Episode 296. Dan’s Operatic Picks
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I’m still under the weather, but I can’t let that keep me from posting my usual Tuesday episode! Here is another recycled bonus episode, this one posted two years ago in honor of my birthday, which features some of my favorite singers. At that time I posted a brand new episode entitled “Dan’s Picks,” but many of the best selections ended up on the cutting room floor. That hurt my heart so much that I had no choice but to do a companion episode which features a number of things that were lacking from the main episode: first of all, more tenor goodness (Aksel Schiøtz, Franco Corelli, Sándor Kónya, Jussi Björling, Richard Crooks, Ian Partridge); second of all, more burly baritones (Jorma Hynninen, Ettore Bastianini, Riccardo Stracciari, and the lesser-known megawatt talent Hugo Hasslo). Also heard are a number of sopranos that have not received enough Countermelody airtime (Edith Mason, Maria Vitale, Andrée Esposito, Lucia Popp), as well as a number of favorites that we (I?) simply can’t get enough of: Muzio, Lehmann, Olivero, Farrell, Steber. I even set aside modesty to include a brief clip of me from a demo I recorded some time ago, back when I could still sing! Every selection in this episode is very dear to my heart; I hope you will enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed putting it together.
RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE
Carl Nielsen, Aage Berntsen: Den milde dag es lys og lang (Fynsk Forår). Aksel Schiøtz, Svend Christian Felumb, Copenhagen Philharmonic [1940]
Yrjö Kilpinen, Christian Morgenstern: Winternacht (Lieder um den Tod, Op 62/4). Jorma Hynninen, Ralf Gothóni [1991]
Jacques Offenbach, Jules Barbier (after ETA Hoffmann): Scintille, diamant (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) [sung in Swedish]. Hugo Hasslo, Nils Grevillius, Stockholm Royal Orchestra [1946]
Gioacchino Rossini, Cesare Sterbini: Largo al factotum (Il barbiere di Siviglia). Riccardo Stracciari [1914]
Umberto Giordano, Luigi Illica: Nemico della patria (Andrea Chénier). Ettore Bastianini, Georg Solti, Orchestra of the Lyric Opera of Chicago [live 10.XI.56]
Umberto Giordano, Renato Simoni (after Victorien Sardou, Émile Moreau): Che me ne faccio nel vostro castello? (Madame Sans-Gêne). Claudia Muzio [1922]
Alfredo Catalani, Luigi Illica (after Wilhelmine von Hillern): Ne mai dunque avrò pace (La Wally). Maria Vitale, Alfredo Simonetto, Orchestra Lirica di Milano della RAI [1956]
Vincenzo Bellini, Carlo Pepoli: A te, o cara (I Puritani). Franco Corelli, Orchestra conducted by Franco Ferraris [1962]
Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica, Marco Praga, Domenico Oliva, Ruggero Leoncavallo: Guardate, pazzo son (Manon Lescaut). Sándor Kónya, Giorgio Giorgetti, Antonino Votto, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino [1962]
Jacques Offenbach, Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy: Uti en skog på berget Ida [Au Mont Ida] (La belle Hélène) [sung in Swedish]. Jussi Björling,, Orchestra conducted by Nils Grevillius [1938]
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Thomas, Lord Vaux: How can the tree but wither? Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge [1980]
Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II: One Alone (The Desert Song). Richard Crooks, Orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret [1929]
Jerry Herman: I Don’t Want to Know (Dear World). Angela Lansbury, Orchestra conducted by Donald Pippin [1969]
Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert: Les feuilles mortes. Daniel Gundlach, Daniel Beckwith [2006]
Johann Sebastian Bach: Wir beten zu dem Tempel an (Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51). Elly Ameling, Helmut Winschermann, Deutsche Bachsolisten [1970]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Andreas Schachtner: Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben (Zaide). Lucia Popp, István Kertész, Wiener Haydn-Orchester [1971]
Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica: Ancora un passo or via (Madama Butterfly). Edith Mason, Orchestra conducted by Frank Black [1924]
Alec Wilder, Loonis McGlohon: Blackberry Winter. Eileen Farrell, Loonis McGlohon, Terry Peoples Bill Stowe [1989]
Franz Lehár, Alfred Maria Willner, Robert Bodanzky: So war meine Mutter… Wär’ es auch nichts als ein Augenblick (Eva). Lotte Lehmann, Hermann Weigert, Members of the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra [1928]
Ernest Chausson, Charles Cros: Chanson perpétuelle, Op. 37. Andrée Esposito, Pierre Barbizet, Quatuor Parrenin [Jacques Parrenin, Marcel Charpentier, Denes Marton, Pierre Penassou] [1966]
Alfred Bachelet, Eugène Adénis-Colombeau: Chère nuit. Eleanor Steber, James Quillian [1941]
Giuseppe Verdi, Eugène Scribe, Charles Duveyrier, Ettore Caimi: Arrigo, ah, parli a un core (I vespri siciliani). Susan Dunn, Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna [live 1986]
Giuseppe Verdi, Joseph Méry, Camille du Locle, Achille de Lauzières [Italian transation] [after Friedrich Schiller]: Ella giammai m’amò (Don Carlo). Cesare Siepi, Orchestra conducted by Jean Morel [1956 telecast]
Charles Gounod, Jules Barbier, Michel Carré (after William Shakespeare): Console-toi, pauvre âme (Roméo et Juliette). Georges Thill, Germaine Féraldy, Orchestra conducted by Joseph-Étienne Szyfer [1929]
Francesco Cilea, Arturo Colautti [after Eugène Scribe, Ernest Legouvé]: Ecco la luce (Adriana Lecouvreur). Magda Olivero, Franco Corelli, Ettore Bastianini, Mario Rossi, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli [live Napoli 28.IX.59]