From Melba to Sutherland: Australian Singers on Record > Various Artists


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Audio / Vocal Recording / (Compilation)
Language
English
Performer
Essie Ackland (2), Irene Ainsley, Frances Alda (2), Angelina Arena, Florence Austral (2), Heather Begg (7), Andrew Black, Harold Blair, Eileen Boyd, June Bronhill (40), John Brownlee (6), Rosina Buckman (2), John Cameron (71), Joan Carden (3), Ella Caspers, Amy Castles, Lionello Cecil, Geoffrey Chard (5), Robert Chisholm (4), Marie Collier (2), Ada Crossley, Peter Dawson (10), Ronald Dowd (2), Margreta Elkins, Lauris Elms (3), Sylvia Fisher (4), Florrie Ford, Robert Gard (5), Marherita Grandi, Nance Grant, Joan Hammond (2), Dorothy Helmrich, Alfred Hill, Hamilton Hill, Rita Hunter (3), Gertrude Johnson, Yvonne Kenny (14), Walter Kirby, Sylvia Lamonte, Albert Lance (2), John Lanigan (4), Marjorie Lawrence (3), Emma Matthews (3), Malcolm McEachern (4), Nellie Melba (2), Yvonne Minton (2), Lalla Miranda, Gladys Moncrieff (7), Elsie Morison (14), Violet Mount, Browning Mummery (2), Marie Narelle, Kenneth Neate (2), Raymond Nilsson (2), Alfred O'Shea, Stella Power, Rosina Raisbeck (4), Glenda Raymond (2), Deborah Riedel (5), Evelyn Scotney, Clara Serena, Frances Seville, John Shaw (7), Donald Smith (3), Horace Stevens, Elsa Stralia, Joan Sutherland (34), Lorna Sydney, Neil Warren-Smith (3), Richard Watson (8), Albert Whelan (4), Billy Williams (7), Harold Williams (6), Strella Wilson, Max Worthley (3)
Notes
'From Melba to Sutherland: Australian Singers on Record' is the first-ever comprehensive survey of the recordings of Australia's greatest singers – in a unique new four-CD set from Decca, complete with biographies of each of the 80 artists, rare photographs, all contained within a 68-page booklet.

Why has there been such an extraordinary procession of world-class Australian singers over such an extended period of time? The question is often asked, but there are no easy answers. For Australia to have produced Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland, two of the most famous singers of the twentieth century, is in itself something like a miracle. But there are so many more – some 80 wonderful singers in total.

