Bourdon, Rosario

Groáe Tenöre der Musikgeschichte, Vol. 2

2 CD / ZYX Records / 2013-01-08

Works: Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; I lombardi; Attila; La traviata; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir d'amore, opera; Geo...
Performers: Bada, Angelo; de Luca, Giuseppe; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Gigli, Beniamino; Homer, Louise; Pinza, Ezio; Rethberg, Elisabeth
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio; Reibold, Bruno; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Shilkret, Nathaniel; Olivieri, Dino; Ricci, Ruggiero; Sabajno, Carlo; Goehr, Walter; Barbirolli, John; Ghione, Franco; Colling...

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...

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 Essential Collection - Great Sopranos, Contraltos, et al

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

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; La sonnambula, opera; I Puritani, opera; Antonio Lotti: Arminio, opera; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Il rè pastore, K 208; Le nozze di Figaro (The Mar...
Performers: Anderson, Marian; Barone, Clement; Butt, Clara, Dame; Callas, Maria; de los Angeles, Victoria; Ferrier, Kathleen; Flagstad, Kirsten; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Hayward, Marjorie; Kirkby-Lunn, Louise [Cont...
Conductors: Basile, Arturo; Krips, Josef; Byng, George W.; Ormandy, Eugene; Pasternack, Josef A.; Bourdon, Rosario; Susskind, Walter; Molajoli, Lorenzo; Rogers, Walter B.; Robinson, Stanford; Sargent, Malcolm, S...

It 's time for the ladies to step up for the second of our "high brow" classical additions to the Essential Collection. This set features...continue...

Ten Top Tenors / Caruso, Roswaenge, Gigli, Tauber, et al

1 CD / Testament / 2006-11-14

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Salvatore Cardillo: Core' ngrato; Adolphe Adam: Le postillon de Lonjumeau; Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Fra Diavolo; Charles Gounod: Faust; Giacomo Puccin...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Gigli, Beniamino; Kreisler, Fritz; Martinelli, Giovanni; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Melchior, Lauritz; Rosvaenge, Helge; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Schneider, Ed...
Conductors: Rogers, Walter B.; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Ghione, Franco; Szell, George; Paulik, Anton; Gaubert, Philippe; Heurteur, Fernand; Grevillius, Nils; Ormandy, Eugene; Collingwood, L...

Prima Voce - Lucrezia Bori in Opera & Song

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2006-09-12

Works: Louis Varney: L' amour Mouillé, operetta; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Gustave Charpentier: Louise; Jules Massenet: Manon; Giacomo Puccini: La Rondine; La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Giuseppe...
Performers: Bori, Lucrezia; Copeland, George; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Tibbett, Lawrence
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Pasternack, Josef A.; Black, Frank; Shilkret, Nathaniel
Ensemble: ; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

Mozart Singers of the Past

3 CD / Preiser / 2006-04-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Don Giovanni; Così fan tutte, K 588; Idomeneo; Il rè pastore, K 208; Die Entführung aus dem Serai...
Performers: Anders, Peter; Baccaloni, Salvatore; Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Beuf, Augusto; Bori, Lucrezia; Cebotari, Maria; Dermota, Anton [Tenor Vocals]; Gigli, Beniamino; Ginster, Ria; Gueden, Hilde [Sopra...
Conductors: Reibold, Bruno; Cleva, Fausto; Morel, Jean Paul; Leinsdorf, Erich; Sabino, Antonio; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Walter, Bruno; Black, Frank; Busch, Fritz; Berrettoni, Umberto; Barbirolli, John; Collingwo...
Ensemble: ; Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra; Berlin State Opera Chorus; Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra; Metropolitan...

The recordings in this CD edition of outstanding Mozart singers were made between 1926 and 1950. This is the period of shellac records made with...continue...

