Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Hush every breeze
2. Act 4. Ah! Écho, viens sur l'air
3. Act 1. Che il bel sogno di Doretta
4. Act 1. Atalanta
5. Cancão do Carreiro
6. Act 3. Depuis le jour
7. Belle lune d'argent
8. Act 2. Ach, ich fühl's
9. Act 1. Glück, das mir verblieb
10. Act 2. Dich, teure Halle
11. Act 1. Einsam in trüben Tagen
12. Act 2. Ah, malgré moi
13. Act 2. Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix
14. Act 1. L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera)
15. In der Frühe
16. Where Corals Lie (Garnett)
17. Qui sedes
18. Agnus Dei

Disc 2:

1. Act 2. How Beautiful they are (Faery Song)
2. Ah! sweet mystery of life
3. Act 1. Dalla sua pace
4. Act 1. Song of the Road
5. Act 2. Cielo e mar!
6. Retired from any mortal's sight
7. Villancico Vasco
8. Si può? (Prologue)
9. Act 2. Ce breuvage... Vision fugitive
10. Arm, arm, ye brave
11. I have attained the highest power
12. From the rage of the tempest... Hear me, ye winds and waves
13. En prière
14. La Rose et le rossignol Op. 2 No. 2

Disc 3:

1. Act 2. De tous côtés... Lorsque je t'ai vu
2. Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques
3. Act 1. Viens avec nous
4. Act 2. Amour, viens aider ma faiblesse
5. Act 5. Fière cité
6. Act 2. Un autre est son époux!... J'aurais sur ma poitrine
7. Act 2. Der Hölle Rache
8. Act 1. Ach wär' ich schon
9. Wohl schön bewandt
10. Act 3. 'Twill soon be midnight
11. Act 1. Ritorna vincitor!

Disc 4:

1. Act 2. Vissi d'arte
2. Act 3. Das war sehr gut
3. Act 3. My child is dead!
4. Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
5. Act 2. Il mio tesoro
6. Kein Andres
7. Act 1. Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön
8. Act 1. Nein, länger, trag' ich nicht... Durch die Wälder
9. Act 3. Vater, Mutter, Schwestern, Brüder
10. Mondnacht
11. Act 1. Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja
12. Act 2. Donne mie, la fate a tanti
13. Act 1. Ha! welch ein Augenblick
14. Act 2. Gar viel und schön
15. Act 1. Hier im ird'schen Jammertal

Disc 5:

1. Act 2. O Isis und Osiris
2. When I am laid in earth
3. Act 2. L'anima ho stanca
4. Act 1. Je crois entendre encore
5. Act 2. Ah! lêve-toi, soleil
6. Act 3. Scintille, diamant
7. Act 2. Blick ich umher
8. Judex
9. Act 2. Mysterious Powers (Marfa's Divination and Song)
10. Act 1. Ah! quel dîner
11. Act 1. Why, my sad heart
12. Act 2. So full of wonder
13. Act 3. Drinking Song
14. Act 3. Ah, whose is the spell?

Disc 6:

1. Act 1. Give me oblivion
2. Scene 4 Song of the Venetian Guest
3. Act 2. Three Treasures (Mazeppa's Aria)
4. Act 1. Sperate, o figli
5. When I look upon thy feet
6. Act 2. Una furtiva lagrima
7. Act 4. Se m'ami ancor... Ai nostri monti
8. Act 2. Adieu, Mignon
9. Act 1. Dai campi, dai prati
10. Act 3. Pourquoi me réveiller
11. Act 1. Esultate!
12. Act 3. Leoonora!... A tanto amor
13. Act 3. Nemico della patria!
14. Act 1. tre sbirri, una carozza (Te Deum)
15. Act 4. O Carlo, ascolta

Disc 7:

1. Act 1. Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni... Tu non sai
2. Act 4. They guess the truth
3. Act 2. I have attained the highest power
4. Act 3. Qui m'aurait dit (Air des lettres)
5. Act 2. Condotta ell'era
6. Act 3. Fia dunque vero!...O mio Fernando... Su dunque
7. Act 1. Comme autrefois dans la nuit sombre
8. Act 3. Tu che di gel sei cinta
9. Act 1. O quante volte
10. Su venite e consiglio
11. Act 2. In quelle trine morbide
12. Act 3. Donde lieta uscì
13. Act 5. Tu che le vanità
14. Act 4. Vanne!... D'amor sull'ali rosee
15. Act 1. D'amore al dolce impero

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #223783 in Music
• Released on: 1992-02-18
• Number of discs: 7
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

What a feast for the ears this set of 7 discs is!!!
These recordings come from 1939 to the End of the 78 Era. Being one of those who grew to love the singers represented in them, cannot be thankful enough to producer and engineer who did such splendid job in bringing us from old 78's and tapes these treasures. Many of today's digital recordings with all its electronic make-up cannot hide modern singers' flaws in technique, breath control and even musicianship. This is more evident when compared with recordings of the past. Try Joan Hammond's rendition (1953) on disc 1 of Korngold's GLÜCK, DAS MIR VERBLIEB; listen to her electric recording, listen to Hammond's long phrases, her exquisite panissimos and the longing well captured by her sorrowful soprano. Compare her rendition with Renée Fleming's (Decca)recent recording and you'll see what I mean: the beautiful voice of Fleming is not enough. Hammond and her kind had that extra dose of involvement with music and words that today's singers are lacking. Or, has anyone sung more beautifully and with more poignant expression Respighi's STORNELLATRICE than Victoria de los Angeles? In the 1.49 minutes allowed to her in the whole set (disc 3)one marvels at that most sumptuous and glorious tones of hers who could beautify everything she touched. Or, even more, has anyone sung more expansively and generously Verdi's D'AMOR SULL'ALI ROSEE than Zinka Milanov? Her glorious floating pianissimos in the last phrases have not equal in today's standards. In fact today we don't even have a Leonora who can measure-up to Milanov's definite rendition. I could go on and on. Just know that the set is organised around 5 schools of singing: Anglo-American, French, German, Russian-Slavonic, Scandinavian and Italian. You will hear Flagstad and Schiotz, Grümmer and Schwarzkopf, Danco and Gorr, Nadezna and Christoff, Tebaldi and Callas. All with a special flavor and with a special item to offer. After having listened to the whole set I closed my eyes and thanked those countries which produced such voices. I also thanked EMI and their team for this colossal enterprise. I often wonder if this mania of mine for past and gone ages of singing and singers is not but nostalgia. But the recordings are there, acoustic and electric, and they reasonably don't lie. Would't it be wonderful that today's singers really sang as they sound on records? They have little or no knowledge or acknowledgement of those upon whose shoulders they stand. This is a collector's set of discs. Don't buy it if you expect the exhuberance (and often flatness)of "DDD" recordings. The 78's and tapes are wonderfully transferred, but sometimes an after-echo and some hiss can be heard. The joy and pleasures derived from continued listening will pay dividends.