World's Greatest Voices of the Century
On this CD:
1. Mattinata, song for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Composed by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Performed by Jose Carreras
2. Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron), operetta (RV 511) Open Road
Composed by Johann II Strauss
Performed by John Charles Thomas
3. Rigoletto, opera La Donna e Mobile
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
Performed by Enrico Caruso
4. Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea, for voice & piano or orchestra, edited by Rimsky-Korsakov
Composed by Modest Mussorgsky
Performed by Feodor Chaliapin
5. One day when we were young
Composed by Oscar II Hammerstein
Performed by Richard Tauber
6. Donkey Serenade
Composed by Rudolf Friml
Performed by Alan Jones
7. La danza. Tarantella Napolitana ("Già la luna è in mezzo al mare"), for voice & piano (Soirées musicales)
Composed by Gioachino Rossini
Performed by Beniamino Gigli
8. Ol' Man River
Composed by Jerome Kern
Performed by Paul Robeson
9. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
Composed by Sigmund Romberg
Performed by Nelson Eddy
10. Floral Dance
Composed by David Moss
Performed by Peter Dawson
11. Pagliacci, opera Recitar ... Vesti la Giubba
Composed by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Performed by Placido Domingo
12. The Holy City, for voice & orchestra (with chorus, ad lib)
Composed by Stephen Adams
Performed by Richard Crooks
13. Ave Maria for voice & orchestra (or piano) (after Bach)
Composed by Charles Gounod
Performed by Mario Lanza
14. The Kerry Dance
Composed by James Lyman Molloy
Performed by John McCormack
15. Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair for voice & piano
Composed by Stephen Foster
Performed by Jussi Bjorling
16. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527 Deh, Vieni alla Finestra
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Ezio Pinza
17. A star fell from heaven
Composed by Hans May
Performed by Joseph Schmidt
18. Carmen, opéra-comique in 4 acts Toreador Song
Composed by Georges Bizet
Performed by Lawrence Tibbett
19. The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta
Composed by Arthur Sullivan
Performed by Webster Booth
20. Turandot, opera Nessun Dorma
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
Performed by Luciano Pavarotti
World's Greatest Voices of the Century, Music, Stephen (Michael Maybrick) Adams, Georges Bizet, Stephen Foster, Rudolf Friml, Charles Gounod, Oscar II Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Hans May, James Lyman Molloy, David Moss, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Modest Mussorgsky, Giacomo Puccini, Sigmund Romberg, Gioachino Rossini, Johann II Strauss, Arthur Sullivan, Giuseppe Verdi, Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Luciano Pavarotti, Mario Lanza, Richard Tauber, Alan Jones, Beniamino Gigli, Ezio Pinza, Feodor Chaliapin, John Charles Thomas, Joseph Schmidt, José Carreras, Jussi Björling, Lawrence Tibbett, Nelson Eddy, Paul Robeson, Peter Dawson, Plácido Domingo, Richard Crooks, Webster Booth, 20th/21st Century Music for Voice and Keyboard, Art Song (General), British Operetta, Classical, Classical Collections-Artist Desc., French Romantic Opera, German/Austrian Classical Period Opera, German/Austrian Operetta
World's Greatest Voices of the Century
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