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The Record of Singing, Vol. 5

The Record of Singing, Vol. 5

  • Total time: 765:47
  • Label: EMI Classics
  • SPAR: ADD
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  • Item #: 8018175
  • List Price: $77.98

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EMI Classics is proud to present Volume 5 of The Record of Singing. This 10-CD set ushers in a new golden age of timeless vocalists like Maria Callas, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Victoria de los Angeles, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Gedda and Boris Christoff, and then goes on to the subsequent generations of big names such as Franco Corelli, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé, Mirella Freni and several hundred more, including vocal stars of today such as Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Rolando Villazón, Natalie Dessay and many others.

Because each singer appears only once, this set allows the listener to compare and evaluate the voices and singing styles from the introduction of stereo in 1955, right up to the sophisticated refinement of today’s digital technology. A must-have for fans of vocal music!

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Performances

  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: Grunewaldkirche, Berlin
Tannhäuser, opera, WWV 70 - Act 2. Dich treff' ich hier in dieser Halle by Wagner, Richard [Classical]
  • Recording location: Grunewaldkirche, Berlin
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Tannhäuser, opera, WWV 70 - Act 2. Blick' ich umher in diesen edlen Kreise by Wagner, Richard [Classical]
  • Recording location: Grunewaldkirche, Berlin
Tannhäuser, opera, WWV 70 - Act 2. Den Bronner, den uns Wolfram nannte by Wagner, Richard [Classical]
  • Recording location: Grunewaldkirche, Berlin
Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75 - Act 1. Einsam in trüben Tagen (Elsa's Dream) by Wagner, Richard [Classical]
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75 - Act 2. Euch Lüften, die mein Klagen by Wagner, Richard [Classical]
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b - Act 1. Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnenmond by Wagner, Richard [Classical]
  • Recording location: Musikvereinssaal, Vienna
  • Recording location: Musikvereinssaal, Vienna
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b - Act 3. Leb' wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind (Wotan's Farewell) by Wagner, Richard [Classical]
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: Festspielhaus, Bayreuth
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, opera, WWV 96 - Act 3. Mrgendlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein (Prize Song) by Wagner, Richard [Classical]
  • Recording location: Wintergarten, Berlin
Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90 - Act 3. Tot denn alles! Alles tot! by Wagner, Richard [Classical]
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: Watford Town Hall
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
Der Graf von Luxemburg, operetta in 3 acts - Act 1. Heut' noch werd' ich Ehefrau...Unbekannt, deshalb nicht minder int'ressant by Lehar, Franz
  • Recording location: Grunewaldkirche, Berlin
  • Recording location: Grunewaldkirche, Berlin
The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta - Act 2. The sun whose rays are all ablaze by Sullivan, Arthur
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Gianni Schicchi, opera - O mio babbino caro by Puccini, Giacomo
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Manon, opera in 5 acts - Restons ici, puisqu'il le faut by Massenet, Jules
  • Recording location: Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
Les Huguenots, grand opera in 5 acts - Act 1. Noble seigneur...Une dame noble et sage by Meyerbeer, Giacomo
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527 - Act 1. Batti, batti, O bel Masetto by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Tannhäuser, opera, WWV 70 - Act 3. Allmächt'ge Jungfrau (Elisabeth's Prayer) by Wagner, Richard [Classical]
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
La Traviata, opera - Act 1. Ah, fors'è lui by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Orphée aux enfers, operetta - Act 1. The happy bride never stumbles by Offenbach, Jacques
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: Musikvereinssaal, Vienna
  • Recording location: EMI Studios, Barcelona
Paganini, operetta in 3 acts - Act 2. Ich kann es nicht fassen...Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden by Lehar, Franz
  • Recording location: Gemeindehaus, Berlin-Zahlendorf
Turandot, opera - Act 2. In questa reggia by Puccini, Giacomo
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: Kulturhaus, Loffenau
Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588 - Act 2. Una donna a quindici anni by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: Bamberg & Grunewaldkirche, Berlin
Mignon, opera in 3 acts - Act 2. Je suis Titania by Thomas, Ambroise
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
  • Recording location: Bürgerbräu, MUnich
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: Teatro dell'Opera, Rome
  • Recording location: Grunewaldkirche, Berlin
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow), operetta - Act 1. Bitte, meine Herrn...Hab' in Paris...Gar oft hab'ich's gehört by Lehar, Franz
  • Recording location: Bürgerbräu, Munich
Rigoletto, opera - Act 1. Gualtier Maldè...Caro nome by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Opera House, Rome
Elijah (Elias), oratorio, Op. 70 - Part 2. Behold, God hath sent Elijah by Mendelssohn, Felix [1]
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
Pagliacci, opera - Mi accordan di parlar?...Un grande spettacolo...Un tal gioco by Leoncavallo, Ruggero
  • Recording location: RCA Victor Studios, Manhattan Center, New York
Le Postillon de Lonjumeau, opera - Act 1. Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire by Adam, Adolphe
  • Recording location: Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), opera, K. 620 - Act 1. Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Recording location: Théâtre Apollo, France
Werther, lyric drama in 4 acts - Act 3. Pourquoi me réveiller by Massenet, Jules
  • Recording location: Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56 - Part 1. Every valley shall be exalted by Handel, George Frederick
  • Recording location: Huddersfield Town Hall
Manon Lescaut, opera - Act 1. Donna non vivi mai by Puccini, Giacomo
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: Opera House, Rome
Martha, opera - Act 1. Ach, so fromm by Flotow, Friedrich von
  • Recording location: Grunewaldkirche, Berlin
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: Theater an der Wien, Vienna
  • Recording location: Teatro dell'Opera, Rome
Undine, opera - Act 3. Vater, Mutter, Schwestern, Brüder by Lortzing, Albert
  • Recording location: Berlin
  • Recording location: Bürgerbräu, Munich
Fedora, opera - Act 2. Amor ti vieta by Giordano, Umberto
  • Recording location: Munich
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Andrea Chénier, opera - Act 3. Nemico della patria by Giordano, Umberto
  • Recording location: Teatro dell'Opera, Rome
Nabucco, opera (Nabucodonosor) - Act 1. Sperate, o figli by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Teatro dell'Opera, Rome
Il Trovatore, opera - Act 2. Il balen by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Teatro alla Scala, Milan
La bohème, opera - Act 4. Vecchia zimmara, senti by Puccini, Giacomo
  • Recording location: Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Si j'étais roi, opera - Act 1. Dans le sommeil, l'amour by Adam, Adolphe
  • Recording location: Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527 - Act 2. Deh, vieni alla finestra by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Thaïs, opera in 3 acts - Act 2. Voilà donc la terrible cité! Alexandrie! by Massenet, Jules
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527 - Act 1. Finch'han dal vino by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Rigoletto, opera - Act 2. Cortigiani, vil razza dannata by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Teatro dell'Opera, Rome
La forza del destino, opera - Act 1. Me pellegrina ed orfana by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Watford Town Hall
Roméo et Juliette, opera - Act 1. Ah! je veux vivre by Gounod, Charles
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
  • Recording location: Gemeindehaus Studio, Berlin-Zahlendorf
Il Pirata, opera - Act 2. Col sorriso d'innocemza by Bellini, Vincenzo
  • Recording location: RAI Studios, Rome
Fidelio, opera, Op. 72 - Act 2. O namenlose Freude! by Beethoven, Ludwig van
  • Recording location: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin
  • Recording location: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem
  • Recording location: Bürgerbräu, Munich
  • Recording location: Barking Town Hall
  • Recording location: All Saints' Church, Tooting Graveney
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
Il Trovatore, opera - Act 4. D'amor sull'ali rosee by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Philharmonie, Berlin
Manon, opera in 5 acts - Act 2. Allons! Il le faut...Adieu, notre petite table by Massenet, Jules
  • Recording location: Halles aux grains, Toulouse
  • Recording location: Great Hall, University of Birmingham
  • Recording location: Radio Building, Brussels
  • Recording location: Bavarian Music Studios, Munich
  • Recording location: Halle aux grains, Toulouse
La sonnambula, opera - Act 1. Sovra il sen by Bellini, Vincenzo
