Millöcker: Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei (from Der Bettelstudent)

Capua:

O sole mio

Curtis, E:

Non ti scordar di me

Sung in German as 'Vergiss mein nicht'

Giordani, G:

Caro mio ben

Handel:

Ombra mai fu (from Serse)

Kalman:

Zwei Märchenaugen (from Die Zirkusprinzessin)

Lara, Augustin:

Granada

Lehár:

O Mädchen, mein Mädchen (from Friederike)

Freunde, das Leben ist lebenswert (from Giuditta)

Es steht ein Soldat am Wolgastrand (from Der Zarewitsch)

Liszt:

Es muss ein Wunderbares sein, S. 314

Lortzing:

Lied: Vater, Mutter, Schestern, Bruder (from Undine)

Millöcker:

Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei (from Der Bettelstudent)

Mozart:

Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (from Die Zauberflöte)

Strauss, J, II:

Als flotter Geist (from Der Zigeunerbaron)

Zeller:

Grüß euch Gott, alle miteinander (from Der Vogelhändler)

Wie mein Ahn’l zwanzig Jahr (from Der Vogelhändler)

Wiener Blut, eig’ner Saft

Johann Strauss (Jr.) / A. Müller

with Nina Berten (soprano)

Kalman:

Gruss mir die sussen, die reizenden Frauen (from Gräfin Mariza)

Künneke, Eduard:

Ich bin nur ein armer Wandergesell (from Der Vetter aus Dingsda)

Lehár:

Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküßt (from Paganini)

Es steht ein Soldat am Wolgastrand (from Der Zarewitsch)

Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns)

Millöcker:

Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei (from Der Bettelstudent)

Stolz, R:

Wien wird bei Nacht erst schön

Strauss, J, II:

Dieser Anstand, so manierlich (from Die Fledermaus)

with Nina Berten (soprano)

Als flotter Geist (from Der Zigeunerbaron)

Ach, wie so herrlich zu schau'n (from Die Fledermaus)

Eine Nacht in Venedig: Komm in die Gondel

Als ich ward ihr Mann (from Wiener Blut)

Johann Strauss (Jr.) / A. Müller

Zeller:

Wie mein Ahn’l zwanzig Jahr (from Der Vogelhändler)

Ziehrer:

Verliebt (from König Jérome, Op. 319)

Armand:

Var det en drom?

Beneken:

O, hur stilla

Borodin:

Medlenno den ugasal (Slowly the day has faded) (from Prince Igor)

Dresser:

On the banks of the Wabash, far away

Enders:

Lilla prinsessa

Foster, S:

I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

Gounod:

L'amour, l'amour... Ah, lève-toi soleil (from Roméo et Juliette)

Hardelot:

Because

Mascagni:

Mamma, quel vino (from Cavalleria Rusticana)

O Lola, bianca come fior di spino (from Cavalleria Rusticana)

Millöcker:

Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei (from Der Bettelstudent)

sung in Swedish

Nyblom:

Brinnande gula flod

Offenbach:

Le jugement de Pâris - Au Mont Ida (from La Belle Hélène)

sung in Swedish

Rossini:

Stabat Mater: Cujus animam gementem

Strauss, J, II:

Wer uns getraut? (from Der Zigeunerbaron)

sung in Swedish

trad.:

I Himmelen, I Himmelen

Guds rena lamm oskyldig

Verdi:

Ah sì ben mio (from Il trovatore)

Di quella pira (from Il trovatore)

È il sol dell'anima (from Rigoletto)

Wennerberg:

Psalm 24 (Gören portarna höga)

Adam:

Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau)

Boieldieu:

Viens, gentille dame (from La Dame blanche)

Capua:

O sole mio

Curtis, E:

Ti voglio tanto bene

Sung in German

Donizetti:

Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore)

Engel-Berger:

Stern von Rio

Gounod:

Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre… Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (from Faust)

Heymann:

Heute Nacht oder nie

Künneke, Eduard:

Ich bin nur ein armer Wandergesell (from Der Vetter aus Dingsda)

Lara, Augustin:

Granada

Lehár:

Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns)

Freunde, das Leben ist lebenswert (from Giuditta)

Leoncavallo:

Mattinata - 'L'aurora di bianco vestita'

Mario:

Santa Lucia luntana

Marschner, H A:

