Jussi Björling – The Swedish Caruso 5 CD box

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Jussi Björling – The Swedish Caruso 5 CD box
Verdi; Aida (1997 Digital Remaster)
Jussi Bjorling (tenor), Hjödis Schymberg (Mimi), Victoria de los Angeles (Nedda), Leonard Warren (Tonio), Paul Franke (Beppe), Robert Merrill (Silvio), Victoria de los Angeles (Mimi), Lucine Amara (Musetta), Robert Merrill (Marcello), John Reardon (Schaunard), Giorgio Tozzi (Colline), Victoria de los Angeles etc.

CD 1 contains Opera and Oratorio Arias and Songs in their original language recorded between 1936 and 1941.

CD 2 covers similar repertoire from 1941 to 1950.

CD 3 goes back to the period from 1929 when Björling was still a local Swedish artist and recorded all his material in Swedish. The CD opens with the two recently discovered test recordings that Björling made for EMI Sweden on 4 September 1929: ‘For You Alone’ and ‘Mattinata’, both sung in Swedish.

CD 4 contains a selection of Lieder and Songs, all sung in their original language, recorded between 1939 and 1959.

CD 5 contains a generous selection of highlights from Björling’s three complete EMI operas: La bohème, Pagliacci and Madama Butterfly. He is partnered in all three recordings by the soprano Victoria de los Angeles. All tracks, except those from Pagliacci and Madama Butterfly on CD 5, have been transferred and digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios from the best available source material in the EMI Archives by the award-winning audio restoration engineer Andrew Walter.
Disc 1

Se quel guerrier….Celeste Aida

Verdi: Rigoletto (1997 Digital Remaster)

La donna e mobile (Act 3)

Puccini: La Bohème (1997 Digital Remaster)

Che gelida manina

Puccini: Tosca (1997 Digital Remaster)

Recondita armonia (Act 1)

E lucevan le stelle (Act 3)

Puccini: La fanciulla del West (1997 Digital Remaster)

Ch’ella mi creda libero

Ponchielli: La Gioconda (1997 Digital Remaster)

Cielo e mar!

Meyerbeer: L’Africaine (1997 Digital Remaster)

Mi batte il cor….O Paradis

Tosti: Ideale (1997 Digital Remaster)

Di Capua: ‘O sole mio (1997 Digital Remaster)

Friml: The Vagabond King (1997 Digital Remaster)

Only a Rose

Geehl: For You Alone (1997 Digital Remaster)

Massenet: Manon Instant charmant…En ferment les yeux (Act II) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Bizet: Carmen La fleur que tu m’avais jetée (Act II) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Gounod: Faust Salut! demeure chaste et pure (Act III) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Flotow: Martha (1997 Digital Remaster)

M’appari tutt’amor

Rossini: Stabat mater (1997 Digital Remaster)

Cujus animam gementem

Verdi: Messa da Requiem (1997 Digital Remaster)

Ingemisco

Verdi: Il Trovatore (1997 Digital Remaster)

Ah! sì, ben mio, coll’essere

Di quella pira

Il Trovatore (1997 Digital Remaster)

Ah! sì, ben mio, coll’essere

Il Trovatore (1997 Digital Remaster)

Di quella pira

Verdi: Rigoletto (1997 Digital Remaster)

Questa o quella

Puccini: La Bohème (1997 Digital Remaster)

Disc 2

O soave fanciulla

Verdi: Rigoletto (1997 Digital Remaster)

E il sol dell’anima

Rigoletto (1997 Digital Remaster)

Questa o quella

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera: Di tu se fedele (Act I) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Puccini: Turandot Nessun dorma (Act III) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Giordano: Andrea Chénier (1997 Digital Remaster)

Come un bel dì di maggio

Giordano: Fedora Amor ti vieta (Act II) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (1997 Digital Remaster)

Mamma, quel vino è generoso

Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (1997 Digital Remaster)

Recitar!….Vesti la giubba

Leoncavallo: Mattinata (1997 Digital Remaster)

Donizetti: L’Elisir d’amore (1997 Digital Remaster)

Una furtiva lagrima

Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles (1997 Digital Remaster)

Je crois entendre encore

Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (1997 Digital Remaster)

Ah! lève-toi, soleil

Massenet: Manon Je suis seul!…Ah, fuyez, douce image (Act III) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Cliea: L’arlesiana (1997 Digital Remaster)

E la solita storia

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (1997 Digital Remaster)

O Lola (Siciliana)

Puccini: Manon Lescaut (1997 Digital Remaster)

Donna non vidi mai

Puccini: Tosca (1997 Digital Remaster)

Recondita armonia

E lucevan le stelle

Puccini: La Bohème (1977 Digital Remaster)

O soave fanciulla

Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (1997 Digital Remaster)

Ange adorable

Godard: Jocelyn Op. 109 (1997 Digital Remaster)

Berceuse: Concealed in this Retreat

Tosti: L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombra (1997 Digital Remaster)

Geehl: För Dig Allen’ (For You Alone) (2008 Digital Remaster)

Leoncavallo: Mattinata (2008 Digital Remaster) ()

Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (1997 Digital Remaster)

Höj dig, du klara sol (Ah! lève-toi soleil!)

