Description:

• 1 audio disc (66 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
• digital optical stereo
• audio file CD audio
• 4 3/4 in.

Notes:

• Songs and excerpts from operas.
• Title from disc label.
• Program notes by Terry Blain ([4] pages : portraits) laid in container.
• Tracks 1-5: Maria Callas, soprano ; unidentified orchestra.
• Tracks 6-9: Lucia Popp, soprano ; Irwin Gage, piano.
• Tracks 10-20: Elisabeth Söderström, soprano ; Martin Isepp, piano.
• recorded 1955-1961.
• recorded live St John's, Smith Square, London 8 July, 1991.
• recorded live St John's, Smith Square, London 5 March, 1979.

Contents:

• L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Carmen) / Georges Bizet
• Casta diva (Norma) / Vincenzo Bellini
• J'ai perdu mon Eurydice (Orphée et Eurydice) / Christoph Willibald Gluck
• Un bel di vedremo (Madam Butterfly) / Giacomo Puccini
• D'amor sull'ali rosee (Il trovatore) / Giuseppe Verdi
• Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Rheinlegendchen ; Ablösung im Sommer ; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen ; Wer hat dies liedlein erdacht / Gustav Mahler
• Nursery songs. With nanny ; In the corner ; The beetle ; With the doll ; Going to sleep ; On the hobby-horse ; The cat sailor / Modest Musorgsky
• Klinge, klinge, mein Pandero ; Jahrlang möcht' ich so Dich halten ; In dem Schatten meiner Locken / Emil Sjögren
• Norwegian echo song / Waldemar Thrane.

Publisher or Distributor Number: BBCMM374

Control Number: 2803933

Series:

• BBC music magazine collection . v. 22, no. 12.
• The BBC music magazine collection
• The BBC music magazine collection ; v. 22, no. 12

Subjects:

• Live sound recordings.
• Operas -- Excerpts.
• Songs (High voice) with piano.

Genre:

• Excerpts.
• Live sound recordings.
• Sound recordings.

Other Authors:

• Callas, Maria, 1923-1977, singer.
• Container of (work): Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835. Norma. Casta diva.
• Container of (work): Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Carmen. Habanera.
• Container of (work): Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Orphée et Eurydice. J'ai perdu mon Eurydice.
• Container of (work): Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. Knaben Wunderhorn. Selections.
• Container of (work): Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881. Detskai͡a.
• Container of (work): Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Madama Butterfly. Un bel dì, vedremo.
• Container of (work): Sjögren, Emil, 1853-1918. Lieder aus J. Wolff's Tannhäuser. Jahrlang möcht' ich so dich halten.
• Container of (work): Sjögren, Emil, 1853-1918. Spanska sånger. In dem Schatten meiner Locken.
• Container of (work): Sjögren, Emil, 1853-1918. Spanska sånger. Klinge, klinge, mein Pandero.
• Container of (work): Thrane, Waldemar, 1790-1828. Fjeldeventyret. Aagots fjeldsang.
• Container of (work): Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Trovatore. D'amor sull' ali rosee.
• Gage, Irwin, instrumentalist.
• Isepp, Martin, instrumentalist.
• Popp, Lucia, singer.
• Söderström, Elisabeth, 1927-2009, singer.