This CD-ROM was produced by Harold Byrnes and Mike Richter. It contains an immense wealth of singers of every categories, including many
rarities. First the non tenor singers included are the following:
Irene Abendroth, soprano, Georgy Abramov, baritone, Rose Ader, soprano, Cantor Richard Allen, baritone, Gitta Alpar, soprano, Mario Ancona,
baritone, Rosette Anday, alto, Raphael Arië, bass, Giuseppina Baldassare-Tedeschi, soprano, Mordechai Bauman, baritone, Lola Beeth,
soprano, Sidor Belarsky, bass, Lillian Blauvelt, soprano, Margit Bokor, soprano, Hermine Bosetti, soprano, Sophie Braslau, alto, Richard
Breitenfeld, baritone, Marcello Cortis, baritone, Julia Culp, alto, Natania Davrath, soprano, Leopold Demuth, baritone, Elda Di Veroli, soprano,
Pauline Donalda, soprano, Irene Eisinger, soprano, Artur Eizen, bass, Elise Elizza, soprano, Dezső Ernszter, bass, Giuseppina Finzi-Magrini,
soprano, Efrem Flaks, bass, Rita Fornia, mezzo, Grete Forst, soprano, Arnold Gábor, baritone, Inessa Galante, soprano, Marisa Galvany,
soprano, Alma Gluck, soprano, Igor Gorin, baritone, Paolo Gorin, baritone, Henrietta Gottlieb, soprano, Reynaldo Hahn, baritone, Melitta Heim,
soprano, Georg Henschel, baritone, Maria Ivogün, soprano, Josephine Jacoby, alto, Dorothy Jardon, soprano, Irene Jessner, soprano, Fritzi
Jokl, soprano, Bertha Kalich, mezzo, Sabine Kalter, alto, Oskar Kamionsky, baritone, Cantor Adolf Katchko, bass-baritone, Lucy Kelston, soprano,
Alexander Kipnis, bass, Marina Koshetz, soprano, Nina Koshetz, soprano, Isa Kremer, soprano, Melanie Kurt, soprano, Cantor Sophie Kurtzer,
soprano, Selma Kurz, soprano, Cantor Sawel Kwartin, baritone, Edward Lankow, bass, Hulda Lashanska, soprano, Jean Lassalle, baritone, Theodor
Lattermann, bass, Evelyn Lear, soprano, Andor Lendvai, baritone, Lotte Leonard, soprano, Alexej Levitskij, bass, Cantor Manfred Lewandowski,
baritone, Adolf Lieban, bass, Eva Liebenberg, mezzo, Martha Lipton, alto, Emanuel List, bass, George London, bass-baritone, Eugenia Lopez-Nunes,
alto, Juan Luria, baritone, Maksimilian Maksakov, baritone, Beate Malkin, soprano, Fritzi Massary, soprano, Margarete Matzenauer, mezzo, Anna
Meitschik, alto, Léon Melchissedec, baritone, Robert Merrill, baritone, Ottilie Metzger, alto, Mildred Miller, mezzo, Michael Minsky,
baritone, Norman Mittelman, baritone, Berta Morena, soprano, Dávid Ney, bass, Rosa Olitzka, alto, Bernardo Olshansky, baritone, Rose
Pauly, soprano, Gerhard Pechner, baritone, Roberta Peters, soprano, Frantz Rabinowitz, baritone, Rosa Raisa, soprano, Marie Rappold, soprano,
Heinz Rehfuss, baritone, Mark Reizen, bass, Maurice Renaud, baritone, Regina Resnik, mezzo, Gertrude Ribla, soprano, Giacomo Rimini, baritone,
Cantor Henry Rosenblatt, bass-baritone, Elinor Ross, soprano, Marko Rothmüller, baritone, Cantor Moishe Rudinow, baritone, Bianca Sauler,
soprano, Hermann Schey, baritone, Lotte Schöne, soprano, Friedrich Schorr, baritone, Cantor Mayer Schorr, baritone, Josef Schwarz, baritone,J
Josef E. Schwarz, baritone, Vera Schwarz, soprano, Natalija Shpiller, soprano, Lev Sibiriakov, bass, Beverly Sills, soprano, Margarethe Slezak,
soprano, Oda Slobodskaya, soprano, Franz Steiner, baritone, Suzanne Sten, alto, Alexander (Sándor) Svéd, baritone, Ioakim
Tartakov, baritone, Jennie Tourel, mezzo, Mikhail Vavitch, baritone, Leonard Warren, baritone, Hermann Weil, baritone, Josef Winogradoff,
baritone, Hilde Zadek, soprano, Benno Ziegler, baritone.
