24/48: Sir Thomas Beecham / Columbia SO - Carmen -&- Capriccio Italien - CBS 1949

Peter Tchaikovsky: "Capriccio Italien", op.45

Georges Bizet: "Carmen" - suite
(Prelude ~ Entr'acte ~ Les Dragons d'Alcala ~ Prelude,Act 1 ~ Intermezzo ~ La Garde Montante ~ Danse Boheme)  

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Columbia Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Thomas Beecham

Columbia  33CX 1037  (ML4287)  c.1956 pressing/matrices: XLP2101/2 -3N.   Recorded: 22/21 December 1949 - CBS 30th St. Studio, New York.
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Arturo Toscanini / NBC SO - American in Paris ~ L'Arlesienne ~ Suppe, Waldteufel, Sousa - NBC/RCA 1943/45

Georges Bizet:  "L'Arlesienne"  - Suites 1 / 2  (excerpts)
I: Prelude ~ Minuetto ~ Adagietto   /   II: Pastorale ~ Carillon     (Studio 8-H  - 19 September 1943)
Franz Suppe:  "Poet & Peasant"     (Studio 8-H  - 18 July 1943)  
Emil Waldteufel:  Skater's Waltz, op.183     (Carnegie Hall  - 28 June 1945)            3 files zip FLAC   Mega Download
George Gershwin:  "An American in Paris"  
John Philip Sousa:  "El Capitan"  -  "The Stars and Stripes Forever"      (Studio 8-H  - 18 May 1945)  
John Stafford Smith:  "The Star-Spangled Banner"      (Carnegie Hall  - 19 March 1942)         4 files zip FLAC  Mega Download
The NBC Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Arturo Toscanini     
Franklin Mint  TOS3  (1983 USA 5 LP's)  sides 4/7/10     label +mr pristine 'studio' piccie >>>
The Bizet extends to c.10kHz (piccolo to c.13kHz...); the former being the limits of Rose's claimed 'best transfer': http://conta.cc/1AXFuC5

Sir Thomas Beecham / London Philharmonic - "French Orchestral Showpieces" - Columbia 1934-1939

Chabrier:  "Espana" - Rhapsody
Bizet:  "Carmen" - suite   /   Bizet:  "L'Arlesienne" - suites 1 & 2  (excerpts)   /     Bizet:  "La jolie fille de Perth" - suite
Offenbach:  "The Tales of Hoffmann" - excerpts  
Debussy:  Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un Faune    
Berlioz:  "La Damnation de Faust" - excerpts   /      Berlioz:  Le Carnaval Romain, op.9 - overture**            
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London Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Thomas Beecham    
EMI World Records  SHB 55 / SH 1002**  (1979).  78 Transfers by Anthony Griffith.   (Gretry included in Rossini-Beecham post, above)   
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Webster Booth sings... Arias -&- Songs - HMV 1938-1944

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 >>>

John McCormack. Opera Arias - Odeon 1907-09 / with Melba, Thornton, Sammarco, Kirkby-Lunn, Destinn - HMV 1910-12

1907/8....  Mascagni: Cavalliera Rusticana - Siciliana  /  Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci - On with the motley  /  Puccini: Tosca - E lucevan le stelle  /
                  Puccini: La Boheme - Che gelida manina  
1908/9....  Thomas: Mignon - In her simplicity  /  Bizet: Carmen - Il fior che avevi a me  /  Donizetti: La favorita - Spirito gentil.  /
                  Verdi: Aida - Celeste Aida
1909/10...  Verdi: Rigoletto - Questa o quella  /  La donna e mobile.  /  Bella figlia dell'amore  /  Gounod: Faust - All'erta!
1911/12...  Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: O meglio mi scordavo..  /  Ponchielli: La Gioconda - Badoer questa notte.. /
                   Wolf-Ferrari: I Gioielli  della Madonna - T'eri un giorno  /  Rossini: 'Mira la bianca luna'        4 files zip FLAC Mega Download
with:  Nellie Melba ~ Edna Thornton ~ Mario Sammarco ~ Louisa Kirkby-Lunn ~ Emmy Destinn  ...see sleeve-note for full recording details.      
EMI World Records  SH 399    Issued 1982.  Matrices: 2XEA 7174 -1 / 2XEA 7175 -1.   
Transfers by Keith Hardwick (and a vast amount of editing by me).  The sound can be very vivid. (Now on CD..)      Sleeve-note >>>