Gonne mir ein wort der Liebe (from Hans Heiling)

Millöcker:

Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei (from Der Bettelstudent)

Ich knüpfte manche zarte Bande (from Der Bettelstudent)

Rossini:

Languir per una bella (from L'Italiana in Algeri)

Strauss, J, II:

Ach, wie so herrlich zu schau'n (from Die Fledermaus)

Tauber:

You are the world to me from Der singende Traum

Sung in German

Toselli:

Serenata Op. 6

Adam:

O Holy Night

Recorded 20th December 1954

Alfvén:

Skogen sover, Op. 28 No. 6

Recorded 11th April 1949

Jag längtar dig (Text: Ernest Thiel)

Recorded 5th August 1960

Althen:

Land, du välsignade (Thou Blessed Country)

Recorded 12th May 1946

Land, du välsignade (Thou Blessed Country)

Recorded 25th May 1952

Flotow:

M'appari (from Martha)

Recorded 19th November 1945

Foster, S:

I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

Recorded 19th November 1945

I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

Recorded 7th November 1949

Geehl:

For You Alone

Recorded 21st January 1946

For You Alone

Recorded 8th January 1951

Giordano, U:

Come un bel dì di maggio (from Andrea Chénier)

Recorded 23rd October 1950

Glover:

Rose of Tralee

Recorded 12th March 1951

Godard, B:

Cachès dans cet asile (Jocelyn)

Recorded 25th March 1946; sung in English

Cachès dans cet asile (Jocelyn)

Recorded 11th August 1949; sung in English

Gounod:

Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre… Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (from Faust)

Recorded 12th May 1946

Nuit d'hyménée from Roméo et Juliette

Recorded 23rd October 1949

Anna-Lisa Björling (soprano)

Nuit d'hyménée from Roméo et Juliette

Recorded 30th September 1951

Bidú Sayão (soprano)

Prison Scene (from Faust)

Recorded 5th December 1937; Björling sings in Swedish

Grieg:

Jeg Elsker Deg, Op. 41 No. 3

Recorded 25th March 1946

Hardelot:

Because

Recorded 25th March 1946

Herbert, V:

Neapolitan Love Song

Recorded 25th March 1946

Neapolitan Love Song

Recorded 4th April 1949

Leoncavallo:

Recitar!...Vesti la giubba (from I Pagliacci)

Recorded 16th February 1951

Mattinata - 'L'aurora di bianco vestita'

Recorded 15th March 1948

Recitar!...Vesti la giubba (from I Pagliacci)

Recorded 12th March 1951

Mascagni:

Addio alla madre (from Cavalleria Rusticana)

Recorded 4th April 1949

Massenet:

Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon)

Recorded 19th November 1945

Je suis seul, seul enfin... Ah fuyez douce image (from Manon)

Recorded 23rd October 1949

Je suis seul, seul enfin... Ah fuyez douce image (from Manon)

Recorded 15th March 1948

Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon)

Recorded 8th January 1951

Meyerbeer:

Pays merveilleux... Ô paradis (from L'Africaine)

Recorded 23rd October 1950

Pays merveilleux... Ô paradis (from L'Africaine)

Recorded 5th December 1937

Millöcker:

Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei (from Der Bettelstudent)

Recorded 25th May 1952; sung in Swedish

Morgan, O:

Clorinda

Recorded 15th March 1948

Nordqvist:

Till havs (Towards the Sea)

Recorded 20th December 1954

Peterson-Berger:

Jungfrun under lind (Ernst von der Recke)

Recorded 12th May 1946

Jungfrun under lind (Ernst von der Recke)

Recorded 11th April 1949

Jungfrun under lind (Ernst von der Recke)

Recorded 8th January 1951

När jag för mig själv (When I Walk by Myself)

Recorded 20th December 1954

Ponchielli:

Cielo e mar! (from La Gioconda)

Recorded 30th September 1951

Puccini:

O soave fanciulla (from La Bohème)

Recorded 25th September 1949

Licia Albanese (soprano)

Che gelida manina (from La Bohème)

Recorded 23rd October 1949

O soave fanciulla (from La Bohème)

Recorded 23rd October 1949

Anna-Lisa Björling (soprano)

E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca)

Recorded 30th September 1951

Che gelida manina (from La Bohème)

