RRC 2053

Various

These We All Loved - 40 Classical Memories

A collection of the "best" by the "best". Original recordings of classic performances.

2 CD(s), ADD

DISC ONE

1. Largo al factotum (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Tito Gobbi

2. Au fond du temple saint (les Pecheurs des Perles), Jussi Bjorling & Robert Merrill

3. Softly Awakes My Heart (Samson & Delilah), Marian Anderson

4. Serenade (La Jollie Fille de Perth), Heddle nash

5. What is Life? (Orfeo ed Euridce), Kathleen Ferrier, LSO, Sargent

6. O My Beloved Father (Gianni Schicchi), Joan Hammond, Halle, Heward

7. Nessun dorma (Turandot), Jussi Bjorling

8. Mattinata (Leoncavallo), Beniamino Gigli, Orchestra La Scala, Ghione

9. Some Enchanted Evening (Sout Pacific), Enzio Pinza

10. Be My Love (The Toast of New Orleans), Mario Lanza

11. Ol' Man River (Slowboat), Paul Robeson, Drury Lane Ch. & Orch., Finck

12. We'll Gather Lilacs (Perchance To Dream), Anne Ziegler & Webster Booth

13. Goin' Home (Fisher from Dvorak), Lawrence Tibbett

14. Lewis bridal Song (Mairi's Wedding), Robert Wilson, Henry Geehl

15. Londonderry Air (O Mary Dear), John McCormack

16. The Floral Dance, Peter Dawson

17. You Are My Heart's Delight, Richard Tauber

18. I've Got Little List (The Mikado), Martyn Green, D'Oyly Carte Ch. & Orch., Isidore Godfrey

19. Nun's Chorus (Casanova), Anni Frind, Berlin Op. Ch & Orch., Hauke

20. Blow The Wind Southerly (trad.), Kathleen Ferrier

TOTAL PLAY (71' 00")

DISC TWO

1. The Creed (Russian - Gretchaninov), Metropolitan Russian Church Choir, Paris

2. Song Of the Volga Boatman (trad.), Boris Christoff, Philharmonia

3. All In The April Evening, Glasgow Orpheus, Hugh Robertson

4. Song Of Songs, Richard Crooks

5. Hear My Prayer - O For the Wings Of A Dove, Ernest Lough, Temple Church Choir, Thalben-Ball

6. Dance Duet (Hansel & Gretel), Manchester Childrens' Chr, Halle Orch., Sir Hamilton Harty

7. Ich liebe dich (I Love Thee - Grieg), Kirsten Flagstad with Edwin McArthur

8. Rhapsody In Blue, Gershwin (piano) & Paul Whiteman's Concert Orchestra

9. Country Gardens, Percy Grainger (piano)

10. Liebesfreud (Kreisler), Fritz Kreisler (violin) with Franz Rupp (piano)

11. Ritual Fire Dance (El Amor Brujo), Artur Rubenstein (piano)

12. Recuerdos de la Alhambra, Andres Segovia (guitar)

13. Rustle Of Spring, Eileen Joyce (piano)

14. Wedding Day At Troldhaugen, Walter Gieseking (piano)

15. Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring, Dame Myra Hess (piano)

16. Horn Concerto No.4 - Rondo (Mozart), Dennis Brain (horn) with Halle Orchestra

17. Rondo alla Turca (Piano Sonata in A - Mozart), Wanda Landowska (piano)

18. The Swan (Carnival of the Animals), Pablo Casals (cello) with Nicolai Mednikov (piano)

19. Prelude In G Minor Op.23 No.5 (Rachmaninov), Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

20. Knightbridge March (London Suite - Coates), Orchestra conducted by Eric Coates

TOTAL PLAY (78' 00")