Six towering vocal performers of the early 20th century are brought together for the first time in the GOLDEN VOICES AND GLORIOUS DIVAS DELUXE EDITION CD collection: Richard Tauber, John McCormack, Peter Dawson, Kathleen Ferrier, Joan Hammond and Nellie Melba!
Pioneers of early 20th century radio and recording, these artists and their signature songs defined popular music of the 20s, 30s & 40s!
This 6 CD deluxe collection digitally restores each of these artists finest recordings for better than ever sound!
Peter Dawson
Waltzing Matilda * Boots * The Road To Mandalay * Phil The Fluter's Ball * The Floral Dance * Jerusalem * Roses OF Picardy * Glorious Devon * Sylvia * The Fishermen Of England, and more!
CD 1
1
Waltzing Matilda
2
Boots
3
On The Road to Mandalay
4
Phil The Fluters Ball
5
The Trumpeter
6
The Yeoman Of England
7
The Floral Dance
8
Old Father Thames Keeps Rolling Along
9
When The Sergeant Major's On Parade
10
A Bachelor Gay
11
Song Of The Flea
12
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
13
Sons of the Sea
14
Jerusalem
15
The Fishermen Of England
16
Glorious Devon
17
In A Monastery Garden
18
The Old Brigade
19
The Vagabond
20
Sylvia
21
Roses Of Picardy
22
Bless This House
Richard Tauber
Sleepy Lagoon * Lover, Come Back To Me * You Are My Heart's Delight * Girl's Were Made To Love And Kiss * O Mädchen, Mein Mädchen * We'll Gather Lilacs * Nessun Dorma. Plus more!
CD 2
1
Sleepy Lagoon
2
Lover, Come Back To Me
3
At The Balalaika
4
One Day When We Were Young
5
You Are My Heart's Delight
6
Dearly Beloved
7
Girls Were Made To Love And Kiss
8
One Alone
9
Can I Forget You?
10
Pedro The Fisherman
11
When Day Is Done
12
We'll Gather Lilacs
13
Vienna, City Of My Dreams
14
In The Still Of The Night
15
O Maedchen, Mein Maedchen (O Maiden, My Maiden)
16
Du Bist Die Welt Fuer Mich (You Mean The World To Me)
17
Night And Day
18
Im Chambre Separee
19
My Heart And I
20
On With The Motley
21
Keiner Schlafe (Nessun Dorma)
John McCormack
Believe Me * If All Those Endearing Young Charms * Linden Lea * I Dream Of Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair * O Mary Dear (Londonderry Air) * Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes * The Star Of County Down * Oft In The Stilly Night. Plus more!
CD 3
1
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
2
Linden Lea
3
The Old House
4
Oft In The Stilly Night
5
Kashmiri Love Song
6
The Star Of The County Down
7
The Garden Where The Praties Grow
8
Plaisir D'Amour
9
I'll Walk Beside You
10
I Dream of Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair
11
Mother Machree
12
O Mary Dear (Londonderry Air)
13
Who Is Sylvia?
14
She Is Far From The Land
15
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
16
The Rose Of Tralee
17
Somewhere A Voice Is Calling
18
Where'er You Walk
19
Macushla
20
The Minstrel Boy
21
I Hear You Calling Me
22
Ave Maria
Kathleen Ferrier
Blow The Wind Southerly, My Bonny Lad, The Keel Row, O Waly Waly, I Know Where I'm Going, Ombra Mai Fu (Largo from ‘Xerxes'), What Is Life? from ‘Orfeo And Euridice', O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings Of Zion from Handel's ‘Messiah', and much more ...
CD 1
1
Ma Bonny Lad
2
The Keel Row
3
Blow The Wind Southerly
4
I Have A Bonnet Trimmed With Blue
5
O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings Of Zion
6
He Was Despised
7
I Know Where I'm Going
8
The Fidgety Bairn
9
I Will Walk With My Love
10
Che Faro
11
Ombra Mai Fu
12
Ca' The Yowes
13
O Waly Waly
14
Willow, Willow
15
The Stuttering Lovers
16
Qui Sedes
17
Grief For Sin
18
Have You Seen But The Whyte Lillie Grow
19
Ye Banks And Braes
20
Drink To Me Only
21
Down By The Sally Gardens
Dame Joan Hammond
The Last Rose of Summer, The Green Hills of Somerset, One Fine Day (from Puccini's ‘Madam Butterfly'), O Silver Moon, When I Am Laid In Earth (from Purcell's ‘Dido & Aeneas'), They Call Me Mimi from Puccini's ‘La Boheme', and much more ...
CD 2
1
Dying Without A Mother's Blessing
2
My Beloved Father
3
One Fine Day
4
Death Wtih Honour
5
They Call Me Mimi
6
Oh, You've No Notion
7
Love And Music
8
To The Home That She Left
9
Troppo, signori...lo sono l'umile ancella fiori
10
Poveri fiori
11
The Last Rose Of Summer
12
Green Hills O' Somerset
13
Qui radmes verra! ... O patria mia
14
Tatiana's Letter Song
15
O Silver Moon
16
When I Am Laid In Earth
Dame Nellie Melba
Home Sweet Home, Annie Laurie, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Ave Maria (Verdi), Down In The Forest, Ave Maria (Gounod), Vissi D'Arte (from Puccini's ‘Tosca') and many, many more! Plus, BONUS TRACK: Nellie's farewell speech from Covent Garden.
CD 3
1
Down In The Forest
2
By The Waters Of Minnetonka
3
Annie Laurie
4
Del ciel clemente, 'Mad Scene'
5
Addio
6
Siempre libera
7
Vissi d'Arte
8
Caro Nome
9
Lo, Here The Gentle Lark
10
Ah! Je ris (Jewel Song)
11
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
12
Ave Maria
13
Claire de lune
14
Piangea cantando (Willow Song)
15
Ave Maria
16
Entrate...C'e Rodolfo
17
Donde lieta usci
18
Addio lolce svgliare all mattina
19
Farewell Speech To: 'The Royal Opera House', Covent Garden
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