Country of origin: Australia
Year of disc release: 2014
Publisher (label): Eloquence
Date of recording: 1959-1962, 1967
Audio codec: FLAC
Rip type: tracks+.cue
Audio bitrate: lossless
Duration: 139:46
Size: 628.2 MB
Performers:
Sándor Kónya, tenor,
Giorgio Giogetti, baritone (CD 1: tracks 1, 4),
Emma Bruno, soprano (CD 1: track 4),
Antonino Votto, Conductor (CD 1: tracks 1-12),
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino,
Janos Kulka, Conductor (CD 1: tracks 13-19),
Bamberger Symphoniker,
Richard Kraus, Conductor (CD 1: tracks 20-21),
Berliner Philharmoniker
Otto Guth, piano (CD 2: tracks 1-13),
Richard Kraus, Conductor (CD 2: tracks 14-17)
Berliner Philharmoniker.
Recording’s Dates:
1959 – Scenes from Wagner’s Operas;
1960 – Arias from L’elisir d’amore, L’Africaine, La Gioconda, Aida, Martha, Il Trovatore;
1961 – Scenes from Rigoletto;
1962 – Collection of Puccini’s Arias;
1967 – Verdi and Wagner Songs.
Recorded in Berlin’s Studio for Deutsche Grammophon.
Disc 1:
Giacomo Puccini:
1. Tosca: Recondita armonia
2. La fanciulla del West: Una parola sola … Or son sei mesi
3. Madama Butterfly: Addio, fiorio asil
4. Turandot: Non piangere Liu
5. Gianni Schicchi: Firenze è come un albero fiorito
6. Manon Lescaut: Donna non vidi mai
7. La bohème: Che gelida manina (Act I)
8. Turandot: Nessun dorma (Act III)
9. La fanciulla del West: Ch’ella mi creda libero e lontano (Act III)
10. Il tabarro: Hai ben ragione
11. Tosca: E lucevan le stelle (Act III)
12. Manon Lescaut: Che avvien! … Ah! non v’avvicinate … Guardate, pazzo son (Act III)
Gaetano Donizetti:
13 L’elisir d’amore: Una furtiva lagrima (Act II)
Giacomo Meyerbeer:
14 L’Africaine: Mi batti il cor … O paradiso (Act IV)
Amilcare Ponchielli:
15. La Gioconda: Cielo e mar (Act II)
Friedrich von Flotow:
16 Martha: Ach, so fromm (Act III)
Giuseppe Verdi:
17. Aida: Celeste Aida (Act I)
Il trovatore (sung in German):
18 Laβ die Sorgen entschwinden … Daβ nur für mich dein Herz erbebt (Act III)
19 Lodern zum Himmel (Act III)
Rigoletto (sung in German):
20 Sie wurde mir entrissen … Ich seh die heiβen Zähren (Act II)
21 Ach wie so trügerisch (Act III)
Disc 2:
Giuseppe Verdi:
from Sei Romanze, 1838:
1 I Non t’accostare all’urna (Jacopo Vittorelli)
2 II More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta (Tommaso Bianchi)
3 III In solitaria stanza (Jacopo Vittorelli)
from Sei Romanze, 1845:
4 I Il tramonto (Andrea Maffei)
5 V Il mistero (Felice Romani)
6 Il poveretto (Manfredo Maggioni), 1847
from Sei Romanze, 1845:
7 VI Brindisi (Andrea Maffei)
Richard Wagner:
8 Karnevalslied
Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier:
9 IV Der Tannenbaum
10 II Die Rose
Wesendonck Lieder:
11 IV Schmerzen
12 V Träume
13 Die beiden Grenadiere
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg:
14 Am stillen Herd (Act I)
15 Morgenlich leuchtend (Act III)
Lohengrin:
16 In fernem Land, unnahbar euren Scritten (Act III)
17 Mein lieber Schwan (Act III)