I am thankful to Cathy also for this recording.

Previously I have already posted recording of highlights from 1961.  

This one was recorded in Koln, October 1956. 

 

 

 

 

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I owe also this recording to Cathy. Thank you. 

December 6, 1958, Matine broascast

In English

Pamina - Gloria Davy

Tamino - Nicolai Gedda

Queen of the night - Roberta Peters

Papageno - Theodor Uppman

Papagena - Mildred Allen

Sarastro - Giorgio Tozzi

Monostatos - Paul Franke

First lady - Heidi Krall

Second lady - Mignon Dunn

Third lady - Belen Amparan

Speaker - Norman Scott

Genie - Emilia Cundari

Genie - Helen Vanni

Genie - Margaret Roggero

Priest William Olvis

Guard - Giulio Gari

Guard - Louis Sgarro

Slave - Henry Arthur

Slave - John Frydel

Slave Hal Roberts

Conductor  Erich Leinsdorf 

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I owe this recording to Cathy, who sent me the link.

Recorded in Paris, October 1961

Narrator - Nicolai Gedda

Mary - Victoria de los Angeles

Roger Soyer - Joseph

Ernest Blanc - Herod

Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire

Conductor  André Cluytens 

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1. Ich war ein echtes Wiener Blut (Wiener Blut)

2. Sei mir gegrüsst, du holdes Venezia (Eine nacht in Venedig)

3. Fledermaus, orchestral music

4. Klange des Heimat (Die Fledermaus)

5. Tausend und eine Nacht, orchestral music

6. Gern hab'ich die Frau'n geküsst (Paganini)

7. Liebe du Himmel auf Erde (Paganini)

8. Niemand liebst dich so wie ich (Paganini)

9. Gold und Silber, orchestral music

10. Da geh't ich zu Maxim (Die lustige Witwe)

11. Vilja lied (Die  lustige Witwe)

12. Lippen schweigen (Die lustige Witwe)

13. Weiber Marsch, orchestral music 

The Palm Court Orchesra of the Stockholm Philharmonic

Conductor Lars Almgren 

Live performance in Colon theatre, Buenos Aires, 1970 

 Manon: Beverly Sills
 Des Grieux: Nicolai Gedda
 Lescaut: Renato Cesari
 Count des Grieux: Victor de Narke
 Guillot: Nino Falzetti
 De Bretigny: Ricardo Yost
 Poussette: Nelly Romanella
 Javotte: Silvia Baleani
 Rosette: Carmen Burello

 Conductor: Peter Maag
 

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Mood:  cool

Guillaume Tell - Ernest Blanc 

Arnold - Nicolai Gedda

Andréa Guiot

Orchestre d'Opera de Paris

Conductor Alain Lombard 

This is another live performance of Don Giovanni, Metropolitan Opera, January 14, 1961

Don Giovanni - Cesare Siepi

Leporello - Fernando Corena

Donna Anna - Eleanor Steber

Don Ottavio - Nicolai Gedda

Donna Elvira - Lisa della Casa

Masetto - Theodor Uppman

Zerlina - Laurel Hurley

Il commendatore - William Wilderman

Chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera

Conductor Erich Leinsdorf

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Live performance from Rome, July 12, 1974

Accompanist was Wolfgang Sawallisch

1. Dem Unendlichen

2. Wanderers Nachtlied

3. Rastlose Liebe

4. Ganymed

5. Heidenröslein

6. Erster Verlust

7. Erlkönig

8. Non t'accostar all'urna

9. Guarda che bianca luna

10. Da quel sembiante appresi

11. Mio ben ricordati

12. Der Jüngling an der Quelle

13. Auflösung

14. Der Schiffer

15. Du bist die Ruh

16. Die Liebe hat gelogen

17. Die Allmacht

18. Nacht und Träume

19. An Silvia

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Mood:  flirty

Live performance from  Munich, 1962

Don Giovanni - George London

Donna Anna - Hildegard Hillebrecht

Don Ottavio - Nicolai Gedda

Donna Elvira - Sena Jurinac

Leporello - Benno Kusche

Zerina - Anneliese Rothenberger

Masetto - Albrecht Peter

Il commendatore - Gottlob Frick

Bayerischer Staatsorchester  München

Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper  München

Conductor Joseph Keilberth

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Thanks to Bob for directing me to the right place.

