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Lawrence Tibbett - The Complete Victor Recordings and Selected Broadcasts - Box Set 10CDs

 

Label : Marston
Format : Flac track
Cover : Yes

Tracklist :

CD 1
Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, New Jersey, Church Studio
3 March 1926
orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon
1.FALSTAFF: È sogno? o realtà? (Verdi) 4:29
2.FALSTAFF: È sogno? o realtà? (Verdi) 4:30
Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, New Jersey, Church Studio
24 May 1926
orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon
3.Oh That We Two Were Maying, Op. 2, No. 8 (Nevin) 3:04
Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, New Jersey, Church Studio
7 June 1926
orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon
4.Thy Beaming Eyes, Op. 40, No. 3 (MacDowell) 2:25
5.PAGLIACCI: Si può? [Prologue] (Leoncavallo) 7:25
Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, New Jersey, Church Studio
30 March 1927
orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon
6.Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (Old English air) 3:39
7.Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms (Old Irish air) 3:40
Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, New Jersey, Church Studio
31 March 1927
orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon
8.Old Black Joe (Foster) 3:36
  with male quartet: Charles W. Harrison, tenor; Lewis James, tenor; Elliott Shaw, baritone; Wilfrid Glenn, bass
Victor Talking Machine Company, New York City, Liederkranz Hall
31 May 1927
orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret
9.Uncle Ned (Foster) 3:43
  with male Quartet: Charles Hart, tenor; Lambert Murphy, tenor; Royal Dadmun, baritone; James Stanley, bass
Victor Talking Machine Company, New York City, Liederkranz Hall
1 June 1927
orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon
10.Still wie die Nacht (Calm as the Night) (Götze) 3:35
  with Lucrezia Bori, soprano
11.LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN: Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour (Fairest Night of Starry Ray) [Barcarolle] (Offenbach) 2:55
  with Lucrezia Bori, soprano
Victor Talking Machine Company, New York City, Liederkranz Hall
5 April 1928
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti
12.THE KING’S HENCHMAN: Oh, Caesar, Great Wert Thou (Taylor) 3:55
13.THE KING’S HENCHMAN: Nay, Maccus. Lay him down. (Taylor) 4:20
Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, New Jersey, Church Studio
10 April 1928
Mark Andrews, organ
14.Le Crucifix (The Crucifix) (Faure) 3:34
  with Richard Crooks, tenor
Victor Talking Machine Company, New York City, Liederkranz Hall
29 May 1928
Stewart Wille, piano
15.Shake Your Brown Feet, Honey (Carpenter) 2:59
16.THE PACKET BOAT: Roustabout (Hughes) 2:58
17.Travelin’ to de Grave (Spiritual, Arranged by William Reddick) 1:59
RCA Victor, New York City, Liederkranz Hall
3 and 10 April 1929
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti Fausto Cleva, organ
18.TOSCA: Tre sbirri, una carrozza [Te Deum] (Puccini) 4:28
19.TOSCA: Tre sbirri, una carrozza [Te Deum] (Puccini) 4:09
RCA Victor, New York City, Liederkranz Hall
8 April 1929
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti
20.CARMEN: Votre toast [Toreador Song] (Bizet) 4:40
21.CARMEN: Votre toast [Toreador Song] (Bizet) 4:25
Languages: Tracks 1, 2, 5, 18 and 19 in Italian • Tracks 3, 4, 6–17 in English • Tracks 20 and 21 in French