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts - Act 2. Les oiseaux dans la charmille by Offenbach, Jacques
  • Recording location: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Carmen, opera - Act 1. Habanera. L'amour est un oiseau rebelle by Bizet, Georges
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
Don Carlo, opera - Act 2. Nei giardin del bello by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Walthamstow Town Hall, London
Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588 - Act 2. È amore un Iadroncello by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
Macbeth, opera - Act 2. La luce langue by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Abbey Road Studios / Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
Adriana Lecouvreur, opera - Act 2. Acerba voluttà by Cilea, Francesco
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
  • Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London
Werther, lyric drama in 4 acts - Act 3. Va! laisse couler mes larmes!...Les larmes qu'on ne pleure pas by Massenet, Jules
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Don Carlo, opera - Act 3. O don fatale by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Philharmonie, Berlin
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Padmâvatî, opera-ballet, Op. 18 - Act 1. Aux armes...Il est rop tard by Roussel, Albert
  • Recording location: Halle aux grains, Toulouse
  • Recording location: Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
La forza del destino, opera - Act 3. La vita è inferno...O tu che in seno by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Watford Town Hall
Carmen, opera - Act 2. La fleur que tu m'avais jetée by Bizet, Georges
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, opera, WWV 96 - Act 3. Abendlich glühend in himmlischer Glut by Wagner, Richard [Classical]
  • Recording location: Lukaskirche, Dresden
  • Recording location: St. Dunstan's Church, East Cheam
Macbeth, opera - Act 4. O figli miei!...Ah, la paterna mano by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Australian Broadcasting Corporation Studios, Hobart
Il Trovatore, opera - Act 3. Di quella pira by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Philharmonie, Berlin
Don Carlo, opera - Act 1. Io l'ho perduta! by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Philharmonie, Berlin
Les Pêcheurs de perles, opera in 3 acts - Act 1. Je crois entendre encord by Bizet, Georges
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts - Act 2. Ils se sont éloignés enfin!...Ah! Vivre deux by Offenbach, Jacques
  • Recording location: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
  • Recording location: Kings' College Chapel, Cambridge
  • Recording location: Watford Town Hall
La forza del destino, opera - Act 3. Toh! Toh! Poffare il mondo! by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Watford Town Hall
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
  • Recording location: Bürgerbräu, Munich
  • Recording location: Bürgerbräu, Munich
Otello, opera - Act 2. Vanne!...Credo in un Dio crudel by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Philharmonie, Berlin
  • Recording location: All Saints' Church, Tooting Graveney, London
Macbeth, opera - Act 1. Sappia la sposa mia...Mi si affaccia un pugnal? by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Abbey Road Studios / Kingsway Hall, London
Boris Godunov, opera - Act 2. Clock Scene. Uf! tyazheló by Mussorgsky, Modest
  • Recording location: Katowice, Poland
Boris Godunov, opera - Act 1. Kak vo górode (In the Town of Kazan) by Mussorgsky, Modest
  • Recording location: Katowice, Poland
  • Recording location: Sofiensaal, Vienna
  • Recording location: Musikvereinssaal, Vienna
Manon, opera in 5 acts - Act 3. Obéissons quand leur voix appelle by Massenet, Jules
  • Recording location: Halle aux grains, Toulouse
  • Recording location: Konserthuset, Stockholm
Faust, opera - Act 3. Ô Dieu! Que de bijoux...Ah! je ris by Gounod, Charles
  • Recording location: Halle aux grains, Toulouse
  • Recording location: Auditorium Maurice Ravel, Lyon
Mignon, opera in 3 acts - Act 1. Kennst du das Land by Thomas, Ambroise
  • Recording location: Herkulessaal, Munich
Don Carlo, opera - Act 2. Ô ma chère compagne by Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Recording location: Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
  • Recording location: Eiksvoll Kirke, Norway
Manon Lescaut, opera - Act 2. In quelle trine morbide by Puccini, Giacomo
  • Recording location: Abbey Road Studios, London
  • Recording location: Théâtre du Chatelet, Paris
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: Auditorium Maurice Ravel, Lyon
  • Recording location: Ópéra-Bastille, Paris
  • Recording location: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg-Harburg
  • Recording location: St. Michael's Church, Highgate, London