Recorded 7th November 1949

Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut)

Recorded 8th January 1951

O sventata, sventata (from La Bohème)

Recorded 30th January 1956

Che gelida manina (from La Bohème)

Recorded 30th January 1956

Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème)

Recorded 30th January 1956

O soave fanciulla (from La Bohème)

Recorded 30th January 1956

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Recondita armonia (from Tosca)

Recorded 5th December 1937

Rachmaninov:

Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5

Recorded 15th March 1948

V molchanii nochi taynoy, Op. 4 No. 3

Recorded 23rd October 1950

Rangström:

Tristans död

Recorded 11th April 1949

Romberg, S:

Will You Remember (from Maytime)

Recorded 21st January 1946

Schubert:

An Sylvia, D891

sung in English; recorded 19th November 1945

Ständchen 'Leise flehen meine Lieder', D957 No. 4

Recorded 4th April 1949

Sjögren:

I drömmen du är mig nära

Recorded 11th April 1949

Söderman:

Trollsjön

Recorded 11th April 1949

Trollsjön

Recorded 25th May 1952

Strauss, R:

Ständchen, Op. 17 No. 2

Recorded 7th November 1949

Zueignung, Op. 10 No. 1

Recorded 23rd October 1950

Tchaikovsky:

Kuda, Kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (from Eugene Onegin)

Recorded 5th August 1960; sung in Swedish

Tosti:

L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra

Recorded 30th September 1951

L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra

Recorded 11th April 1949

Verdi:

Quel suon…Ah! Che la morte ognora (from Il Trovatore)

Recorded 21st January 1946

Eleanor Steber (soprano)

Solenne in quest'ora (from La Forza del Destino)

Recorded 5th December 1937

Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida)

Recorded 12th March 1951

Celeste Aida (from Aida)

Recorded 12th March 1951

Wagner:

In fernem Land (from Lohengrin)

Recorded 20th December 1954

In fernem Land (from Lohengrin)

Recorded 5th August 1960; sung in Swedish

Adam:

O, helga natt

Alfvén:

Saa tag mit Hjerte (Text: Tove Ditlevsen)

Althen:

Land, du välsignade (Thou Blessed Country)

Atterberg:

Fanal: Final Scene

Beach:

Ah, Love, but a day! Op. 44, No. 2

Beethoven:

Adelaide, Op. 46

Bizet:

La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen)

Je crois entendre encore (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles)

Campbell-Tipton:

A Spirit Flower

Capua:

O sole mio

Cilea:

È la solita storia 'Lamento di Federico' (from L'Arlesiana)

Donizetti:

Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore)

Flotow:

M'appari (from Martha)

Foster, S:

I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

Friml:

Only A Rose (from The Vagabond King)

Geehl:

For You Alone

Giordano, U:

Come un bel dì di maggio (from Andrea Chénier)

Amor ti vieta (from Fedora)

Godard, B:

Berceuse from Jocelyn

Gounod:

Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre… Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (from Faust)

L'amour, l'amour... Ah, lève-toi soleil (from Roméo et Juliette)

De grâce demeurez… Ange adorable (Roméo et Juliette)

Hardelot:

Because

Leoncavallo:

Recitar!...Vesti la giubba (from I Pagliacci)

Mattinata - 'L'aurora di bianco vestita'

I Pagliacci: excerpts

Victoria de los Angeles (Nedda), Leonard Warren (Tonio), Paul Franke (Beppe), Robert Merrill (Silvio)

Mascagni:

Mamma, quel vino (from Cavalleria Rusticana)

O Lola, ch'ai di latti la cammisa (from Cavalleria Rusticana)

Massenet:

Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon)

Je suis seul, seul enfin... Ah fuyez douce image (from Manon)

Meyerbeer:

Mi batte il cor … O paradiso (from L'Africana)

Millöcker:

Soll ich redden…Ich setz’ den Fall (from Der Bettelstudent)

Sung in Swedish

Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei (from Der Bettelstudent)

Sung in Swedish

Nordqvist:

Bön I ofredstid (Prayer in Time of War)

Bisp Thomas frihetssång (Bishop Thomas' Song of Freedom)

Till havs (Towards the Sea)

Offenbach:

Le jugement de Pâris - Au Mont Ida (from La Belle Hélène)

Peterson-Berger:

När jag för mig själv (When I Walk by Myself)

Bland skogens höga furustammar (Among the High Fir-Trees in the Forest)

Jungfrun under lind (Ernst von der Recke)

Ponchielli:

Cielo e mar! (from La Gioconda)

Puccini:

Che gelida manina (from La Bohème)

Recondita armonia (from Tosca)

E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca)

Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano (from La Fanciulla del West)

O soave fanciulla (from La Bohème)

Hjödis Schymberg (Mimi)

Nessun dorma (from Turandot)

Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut)

Recondita armonia (from Tosca)

E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca)

La Bohème (highlights)

Victoria de los Angeles (Mimi), Lucine Amara (Musetta), Robert Merrill (Marcello), John Reardon (Schaunard), Giorgio Tozzi (Colline)

Madama Butterfly (highlights)

Victoria de los Angeles (Butterfly), Miriam Pirazzini (Suzuki), Mario Sereni (Sharpless), Piero de Palma (Goro)

Rachmaninov:

In the silence of the secret night, Op. 4 No. 3

Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5

Rimsky Korsakov:

Song of the Hindu Guest (from Sadko)

Rossini:

Stabat Mater: Cujus animam gementem

Salén:

Sången till havet (Song to the Sea)

Visa kring slånblom och månskära (Song of Blackthorn and Crescent Moon)

Schrader, M:

Sommarnatt (Summer Night)

Sibelius:

Demanten på marssnön, Op. 36 No. 6 (Wecksell)

Sjöberg:

Tonerna (text: Erik Gustaf Geijer)

Söderman:

Kung Heimer och Aslög (Text: Frans Hedberg)

Trollsjön

Speaks:

Sylvia

Stenhammar:

Sverige (Sweden)

Strauss, J, II:

Wer uns getraut? (from Der Zigeunerbaron)

Sung in Swedish

Strauss, R:

Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4

Cäcilie, Op. 27 No. 2

Tosti:

Ideale

L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra

Verdi:

Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida)

La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto)

Ingemisco (from Requiem)

Ah sì ben mio (from Il trovatore)

(two recordings)

Di quella pira (from Il trovatore)

(two recordings)

Questa o quella (from Rigoletto)

(two recordings)

Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera)

Widestedt:

Nämner du Sverige (If You Mention Sweden)

Adam:

Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau)

Auber:

Du pauvre seul ami fidèle (from La Muette de Portici)

Bach, J S:

Cantata BWV189 'Meine Seele ruhmt und preist'

Cantata BWV55 'Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht'

Cantata BWV160 'Ich weiß, daß mein Erloeser lebt'

St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Geduld, Geduld

Mass in B minor: Benedictus

Beethoven:

Christus am Ölberge: Jehova, du mein Vater...Meine Seele ist erschüttert

Adelaide, Op. 46

An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved), Op. 98

Bellini:

Prendi l'anel ti dono (from La Sonnambula)

Berlioz:

Une heure encore (from Benvenuto Cellini)

Seul pour lutter, seul avec mon courage (from Benvenuto Cellini)

Bizet:

Au fond du temple saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles)

A cette voix quel trouble… Je crois entendre encore (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles)

La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen)

Cilea:

È la solita storia 'Lamento di Federico' (from L'Arlesiana)

Delibes:

Lakmé! Lakmé! Ah! Viens dans la forêt profonde (from Lakmé)

Donizetti:

Quanto è bella, quanto è cara! (from L'Elisir d'amore)

Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore)

Tombe degl'avi miei … Fra poco a me ricovero...Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali (from Lucia di Lammermoor)

Povero Ernesto...cercherò lontano terra (from Don Pasquale)

Com'é gentil…Tornami a dir (from Don Pasquale)

Spirto gentil ne' sogni miei (from La Favorita)

Flotow:

Jungfrau Maria (from Alessandro Stradella)

Ach, so fromm (from Martha)

Glinka:

A Life for the Tsar: Bratsï! V metel', v nevedomoy glushi

Gluck:

Alceste : Air d'Admete 'Bannis la crainte et les alarmes

Unis des la plus tendre enfance (from Iphigénie en Tauride)

Divinité des grandes âmes (from Iphigénie en Tauride)

Che puro ciel (Orfeo ed Euridice)

French version

J'ai perdu mon Eurydice (from Orphée et Eurydice)

