Smallens, Alexander

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess / Smallens, Price, Warfield, Calloway, et al

2 CD / Audite / 2008-11-19

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Performers: Calloway, Cab; Price, Leontyne; Warfield, William
Conductors: Smallens, Alexander
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

"The soloists are fabulous and their vivid characterizations are immediately engaging. Cab Calloway was a legendary Sportin' Life, and the originality and eccentricity of this...continue...

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess / Smallens, Price, Warfield, Calloway, et al

2 CD / Guild / 2008-07-08

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Performers: Calloway, Cab; Colbert, Helen; Dowdy, Helen; James, Joseph; Lamar, Moses; McCurry, John; Price, Leontyne; Riemann, Walter; Roberts, Howard A.; Scott, Leslie [Vocals]; Thigpen, Helen; Warfield, Willia...
Conductors: Smallens, Alexander
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

This complete recording of Porgy and Bess is taken from a broadcast of a live recording at the Titania Palast, Berlin on September 21, 1952....continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Gladys Swarthout

1 CD / Preiser / 2003-01-01

Works: Charles Gounod: Faust; Roméo et Juliette; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Queen of Spades, Op. 68; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Jacques Offenbach: La Périchole; Jules M...
Performers: Browning, Lucielle; Swarthout, Gladys; Vinay, Ramón; Votipka, Thelma
Conductors: Pelletier, Wilfred; Smallens, Alexander; Leinsdorf, Alexander; Leinsdorf, Erich; Morel, Jean Paul

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...

Historic Gershwin Recordings

2 CD / RCA Records / 1998-10-13

Works: George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris; Porgy and Bess; Strike up the Band; Preludes (3) for Piano
Performers: Gershwin, George; Gould, Morton; Jepson, Helen; Tibbett, Lawrence
Conductors: Whiteman, Paul; Shilkret, Nathaniel; Bernstein, Leonard; Smallens, Alexander; Gould, Morton; Fiedler, Arthur
Ensemble: Boston Pops; Chorus; Morton Gould Orchestra; Orchestra; Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

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

Includes crucifix for tenor, baritone (chorus ad lib) & orc....continue...

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