1 Hugues Cuenod (b.1902)
Delannoy, Philippine - Complainte de l'Homme - serpent, (words - Jean Limozin) 3.15
Rec: 19 November 1937 Matrix: CL 6458-1 Columbia Cat: DF 2280 Maurice Jaubert, conductor
2 Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981)
De Fontenailles, ŕ' l'aimé, (words - Jeanne Dortzal) 4.00
Rec: 31 October 1939 Matrix: PBS 042207-5 Victor Cat: 2053-A Acc. Romano Romani
3 Richard Tauber (1892-1948), Richard Tauber (1892-1948)
Mendelssohn, Ich wollt', meine Liebe ergösse sich -, Op. 63 No. 1 (words - Heinrich Heine) 3.06
Rec: 11 March 1933 Matrix: Be 10258-0 Odeon Cat: 0-4524-A Dr Frieder Weissmann, conductor
4 Miliza Korjus (1907-1980)
Moszkowsky, Cher petit Rossignol 2.48
Rec: 1936 Matrix: 2 RA 1063-2 HMV Cat: L-1029
5 Beniamino Gigli (1890-1957)
Di Capua, O sole mio 3.13
Rec: 26th March 1934 Matrix: OW 2405-2 HMV Cat: DA 1373
6 Elisabeth Schumann (1888-1952) (Sung and whistled)
Zeller, Nightingale Song 3.40
Rec: 1930 Matrix: Bb 18667-2 HMV Cat: E-552 Lawrence Collingwood, conductor
7 Tito Schipa (1888-1965)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Aimant la rose 3.22
Rec: 24 April 1932 Matrix: OM 492-2 Victor Cat: DA 1323 Carlo Sabajno, conductor
8 Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963)
Yradier, La Paloma 2.09
Rec: 5 September 1928 Matrix: A 45147 Victor/HMV Cat: DA 5400 Acc. Homer Samuels
9 Joseph Schmidt (1904-1942)
Strauss, Wiener Bonbons 2.26
Rec: 1936 Matrix: 85277-2 Odeon Cat: 281.237 arr. Bodenstedt
10 Nina Koshetz (1894-1965)
Tchaikovsky, None but the lonely heart 3.37
Rec: 1922 Matrix: Unknown Brunswick Cat: 10137-A Acc. Nicolai Stember with 'cello obligato
11 Paul Robeson (1898-1976)
Rasbach, Trees (words Joyce Kilmer) 2.38
Rec: 1938 Matrix: OEA 7087-1 HMV Cat: K-8243
12 Noël Coward (1899-1973), Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952)
Coward, Shadow Play from Tonight at 8.30 9.03
Rec: 16th Jan 1936 Matrix: 2EA 2666/7 HMV Cat: C 2816
The Phoenix Theatre Orchestra, London, Clifford Greenwood, conductor
13 John McCormack (1884-1945)
Foster, I Dream of Jeanie 3.16
Rec: 24 August 1934 Matrix: OEA 412-2 HMV Cat: DA 1405 Acc. Edwin Schneider
14 Nellie Melba (1861-1931)
Arditi, Se saran rose 3.14
Rec: 23 August 1910 Matrix: C 4356-2 Victor Cat: 88076 Walter B Rogers, conductor
15 Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)
Sullivan, The Lost Chord (words - Proctor) 4.16
Rec: 29 April 1912 Matrix: C 11942-1 Victor Cat: 6023
16 Sigrid Onegin (1889-1943)
Brewer, Fairy Pipers (words - Weatherly) 2.30
Rec: 1926 Matrix: Unknown Brunswick Cat: 15155-B
17 Alexander Kipnis (1891-1978)
Little Jack Horner 2.35
Rec: 30 September 1940 Matrix: BS 043902-3 Victor Cat: 2135-A
arr. J Michel Diack with apologies to Handel Acc. Ernst Victor Wolff
18 Maggie Teyte (1888-1976)
Reynaldo Hahn, L'Heure exquise (words - Paul Verlaine) 3.00
Rec: 17 April 1941 Matrix: OEA 9247 HMV Cat: DA 1821 Acc. Gerald Moore
19 Herbert Ernst Groh (1905-1982)
Richard Heuberger, Der Opernball - Im Chambre séparée 3.13
Rec: 1932 Matrix: Be 11263 Odeon Cat: 0-25676a Odeon-Künstler Orchester, O. Dobrindt, conductor
20 Hugues Cuenod (b. 1902)
Negro Spiritual, O Lord What a mornin' 3.19
Rec: c.1935 Matrix: OLA 464-2 Disque Gramophone Cat: Unpublished Arr. and Acc. Hugues Cuenod
21 Blanche Marchesi (1863-1940)
Amuri, amuri - Sicilian Cart Driver's Song 2.14
Rec: c. 1936. Arr. Sadero Acc. Agnes Bedford