CD 2
RCA Victor, Camden, New Jersey, Church Studio
27 and 28 May, 1929
THE CRUCIFIXION (Stainer)
  recorded on twelve sides; No. X., Litany of the Passion (hymn) was omitted from the recording.
Lawrence Tibbett, baritone; Richard Crooks, tenor
Mark Andrews, organ
Trinity Choir
Sopranos: Lucy Isabelle Marsh; Olive Kline; Della Baker; Ruth Rodgers; Emily Stokes Hager
Contraltos: Elsie Baker; Helen Clark; Rose Bryant; Edna Indermaur
Tenors: Lambert Murphy; Charles Hart; Lewis James; Charles W. Harrison
Baritones and basses: Frank Croxton; Wilfred Glenn; Elliott Shaw; James Stanley; Stanley Baughman
conducted by Clifford Cairns
1.I. And They Came to a Place Named Gethsemane (tenor recitative) 1:05
2.II. The Agony—Could ye not watch with Me one brief hour (bass solo); And They Laid Their Hands on Him (tenor solo) 6:24
3.III. Processional to Calvary (organ solo);
Fling Wide the Gates (chorus; tenor solo) 9:17
4.IV. And When They Were Come to the Place Called Calvary (bass recitative) 1:04
5.V. The Mystery of the Divine Humiliation—Cross of Jesus, Cross of Sorrow (hymn) 1:55
6.VI. He Made Himself of No Reputation (bass recitative) 1:44
7.VII. The Majesty of the Divine Humiliation—King Ever Glorious (tenor solo) 4:30
8.VIII. And As Moses Lifted Up the Serpent (bass recitative) 1:14
9.IX. God So Loved the World (chorus) 3:09
10.XI. Jesus Said, ‘Father, Forgive Them’ (tenor and male chorus recitative) 0:46
11.XII. So Thou Liftest Thy Divine Petition (tenor and bass duet) 4:01
12.XIII. The Mystery of the Intercession—Jesus, the Crucified, Pleads for Me (hymn) 1:32
13.XIV. And One of the Malefactors (bass solo and male chorus) 2:06
14.XV. The Adoration of the Crucified—I Adore Thee, I Adore Thee! (hymn) 1:11
15.XVI. When Jesus Therefore Saw His Mother (tenor solo and male chorus) 2:53
16.XVII. Is It Nothing to You? (bass solo) 1:20
17.XVIII. The Appeal of the Crucified—From the Throne of His Cross (chorus) 6:16
18.XIX. After This, Jesus Knowing That All Things Were Now Accomplished (tenor and male chorus recitative) 2:03
19.XX. For the Love of Jesus—All for Jesus! All for Jesus! (hymn) 0:44
RCA Victor, New York City, Liederkranz Hall
13 January 1930
orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret
20.The Rogue Song (from the film THE ROGUE SONG) (Stothart) 3:23
21.The Narrative (from the film THE ROGUE SONG) (Stothart) 3:17
RCA Victor, New York City, Liederkranz Hall
15 January 1930
orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon
22.When I’m Looking At You (from the film THE ROGUE SONG) (Stothart) 3:47
23.The White Dove (from the film THE ROGUE SONG) (Lehár, Arranged by Stothart) 3:46
RCA Victor, New York City, Liederkranz Hall
15 April 1930
orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret
24.UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Eri tu che macchiavi quell’anima (Verdi) 4:38
25.UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Eri tu che macchiavi quell’anima (Verdi) 4:31
Languages: Tracks 1–23 in English • Tracks 24 and 25 in Italian

CD 3
RCA Victor, New York City, Liederkranz Hall
15 April 1930
orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret
1.IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Largo al factotum (Rossini) 4:30
2.IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Largo al factotum (Rossini) 4:21
RCA Victor, New York City, Studio 2
6 March 1931
orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret
3.Without a Song (from the film THE PRODIGAL) (Youmans) 3:43
4.Life is a Dream (from the film THE PRODIGAL) (Oscar Straus) 3:41
RCA Victor, New York City, Studio 2
6 March 1931
Stewart Wille, piano
5.Wanting You (from the film NEW MOON) (Romberg) 2:38
6.Lover Come Back to Me (from the film NEW MOON) (Romberg) 2:57
RCA Victor, Hollywood, Studio 2
26, 28, and 29 October 1931
Stewart Wille, piano
7.Tramps at Sea (from the film CUBAN LOVE SONG) (Stothart) 3:05
8.Cuban Love Song (from the film CUBAN LOVE SONG) (Stothart) 3:02
sung in E-flat
9.Edward, Op. 1, No. 1 (Loewe) 4:43
RCA Victor, Camden, Studio 2
10 December 1931
Stewart Wille, piano
10.Edward, Op. 1, No. 1 (Loewe) 4:49
11.De Glory Road (Wolfe) 4:48
RCA Victor, Camden, Studio 2
10 December 1931
orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret
12.Cuban Love Song (from the film CUBAN LOVE SONG (Stothart) 3:35
Sung in D
RCA Victor, New York City, Studio 2
8 December 1932
orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret
13.The Song Is You (from MUSIC IN THE AIR) (Kern) 3:06
14.And Love Was Born (from MUSIC IN THE AIR) (Kern) 3:28
15.Pilgrim’s Song, Op. 47, No. 5 (Tchaikovsky) 4:20
16.Song of the Flea (Mussorgsky) 3:46
17.Song of the Flea (Mussorgsky) 3:46
RCA Victor, New York City, Studio 2
16 December 1932
Stewart Wille, piano
18.A Kingdom by the Sea (Somervell) 4:41
19.Ol’ Man River (from SHOW BOAT) (Kern) 3:36
RCA Victor, New York City, Studio 2
19 January 1934
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conducted by Wilfrid Pelletier
20.THE MERRY MOUNT: Oh, ’Tis an Earth Defiled (Hanson) 4:33
21.EMPEROR JONES: Oh Lord! … Standin’ in de Need of Prayer (Gruenberg) 4:41
Languages: Tracks 1 and 2 sung in Italian • Tracks 3–21 sung in English

