RCA Victor Orchestra

Puccini: The Great Operas - La Boheme, Tosca, Butterfly, Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Turandot, La Fancuilla del West

13 CD / Regis Records / 2013-01-07

Conductors: Beecham, Thomas; De Sabata, Victor; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Bellezza, Vincenzo; Serafin, Tullio; Santini, Gabriele; Serafin, Tulliio
Ensemble: La Scala Orchestra Milan; Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; RCA Victor Orchestra; Rome Opera House Orchestra; Rome Opera Orchestra

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Nan Merriman

1 CD / Preiser / 2008-06-10

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita; Gioachino Rossini: Otello; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Rigoletto; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Manuel de Fa...
Performers: Merriman, Nan
Conductors: Weissmann, Frieder; Susskind, Walter; Toscanini, Arturo; Monteux, Pierre; Stokowski, Leopold; Bernstein, Leonard
Ensemble: Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; NBC Symphony Orchestra; RCA Victor Orchestra; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Nan Merriman was born in 1920 in Pittsburgh. She grew up in Los Angeles where she took lessons from Lotte Lehmann. She was singing on...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Leonard Warren Vol 4

1 CD / Preiser / 2006-06-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Otello; Falstaff; Ernani; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier, opera; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Amilcare Ponc...
Performers: Barbieri, Fedora; Baum, Kurt; Bjorling, Jussi; Christoff, Boris; Clabassi, Plinio [Bass Vocal]; de los Angeles, Victoria; Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Roman, Stella; Wa...
Conductors: Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Cellini, Renato; Perlea, Jonel; Bellezza, Vincenzo; Merola, Gaetano
Ensemble: Members of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (Members); Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; RCA Victor Orchestra; Rome Opera House Orchestra

Leonard Warren (1911-1960), is still a shimmering beacon of the operatic art, a role model to whom so many are compared. During his brief career...continue...

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...

Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera Highlights, etc / Warren, et al

1 CD / Preiser / 2006-03-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Il Trovatore; La forza del destino
Performers: Anderson, Marian; Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]; Moscona, Nicola; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Peters, Roberta [Soprano Vocal]; Warren, Leonard [Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Cellini, Renato; Perlea, Jonel
Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; RCA Victor Orchestra

Legendary Treasures - William Primrose Vol 4 - Berlioz, etc

1 CD / Doremi / 2005-02-01

Works: Henri: Concerto for viola & orchestra in B minor (falsely attrib. to Handel); Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy for viola and orchestra, Op. 16; Fritz Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro in the style of P...
Performers: Primrose, William; Rupp, Franz
Conductors: Weissmann, Frieder; Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra; RCA Victor Orchestra

Monumental recordings from 1941 and 1946 by the finest violist of all time, finally restored in excellent, spectacular sound by Doremi. Born in Scotland in...continue...

Legendary Voices / Helen Traubel II

1 CD / Preiser / 2004-10-01

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; Die Walküre; Götterdämmerung; Parsifal; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Giuse...
Performers: Traubel, Helen
Conductors: Weissmann, Frieder; O'Connell, Charles
Ensemble: Orchestra; RCA Victor Orchestra

Legendary Voices - Zinka Milanov

1 CD / Preiser / 2004-09-01

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act
Performers: Harshaw, Margaret; Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Roggero, Margaret
Conductors: Weissmann, Frieder; Cellini, Renato
Ensemble: RCA Victor Orchestra

The World's Greatest Arias / Domingo, Price, Heppner, et al

1 CD / RCA Records / 2002-08-27

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; La bohème; Turandot; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Carmen, opera; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze d...
Performers: Berganza, Teresa [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Björling, Jussi; Bjorling, Jussi; Caballé, Montserrat; Caballe, Montserrat; Domingo, Placido; Heppner, Ben [Tenor Vocals]; Merrill, Robert [Barito...
Conductors: Leinsdorf, Erich; Santi, Nello; Cellini, Renato; Davis, Colin; Abbado, Roberto; Solti, Sir Georg; Navarro, Luis A. Garcia; Navarro, Garcia; Previtali, Fernando; ; Guadagno, Anton
Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Munich Radio Orchestra; New Philharmonic Orchestra; Orquestra Sinfonica de Sevilla; RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra; RCA Victor Orchestra; R...

Jussi Björling- Pearl Fishers Duet, etc / Tebaldi, Merrill

1 CD / RCA Records / 1988-08-30

Works: Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Manon Lescaut; La bohème; Turandot; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Otello
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Bjorling, Jussi; de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Frascati, Tommaso; Markow, Emil; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]; Sereni, Mario [Baritone Vocals]; T...
Conductors: Cellini, Renato; Leinsdorf, Erich; Perlea, Jonel
Ensemble: ; RCA Victor Orchestra