Handel: "Serse" - 'Grove so beautiful & stately...Shadows so sweet' / Handel: "Jeptha" - 'Deeper & deeper still.. Waft her angels'
Handel: "Semele" - 'Where'er you walk'
Mozart: "Don Giovanni" - 'Mine be her burden' / 'Speak to me my lady'
Mendelssohn: "Elijah" - 'Ye people rend your hearts... If with all your hearts'
Verdi: "Aida" - '... Heavenly Aida' / Gounod: "Faust" - 'All hail thy dwelling pure & lowly' / Bizet: "Carmen" - 'Flower song'
Puccini: "La Boheme" - 'Your tiny hand is frozen' / "Madama Butterfly" - 'Ah, love me a little' (with Joan Hammond, Soprano)
Boughton: "The Immortal Hour" - 'The Faery Song' / Sullivan: "The Gondoliers" - 'Take a pair of sparkling eyes'
German: "Merrie England" - 'English Rose' / Coleridge-Taylor: "Hiawatha" - 'Onaway! Awake, beloved'
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HMV HLM 7109 Issued 1977/matrices: 2XEA 5836 -2 / 2XEA 5837 -2. 78 Transfers by Bryan Crimp - except Keith Hardwick: "Madama Butterfly" (Liverpool PO/ Sir Malcolm Sargent. Rec: 21 Oct.1943 - from "The Art of Joan Hammond" HMV RLS 2900143 (2LP 1984). Full recording details/sleeve-note >>>
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ReplyDeleteI own a Dutton Labs CD of this record issued in 1998 (still available online) but I prefer the EMI/HMV LP.
Hello Joe,
DeleteI'll have to find someone to 'lend' *me* some Historical LP's..!!
Webster Booth is distinctly good in most of this repertoire - and was surprised to see most of these were not available (didn't 'find' the Dutton).
'Celeste Aida' is really very fine - and Bryan Crimp did some pretty decent transfers (but there's a lot of low-frequency 'hum' in the Verdi - though I had to tackle some severe groove problems (side 1/Track 1 - from 1-minute - lasting for about 25 secs) - which I hope aren't now too obvious?