Savio: Music Box; Brouwer, Tarrega, Lauro, Mangoré, Dyens, etc / Zsófia Boros1 CD / Preiser / 2008-12-09 Works: Leo Brouwer: Un Dia de Noviembre; Wolfgang Muthspiel: Tonspiele (3); Francisco Tarrega: Capricho árabe; Angel Iglesias: Arabesca; Antonio Lauro: Triptico for Guitar; Agustin Barrios Mangore: E...Performers: Boros, Zsófia Zsofia Boros writes, "When played, you will hear my present emotions, a culmination of experiences and observations recorded in the moment of music. I hope...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Robert Merrill Vol 4 - Arias from Rigoletto, La Traviata, etc1 CD / Preiser / 2008-10-14 Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Otello; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet; Georges Bi...Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Calabrese, Franco; Cehanovsky, George; de los Angeles, Victoria; Lenchner, Paula; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Roggero, Margaret; Stevens, Rise [Mez... Conductors: Bellezza, Vincenzo; Perlea, Jonel; Toscanini, Arturo; Reiner, Fritz; Beecham, Thomas, Sir The fact that Robert Merrill generally is remembered more for his singing than for his interpretations does in no way reduce his artistic merits. His...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Marta Fuchs - Arias from Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre, etc1 CD / Preiser / 2008-10-14 Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; Die Walküre; Götterdämmerung; Richard Strauss: Arabella; Franz Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade, D 118; An den Fr...Performers: Fuchs, Marta; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Raucheisen, Michael; Vocals], Paul Schoffler [Baritone; Wieber, Elsa Conductors: Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Leonhardt, Carl; Reuss, Wilhelm Franz ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Tito Schipa Vol 5 - Italian songs, etc1 CD / Preiser / 2008-09-09 Works: Matos Rodriguez: La Cumparsita, for tango orchestra; Ernesto Murolo / Ernesto Tagliaferri: Amore canta, for voice & piano; Enrique Santos Discépolo: Confesión, for voice & piano; August...Performers: Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal] Tito Schipa (1889-1965) performs one of his specialties (Italian folk songs) on this fifth volume devoted to his art. In the opinion of many experts,...continue... ![]() Nitsch: For Anton Bruckner; Bruckner: Symphony no 5 / Peter Jan Marthé, Europea PO, et al2 CD / Preiser / 2008-09-09 Works: Hermann Nitsch: Für Anton Bruckner, for organ & orchestra; Anton Bruckner: Symphony no 5 in B flat major, WAB 105Performers: Nitsch, Hermann Conductors: Marthé, Peter Jan Peter Jan Marthe, the eccentric Bruckner conductor and headstrong master pupil of Sergiu Celibidache has repeatedly created a lasting stir among audiences. For this recording...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Marko Rothmüller1 CD / Preiser / 2008-09-09 Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte, K 588; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier;...Performers: Gyr, Suzanne; Rothmuller, Marko Conductors: Robertson, James; Erede, Alberto Ensemble: Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra Marko Rothmuller (1908-1993) was a citizen of the world but occupied an outstanding position in German musical life. Born in Croatia, he moved to Vienna...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Nino Piccaluga1 CD / Preiser / 2008-08-12 Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Ave Maria; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Jules Massenet: Werther; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusti...Performers: Piccaluga, Nino; Valobra, Cesarina Born in 1890, Nino Piccaluga did not make his debut until 1917 at Novara's Teatro Coccia. He had a very big, loud and open voice...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Antonina Nezhdanova1 CD / Preiser / 2008-08-12 Works: Mikhail Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla; A Life for the Tsar; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Snow Maiden; The Tsar's Bride; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten; Anton Arensky: Romances (6) for voice & piano, Op. ...Performers: Nezhdanova, Antonina This compilation of recordings by Antonina Nazhdanova (1873-1950) draws attention to one of the great Russian singers, who was well-known and revered in Russia but...