Great British Sopranos
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Great British Sopranos
Maggie Teyte / Isobel Baillie / Eva Turner / Margaret Sheridan / etc.
[ Regis Records / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 15 July 2011
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Regis presents a selection of pre-war performances by Great British sopranos in repertoire which secured their reputation. Familiar figures such as Maggie Teyte, Isobel Baillie, Margaret Sheridan and Eva Turner feature alongside less well known artists - Mary Garden, Elsie Suddaby, Miriam Licette, Joan Cross, Dora Labette, Gwen Catley and Agnes Nicholls.
Tracks:
1. Weber: Ocean, thou mighty monster! (from Oberon - Act II)
Sung in English, recorded 19th December, 1911
Agnes Nicholls
2. Mozart: Misera Elvira..... Mi tradi quell'alma ingrate (from Don Giovanni - Act II)
Sung in Italian, recorded 2nd May, 1929
Miriam Licette
Verdi: Otello, Act IV, Boito
3. Willow Song
4. Ave Maria
Recorded, 8th October, 1937
Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Collingwood, Joan Cross
5. Puccini: One fine day (from Madam Butterfly, Act II)
Sung in English, recorded 10th June, 1933.
Eva Turner
6. Debussy: Mes longs cheveux (from Pelleas et Melisande, Act III)
Sung in French, recorded before 1904
Mary Garden
7. Paladilhe: Psyche
Sung in French, recorded 26th March, 1941
Maggie Teyte
8. Hahn: Ce n'etait pas la meme chose
Sung in French, recorded 20th May 1946
Piano accompaniment by Gerald Moore, Maggie Teyte
9. Bizet: Chanson d'Avril
Maggie Teyte
10. Debussy: La flute de Pan
Recorded 12th March 1936
Maggie Teyte
11. Duparc: Phidyle
Recorded 31st July 1940
Maggie Teyte
12. Chausson: Le temps des lilas
Maggie Teyte
13. Handel arr. Sir Henry Wood: Ne' trionfa d'Alessandro . . Lusinghe piu care (from Alessandro)
Sung in Italian, recorded 16th February 1949
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent, Isobel Baillie
14. Handel: O Sleep! Why dost thou leave me? (from Semele)
Sung in English, recorded June 1927
Elsie Suddaby
15. Purcell: Hark! The echoing air (from The Fairy Queen, Act V)
Sung in English, recorded 11th July 1924
Elsie Suddaby
16. Delius: Cradle Song
Recorded 24th June 1929
17. Delius: The Nightingale
Recorded 24th June 1929
18. Delius: Evening Voices (Twighlight Fancies)
Recorded in 10th July 1929
Sung in English
Piano accompaniment by Sir Thomas Beecham, Dora Labette
19. Adam: Variations on a Nursery Theme 'Listen Mother, to my tale'
Sung in English, recorded 7th March 1949
Flute obligato by Lionel Solomon, orchestra conducted by Eric Robinson, Gwen Catley
Puccini: Madam Butterfly
20. Bimba dagli occhi (Love duet: Act 1)
Sung in Italian, recorded 1927
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan conducted by Carlo Sabanjo, Aureliano Pertile (tenor), Margaret Sheridan
21. Un bel di vedrimo (Act !!)
Sung in Italian, recorded November 1926
Margaret Sheridan
22. E questo? (Act II)
Sung in Italian, recorded November 1927
Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goosens, Margaret Sheridan
23. Puccini: Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Boheme, Act I)
Sung in Italian, recorded 1926
Margaret Sheridan
