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 >>>

Leslie Heward conducts... Moeran. Symphony -&- Ireland / Shostakovich (Eileen Joyce), etc. - EMI 1938-1942

Moeran:  Symphony in G minor    /    German: "Nell Gwyn Dances"  /  Elgar: "Salut d'amour"     /  
Dvorak:  Notturno in B major, op.40    /    Lalo:  Aubade no.1.  (London Philharmonic Orchestra)   /  
Sibelius:  "Rakastava" - suite, op.14. &  King Christian II - 'Elegie'  ( String Orchestra )    /    Borodin:  Overture: "Prince Igor"
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John Ireland:  Piano Concerto in E flat     /    Shostakovich:  Concerto for Piano, Trumpet & Strings, op.35* 
Eileen Joyce, piano  -&-  *Arthur Lockwood, trumpet
The Hallé Orchestra  (except Lalo/Sibelius)   conducted by  Leslie Heward     
Maggie Teyte  sings...  Berlioz:  Spectre de la Rose -&- Absence             
Duparc:  Invitation au voyage -&- Phidyle    (31 July 1940 - from: HMV RLS 716)        4 files zip FLAC  Mega Download
HMV  EM 29 0462 (2LP's)   Reissued 1985.  Matrices: 1 / 1 , 1 / 1    Recording details / 3 pages of sleeve-notes / Gramophone review >>>