Keith Hardwick - In Memoriam

1 CD / Pearl / 2004-06-29

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Don Giovanni; Gaetano Donizetti: La figlia del reggimento; Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir...
Performers: Chaliapin, Feodor; Crabbe, Armand; Dawson, Peter; Franci, Benvenuto; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Gigli, Beniamino; Koshetz, Nina; Melchior, Lauritz; Monte, Toti Dal; Nemeth, Maria; Pinza, Ezio; Schiotz, Ak...
Conductors: Alwin, Carl; Santini, Gabriele; Bourdon, Rosario; Byng, George W.; Setti, Giulio; Nastrucci, Gino; Albergoni, Angelo; Steinmann, Max; Tango, Egisto; Blech, Leo; Collingwood, Lawrance; Weissmann, Frie...
Ensemble: ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Lawrence Tibbett

1 CD / Preiser / 2003-11-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Simon Boccanegra; Otello; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Charles Gounod: Faust; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Rugge...
Performers: Bampton, Rose; Dreeben, Herman; Martinelli, Giovanni; Massue, Nicolas; Nicholson, Robert; Tibbett, Lawrence; Warren, Leonard [Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Shilkret, Nathaniel; Setti, Giulio; Pelletier, Wilfred; Bourdon, Rosario

Great Voices of the Past - Verdi's Masterworks Vol 2

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2003-07-02

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller; La traviata; I vespri siciliani; Simon Boccanegra; Ernani; Macbeth; Un ballo in maschera
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Andreva, Stella; Bampton, Rose; Battistini, Mattia; Bjorling, Jussi; Burzio, Eugenia; Caniglia, Maria; Caruso, Enrico; Castagna, Bruna; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cordon, Norman; de Luca, Gi...
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Gui, Vittorio; Sabajno, Carlo; Sandberg, Herbert; Tansini, Ugo; Pitt, Percy; Panizza, Héctor

The Great Voices survey of Verdi operas continues with this second of three volumes, including extensive excerpts from 'La Traviata' and 'Un Ballo in Maschera'...continue...

Great Voices of the Past - Favorite French Excerpts

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2003-07-02

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; The Pearl Fishers, opera; Fromental Halévy: La juive; Gustave Charpentier: Louise; Edouard Lalo: Le Roi d'Ys; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Jules Massenet: Il re di...
Performers: Aumonier, Paul; Bjorling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; Civil, Pablo; Clement, Edmond; Destinn, Emmy; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Gigli, Beniamino; Homer, Louise; Journet,...
Conductors: Rapée, Erno; Sabajno, Carlo; Bourdon, Rosario; Erede, Alberto; Molajoli, Lorenzo

The first-ever budget priced album of great singers in French opera features selections from all the most famous titles, as well as a few rarities...continue...

Great Voices of the Past - Verdi's Masterworks Vol 1

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2002-08-06

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Nabucco; Il Trovatore; I lombardi; I due Foscari; Attila
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Badini, Ernesto; Bechi, Gino; Bernelli, Gina; Bjorling, Jussi; Boninsegna, Celestina; Caruso, Enrico; Crimi, Giulio; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Gigli, Beniamino; Granforte, Apollo; Hempel...
Conductors: Sabajno, Carlo; Berrettoni, Umberto; Ghione, Franco; Bourdon, Rosario
Ensemble: La Scala Theater Orchestra

This is the first release in a 4 volume series (8 CDs altogeher) surveying the greatest Verdi recordings made by the past century's most legendary...continue...

Great Voices of the Past - The 30 Tenors

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2002-08-06

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; La bohème; Tosca; La Fanciulla del West; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Rigoletto; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Requiem Mass; Eduardo...
Performers: Anselmi, Giuseppe; Bjorling, Jussi; Bonci, Alessandro; Caruso, Enrico; Clement, Edmond; Del Monaco, Mario; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Fleta, Miguel; Gigli, Beniamino; Jadlowker, Hermann; Kozlovsky, Ivan; ...
Conductors: Grevillius, Nils; Rother, Artur; Bourdon, Rosario; Sabajno, Carlo; Elmendorff, Karl; Orlov, Alexander; Gurlitt, Manfred; Rapée, Erno; Erede, Alberto; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Quadri, Argeo; Barbiro...
Ensemble: ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Bolshoi Theater Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Orchester der Staatsoper Dresden; Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano; Radio City Music Hall Orchestra

Opera d'Oro has gathered together 30 of the greatest male voices of the last century to each belt out an aria on "The 30 Tenors"....continue...