Verdi: Rigoletto (1997 Digital Remaster)

O, I kvinnor (Questa o quella)

Laparra: L’illustre Fregona (1997 Digital Remaster)

Fylld av vemod sänker sig natten (Mélancolique tombe le soir)

Borodin: Prince Igor (1997 Digital Remaster)

Dagen gick längsamt till ro (Vladimir’s Cavatina)

Puccini: Tosca (1997 Digital Remaster)

Det sköna står att finna (Recondita armonia – Act I)

Jag minns stjärnorna lyste (E lucevan le stelle – Act III)

Verdi: Rigoletto (1997 Digital Remaster)

Ack, som ett fjun så lätt (La donna è mobile)

Verdi: Il Trovatore (1997 Digital Remaster)

Skyhögt mot himlen (Di quella pira)

Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (1997 Digital Remaster)

Spela komedi! … Pudra ditt anlet (Recitar! … Vesti la giubba)

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (1997 Digital Remaster)

O Lola (sung in Swedish)

Puccini: La fanciulla del West (1997 Digital Remaster)

Låt henne tro (Ch’ella mi creda libero)

Atterberg: Fanal (1997 Digital Remaster)

I männer över lag och rätt

Rimsky-Korsakov:Sadko (1997 Digital Remaster)

I söderns hav (Song of the Indian Guest)

Offenbach: La belle Hélène uti en skog pa berget Ida (Au mont Ida trois déesses) (Act I) (1997 Digital Remaster)

J. Strauss II: Der Zigeunerbaron (1997 Digital Remaster)

Vem har oss vigt? (Wer uns getraut)

Mollöcker: Der Bettelstudent (1938 Digital Remaster)

Skall jag tala … Antag det fall (Soll ich reden … Ich setz’ den Fall)

Nu är jag pank och fågelfri (Ich hab’ kein Geld) (Act III) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Peterson-Berger: När jag för mig själv i mörka skogen går Op. 5 No. 1 (1997 Digital Remaster)

Peterson-Berger: Bland skogens höga furustammar Op. 5 No. 4 (1997 Digital Remaster)

Swedish folksong arr. Andreas Randel: Ack Värmeland du sköna (1997 Digital Remaster)

Swedish Folksong: Allt under himmelens fäste (1997 Digital Remaster)

Söberg: jTonerna (1997 Digital Remaster)

Schrader: Sommatnatt (1997 Digital Remaster)

Stenhammar: Sverige (1997 Digital Remaster)

Althén: Land, Du Välsignade (1997 Digital Remaster)

Eric Wide (Ragnar Widestedt): Nämmer du Sverige (1997 Digital Remaster)

Beethoven: Adelaide Op. 46 (1997 Digital Remaster)

R. Strauss: 4 Lieder Op. 27 (1997 Digital Remaster)

Morgen

Cäcilie

Nordqvist: Bön i ofredstid (1997 Digital Remaster)

Nordqvist: Bisp Thomas’ frihetssång (1997 Digital Remaster)

Rachmaninov: from 6 Songs Op. 4 (1997 Digital Remaster)

In the Silence of the Night (Fet translated George Harris & Deems Taylor)

Rachmaninov: from 12 Songs Op. 21 (1997 Digital Remaster)

Lilacs (Beketova)

Foster: Jeanie with the light brown hair (1997 Digital Remaster)

D’Hardelot: Because (1997 Digital Remaster)

Speaks: Sylvia (1997 Digital Remaster)

Campbell-Tipton: A Spirit Flower (1997 Digital Remaster)

Beach: Ah, Love, but a Day (1997 Digital Remaster)

Sjöberg: I Bless Ev’ry Hour (Tonerna) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Nordqvist: Till havs (1997 Digital Remaster)

Salén: Sången till havet (1997 Digital Remaster)

Salén: Visa kring slånblom och månskära (1997 Digital Remaster)

Peterson-Berger: Jungfrun under lind Op. 10 No. 1 (1997 Digital Remaster)

Söderman: Kung Heimer och Aslög (1997 Digital Remaster)

Söderman: Trollsjön (1997 Digital Remaster)

Alfvén: Så tag mit hjerte (1997 Digital Remaster)

Sibelius: Demanten på marssnön Op. 36 No. 6 (The Diamond on the March Snow) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Adam: Julsång (Cantique de Noël) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci: Mi accordan di parlar?…Un grande spettacolo…Un tal gioco (1989 Digital Remaster)

Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci: Recitar!…Vesti la giubba (1989 Digital Remaster)

Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci: A stanotte…Coraggio!…No, Pagliaccio non son (1989 Digital Remaster)

Puccini: La bohème: Non sono in vena…Che gelida manina (Act I) (2002 Digital Remaster)

Puccini: La bohème: Ehi! Rodolfo…O soave fanciulla (Act I) (2002 Digital Remaster)

Puccini: La bohème: Marcello, finalmente…Donde lieta usci…Dunque è proprio finita (Act III) (2002 Digital Remaster)

Puccini: La bohème: In un coupè?…O Mimi, tu più non torni (Act IV) (2002 Digital Remaster)

Puccini: Madama Butterfly: Dovunque al mondo…Amore o grillo (Act I) (1990 Digital Remaster)

Puccini: Madama Butterfly: Viene la sera…Bimba dagli occhi (Act I) (1990 Digital Remaster)