CD 4
RCA Victor, New York City, Studio 1
20 April 1934
orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret
1.TANNHÄUSER: Wie Todesahnung Dämmrung deckt die Lande … O du mein holder Abendstern (Wagner) 4:39
2.FAUST: O sainte médaille … Avant de quitter ces lieux (Gounod) 4:41
3.IN A PERSIAN GARDEN: Myself When Young (Lehmann) 3:23
4.None but the Lonely Heart, Op. 6, No. 6 (Tchaikovsky) 3:23
RCA Victor, Camden, New Jersey, Church Studio 2
30 April 1934
Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski
5.DIE WALKÜRE: Leb’ wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind [Wotan’s Farewell] (Wagner) 16:45
THE VOICE OF FIRESTONE
18 December 1933
orchestra conducted by William Daly
6.Lawrence Tibbett greets his radio audience 0:36
7.SERSE: Ombra mai fu (Handel) 3:50
8.The Hand Organ Man (Wolfe) 4:06
9.Without a Song (from the film THE PRODIGAL) (Youmans) 2:26
10.IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Largo al factotum (Rossini) 4:43
Selected appearances on The Packard Hour, 1934–1935
orchestra conducted by Wilfrid Pelletier
2 October 1934
11.DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG: Was duftet doch der Flieder (The Scent of Elders Flow’ring) (Wagner) 5:28
12.IL TABARRO: Scorri, fiume eterno! (Puccini) 4:03
Attributed to 27 November 1934
13.LA TRAVIATA: Di Provenza il mar (Verdi) 4:44
Attributed to 18 December 1934
14.MARTHA: Laßt mich euch fragen [Porter Song] (Flotow) 2:19
25 December 1934
15.Die Allmacht, D.852 (The Omnipotence) (Schubert) 5:50
Unknown date, likely 1934
16.LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN: Scintille, diamant (Offenbach) 2:34
22 January 1935
17.FAUST: Vous qui faites l’endormie [Méphistophélès Serenade] (Gounod) 2:47
20 February 1935
18.FALSTAFF: È sogno? o realtà? (Verdi) 4:30
Languages: Tracks 1 and 5 in German • Tracks 2, 16, and 17 in French • Tracks 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, and 15 in English • Tracks 7, 10, 12, 13, and 18 in Italian

CD 5
RCA Victor, New York City, Studio 2
10 October 1935
orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret
1.Last Night, When We Were Young (Arlen) 4:05
2.On the Road to Mandalay (Speaks) 4:55
RCA Victor, New York City, Studio 2
14 and 23 October 1935
Selections from PORGY AND BESS (Gershwin)
Helen Jepson, soprano; Lawrence Tibbett, baritone; Trinity Choir,
directed by Clifford Cairns; orchestra conducted by Alexander Smallens
The two solo sides sung by Helen Jepson, recorded later with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting, are omitted here.
3.Summertime and Crap Game; A Woman is a Sometime Thing 3:21
with Helen Jepson and chorus
4.I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ 3:10
5.The Buzzard Song 3:52
6.Bess, You Is My Woman Now 5:00
with Helen Jepson
7.It Ain’t Necessarily So 3:04
8.Where Is My Bess? 3:09
Recordings from the film METROPOLITAN
Autumn 1934; Recorded on disc by Twentieth Century Fox
Lawrence Tibbett ordered pressings of these recordings to be made, which he presented to “friends.”
9.De Glory Road (Wolfe) 4:53
10.On the Road to Mandalay (Speaks) 3:52
11.IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Largo al factotum (Rossini) 4:33
12.CARMEN: Votre toast [Toreador Song] (Bizet) 5:10
with chorus
13.PAGLIACCI: Si può? [Prologue] (Leoncavallo) 5:28
14.PAGLIACCI: Vesti la giubba (Leoncavallo) 1:58
transposed down a full tone to D Minor
15.Last Night, When We Were Young (Arlen) 4:38
  with Carroll Weiskopf, soprano
Selected appearances on The Packard Hour, 1935
orchestra conducted by Donald Voorhees
8 October 1935
16.Long Ago in Alcalà (Messager) 2:55
12 November 1935
17.Flanders Requiem (La Forge) 4:21
18.Ay, Gitanos! (Eakin) 2:29
19.On the Road to Mandalay (Speaks) 5:11
3 December 1935
20.Lawrence Tibbett spoken introduction 0:37
21.BORIS GODUNOV: I stand supreme in power [Boris’s monologue] (Mussorgsky) 4:19
The final bars of the monologue are missing from the only known source of this broadcast.
Languages: Tracks 1–10, 15–20 in English • Tracks 11, 13, and 14 in Italian • Track 12 in French