The Golden Age of Great Contraltos & Mezzos

1 CD / Traditions Alive / 2002-07-09

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Charles Gounod: Faust; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47; Goodhart: A Fairy went a-marketing; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète; Johannes Brahms...
Performers: Cloez, Gustave; Minghini-Cattaneo, Irene; Reeves, George; Spurr, Phyllis; Supervia, Conchita
Conductors: Collingwood, Lawrance; Bourdon, Rosario; Pitt, Percy; Sabajno, Carlo; Albergoni, Angelo; Ormandy, Eugene

Maria Callas and the Great Sopranos

1 CD / Traditions Alive / 2001-05-22

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; La sonnambula, opera; I Puritani, opera; Antonio Lotti: Arminio, opera; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Il rè pastore, K 208; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidel...
Performers: Barone, Clement; Callas, Maria; de los Angeles, Victoria; Flagstad, Kirsten; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Hayward, Marjorie; Melba, Nellie; Muzio, Claudia; Patti, Adelina; Ponselle, Rosa; Rethberg, Elisabet...
Conductors: Basile, Arturo; Krips, Josef; Byng, George W.; Ormandy, Eugene; Pasternack, Josef A.; Bourdon, Rosario; Susskind, Walter; Molajoli, Lorenzo; Rogers, Walter B.; Robinson, Stanford

The Golden Age of Singing Vol 3 - 1920-1930

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2001-03-06

Works: Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt (The Dead City); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Entführung aus ...
Performers: Anthony, Grace; Bori, Lucrezia; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cortis, Antonio; de Luca, Giuseppe; Fleta, Miguel; Fugere, Lucien; Galeffi, Carlo; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Garden, Mary; Gigli, Beniamino; Granforte, ...
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Gelabert, Maestro; Gurlitt, Manfred; Setti, Giulio; Zweig, Fritz; Blech, Leo; Sabajno, Carlo; Weissmann, Frieder; Robinson, Stanford; Cloez, Gustave; Coates, Albert

This special 2-CD collection represents the third volume in a mini-series presenting 50 years of great voices on record. With all tracks culled from the...continue...

Prima Voce Vol 2 - Treasury of Opera - Historic Recordings

5 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-11-14

Works: Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Manon Lescaut; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Tosca; Turandot; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night; Sadko; Snow Maiden; The Tsar's Bri...
Performers: Anthony, Grace; Barone, Clement; Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Björling, Jussi; Bori, Lucrezia; Bronskaya, Yevgeniya; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; de Luca, Giuseppe; Farrar, Geraldine [So...
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Romani, Romano; Molajoli, Lorenzo; Ormandy, Eugene; Cloez, Gustave; Bourdon, Rosario; Albergoni, Angelo; Dobrindt, Otto; Pelletier, Wilfred; Coppola, Piero; Ghione, Franco; Barb...

The Prima Voce Treasury of Opera Vol 1

6 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-02-15

Works: Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; L'Arlesiana; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Le pardon de Ploërmel "Dinorah"; Die Hugenoten; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Attila; Un ballo in masche...
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Battistini, Mattia; Bjorling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cortis, Antonio; de Luca, Giuseppe; Devries, David; Flagstad, Kirsten; Fleta, Miguel; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Ga...
Conductors: Molajoli, Lorenzo; Ghione, Franco; Bourdon, Rosario; Pasternack, Josef A.; Messner, J.; Reibold, Bruno; Sabajno, Carlo; Polacco, Giorgio; Albergoni, Angelo; Grevillius, Nils; Cloez, Gustave; Setti, G...

Sousa Marches Played by the Sousa Band

3 CD / Crystal Records / 2000-01-18

Works: Spoken Word: Introductory Speech by John Philip Sousa; John Philip Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever; The Honored Dead, march for band; Mikado March, march for band; Mother Hubbard March, march for ba...
Performers: Band, Sousa's
Conductors: Sousa, John Philip; Pryor, Arthur [Trombone]; Higgins, Henry; Rogers, Walter B.; Rogers, Walter; Shilkret, Nathaniel; Bourdon, Rosario; Clarke, Herbert L.; Pryor, Arthur; Clarke, Edwin G.; Pasternack...
Ensemble: Sousa Band

Personnel: John Philip Sousa (spoken vocals).

Recording information: Camden, NJ (??/??/1897-10/06/1930); NBC Studios, New York, NY (??/??/1897-10/06/1930); New York, NY (??/??/1897-10/06/1930);...continue...

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; Andrésen, Ivar; Angelis, Nazzareno de; Arangi-Lombardi, Giannina; Austral, Florence; Baccaloni, Salvatore; Badia, Conchita; Badini, Ernesto; Baillie, Isobel; Ba...
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 - Tito Schipa in Opera and Song

3 CD / Nimbus Records / 1999-09-14

Works: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; L'Amico Fritz; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Don Pasquale; L' elisir d'amore, op...
Performers: Echantz, Jose; Gogorza, Emilio de; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Antonicelli, Giuseppe; Olivieri, Dino; Sabajno, Carlo; Bourdon, Rosario; Riccardo, Alberto Fernanco; Pasternack, Josef A.