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Hedwig von Debicka1 CD / Preiser / 2008-08-12 Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Exsultate jubilate, K 165 (158a); Mass in C minor, K 427 (417a) "Great"; Vincenzo Bellini...Performers: Pruwer, Julius; Urbano, Umberto; Vocals], Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender [Baritone Conductors: Prüwer, Julius Hedwig von Debicka (1881-1970) was born into an old Polish-Russian aristocratic family and grew up in Dembicki. She received her first training at the Warsaw...continue... ![]() Erich Kleiber Conducts His Last Concert1 CD / Preiser / 2008-07-08 Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Euryanthe, J 291/Op. 81; Symphony no 1 in C major, J. 50 (Op. 19); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no 39 in E flat major, K 543; German Dances (6), K 600; German Dances (4), K...Conductors: Kleiber, Erich Ensemble: Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra This is a recording of the final concert conducted by Erich Kleiber on January 26, 1956. He died one week later unexpectedly on the 200th...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Ezio Pinza Vol 51 CD / Preiser / 2008-07-08 Works: Harold Arlen: Mr. Imperium; Kurt Weill: September Song, song for voice & piano (from "Knickerbocker Holiday"); Jerome Kern: Roberta; Very Warm for May; Swing Time; Agustín Lara: Solamente una ...Performers: Henderson, Florence; Pinza, Ezio; Tabbert, William; Warren, Frank Conductors: Green, Johnny; Layden, Norman; King, Peter [Organ]; Engel, Lehman Ensemble: ; Orchestra The great Ezio Pinza never learned to read music. He was the leading bass of his time, performing at the Metropolitan Opera from 1926 to...continue... ![]() Paperback Opera - Bizet: Carmen / Dervaux, Madeira, Filacuridi, Roux, Geay, et al2 CD / Preiser / 2008-07-08 Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, operaPerformers: Barthelemy, Vivette; Benoit, Jean-Christophe; Filacuridi, Nicola; Geay, Robert; Hamel, Michel; Madeira, Jean; Marty, Daniel; Roux, Michel [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Sicot, Irène; Vivalda, Janette Conductors: Dervaux, Pierre Ensemble: Pasdeloup Concert Association Orchestra This Carmen continues the Preiser paperback series: no libretto and scant notes, but great historic performances at a budget price. Jean Madeira, the Carmen of...continue... ![]() Mozart, Schubert: Symphonies; M. Haydn: Violin Concerto / Paul Angerer, Concilium Musicum1 CD / Preiser / 2008-06-10 Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no 40 in G minor, K 550; Michael Haydn: Concerto for Violin in B flat major, P 53; Franz Schubert: Symphony no 5 in B flat major, D 485Performers: Angerer, Christoph Conductors: Ensemble: Concilium Musicum, Vienna This recording performed by the Concilium Musicum Wien on original period instruments celebrates their 25th anniversary. Established in 1982, its aim was to perform music...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Nan Merriman1 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... ![]() Gottlob Frick Vol 2 - Rossini, Nicolai, Verdi, Wagner1 CD / Preiser / 2008-06-10 Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: The Seasons; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor; Albert Lortzing: Der Wildschütz; Zar und Zimmermann; Giuseppe Verdi: N...Performers: Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Frick, Gottlob; Gorgen, Martin; Krukowski, Ernst; Schock, Rudolf [Tenor Vocal]; Westenberger, Erna Conductors: Forster, Karl; Schuchter, Wilhelm; Matzerath, Otto; Konwitschny, Franz; Striegler, Kurt; Rother, Artur Ensemble: ; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Dresden State Opera Orchestra; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Called by Furtwangler the "blackest bass" of his generation, Frick had no competitors capable of surpassing or even matching his powerful voice in either force...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Verdi, Saint-Saëns, etc / Claramae Turner1 CD / Preiser / 2008-05-01 Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; La forza del destino; Requiem Mass; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda...Performers: Conley, Eugene; Conner, Nadine; Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]; Moscona, Nicola; Nelli, Herva; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Tibbett, Lawrence; Turrini, Roberto Conductors: Levin, Sylvan; Toscanini, Arturo; Merola, Gaetano; Herbert, Walter; Cantelli, Guido; Newman, Alfred The American singer Claramae Turner was born as Claramae Haas in 1920. Her contralto voice was naturally opulent and had what one critic called a...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Kim Borg1 CD / Preiser / 2008-05-01 Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Albert Lortzing: Der Waffenschmied; Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor;...Performers: Borg, Kim; Wächter, Eberhard Conductors: Rother, Artur; Leitner, Ferdinand The Finnish singer Kim Borg was born in 1919. His studies in chemistry were interrupted by the war and it wasn't until 1946 that he...continue... ![]() Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin / Khaikin, Vishnevskaya, et al2 CD / Preiser / 2008-05-01 Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eugen OneginPerformers: Belov, Eugene; Lemeshev, Sergei; Mikhailov, Igor; Pankov, Georgy; Petrov, Ivan; Petrova, Valentina; Sokolov, Andrei; Verbizakaya, Evgenia; Vishnevskaya, Galina Conductors: Khaikin, Boris Ensemble: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra Another fine release in the Paperback Opera Series from Preiser. This series does not include librettos, but features historic performances of the literature. With Vishnevskaya,...