CD 6
Selected appearances on The Packard Hour, 1936
orchestra conducted by Donald Voorhees
Unknown date, ca. 1936
1.ANDREA CHÉNIER: Nemico della patria?! (Giordano) 4:52
25 January 1936
2.IL TROVATORE: Il balen del suo sorriso (Verdi) 3:37
3.TOSCA: Già, mi dicon venal (Puccini) 2:53
11 February 1936
4.HÉRODIADE: Ce breuvage pourrait me donner un tel rêve … Vision fugitive (Massenet) 4:10
10 March 1936
5.ROMÉO ET JULIETTE: Mab, la reine des mensonges (Gounod) 2:45
The General Motors Hour
3 May 1936
NBC Orchestra conducted by Ernö Rapée
6.FAUST: O sainte médaille … Avant de quitter ces lieux (Gounod) 4:36
Private recordings made during a concert of the Worcester Festival, Worcester, Massachusetts
6 October 1936
Stewart Wille, piano
7.SCIPIONE: Tutta raccolta ancor (Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves) (Handel) 3:16
8.Lebe wohl, No. 36 from MÖRIKE LIEDER (Fare Thee Well) (Wolf) 2:06
9.Minnelied, Op. 71, No. 5 (Love song) (Brahms) 2:04
10.Die Allmacht, D.852 (The Omnipotence) (Schubert) 5:27
11.Old Mother Hubbard (Hely-Hutchinson) 2:18
12.PORGY AND BESS: I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ (Gershwin) 2:34
13.Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (Old English air) 3:21
14.The Bagpipe Man (McKinney) 1:47
15.HÉRODIADE: Ce breuvage pourrait me donner un tel rêve … Vision fugitive (Massenet) 4:29
RCA Victor, New York City, Studio 2
19 October 1936
orchestra conducted by Alexander Smallens
16.RIGOLETTO: Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (Verdi) 4:59
17.Hallelujah Rhythm (Wolfe) 3:30
18.Goin’ Home (Adapted by William Arms Fisher from the second movement of Symphony No. 9 in E Minor) (Dvoˇrák) 5:13
Recordings from the film UNDER YOUR SPELL
Summer 1936; Recorded on disc by Twentieth Century Fox
Lawrence Tibbett ordered pressings of these recordings to be made, which he presented to “friends.”
19.Under Your Spell (Dietz and Schwartz) 4:01
20.Amigo (Dietz and Schwartz) 2:45
  with chorus
21.My Little Mule Wagon (Dietz and Schwartz) 4:18
22.FAUST: Buvons, trinquons, … Le veau d’or (transposed up a semitone) … Merci de ta chanson (score pitch) (Gounod) 6:45
  with chorus and unidentified soloists
Languages: Tracks 1–3 and 16 in Italian • Tracks 4–6, 15 and 22 in French • Tracks 7–14 and 17–21 in English