As for the tenors, the details are as follows:
- Alberti, Werner
Halévy: La Juive "Rachel quand du Seigneur " in German (1906)
Kienzl: Der Evangelimann "Selig sind, die Verfolgung leiden " (1906)
Puccini: Tosca "E lucevan le stelle" in German
- Alexandrovitch, Mikhail
Bizanu: "Lo teida milchoma" in Hebrew live (1972)
Calleja: Emigrantes "Granadinas" live (1972)
Ippolitov-Ivanov: Treachery "Erekle's aria"
Secunda : "Dos yiddische lied" live (1972)
Tagliaferro: "Mandulinata" in Russian (1949)
De Curtis: Carmé live (1972)
- Altglass, Max
Meyerbeer: L'Africaine "Ô paradis" in German
Mozart: Così fan tutte "Un'aura amorosa" in German
- Althouse, Paul
Lehman: "Ah! Moon of my delight "
Mussorgskij: Boris Godunov "Dmitrij! Tsarevich!" w. Margarethe Arndt-Ober in Italian
- Arányi, Desider
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor "Verranno a te" w. Margarethe Siems in German
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana "Addio alla madre" in German
Meyerbeer Les huguenots "Duet" w. Margarethe Siems in German
Rossini: Guillaume Tell "Trio" w. Erich Hunold & Mathieu Frank in German
Verdi: Il trovatore "Deserto sulla terra" in German
- Baum, Kurt
Liszt: "Liebestraum" in English (1941)
Rossini: Guillaume Tell "Amis, amis" in Italian
- Berger, Rudolf
Meyerbeer: Prophète "Versez" (1908) in German
Wagner: Lohengrin "Ansprache des Telramund" (as baritone) (1903)
Wagner: Lohengrin "Nun sei bedankt" (1908)
Wagner: Walküre "Siegmund heiß' ich" (1909)
- Bloch, Max, alias Martino Brefelli
Hummel: "Hallelujah"
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci "Vesti la giubba"
Lortzing: Undine "Vater, Mutter, Schwestern, Brüder"
Schubert: "Ständchen"
Wagner: Lohengrin "In fernem Land"
Wagner: Rienzi "Gebet"
Weber: Freischütz "Durch die Wälder"
- Cerini, Selmar (Cantor)
Dessauer: "Mach' auf" (1905)
Ries: "Alt-Heidelberg, du Feine" (1905)
Rossini: Barbiere di Siviglia "Ecco ridente" in German (1905)
Rossini: Guillaume Tell "Asile héréditaire" in German (1905)
Verdi: Aida "Celeste Aida" in German (1905)
- Chagy, Berel (Cantor)
traditional: "Mi sheoso nisim"
- Da Costa, Albert
Meyerbeer: Prophète "Pour Bertha" (1955)
Verdi: Otello "Esultate" (1955)
- Dalmorès, Charles
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette "Ah! lêve-toi soleil "
Tosti "Ninon"
Verdi: Il trovatore "Ah sì, ben mio" (1904)
Wagner: Lohengrin "Atmest du nicht"
- Danto, Louis (Cantor)
Durante: "Danza, danza, fanciulla "
Händel: Tolomeo "Non lo dirò con labbro"
Rimskij-Korsakov: Majskaja noch "Levko's aria "
traditional: "Bella bocca"
Russian folk song: "The peddler" (1960)
- Davydov, Aleksandr
Davydov: "I am not speaking to you" in Russian (electric)
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci "Un tal gioco" in Russian
Chaikovskij: Evgenij Onegin "Lenskij's aria "
Verdi: Aida "Celeste Aida" in Russsian
- Dobkin, Dmitrij
Arenskij: Rafael "Serenade" in Russian
Pergament: Skazka o czare Achromele "Prologue" in Russian
- Dornay, Louis or Louis Goldsteen
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci "Vesti la giubba" in Dutch
Verdi: Rigoletto "La donna è mobile" in Dutch
Verdi: Il trovatore "Trio" with Barbara Kemp & Emma Vilmar (1915)
- Dovenman, Mikhail
Rakhmaninov: The bells "Silver bells"
- Fagoaga, Isidoro
Wagner: Parsifal "Amfortas! Die Wunde" in Italian (1930)
- Fehér, Pál
Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann "Kleinzack " in Hungarian (1949)
- Gafni, Miklos
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore "Una furtiva lagrima"
Belarsky/Goldfaden: "A pastuch'l"
- Gari, Giulio
Strauss: Salome "Wie schön ist die Prinzessin Salome" (1958)
Verdi: Aida "Celeste Aida"
- Georgievskij, Arnold
Pennino: "Pecché?"