A comprehensive survey of the Italian tenor's art, this set includes all three previous Prima Voca releases of Schipa. Included are arias and songs by...continue...

Beniamino Gigli - Complete Opera Recordings Vol 3

2 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 1999-05-29

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Attila; Rigoletto; Aida, opera; La traviata; Il Trovatore; La forza del destino; Jules Massenet: Manon; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; Manon Lescaut; Charles Gounod: Faust;...
Performers: Caniglia, Maria; Elmo, Cloe; Giannini, Dusolina; Gigli, Beniamino; Noto, Giuseppe; Pinza, Ezio; Rethberg, Elisabeth
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Barbirolli, John; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Shilkret, Nathaniel; Sabajno, Carlo; Ghione, Franco; Olivieri, Dino; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Goehr, Walter; Collingwood, Lawrance; Berretton...

The Ave Maria Album / Price, Lanza, Caruso, Domingo

1 CD / RCA Records / 1998-08-11

Works: Franz Schubert: Ave Maria; Charles Gounod: Ave Maria; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Pietro Mascagni: Ave Maria, for voice & orchestra; Percy B. Kahn: Ave Maria
Performers: Caruso, Enrico; Decker, George; Domingo, Placido; Elman, Mischa; Hadley, Jerry; Kahn, Percy; Kreisler, Fritz; Lanza, Mario [Actor/Singer]; MacDonald, Jeanette; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; O'Brien,...
Conductors: Froschauer, Helmuth; Abbado, Roberto; Stoll, George; Bourdon, Rosario; Fiedler, Arthur; Bamboschek, Giuseppe; ; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Callinicos, Constantin; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble: ; Canadian Brass

Stanford Archive Series Vol 4 / Ernestine Schumann-Heink

2 CD / Delos / 1998-01-01

Works: Adolf Mehrkens: Wie ein Grüssen, Op. 18; Luigi Arditi: Leggero Invisibile, for voice & orchestra; Franz Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen ("Vorüber, ach vorüber"), song for voice ...
Performers: Farrar, Geraldine [Soprano Vocals]; Prince, Charles Adams; Schmidt, Alexander; Schumann-Heink, Ernestine; Wille, Stewart; Witherspoon, Herbert
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario

Prima Voce - Rosa Ponselle Vol 2

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-11-01

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Manon Lescaut; Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino; Il Trovatore; Aida, opera; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Paolo Tos...
Performers: Baker, Elsie; Martinelli, Giovanni; Ponselle, Rosa; Romani, Romano
Conductors: Romani, Romano; Bourdon, Rosario

Prima Voce - Rosa Ponselle Vol 3

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Ernani; Il Trovatore; La forza del destino; Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Ruggero Leoncavallo:...
Performers: Lapitino, Francis J.; Ponselle, Rosa
Conductors: Romani, Romano; Bourdon, Rosario; Pasternack, Josef A.
Ensemble: ; Orchestra

Prima Voce - Rosa Ponselle

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-11-01

Works: Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Aida, opera; Ernani; La forza del destino; Gaspare Spontini: La Vestale, opera; Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Antonio De Curtis: Carm&egrav...
Performers: Martinelli, Giovanni; Pinza, Ezio; Ponselle, Rosa; Romani, Romano; Schmidt, Mischa
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio; Pasternack, Josef A.
Ensemble: ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

John McCormack - My Wild Irish Rose

1 CD / RCA Records / 1997-02-11

Works: Traditional: Ireland, mother Ireland; By the short cut to the roses; Ireland, my sireland; Eileen; Kathleen Mavourneen; Mother Machree; The Irish Emigrant; Molly Bawn; The low back'd car; Believe me ...
Performers: Bourdon, Rosario; McCormack, John; Schneider, Edwin
Conductors: Shilkret, Nathaniel; Herbert, Victor; Bourdon, Rosario; Pasternack, Josef

The Vocal Artistry of Marion Talley

1 CD / Cambria / 1997-01-01

Works: Johann Strauss II: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Vi...
Performers: Barone, Clement; de Luca, Giuseppe; Gigli, Beniamino; Gordon, Jeanne; La Forge, Frank; Lapitino, Francis J.
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Heller, Herman; Bourdon, Rosario