CD 7
Selected appearances on the Chesterfield Hour, 1937–1938
orchestra conducted by André Kostelanetz
29 December 1937
1.LA TRAVIATA: Di Provenza il mar (Verdi) 4:39
2.PORGY AND BESS: I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ (Gershwin) 2:48
3.In the Still of the Night (from the film ROSALIE) (Porter) 4:41
5 January 1938
4.Gitana (Longás) 2:06
5.Ständchen, D.957 No. 4 (Serenade) (Schubert) 4:30
6.HÉRODIADE: Ce breuvage pourrait me donner un tel rêve … Vision fugitive (Massenet) 4:19
12 January 1938
7.Life Is a Dream (from the film THE PRODIGAL) (Oskar Straus) 3:36
8.Siboney (Lecuona) 3:11
9.PORGY AND BESS: Oh, Where’s My Bess? (Gershwin) 3:07
10.IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Largo al factótum (Rossini) 4:33
19 January 1938
11.Close (from the film ROSALIE) (Porter) 3:51
12.On the Nodaway Road (Bates) 3:24
13.The Song of the Flea (Mussorgsky) 3:28
14.Tibbett introduces the Prologue from PAGLIACCI 1:23
15.PAGLIACCI: Si può? [Prologue] (Leoncavallo) 5:11
26 January 1938
16.I See Your Face before Me (from the musical BETWEEN THE DEVIL) (Dietz and Schwartz) 4:25
17.PORGY AND BESS: A Woman is a Sometime Thing (Gershwin) 2:17
18.IOLANTHE: Love Unrequited Robs Me of My Rest ... When You’re Lying Awake with a Dismal Headache [the Lord Chancellor’s song] (Gilbert and Sullivan) 3:52
19.OTELLO: Vanne; la tua meta già vedo ... Credo in un Dio crudel (Verdi) 5:24
2 February 1938
20.CARMEN: Votre toast [Toreador song] (Bizet) 4:47
Languages: Tracks 1, 10, 15 and 19 in Italian • Tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11–14, and 16–18 in English • Tracks 4 and 8 in Spanish • Tracks 6 and 20 in French

CD 8
Selected appearances on the Chesterfield Hour, 1938
orchestra conducted by André Kostelanetz except where noted
9 February 1938
1.On the Road to Mandalay (Speaks) 4:58
2.RIGOLETTO: Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (Verdi) 4:49
3.Deems Taylor and Lawrence Tibbett banter about the filming of CUBAN LOVE SONG 1:45
4.Cuban Love Song (from the film CUBAN LOVE SONG) (Stothart) 3:16
16 February 1938
5.Der Erlkönig, D.328 (The Erl King) (Schubert) 3:53
6.UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Alzati! Là tuo figlio ... Eri tu che macchiavi quell’anima (Verdi) 5:56
7.All of My Heart (Olmstead) 3:25
23 February 1938
8.Tramps at Sea (from the film CUBAN LOVE SONG) (Stothart) 2:44
9.I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Foster) 1:54
10.FAUST: Avant de quitter ces lieux (Gounod) 3:34
11.Under Your Spell (from the film UNDER YOUR SPELL) (Dietz and Schwartz) 3:25
1 March 1938
12.Edward, Op. 1, No. 1 (Loewe) 5:04
  with Stewart Wille, piano
13.FALSTAFF: È sogno? o realtà? (Verdi) 4:00
14.Alone Together (from the musical review FLYING COLORS) (Dietz and Schwartz) 2:06
9 March 1938
15.Taylor and Tibbett introduce Colonel Ibbetson’s Recitation 2:30
16.PETER IBBETSON: You Ask in Vain (Colonel Ibbetson’s Recitation) (Taylor) 4:13
17.Hallejuah Rhythm (Wolfe) 3:10
  with Stewart Wille, piano
18.TOSCA: Già, mi dicon venal (Puccini) 2:53
23 March 1938
19.Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (from the musical ROBERTA) (Kern) 4:06
20.LA TRAVIATA: Di Provenza il mar (Verdi) 4:50
Languages: Tracks 1, 3–5, 7–9, 11, 12, 14–17, and 19 in English • Tracks 2, 6, 13, 18, and 20 in Italian • Track 10 in French

