Speaks, Oley

The Floral Dance and Other Peter Dawson Favourites [Hybrid SACD]

1 Super Audio CD / Melba Recordings Import / 2010-03-23

Works: Katie Moss: The Floral Dance, for voice & piano; William Percy French: Phil the Fluter's Ball; Leslie Coward: Wandering the King's Highway, for voice & orchestra; Ernest Newton: The Drum Major; Wilfr...
Performers: Yurisich, Gregory
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David

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Icon - Richard Tauber

5 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Etienne-Nicolas Méhul: Joseph; Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Georges B...
Performers: Besl, Karl; Brown, Nancy; Kahn, Percy; Lane, Evelyn; Lehmann, Lotte; Lynne, Carole; Merrem-Nikisch, Grete; Novotná, Jarmila; Rethberg, Elisabeth; Schwarz, Vera; Spoliansky, Mischa; Stägem...
Conductors: Goehr, Walter; Geehl, Henry Ernest; Hauke, Ernst; Besl, Karl; Weigert, Hermann; Gurlitt, Manfred; Szell, George; Walter, Gustav; Weissmann, Frieder; Korngold, Erich Wolfgang; Lehár, Franz; Sch&#...

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...

Prima Voce - Igor Gorin Vol 2

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2008-08-12

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Jules Massenet: Hérodiade; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; ...
Performers: Baller, Adolph; Gorin, Igor
Conductors: Voorhees, Donald; Dragon, Carmen

Songs you Love - Love Songs - Songs from Sunny Italy / Merrill, Peerce, Tucker

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2008-05-13

Works: Ernesto de Curtis: Torna a Surriento; Non ti scordar di me; Emanuele Nutile: Mamma mia, che vo' sapè; Arturo Buzzi-Peccia: Lolita "Spanish Serenade"; Rodolfo Falvo: Dicitencello vuie; Cesare A...
Performers: Corigliano, John, Sr. [Violin]; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Tucker, Richard [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Antonini, Alfredo; Case, Russ; Bass, Warner
Ensemble: Columbia Concert Orchestra; Orchestra; Russ Case Orchestra

Baritone Robert Merrill "In Opera & Song: Firestone" (B&W) (broadcasts from 1955-1959) [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Kultur International Films / 2008-04-29

Works: Idabelle Firestone: If I could tell you; In My Garden; Kurt Weill: Knickerbocker Holiday; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Franz Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di...
Performers: Merrill, Robert

American baritone Robert Merrill is one of a handful of opera singers whose performances and recordings provide the very definition of what one regards a...continue...
Run Time: 105 min.
Region: 1
Picture Format: NTSC, B&W
Sound Format(s): Dolby 2.0,
Country of Origin: USA
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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...

The Floral Dance and other Peter Dawson Favorites

1 CD / Melba Recordings / 2006-08-01

Works: Katie Moss: Floral dance; William Percy French: Phil the Fluther's Ball; Leslie Coward: Wandering the King's Highway; Ernest Newton: Drum-Major; Wilfred Sanderson: Up from Somerset; Thomas Moore: She...
Performers: Yurisich, Gregory
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David
Ensemble: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Here is a delightful tribute from two fine modern musicians to one of the most beloved (and extensively recorded) Australian bass-baritones of the early 20th...continue...

Bird Songs at Eventide

1 CD / Hyperion / 2003-12-01

Works: Eric Coates: Bird Songs at Eventide, song for voice & piano; Josephine McGill: Duna; Charles Wakefield Cadman: At Dawning, song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 29; Cécile Chaminade: The Li...
Performers: Hough, Stephen; White, Robert

'If these ardent renderings ... do not find a place in your heart then you should wonder what your heart's made of' (Classic FM Magazine)

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Personnel: Robert White (tenor); Stephen Hough (piano).