Puccini: Tosca "E lucevan le stelle"
Serrano: "Jota"
Grechaninov: "Over the steppe" in Russian
Steinberg: "And I will caress you" in Russian acoustic
traditional: "Kol nidre"
traditional: "I want to be bold (?)" in Russian acoustic
- Hershman, Mordechai (Cantor)
Berditchev: "A dudele"
Zilbertz: "Havdolo" acoustic
Belarsky/Goldfaden: "A pastuch'l" electric
- Ilosfalvy, Róbert
Puccini: La bohème "Che gelida manina" (1970?)
Puccini: Turandot "Nessun dorma" in Hungarian (1964)
Puccini: Turandot "Nessun dorma" (1970?)
- Jadlowker, Hermann
Campana: "Guarda che bianca luna" w. Josef Schwarz
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette "Ah! lêve-toi soleil"
Mozart: Idomeneo "Fuor del mar" in German
Rossini: Barbiere di Siviglia "Ecco ridente"
Wagner: Rienzi "Gebet"
- Katz, Sholom (Cantor)
traditional: "El mule rachamim" (Prayer for those who perished) (1951)
- Khromchenko, Solomon
Arenskij: Rafael "Serenade" in Russian
Denza: "Occhi turchini" in Russian
Rakhmaninov: Aleko "Song of the Young Gypsy" in Russian (1936)
Rubinstein: "A dream" in Russian (1945)
Tosti "Ritorna" in Russian
Krein: "Afn oichn barg" (1948)
Krein: "Afn oichn barg" (rec. 1987 at 80 yrs. of age)
traditional: "Bagleiten, zainen mir gegangen" (1948)
- Kiepura, Jan
Bizet: Carmen "La fleur"
Marczewski: "On your lips of coral" in Polish
Spoliansky: "Sweet melody of night"
Stolz: "Ob blond, ob braun"
Verdi: Trovatore "Di quella pira" (1939) radio
- Kiepura, Wladysław
Massenet: Manon "Ah! fuyez, douce image" in German
Massenet: Manon "Le rêve" in German
- Konigsberg, Jacob (Cantor)
traditional: "Ribono shel olom" (1960) private recording/live
- Koussevitzky, David (Cantor)
traditional: "Ano avodo"
- Koussevitzky, Moshe (Cantor)
traditional: "Ad heino asorunu"
- Kuttner, Max
Thiele: Unsere Marine "Stolz weht die Flagge" (1912)
- Lázaro, Hipólito
Bellini: I puritani "A te o cara" acoustic
Giordano: Andrea Chénier "Improvviso" electric
Puccini: Fanciulla del West "Ch'ella mi creda" electric
Sandler: "Eili, eili" in Yiddish acoustic
- Levinsky, Ilya
Glinka: "Hebrew song" in Russian (1995)
Chaikovskij: "Legends" in Russian
- Lieban, Julius
Lortzing: Undine "Vater, Mutter, Schwestern, Brüder" (1906)
Swedish folk song: "Der Schweinehirt" in German (1906)
- Malamood, Herman
traditional: "Kol Nidrei"
- Mann, Jozef
Moniuszko: Halka "Jontek's aria" in Polish
Schillings: Mona Lisa "Love duet" w. Barbara Kemp
Verdi: Otello "Ora e per sempre addio" in German
Verdi: Il trovatore "Ah sì, ben mio" in German
- Morell, Barry
Puccini: Madama Butterfly "Addio fiorito asil" (1970) live
Puccini: Le villi "Torna ai felici dì"
Verdi: La traviata "Un dì felice" w. Victoria de los Angeles, television
- Nadolovitch, Jean
Massenet: Manon "Ah fuyez, douce image" in German
Thomas: Mignon "Adieu, Mignon" in German
- Peerce, Jan
Handel: Judas Maccabaeus "Sound an alarm" (1944) live
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci "Vesti la giubba" (1956) television
Olshanetsky: "The rabbi's daughter" in Yiddish
Rodgers: "My romance" (1936)
- Reiss, Albert
Millöcker: Gasparone "Er soll dein Herr sein"
- Ritch, Theodore
Massenet: Manon: "Le rêve"
Puccini: Tosca "E lucevan le stelle"
- Robyn, William
Rumshinsky: Klige frauen "Liebe gesang" w. Lucy Finkle in Yiddish
- Rosenblatt, Josef (Cantor)
Sandler: "Eili, eili" in Yiddish electric
Rosenblatt: "Yhi Rozon – Part II " acoustic
- Rosing, Vladimir
Cui: "Famine" in Russian
Saint-Saëns: "Danse macabre"
Chaikovskij: Pikovaja dama "Prosti, nebesnoe sozdanye" acoustic
traditional English ballad: "Lord Randall" acoustic
- Rozanov, Alexander
