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Arias / [sung by] Joan Hammond.
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- Sound recording
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--Excerpts.
- Operas.
- Songs (High voice) with piano.
- Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Songs.
- Excerpts.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (75 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Joan Hammond and the art of the aria : music of Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and More
- Place of Publication:
- [England?] : Memoir Records, 2005.
- Language Note:
- Sung in English (the 16th work in French), mostly translated from the original Italian or German.
- System Details:
- digital
- magnetic
- stereo
- audio file
- Contents:
- Don Giovanni: In what abysses ... Cruel one, thou has betrayed me / Mozart (6:37)
- Marriage of Figaro: Grant O love (3:55) ; Still Susanna delays ... Whither vanished (6:21) / Mozart
- Magic flute: Ah! 'tis gone Mozart (4:09)
- La traviata: How wondrous, how wondrous (3:52) ; Oh! Folly, Oh! folly (2:48) / Verdi
- Il trovatore: No star shone on the heav'nly vault (3:29) ; Why fear for me? ... Love, fly on rosy pinions (4:53) / Verdi
- Aida: May laurels crown thy brow ... the names so holy / Verdi (5:48)
- La bohème: They call me Mimi (4:32) ; Lovely maid in the moonlight (3:28) ; Mimi's farewell / Puccini (2:58)
- Madam Butterfly: One fine day / Puccini (4:01)
- Tosca: Love and music / Puccini (3:06)
- Gianni Schicchi: O my beloved father / Puccini (2:27)
- Louise: Depuis le jour / Charpentier (5:05)
- By the waters of Minnetonka / Lieurance (2:36)
- The green hills of Somerset / Coates (3:39).
- Participant:
- Joan Hammond, soprano ; with, variously: David Lloyd, tenor ; Gerald Moore, piano ; Frederick Grinke, violin ; Hallé Orchestra, Leslie Heward, Warwick Braithwaite, conductors ; Philharmonia Orchestra, Walter Susskind, conductor ; London Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind, conductor ; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Leslie Heward, conductor.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 7, 2020).
- Streaming audio files.
- Principally operatic excerpts; the final 2 works are songs, with piano or piano and violin accompaniment.
- Recorded between Feb. 13, 1941 and Feb. 27, 1946, in Manchester, London and Birmingham; originally released as 78-rpm discs.
- OCLC:
- 1158193557
- Publisher Number:
- ASP1095257/clmu
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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