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Lebendige Vergangenheit - Leonard Warren Vol 2

1 CD / Preiser / 2002-10-01

Works: Traditional: Blow the man down; The drummer and the cook; The Drunken Sailor; Morris Levine: Haul-A-Way, Joe; Low Lands; Anonymous, English: A-Rovin', sea shanty; American Traditional: Shenandoah; En...
Performers: Warren, Leonard [Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Levine, Morris; Black, Frank
Ensemble: Chorus; Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

The Stars Were Shining / Borgioli, Case, Crooks, et al

1 CD / Symposium / 2002-10-01

Works: Lauritz Melchior: Reminiscences of Covent Garden; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Anonymous: La Fiesta, opera; Charles Wakefield Cadman: The Song of the Nile, for voice & orchestra; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: ...
Performers: Borgioili, Dino; Crooks, Richard; de Luca, Giuseppe; Hackett, Charles Francis; La Forge, Frank; Pattiera, Tino; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Roselle, Anne; Salvarezza, Antonio; Tibbett, Lawrence; Voca...
Conductors: Erede, Alberto

Opernsänger einmal anders

1 CD / Preiser / 2002-05-01

Works: Mischa Spoliansky: Ich hab' für die Liebe die gröáte Sympathie (from the film "Zwei Krawatten"); Ich habe Heimweh, ich möcht' nach Haus (from the film "Zwei Krawatten"); Modest ...
Performers: Bechi, Gino; Blatt, Josef; Bohnen, Michael; Grosz, Wilhelm; Herrmann, Josef; Hotter, Hans; London, George [Baritone Vocal]; Milinkovic, Georgine von; Pinza, Ezio; Scheidl, Theodor; Sved, Alessandro; ...
Conductors: Dobrindt, Otto; Schönbaumsfeld, Franz; Brühne, Lothar; Olivieri, Dino; Green, Johnny; Black, Frank
Ensemble: ; Dino Olivieri Orchestra; Johnny Green Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Robert Merrill

1 CD / Preiser / 2000-09-26

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Charles Gounod: Faust; Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet; Jules Massenet: Hérodiade; Thaïs; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]

Moonlight Bay- Songs as Is and Songs as Was / Bolcom, Morris

1 CD / Albany Records / 1999-01-01

Works: Oley Speaks: On the Road to Mandalay; Percy Wenrich: Moonlight Bay; Joseph Edgar Howard: Hello! Ma Baby; Michael Nolan: Little Annie Roonie; Paul Dresser: My Gal Sal; Harry Dacre: Daisy Bell; George ...
Performers: Bolcom, William; Morris, Joan

HERITAGE Songs of Free Men / Paul Robeson, et al

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1997-12-09

Works: Traditional: There is a balm in Gilead; The peat-bog soldiers; The Four Insurgent Generals; Song of the Plains; By and by; Sometimes I feel like a motherless child; John Henry; Lehman Engel: Chassidi...
Performers: Brown, Lawrence [Classical]; Robeson, Paul
Conductors: Balaban, Emanuel
Ensemble: Columbia Concert Orchestra

Bluebird of Happiness / Jan Perce

1 CD / Pearl / 1997-11-18

Works: Anthony Young: Something in the Night; Sandor Harmati: Bluebird of Happiness; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Dermot MacMurrough: Macushla, your sweet voice is calling; Reginald de Koven...
Performers: Berger, Jack; Liebert, Dick; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Rapée, Erno; Katzman, Louis; Bluestone, Harry; Pilzer, Maximillian; Levin, Sylvan; Weissmann, Frieder

Stanford Archive Series / Richard Bonelli

2 CD / Delos / 1997-01-01

Works: Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet; Jules Massenet: Il re di Lahore; Hérodiade; Charles Gounod: Faust; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; La traviata; Il Trovatore...
Performers: Bonnelli, Richard; Templeton, Alec

Stanford Archive Series / Lawrence Tibbet

2 CD / Delos / 1997-01-01

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Oley Speaks: On the Road to Mandalay; Jacques Leon Wolfe: De Glory Road for voice & pi...
Performers: Covert, Earl; Elmassion, Zaruhi; Melchior, Lauritz; Tibbett, Lawrence; Wille, Stewart
Conductors: Smallens, Alexander; Pelletier, Wilfred; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Papi, Gennaro; Panizza, Giacomo; Newman, Alfred

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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

Richard Tauber in London

1 CD / Testament / 1996-01-10

Works: Cole Porter: Night and day, song (from The Gay Divorcee); Paul A. Rubens: I love the moon; Franz Lehár: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (You Are My Heart's Delight) (from "Das Land des Lächelns")...
Performers: Kahn, Percy; Laye, Evelyn; Tauber, Richard
Conductors: Walter, Gustav; Collinson, Frank