Prima Voce - Giacomo Lauri-Volpi Sings Verdi

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller; Rigoletto; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Otello
Performers: Basiola, Marco; Bechi, Gino; Caniglia, Maria; Cattaneo-Minghini, Irene; de Luca, Giuseppe; Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo; Manfrini, Luigi; Rethberg, Elisabeth
Conductors: Arduini, Renato; Ghione, Franco; Sabajno, Carlo; Zweig, Fritz; Bourdon, Rosario; Marinuzzi, Gino
Ensemble: ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Rome Opera House Orchestra

Prima Voce - Schipa in Song

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Alessandro Scarlatti: La donna ancora è fedele; Il Pirro e Demetrio; Il Tigrane; Giovanni Pergolesi: Nina, song for voice & piano (spurious; by V.L. Ciampi); George Frederick Handel: MEDLEY; C...
Performers: Echantz, Jose; Gogorza, Emilio de; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Olivieri, Dino; Sabajno, Carlo; Bourdon, Rosario; Riccardo, Alberto Fernanco
Ensemble: ; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

"...So why should you but this disc? The answer is the sound...I have heard just about all the Schipa transfers over the years, and from...continue...

Prima Voce - Ezio Pinza

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; I vespri siciliani; Don Carlos; Aida, opera; Attila; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Fromental Halévy: La juive; Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; Norma,...
Performers: Gigli, Beniamino; Giorgini, Aristodemo; Martinelli, Giovanni; Pinza, Ezio; Rethberg, Elisabeth
Conductors: Sabajno, Carlo; Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio

Prima Voce - Giovanni Martinelli

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Iris; Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani; La traviata; Aida, opera; La forza del destino; Il trovatore; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin...
Performers: Anthony, Grace; de Luca, Giuseppe; Martinelli, Giovanni; Ponselle, Rosa
Conductors: Rogers, Walter; Pasternack, Josef; Shilkret, Nathaniel; Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio
Ensemble: ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Prima Voce - Galli-Curci

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette; Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Manon Lescaut; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le pardon de Ploërmel "Dinorah"; Vincenzo...
Performers: Berenguer, Manuel; de Luca, Giuseppe; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Lapitino, Francis J.; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Bourdon, Rosario

Prima Voce - Beniamino Gigli Vol 1 1918-1924

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Enrico Cannio: O surdato 'nnammurato; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita; Charles Gounod: Faust; Pietro Mascagni: Iris...
Performers: Gigli, Beniamino
Conductors: Sabajno, Carlo; Pasternack, Josef; Bourdon, Rosario

Prima Voce - Titta Ruffo

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Otello; Nabucco; Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; Falstaff; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Zazà,...
Performers: Caruso, Enrico; Gigli, Beniamino; Ruffo, Titta
Conductors: Sabaino; Pasternack, Josef A.; Bourdon, Rosario

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

Operatic Arias - Chaliapin

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov; Mephistopheles' song of the flea; Anton Rubinstein: The Demon (Der Dämon), opera; Persian Songs (12), Op. 34; Anonymous: Mashenka; Down the Petersky; Johannes B...
Performers: Bazilevsky, Jean; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cozette, Michael; Godzinsky, G.; Kline, Olive; Newton, Ivor; Rabinowitch, Max; Schmidt; Sharpe, Cedric; Vocals], Margherita Carosio [Soprano
Conductors: Pitt, Percy; Pasternack, Josef A.; Byng, George W.; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Harrison, Julius; Bourdon, Rosario; Bellezza, Vincenzo; Steimann, Max; Coates, Albert; ; Collingwood, Lawrance; Büsser,...
Ensemble: ; Balalaika Orchestra

Prima Voce - Tibbett in Opera

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; Otello; Simon Boccanegra; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere ...
Performers: Bampton, Rose; Dreeben, Herman; Martinelli, Giovanni; Massue, Nicolas; Nicholson, Robert; Tibbett, Lawrence; Warren, Leonard [Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio; Shilkret, Nathaniel; Stokowski, Leopold; Smallens, Alexander; Pelletier, Wilfred

Prima Voce - Giacomo Lauri-Volpi

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; Norma, opera; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Jules Massenet: Werther; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; La Bohème; Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; La Fanciulla del West...
Performers: Borgonovo, Luigi; Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio; Ghione, Franco; Cordone, Mario
Ensemble: ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Orchestra