Halévy: La Juive "Rachel, quand du Seigneur" in Russian
Meyerbeer: L'Africaine "Ô paradis "
Ponchielli: Gioconda "Cielo e mar"
- Schmidt, Joseph
Bürger: "Zigeunerliebe"
Buzzi-Peccia: "Lolita"
Buzzi-Peccia: "Mal d'amore"
Lehar: Land des Lächelns "Vom Apfelblüten einen Kranz"
Lehar: Land des Lächelns "Wer hat die Liebe" w. Irene Eisinger
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana "Addio alla madre" in German
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana "Siciliana" in German
Pergolesi: "Nina"
traditional: "Prayer before Hallel" cantorial
- Schramm, Hermann
Lortzing: Undine "Vater, Mutter, Schwestern, Brüder"
Wagner: Fliegender Holländer "Steuermannslied"
- Schwarz, Paul
Verdi: Trovatore "Deserto sulla terra"
- Senius, Felix
Beethoven "Adelaide" (1908)
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore "Una furtiva lagrima" (1908)
Mozart: Così fan tutte "Un'aura amorosa" (1908)
- Sergi, Arturo
Strauss: Elektra "Lichter! Lichter!" with Astrid Varnay (1960)
- Shicoff, Neil
Bizet: Carmen "Finale" w. Emily Golden & Robert Cowan (1991) live
Gounod: Faust "Salut, demeure" (1990) live
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette "Finale act III" (1986) live
Puccini: Madama Butterfly "Love duet" w. Leona Mitchell (1980)
- Shicoff, Sidney (Cantor)
traditional: "V'tov b'einecha"
- Shlisky, Joseph (Cantor)
Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles "Je crois entendre encore" in Yiddish
Halevy: La Juive "Rachel, quand du Seigneur" in Yiddish
traditional: "Haben yakir li" cantorial
- Sirota, Gershon (Cantor)
Meyerbeer: Les huguenots "Plus blanche" in Italian
Puccini: Tosca "E lucevan le stelle"
Fétis: "Pietà, Signore" electric in Hebrew
Verdi: Il trovatore "Ah sì, ben mio"
Weber: Euryanthe "Unter blüh'nden Mandelbäumen" in Hebrew
traditional: "Ki khol pe" cantorial electric
- Spivak, Juan
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci "Un tal gioco" in German
Puccini: Manon Lescaut "Tu, tu, amore" w. Maria Jeritza in German (1908)
Verdi: Il trovatore "Trio" w. Juan Luria and Aline Sanden in German
- Tauber, Richard
Franz: "Im Herbst"
Lehár: Giuditta "So wie um den Sonnenball " CREATOR cond. by Lehár
Lehár: Land des Lächelns "Wer hat die Liebe uns ins Herz gesenkt" w. Vera Schwarz cond. by Lehár
Love: "Das alte Lied" [whispering record] self-accompanied
Puccini: Turandot "Non piangere, Liù" in German
Strauss: "Ruhe, meine Seele" acoustic
Verdi: Aida "Già i sacerdoti" w. Sabine Kalter in German acoustic
Wagner: Meistersinger "Preislied"
- Tucker, Richard
De Curtis: "Non ti scordar di me"
Geehl: "For you alone" live from Democratic National Convention (1948)
Malotte: "The Lord's prayer" live from Democratic National Convention (1948)
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana "Addio alla madre"
Puccini: La fanciulla del West "Or son sei mesi"
Speaks: "Morning" live from Democratic National Convention (1948)
Verdi: Luisa Miller "Quando le sere al placido"
traditional: "L'eil boruch" cantorial
- Vinogradov, Georgij
Glinka: "Spanish serenade" in Russian
Ippolitov-Ivanov: Ole the Norseman "Ole's aria" in Russian (1945)
Rubinstein: Demon "Sinodal's aria" in Russian (1945)
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin "?" (must be either Ungeduld or Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust) in Russian (1950)
Chaikovskij: Evgenij Onegin "Lenskij's aria" (1945)
The compilation is impressive and there is something for everybody's taste. Every singer has a short biographical information. Like Men of Empire, this is recommended.
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