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 This gift was given to me by my dear music friend Bob. Thank you.

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Live performance from Vienna, Stefansdom,  19 June 1962

Maria Stader soprano

Marga Hoffgen mezzosoprano

Nicolai Gedda tenor

Otto Wiener bass

Wiener Singakademie directed by Hans Gillesberger

Conductor Carl Schuricht

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I got this recording again with the help of Natalia.

Live performance in Vienna, 1959

Leontyne Price soprano

Christa Ludwig mezzosoprano

Nicolai Gedda tenor

Nicola Zaccaria bass

Vienna philharmonic orchestra

Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde

Conductor  Herbert von Karajan

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This is a private recording of the performance so the sound is not very good.

Belmonte - Nicolai Gedda

Constanze - Edda Moser

Pedrillo - Norbert Orth

Blonde -  Norma Burrowes

Osmin - Kurt Moll

Selim - Werner Klemperer

Conductor  James Levine

Met, October 1979

Dear Natalia, thank you again!

Recorded in London, November 1952 in Vienna and in November 1952 and July 1953 in London.

Elisabeth Schwartzkopf  soprano

Marga  Hoffgen  contralto

Nicolai Gedda  tenor

Heinz Rehfuss  bass

This legendary recording of Bach’s B minor

Mass was made, most unusually, in two places

and with two orchestras. The Vienna

Philharmonic Orchestra was booked,

anonymously, to record the choruses with the

Choral Society of the Friends of Music,Vienna,

while the reduced forces of the Philharmonia,

with the section principals for instrumental

solo parts, accompanied the solos and duets

in London. Critical comment on this recording

when it first appeared in 1954 was virtually

unanimous. The Record Guide (Collins, 1955)

remarked “The principal qualities of Karajan’s

reading are lightness, absolute clarity of

sound and rhythmic buoyancy, all of them

qualities that many performances miss …

Karajan, and [the] engineers, allow us to hear

all the vocal and instrumental parts. Choral

and solo singing are delightful”.

 

(Naxos.com)

Natalia gave me also this one. I am very grateful.

Nicolai Gedda, Werner Singer, piano

Berlin, 1960

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
1. Redeet oblakov letuchaya gryada (The flying chain of clouds is thinning) (A. Pushkin)
2. El i palma (Spruce and palm) (H. Heine, translation M. Mihailov)
3. Zvonche zhavoronka penie (The skylark's song is more and more ringing) (A. Tolstoy)
4. Plenivshis rozoy, solovey (The nightingale captivated by the rose) (A. Koltsov)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
5. Snova, kak prezhde (Again, as before) (D. Rathaus)
6. Sred shumnogo bala (Amid the din of the ball) (A. Tolstoy)
7. V etu lunnuyu noch (In this moonlight) (D. Rathaus)

Nikolai Myaskovsky
8. Luna i tuman (Moon and mist) (Z. Gippius)
9. Krov (Blood) (Z. Gippius)
10. Zaklinanie (Spell) (Z. Gippius)

Sergei Rachmaninov
11. V molchanii nochi tainoy (In the silence of mysterious night) (A. Fet)
12. Young Gypsy’s Romance from Aleko (A. Pushkin)
 

Bonus:

13. P.I. Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin Lensky’s Aria
14. N. Rimsky-Korsarov Sadko Song of the Indian Guest
15. A. Borodin Prince Igor Cavatina of Vladimir Igorevich

Conductor Nils Grevillius, 1950s