Lucrezia Bori - Arias from Louise, Manon, etc

1 CD / Pearl / 1996-10-15

Works: Gustave Charpentier: Louise; Jules Massenet: Manon; Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; La bohème; Antonio Literes: Acis y Galatea, zarzuela; F...
Performers: Bori, Lucrezia; Copeland, George; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Tibbett, Lawrence
Conductors: Black, Frank; Bourdon, Rosario

3 Legendary Tenors / Caruso, Gigli, McCormack

1 CD / RCA Records / 1996-07-16

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; La traviata; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Matt...
Performers: Caruso, Enrico; Gigli, Beniamino; Gluck, Alma; Kreisler, Fritz; Leoncavallo, Ruggero; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Schneider, Edwin
Conductors: Rogers, Walter B.; Bourdon, Rosario; Pasternack, Josef A.; Shilkret, Nathaniel; Setti, Giulio; Robinson, Stanford
Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Orchestra; Philharmonia Chorus

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Ezio Pinza Vol 2

1 CD / Preiser / 1995-06-20

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Don Giovanni; Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; I Puritani, opera; G...
Performers: D'Alessio, Roberto; Giorgini, Aristodemo; Pinza, Ezio; Poli-Randaccio, Tina; Rethberg, Elisabeth; Turchetti, Anna Maria
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Sabajno, Carlo; Reibold, Bruno

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Sigrid Onegin

1 CD / Preiser / 1995-02-07

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia; La Favorita; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten; Le Prophète; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Cami...
Performers: Onegin, Sigrid
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Blech, Leo
Ensemble: Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Orchestra

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Giuseppe De Luca Vol 2

1 CD / Preiser / 1993-08-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La traviata; La forza del destino; Don Carlos; Aida, opera; Charles Gounod: Faust; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gi...
Performers: Anthony, Grace; de Luca, Giuseppe; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Gigli, Beniamino; Rethberg, Elisabeth; Tedesco, Alfio
Conductors: Setti, Giulio; Bourdon, Rosario

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Giovanni Martinelli

1 CD / Preiser / 1992-09-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Fedora; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Ruggero ...
Performers: Anthony, Grace; de Luca, Giuseppe; Martinelli, Giovanni; Pinza, Ezio; Setti, Giulio
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio; Pasternack, Josef A.

Feodor Chaliapin Song Book

2 CD / Preiser / 1992-08-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: In questa tomba oscura, WoO 133; Franz Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen, D 531/Op. 7 no 3; Schwanengesang, D 957; Robert Schumann: Romances and Ballades ii, Op. 49; Mikhai...
Performers: Bazilevsky, Jean; Chaliapin, Feodor; Coppola, Piero; Newton, Ivor; Sharpe, Cedric
Conductors: Coates, Albert; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Collingwood, Lawrance; Byng, George W.; Bourdon, Rosario; Scriabin, A.A.; Afonsky, Nicolai P.; Ibert, Jacques
Ensemble: ; Orchestra

Gigli in Song

1 CD / Pearl / 1991-09-01

Works: Ernesto de Curtis: Tu sola; Sentinella; Sto Penzanno 'a Maria for voice & orchestra; Goodbye Mari; Canta pe' me; E.A. Mario: Santa Lucia luntana, for voice & orchestra; Riccardo Drigo: Arlekinada (Ha...
Performers: Gigli, Beniamino
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Bourdon, Rosario; Shilkret, Nathaniel

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Giovanni Zenatello

1 CD / Preiser / 1991-04-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Otello; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Tosca; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera
Performers: Boemi, A.; Gay, Maria; Granforte, Apollo; Marion, Gloria; Spani, Hina; Zenatello, Giovanni
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Sabajno, Carlo
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Orchestra

Immortal Voices of the Vienna Opera

1 CD / Preiser / 1991-04-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; Un ballo in maschera; Ric...
Performers: Jeritza, Maria; Kiepura, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Kipnis, Alexander; Konetzni, Anny; Konetzni, Hilde [Soprano Vocals]; Lehmann, Lotte; Mayr, Richard; Nemeth, Maria; Nissen, Hans Hermann; Pataky, Koloman v...
Conductors: Collingwood, Lawrance; Heidenreich, Johannes; Schmalstich, Clemens; Szell, George; Alwin, Carl; Krauss, Clemens; Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans; Gurlitt, Manfred; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Schmidt, Franz; Bl...