More Legendary Voices

John McCormack (1884-1945)
Harold Lake, writing as Harold Harford/Charles Marshall, I Hear You Calling Me (Rec: 16 March 1911 Matrix: B8695-2 Victor Cat: 64120)

John McCormack
SEMELE, Handel, O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Rec: 1 April 1920 Matrix: B23901-1 Victor Cat: 66096)

Titta Ruffo (1877-1953)
PAGLIACCI, Leoncavallo, Si può? (Rec: September 1912 Matrix: 462ai/467ai HMV Cat: 052381/052379 Directed by Sabaino)

Maria Jeritza (1887-1982)
DIE TOTE STADT, Korngold, Lautenlied der Mariette (Rec: 8 March 1922 Matrix: B26149-4 Victor Cat: 688B)

Beniamino Gigli (1890-1957)
ANDREA CHÉNIER, Giordano, Un dì, all’ azzurro spazio (Rec: October 1922 Matrix: C27011 Victor Cat: 74793)

Beniamino Gigli
I PESCATORI DI PERLE, Bizet, Mi par d’udir ancora (Rec: 18 December 1929 Matrix: CVE 58119 Victor Cat: AGSB56)

Richard Tauber (1892-1948)
PAGANINI, Lehár, Gern hab’ ich die Frau’n gekübt (Rec: 21 October 1925 Matrix: xxB 7246-1 Odeon Cat: 0-8221 + Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Hermann Weigert conductor)

Richard Tauber (1891-1948)
DON GIOVANNI, Mozart, Il mio tesoro (Rec: 12 May 1939 Matrix: XE9806 Odeon Cat: R20444 with orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr)

Elisabeth Schumann (1888-1952)
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, Mozart, Voi che sapete? (Rec: 19 May 1926 Matrix: Cc8377-3 HMV Cat: DB946)

Elisabeth Schumann
Zeller, Nightingale Song (Sung and whistled) (Rec: 1930 Matrix: Bb18667-2 HMV Cat: E-552 with orchestra conducted by Lawrence Collingwood)

Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938), Olive Kline (soprano)
DON QUICHOTTE, Massenet, Death Scene (Rec: 7 April 1927 Matrix: CVE 38334/5-1Victor Cat: 6693 Rosario Bourdon, conductor)

Conchita Supervia (1895-1936)
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, Mozart, Non so più (Rec: 1928 Matrix: XXPH 6323 Parlophone Cat: R 20077 with orchestra conducted by A. Albergoni)

Conchita Supervia
SAMSON ET DALILA, Saint-Saëns, Printemps qui commence (Rec: 24 October 1931 Matrix: XXP 7312-1 Odeon Cat: R 20192 with orchestra conducted by Gustave Cloëz)

Claudia Muzio (1889-1936)
MEFISTOFELE, Boïto, L’altra notte in fondo al mare (Rec: 6 June 1935 Matrix: BX 1363 Columbia Cat: LCX 25)

Lauritz Melchior (1890-1973)
DIE MEISTERSINGER, Wagner, Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein (Rec: 1939 Victor Cat: V 17728 Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conductor)

Kathleen Ferrier (1912-1953)
Folksong arr. Whittaker, Blow the wind southerly (Rec: 10 February 1949 Matrix: DR 13217-1 Decca Cat: F9300 (Courtesy of The Decca Record Company Ltd))

Maria Callas (1923-1977)
I PURITANI, Bellini, O rendetemi … Qui la voce (Rec: 10 November 1949 Matrix: 2.71299.FC Cetra Cat: CB 20483)

John McCormack
Titta Ruffo
Maria Jeritza
Beniamino Gigli
Richard Tauber
Elisabeth Schumann
Feodor Chaliapin
Olive Kline
Conchita Supervia
Claudia Muzio
Lauritz Melchior
Kathleen Ferrier
Maria Callas
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