RCA Victor Orchestra
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The Record of Singing – The Very Best of Volumes 1-4
RecommendedFrom 1899 to the end of the 78 era: 1899-1952
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Historical
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Reissue
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Historical
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore
Jussi Bjorling (Manrico), Zinka Milanov (Leonora), Leonard Warren (Il Conte di Luna), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Nicola Moscona (Ferrando), Margaret Roggero (Ines), Paul Franke (Ruiz), George Cehanovsky (Un vecchio zingaro), Nathaniel Sprinzena (Un messo)
RCA Victor Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale,...
among the very finest recorded versions. The transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn bring out the full beauty and character of all four principals very vividly...Bjorling is, as ever, superb in his heroic... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Rigoletto
Leonard Warren, Erna Berger, Jan Peerce, Nan Merriman
RCA Victor Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale, Renato Cellini
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Leonard Bernstein dirige Beethoven, Dvorak, Gershwin, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Schumann & Tchaïkovski (Les indispensables de Diapason)
Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic, RCA Victor Orchestra
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Indispensable
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Special offer. Puccini: Manon Lescaut
RecommendedLicia Albanese (Manon Lescaut), Jussi Björling (Des Grieux), Robert Merrill (Lescaut), Franco Calabrese (Geronte/Un sergente degli arcieri), Mario Carlin (Edmondo/Il maestro di ballo/Lampionaio), Anna Maria Rota (Una voce sola), Plinio Clabassi (L'oste/Un comandante di Marina)
Rome Opera House...
With Bjoerling as Des Grieux giving one of this very finest performances on disc and with Robert Merrill in glorious voice as Lescaut, the Romanian conductor Jonel Perlea conducts one of the... —
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Building a Library, April 2006, First Choice
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Leontyne Price - Great Scenes from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
RecommendedLeontyne Price (soprano), William Warfield (baritone), McHenry Boatwright (baritone), John W. Bubbles (tenor), Barbara Webb (soprano), Berniece Hall (soprano), Maeretha Stewart (soprano), Miriam Burton (mezzo-soprano), Robert Henson (tenor), Alonzo Jones (baritone)
Skitch Henderson
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. Verdi: Don Carlo
Four-act version in Italian
Mario Filippeschi (Don Carlo), Boris Christoff (Filippo II), Tito Gobbi (Rodrigo), Antonietta Stella (Elisabetta di Valois), Elena Nicolai (Eboli), Giulio Neri (Il Grande Inquisitore), Loretta Di Lelio (Tebaldo)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera House, Rome, Gabriele Santini
chiefly memorable for the incomparable contributions of Tito Gobbi and Boris Christoff...which have never been matched since...Gobbi's singing in the Death Scene is arguably the finest recorded... —
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The irresistible sweet-toned bel canto of this Swedish tenor brings magic to a wide range of German, French and Italian repertoire. —