Goldmark:

Magische Töne, berauschender Duft (from Die Königin von Saba)

Gounod:

Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre… Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (from Faust)

Mon cœur est plein d'un noir soucis... Anges du Paradis (from Mireille)

L'amour, l'amour... Ah, lève-toi soleil (from Roméo et Juliette)

Kalman:

Tanzen Möcht' ich (from Die Csárdásfürstin)

Wenn es Abendd … Grüß mir mein Wien (from Gräfin Mariza)

Auch ich war einst ein feiner Csárdákavalier … Komm, Zigan (from Gräfin Mariza)

Heut' Nacht hab' ich geträumt von Dir (from Das Veilchen von Montmartre)

Lalo:

Vainement, ma bien-aimée (from Le roi d’Ys)

Lehár:

Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküßt (from Paganini)

Allein, wieder allein (from Der Zarewitsch)

Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns)

O Mädchen, mein Mädchen (from Friederike)

Lortzing:

Lebe wohl, mein flandrisch Mädchen (from Zar und Zimmermann)

Massenet:

Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon)

Je suis seul, seul enfin... Ah fuyez douce image (from Manon)

Un autre est son époux! Traduire! (from Werther)

Mendelssohn:

Elijah: Ye people, rend your hearts

Elijah: If with all your hearts

Meyerbeer:

Beauté Divine (from Les Huguenots)

Ô Paradis (from L'Africaine)

Millöcker:

Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei (from Der Bettelstudent)

Mozart:

Konstanze, Konstanze...O wie ängstlich (from Die Entführung aus dem Serail)

In Mohrenland gefangen war (from Die Entführung aus dem Serail)

Un'aura amorosa del nostro tesoro (from Così fan tutte)

Se all' Impero (from La Clemenza di Tito)

Per pieta, non ricercate KV 420

Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (from Die Zauberflöte)

Dalla sua pace (from Don Giovanni)

Il mio tesoro intanto (from Don Giovanni)

Mussorgsky:

At midnight, in the garden, by the fountain (from Boris Godunov)

That wily Jesuit has firmly seized me (from Boris Godunov)

Why my sad heart? (from Sorochinsky Fair)

Nicolai, C O:

Horch, die Lerche singt im Hain! 'Romance' (from Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor)

Offenbach:

Va pour Kleinzach...Il était une fois à la cour (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann)

Ponchielli:

Cielo e mar! (from La Gioconda)

Puccini:

Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut)

Che gelida manina (from La Bohème)

Recondita armonia (from Tosca)

E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca)

Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia (from Madama Butterfly)

Nessun dorma (from Turandot)

Rimsky Korsakov:

Solynshko nizko, vecher uzh blisko (The sun is low, the evening is approaching) (from May Night)

Kak tikho, kak prokhladno tut! (How peaceful, how fresh it is here!) (from May Night)

Song of the Hindu Guest (from Sadko)

Rossini:

Asile héréditaire (from Guillaume Tell)

Ecco, ridente in cielo (from Il Barbiere di Siviglia)

Rousseau, J-J:

Je vais revoir ma charmante maîtresse... Quand on sait (from Le Devin du Village)

Schubert:

Die schöne Müllerin, D795

Straus, O:

Ich hab' mit Freuden angehört (from Ein Walzertraum)

Strauss, J, II:

Eine Nacht in Venedig: Komm in die Gondel

Als flotter Geist (from Der Zigeunerbaron)

Tchaikovsky:

Kuda, Kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (from Eugene Onegin)

Forgive me, loveliest of creatures (from Pique Dame)

What is our life? A game! (from Pique Dame)

Thomas, Ambroise:

Adieu, Mignon! Courage! (Mignon)

Verdi:

Ella mi fu rapita! (from Rigoletto)

Parmi veder le lagrime (from Rigoletto)

La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto)

Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera)

Forse la soglia attinse (from Un ballo in maschera)

Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida)

Ingemisco (from Requiem)

Wagner:

In fernem Land (from Lohengrin)

Mein lieber Schwan (from Lohengrin)

Weber:

Nein! länger trag' ich nicht die Qualen…Durch die Wälder (from Der Freischütz)

Von Jugend auf in dem Kampfgefild (from Oberon)

Vater! Hör' mich flehn zu dir! (from Oberon)