  • Recording location: St. Michael's Church, Highgate, London
  • Recording location: Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Les Pêcheurs de perles, opera in 3 acts - Act 1. Je crois entendre encore by Bizet, Georges
  • Recording location: Halle aux grains, Toulouse
Tosca, opera - Recondita armonia by Puccini, Giacomo
  • Recording location: CTS Studios, London
  • Recording location: Teatro alla Scala, Milan
  • Recording location: Bayerischer Rundfunk & Herkulesaal, Munich
Roméo et Juliette, opera - Act 2. L'amour! L'amour!... Ah! Lève-toi, soleil! by Gounod, Charles
  • Recording location: Halle aux grains, Toulouse
  • Recording location: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
  • Recording location: Bayerischer Rundfunk & Herkulessaal, Munich
  • Recording location: Salle Garnier, Monte Carlo
Hérodiade, opera in 4 acts - Act 2. Ce breuvage...Vision fugitive by Massenet, Jules
  • Recording location: Halle aux grains, Toulouse
  • Recording location: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London
  • Recording location: Basilika, Kloster Steinfeld, Eifel
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Alcina, opera, HWV 34 - Act 3. Ma quando tornerai by Handel, George Frederick
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: Forde Abbey, Chard, Somerset
  • Recording location: St. Andrew's Church, Toddington, Gloucestershire
  • Recording location: Église Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris
Dido and Aeneas, opera, Z. 626 - Act 3. Thy hand, Belinda...When I am laid in earth by Purcell, Henry
  • Recording location: Arsenal de Metz
Armide, opera, LWV 71 - Act 2. Enfin il est en ma puissance...Venez, venez by Lully, Jean-Baptiste
  • Recording location: Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris
The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629 - Hark, how all things with one sound rejoice by Purcell, Henry
  • Recording location: No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: Cambridge, UK
  • Recording location: Evangelische Kirche, Seon, Switzerland
Saul, oratorio, HWV 53 - O Lord, whose mercies are numberless by Handel, George Frederick
  • Recording location: Kings' College Chapel, Cambridge
Griselda, opera - Che giova fuggire by Bononcini, Giovanni
  • Recording location: Salle Wagram, Paris
  • Recording location: Minderbroederskerk, Ghent
  • Recording location: Augustinuskerk, Amsterdam
  • Recording location: Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk
Work(s) - Ye fiends and furies (Laws) by Unspecified
  • Recording location: Kirch, Valkkoog, The Netherlands
Miserere - Redde mihi laetitiam by Campra, Andre
  • Recording location: Studio de la Cié d'Ut, Paris
  • Recording location: Haarlem, Holland
  • Recording location: Couvent des Dominicains, Paris
  • Recording location: Notre Dame du Liban, Paris
Tosca, opera - Act 2. Vissi d'arte by Puccini, Giacomo
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Robinson Crusoé, comic opera in 3 acts - Act 2. Conduisez-moi vers celui que j'adore by Offenbach, Jacques
  • Recording location: Halle aux grains, Toulouse
  • Recording location: Studio 1, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
  • Recording location: Montevarci, Italy
  • Recording location: Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen
  • Recording location: American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York
  • Recording location: Potton Hall, Suffolk
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris
  • Recording location: CNSO Hostivar Studios, Prague / Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon
  • Recording location: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
  • Recording location: Vicariat Patriarcal Maronite, Paris
Orlando, opera, HWV 31 - Act 1. Fammi combattere mostri e tifei by Handel, George Frederick
  • Recording location: Chapelle du Grand Seminaire, Montreal, Canada
  • Recording location: Potton Hall, Suffolk
  • Recording location: St. George's Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol
  • Recording location: BBC Maida Vale Studio 1, London
  • Recording location: Espace de Projection, IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • Recording location: Potton Hall, Suffolk
  • Recording location: Teatro Albéniz, Madrid
  • Recording location: Studio Ansermet, Geneva
Die Schöpfung (The Creation), oratorio, H. 21/2 - Part 2. Mit Würd' und Hoheit angetan by Haydn, Franz Joseph
  • Recording location: Notre Dame du Liban, Paris
  • Recording location: Salle de répétition de l'Orchestre National d'Île-de-France
  • Recording location: Théâtre de Champs-Élysees, Paris
Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527 - Act 1. Madamina, il catalogo è questo by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Recording location: Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand
  • Recording location: Potton Hall, Suffolk