CD 9
RCA Victor, New York City, Studio 2
3 May 1939
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conducted by Wilfrid Pelletier
1.The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Steffe, arranged by Bruno Reibold) 2:38
2.My Own United States (from the musical WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME (Edwards, arranged by Bruno Reibold) 2:54
  BS-036852-2 (4043)
3.SIMON BOCCANEGRA: Dinne ... Alcun là non vedesti? ... Figlia! a tal nome io palpito (Verdi) 4:38
  Rose Bampton, soprano
4.SIMON BOCCANEGRA: Plebe! Patrizi! Popolo (Verdi) 5:09
  Rose Bampton, soprano; Giovanni Martinelli, tenor; Leonard Warren, baritone; Roberts Nicholson, baritone, and Metropolitan Opera Chorus
RCA Victor, New York City, Studio 2
3 and 9 May 1939
Selections from OTELLO (Verdi)
  with Giovanni Martinelli, tenor; Helen Jepson, soprano; Nicolas Massue, tenor
Herman Dreeben, tenor
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and chorus, conducted by Wilfrid Pelletier
Only the six sides featuring Tibbett are included here.
5.Inaffia l’ugola [Brindisi] 3:54
  with Nicolas Massue, tenor and Herman Dreeben, tenor
6.Vanne! La tua meta già vedo ... Credo in un Dio crudel 4:46
7.Non pensateci piú … Tu? Indietro 4:18
  with Giovanni Martinelli, tenor
8.E qual certezza sognate … Era la notte 3:49
  with Giovanni Martinelli, tenor
9.Oh, mostruosa colpa ... Sì, pel ciel 4:33
  with Giovanni Martinelli, tenor
10.Non pensateci più 4:21
  with Giovanni Martinelli, tenor
11.Vieni, l’aula è deserto ... Questa è una ragna 4:48
  with Giovanni Martinelli, tenor and Nicolas Massue, tenor
Kellogg’s “The Circle” (radio program)
12 June 1939
orchestra conducted by Robert Emmett Dolan
12.Begin the Beguine (from the stage musical JUBILEE) (Porter) 3:31
Private records made for presentation to President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
ca. June 1939
13.Hat dich die Liebe berührt (If love hath entered thy heart) (Marx) 2:54
14.Sylvia (Speaks) 3:18
Selected appearances on The Ford Sunday Evening Hour, 1938–1939
Detroit Symphony, conducted by Eugene Ormandy
23 October 1938
15.Feldeinsamkeit, Op. 86, No. 2 (In summer fields) (Brahms) 3:32
16.Danny Deever (Damrosch) 4:29
24 September 1939
17.DIE HEIMKEHR AUS DER FREMDE: Ich bin ein vielgereister Mann (I Am a Roamer Bold) (Mendelssohn) 3:18
RCA Victor, New York City, Studio 2
15 December, 1939
Stewart Wille, piano
18.A Star Was His Candle (del Riego) 3:12
Languages: Tracks 1, 2, and 12–18 in English • Tracks 3–11 in Italian

CD 10
Selections from Finnish War Relief Concert, Carnegie Hall, New York City
NBC Broadcast 27 December 1939
1.The Lord’s Prayer (Malotte) 3:18
  Edward Harris, organ
2.THEODORA: Defend Her, Heav’n (Handel) 4:54
3.Hills (LaForge) 2:21
  Stewart Wille, piano
4.Suomi [Song of Finland] (Traditional, arranged by Black) 4:49
  with Kirsten Flagstad, soprano; Karin Branzell, contralto; Lauritz Melchior, tenor
NBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Goossens
RCA Victor, New York City, Studio 2
4 January, 1940
Stewart Wille, piano
5.SEMELE: Where’er You Walk (Handel) 4:49
6.Defend Her, Heav’n: THEODORA (Handel) 4:29
7.The Bailiff’s Daughter (Old English ballad) 4:22
8.A Kingdom by the Sea (Somervell) 4:35
9.Der Wanderer, D.489 (The Wanderer) (Schubert) 4:56
10.Die Allmacht, D.852 (The Omnipotence) (Schubert) 4:59
Selected appearances on The Ford Sunday Evening Hour, 1940
17 March 1940
Detroit Symphony and chorus, conducted by Eugene Ormandy
11.Ballad for Americans (Robinson) 12:28
29 December 1940
Detroit Symphony, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
12.UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Eri tu che macchiavi quell’anima (Verdi) 5:29
13.Ring Out Wild Bells (Gounod) 4:19
Selected appearances on The Telephone Hour, 1942–1943
orchestra conducted by Donald Voorhees
1 September 1942
14.To the Children, Op. 26, No. 7 (Rachmaninoff) 4:24
23 November 1942
15.UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Eri tu che macchiavi quell’anima (Verdi) 5:04
8 March 1943
16.LA FORZA DEL DESTINO: Urna fatale del mio destino (Verdi) 3:48
Languages: Tracks 1–3, 5–11, 13, and 14 in English • Track 4 in Finnish • Tracks 12, 15, and 16 in Italian

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