Bourdon, Rosario

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...

Prima Voce - Caruso in Song Vol 3

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2006-02-14

Works: Richard Barthélemy: Triste Ritorno for voice & orchestra; Adorables Tourments for voice & orchestra "Valse Lente"; Paolo Tosti: Ideale, for voice & piano (or orchestra); Canzoni-stornelli (3); L...
Performers: Bourdon, Rosario; Caruso, Enrico; Cottone, Salvatore; Elman, Mischa; Gogorza, Emilio de; Journet, Marcel; Kahn, Percy; Lapitino, Francis J.; Scognamiglio, Gaetano
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.

One might expect with these Neapolitan songs that two or three would be quite enough at a time. In fact I found that, having put...continue...

Prima Voce - Alma Gluck

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-01-11

Works: Gustave Charpentier: Louise; Benjamin Godard: Jocelyn, Op 100; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Jules Massenet: Élégie; Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Timbre d'Argent; Jean-Philippe Rameau: ...
Performers: Barone, Clement; Bourdon, Rosario; Chotzinoff, Samuel; Gluck, Alma; Lapitino, Francis J.; Rattay, Howard; Zimbalist, Efrem [Violin]
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Herbert, Victor; Hageman, Richard; Rogers, Walter B.

As in the similar case of John McCormack, it would be hard to exaggerate the extent of Gluck's popularity with the American public. It was...continue...

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