CDs with: Tibbett, Lawrence

Great singers, 1909-1938.

La sonnambula. Ah! Non giunge / Bellini (Tetrazzini) -- Pagliacci. No! Pagliaccio non son / Leoncavallo (Caruso) -- Lucrezia Borgia. Brindisi : Il segreto per esser felici / Donizetti (Schumann-Heink) -- Don Giovanni. Il mio tesoro / Mozart (McCormack) -- I puritani. Son vergin vezzosa / Bellini (Galli-Curci) -- Il barbiere di Siviglia. Largo al factotum / Rossini (Stracciari) -- Norma. Sediziose voci/Casta diva / Bellini (Ponselle) -- I puritani. A te o cara / Bellini (Lauri-Volpi) -- Turandot. In questa Reggia / Puccini (Turner) -- Un ballo in maschera. Eri tu / Verdi (Tibbett) -- Carmen. Habañera : L'amour est un oiseau rebelle / Bizet (Supervía) -- La Bohème. Che gelida manina / Puccini (Gigli) -- Samson et Dalila. Softly awakes my heart = Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix / Saint-Saëns (Anderson) (sung in English) -- L'amico Fritz. Suzel, buon dì / Mascagni (Schipa, Favero) -- Ombra di Nube / Refice (Muzio) -- Die Zauberflöte. Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön / Mozart (Tauber).

CD 484

Lawrence Tibbett : from Broadway to Hollywood.

Porgy and Bess. Summertime ; Summertime & crap game [and] A woman is a sometime thing ; My man's gone now ; I got plenty o' nuttin' ; The buzzard song ; Bess you is my woman now ; It ain't necessarily so ; Where is my Bess / George Gershwin ; [libretto by] DuBose Heyward (Helen Jepson, soprano ; Orchestra and chorus from the original New York production ; Alexander Smallens, conductor) (30:00) -- Emperor Jones. Oh Lord! Standin' in the need of prayer / Louis Gruenberg (Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra ; Wilfred Pelletier, conductor) (4:54) -- Merry Mount. Oh, 'tis an earth defiled / Howard Hanson (Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra ; Wilfred Pelletier, conductor) (4:43) -- The rogue song : excerpts from the MGM film. The rogue song ; The narrative ; The white dove ; When I'm looking at you / Herbert Stothart, [3rd excerpt by] Franz Lehár ; [lyrics by] Clifford Grey (Nathaniel Shilkret, conductor) (15:00) -- The prodigal. Without a song / Vincent Youmans ; [lyrics by] Rose Eliscu (Nathaniel Shilkret, conductor) (3:48) -- The prodigal. Life is a dream / Oskar Straus ; [lyrics by] Arthur Freed (Nathaniel Shilkret, conductor) (3:53) -- De glory road / Jaques Wolfe ; [lyrics by] Clement Wood (Stewart Wille, piano) (4:59) -- Old Black Joe / Stephen Foster (Bourdon, conductor) (3:50) -- Goin' home / Antonin Dvorak ; [arr. and lyrics by] Williams Arms Fisher (Alexander Smallens, conductor) (5:17).

CD 1870