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Elisabeth Grummer1 CD / Preiser / 2008-04-01 "An artist one truly feels privileged to have heard." Alan Blyth could not have put it better in this 1986 comment. Elisabeth Grummer was a...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit -John McCormack1 CD / Preiser / 2008-04-01 Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Lucia di Lammermoor; La figlia del reggimento; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Rigoletto; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; R...Performers: Bori, Lucrezia; Jacoby, Josephine; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Sammarco, Giuseppe Mario; Werrenrath, Reinald In his day, John McCormack was certainly one of the greatest lyric tenors in the world. Audiences loved him, but even he admitted to being...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Hans Hopf1 CD / Preiser / 2008-04-01 Works: Richard Wagner: Rienzi; The Flying Dutchman; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; ...Performers: Cunitz, Maud; Edelmann, Otto; Vocals], Hans Hopf [Tenor; Zadek, Hilde Conductors: Moralt, Rudolf; Kleiber, Erich; Albert, Rudolf; Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Ackermann, Otto; Loibner, Wilhelm Hans Hopf was one of the last true heldentenors in opera history. Alongside Hans Beirer, Hopf was probably the last authentic proponent of that type...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Richard Tucker Vol 31 CD / Preiser / 2008-03-01 Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller; Il Trovatore; Un ballo in maschera; Requiem Mass; Jules Massenet: Manon; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Giacomo Puccini: ...Performers: Harshaw, Margaret; Muller, Mildred; Tucker, Richard [Tenor Vocal] Conductors: Cleva, Fausto; Antonini, Alfredo Ensemble: Columbia Concert Orchestra; Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Right from his January 25, 1945 debut at the Met in the role of Enzo in La Gioconda, Richard Tucker was THE tenor of that...continue... ![]() Lebendige Verganenheit - Piero Pauli1 CD / Preiser / 2008-03-01 Works: Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Ruggero Leoncavallo: La bohème, opera; Charles Gounod: Faust; Jules Massenet: Ma...Performers: Basi, Leonildo; Fanelli, Luisa; Masini, Guglielmo; Oltrabella, Augusta; Palai, Nello; Pauli, Piero; Saraceni, Adelaide; Tassinari, Pia Conductors: Sabajno, Carlo; Ghione, Franco Born in Barcelona, Pauli's stage career was from 1929 to 1946; his performance in the November 1929 HMV recording of Tosca in the role of...continue... ![]() Wiener Spezialitäten - Works of Carl Michael Ziehrer Vol 7 / Schadenbauer, C.M. Ziehrer Orchestra1 CD / Preiser / 2008-03-01 Works: Carl Michael Ziehrer: Wiener Specialitäten (Viennese specialities), waltz for orchestra, Op. 170; Die beiden Nachtigallen, Op. 128; Giskra, Op. 114; Die Drei Wünsche; Regentropfen (Raindrop...Performers: Schneider, Jörg; Schneider, Rita-Lucia Conductors: Schadenbauer, Hans Ensemble: C.M. Ziehrer Orchestra The delights of Viennese light music didn't stop with the passing of the Strausses! Here we have the seventh volume devoted to this particular master...continue... ![]() Vienna. Street Live / SoRyang1 CD / Preiser / 2008-02-01 Works: Frédéric Chopin: Fantasy-Impromptu for piano in C sharp minor, Op. 66, CT. 46; Scherzo for Piano no 2 in B flat minor/D flat major, B 111/Op. 31; Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 2...Performers: SoRyang Europe’s most unusual pianist plays her 400 pound piano on the street, which she thus transforms into a concert hall. SoRyang had already trained as...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - James Melton1 CD / Preiser / 2008-02-01 Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Jules Massenet: Manon; Georges Bizet: Carmen, op...Performers: Albanese, Licia; Melton, James Conductors: Breisach, Paul; Levi, Sylvan; Morel, Jean Paul; Weissmann, Frieder; Black, Frank The musical crossover is a phenomenon not just of our time; it was already commonplace in the early decades of the 20th century. With one...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Jan Peerce Vol 31 CD / Preiser / 2008-02-01 On November 29th 1941, to Peerce’s surprise, it was Ettore Panizza, with whom he had never worked before, who appeared in the orchestra pit instead...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit: Cloe Elmo
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