You Are My Heart'...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Callinicos, Constantin; Corena, Fernando; Lanza, Mario [Actor/Singer]; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Schauwecker, Frederick
Conductors: Weissmann, Frieder; Leinsdorf, Erich; Pilzer, Maximillian; Sinatra, Ray; Cellini, Renato; Grevillius, Nils; Callinicos, Constantin; Bass, Warner; Reisman, Joe; Levin, Sylvan
Ensemble: ; Alexander (New Age); Joe Reisman Orchestra; Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra; Rome Opera House Chorus; Rome Opera House Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

References - Jussi Björling - Opera Arias

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 1988-06-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Un ballo in maschera; Aida, opera; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; La Fanci...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Schymberg, Hjordis
Conductors: Grevillius, Nils

Jussi Björling - Opera Arias / Leinsdorf, Rome Opera

1 CD / RCA Records Import / 1987-01-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Rigoletto; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; La bohème; Turandot; Tosca; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Charles Gounod: Faust; R...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Corena, Fernando; Tebaldi, Renata; Tozzi, Giorgio [Bass Vocals]
Conductors: Perlea, Jonel; Cellini, Renato; Grevillius, Nils; Leinsdorf, Erich