The Golden Age of the Gramophone: 42 best-loved popular classical recordings 1907-1945
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GOLDEN AGE OF THE GRAMOPHONE
The Golden Age of the Gramophone: 42 best-loved popular classical recordings 1907-1945
Enrico Caruso, Pablo Casals, Peter Dawson, Master Ernest Lough, Paul Robeson, Manchester Children's Choir, Glasgow Orpheus Choir, etc
[ Nimbus Retrospective / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 1 August 2010
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"What you're getting are two well filled discs, neatly annotated. The period covered is just shy of forty years, so we go from acoustic to electric and all in mono, and we cover singers, instrumentalists, choirs and conductors." (MusicWeb June 2010)
"What you're getting are two well filled discs, neatly annotated. The period covered is just shy of forty years, so we go from acoustic to electric and all in mono, and we cover singers, instrumentalists, choirs and conductors. A few highlights will alight on the salient preoccupations. With male singers we have the canonic Caruso, Dawson doing his Floral Dance (always better heard than anticipated with dread), McCormack singing 'I Hear You Calling Me' rather than anything Irish, Tibbett in Toreador mode, and Marian Anderson singing Softly Awakes. I doubt many will be familiar with Supervia's Clavelitos - this is a bit of a wacky one in the context. The roster also includes the eminent Wagnerianism of Melchior, the inevitable Gigli, Robeson getting on down with 'Old Man River', and for Anglo-Saxons on home turf Heddle Nash's.'Fair Maid of Perth' aria." (MusicWeb June 2010)
Tracks:
CD 1
1. Vesti La Giubba (Enrico Caruso) [3:19]
2. Lo, Here The Gentle Lark (Amelita Galli-Curci) [3:49]
3. The Swan (Pablo Casals) [2:42]
4. The Floral Dance (Peter Dawson) [3:09]
5. Liebesfreud (Fritz Kreisler) [3:05]
6. The Song Of The Flea (Feodor Chaliapin) [2:51]
7. Rondo Alla Turca (Wanda Landowska) [2:18]
8. O For The Wings Of A Dove (Master Ernest Lough) [7:57]
9. Recuerdos De La Alhambra (Andrés Segovia) [3:29]
10. I Hear You Calling Me (John McCormack) [3:37]
11. Rhapsody In Blue (George Gershwin) [9:10]
12. Toreador's Song (Lawrence Tibbett) [4:25]
13. Country Gardens (Percy Grainger) [1:48]
14. Gypsy Rondo (Cortot, Thibaud and Casals) [3:12]
15. Nymphs And Shepherds (Manchester Children's Choir) [3:18]
16. Hansel and Gretel Dance Duet (Manchester Children's Choir) [3:13]
17. Prelude In C Sharp Minor (Sergey Rachmaninov) [3:35]
18. Softly Awakes My Heart (Marian Anderson) [4:55]
19. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (Myra Hess) [3:06]
20. Clavelitos (Conchita Supervía) [2:10]
21. Hora Staccato (Jascha Heifetz) [2:06]
CD 2
1. La Traviata, Prelude To Act 1 (Arturo Toscanini) [3:38]
2. Die Meistersinger, The Prize Song (Lauritz Melchior) [3:54]
3. Chopin, Waltz In C Sharp Minor (Alfred Cortot) [3:05]
4. Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen (Beniamino Gigli) [4:20]
5. Salut D'amour (Sir Edward Elgar) [3:10]
6. Nuns' Chorus (Anni Frind) [3:50]
7. Clair De Lune (Walter Gieseking) [4:12]
8. Ol' Man River (Paul Robeson) [4:15]
9. Für Elise (Artur Schnabel) [3:02]
10. The Fair Maid Of Perth, Serenade (Heddle Nash) [4:30]
11. Chopin, Polonaise In A Flat (Arthur Rubinstein) [6:21]
12. Der Rosenkavalier, Final Trio (Lehmann, Schumann and Olszewska) [4:09]
13. By The Sleepy Lagoon (Eric Coates) [4:39]
14. You Are My Heart's Delight (Richard Tauber) [3:21]
15. La Calinda (Sir Thomas Beecham) [3:33]
16. Après Un Rêve (Dame Maggie Teyte) [2:38]
17. Rustle Of Spring (Eileen Joyce) [2:15]
18. O My Beloved Father (Dame Joan Hammond) [2:23]
19. Mozart, Rondo Horn Concerto No.4 (Dennis Brain) [3:27]
20. All In The April Evening (Glasgow Orpheus Choir) [3:35]
21. Nessun Dorma! (Jussi Björling) [3:21]