The compilation has been meticulously researched by music historian Roger Neill and recording industry expert Tony Locantro. It covers a wide range of musical genres, from opera to music hall and from art song to variety. Co-producer Roger Neill has said: "Thirteen years in the making, From Melba to Sutherland is truly a once-in-a-lifetime project – the first-ever comprehensive survey of recordings by Australia's greatest singers."
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4-CD
Label
Decca Eloquence
Released
2016-09-23
Country
Australia
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Disc 1
1. MELBA & THE MARCHESI SCHOOL: Gounod: Ah! Je ris (Jewel Song) (Faust) / NELLIE MELBA
2. Bemberg: Nymphs et sylvains
3. Puccini: Addio, dolce svegliare (Quartet) (La bohème) / BROWNING MUMMERY / JOHN BROWNLEE
4. Massenet: Obéissons, quand leur voix appelle (Gavotte) (Manon)/ FRANCES SEVILLE
5. Mallinson: New Year Song / ADA CROSSLEY
6. Verdi: Miserere (Il trovatore) / FRANCES ALDA
7. Puccini: In quelle trine morbide (Manon Lescaut)
8. Verdi: Caro nome (Rigoletto) / AMY CASTLES
9. Metcalf: Absent / IRENE AINSLEY
10. Auber: C’est l’histoire amoureuse (Manon Lescaut) / EVELYN SCOTNEY
11. Donizetti: Regnava nel silenzio (Lucia di Lammermoor) / STELLA POWER
12. OTHER EARLY SOPRANOS: Balfe: Killarney / MARIE NARELLE
13. Verdi: Follie! Follie! … Sempre libera (La traviata) (sung in French)/ LALLA MIRANDA
14. Puccini: One fine day (Un bel dì vedremo) (Madama Butterfly)/ ROSINA BUCKMAN
15. Scott: Lullaby / GERTRUDE JOHNSON
16. OTHER EARLY MEZZOS AND CONTRALTOS - Molloy: Darby and Joan / ELLA CASPERS
17. Schumann: Thou art so like a flower (Du bist wie eine Blume) (Myrthen)/ DOROTHY HELMRICH
18. Brahe: I passed by your window /EILEEN BOYD
19. Saint-Saëns: Tonight … O love, from thy power (Samson … Amour, viens aider)/ CLARA SERENA
20. Brahe: Bless this house/ ESSIE ACKLAND
21. EARLY TENORS- Hill: Waiata Poi/ ALFRED HILL
22. Kneass: Ben Bolt (Trilby’s Song) / WALTER KIRBY
23. Leoncavallo: No! Punchinello, no more (No! Pagliaccio non son) (Pagliacci) / BROWNING MUMMERY
24. MacMorrough: Macushla/ ALFRED O'SHEA
25. Puccini: Amore o grillo (Madama Butterfly) / LIONELLO CECIL
26. EARLY BARITONES & BASSES - Elgar: Jesu! by that shuddering dread (The Dream of Gerontius)/ HORACE STEVENS
Disc 2
1. Sullivan: Time was when love and I (Curate’s Song) (The Sorcerer)/ ANDREW BLACK
2. Handel: Honour and Arms (Samson)/ PETER DAWSON
3. James: Six Australian Bush Songs /PETER DAWSON - No. 1
4. No. 2
5. No. 4
6. No. 5
7. No. 6
8. Trad. Cornish arr. Moss: The Floral Dance/ PETER DAWSON
9. Handel: O ruddier than the cherry (Acis and Galatea)/ MALCOLM McEACHERN
10. Cowan: Onaway, awake beloved/ HAROLD WILLIAMS
11. Villaume: Old John Bax/ HAROLD WILLIAMS
12. Mozart: Deh vieni alla finestra (Serenade) (Don Giovanni)/ JOHN BROWNLEE
13. Sullivan: When a felon’s not engaged in his employment (Policeman’s Song) (The Pirates of Penzance)/RICHARD WATSON
14. WAGNERIANS AND OTHER DRAMATICS: Wagner: The King’s Prayer (Lohengrin) (sung in English) / LEMPRIÈRE PRINGLE
15. Wagner: Elisabeth’s Greeting (Tannhäuser) (sung in English)/ ELSA STRALIA
16. Wagner: Ho-jo-to-ho (Brünnhilde’s Battlecry) (Die Walküre)/ FLORENCE AUSTRAL
17. Wagner: Welches Unholds List (Götterdämmerung)/ FLORENCE AUSTRAL/FREDERICK COLLIER
18. Verdi: La luce langue (Macbeth) / MARHERITA GRANDI
19. Wagner: Starke Scheite (Brünnhilde’s Immolation) (Götterdämmerung) opening (sung in French)/MARJORIE LAWRENCE
20. Trad. Aboriginal arr: Loam: Maranoa Lullaby / HAROLD BLAIR
21. Britten: Is this all you can bring? (Albert Herring) ./ SYLVIA FISHER
22. Trad: Comin' thro' the rye / SYRIA LAMONTE
23. Hill: The Boys’ Brigade / HAMILTON HILL
24. Bishop: Lo! Here the gentle lark / VIOLET MOUNT (L’INCOGNITA)
25. Thurban: The Whistling Bowery Boy/ ALBERT WHELAN
26. Murphy & Lipton: Oh! Oh! Antonio/ FLORRIE FORD
Disc 3
1. MUSICAL THEATRE, RADIO & COMEDY: Fraser-Simson: Love will find a way (The Maid of the Mountains) / GLADYS MONCRIEFF
2. Tate: A Paradise for Two (The Maid of the Mountains) /ROBERT CHISHOLM/GLADYS MONCREIFF
3. Friml: Some Day (The Vagabond King)/ STRELLA WILSON
4. O’Hagan: Let’s take a trip to Melbourne/ CLEMENT Q. WILLIAMS
5. Hilliam & McEachern: Is ’e an Aussie, Lizzie, is ’e? / MALCOLM McEACHERN
6. Rodgers: Climb Every Mountain (The Sound of Music) / ROSINA RAISBECK
7. Rodgers: The Sound of Music (The Sound of Music) / JUNE BRONHILL
8. SOPRANOS AFTER WORLD WAR II: Puccini: O my beloved father (O mio babbino caro) (Gianni Schicchi) / JOAN HAMMOND
9. Charpentier: Depuis le jour (Louise) /JOAN HAMMOND
10. Thomas: I am Titania (Je suis Titania) (Mignon)/ GLENDA RAYMOND
11. Berlioz: O mon cher fils (L’Enfance du Christ)/ ELSIE MORISON / JOHN CAMERON
12. Verdi: Saper vorreste (Un ballo in maschera) / ANGELINA ARENA
13. Richard Strauss: Ich kann nicht sitzen (Elektra) / MARIE COLLIER
14. Wagner: Du bist der Lenz (Die Walküre) / NANCE GRANT
15. Ponchielli: Suicidio! (La Gioconda) / RITA HUNTER
16. MEZZOS AFTER WORLD WAR II: Mahler: Urlicht (Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’) / LORNA SYDNEY
17. Mahler: Rheinlegendchen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) / YVONNE MINTON
18. Purcell: All our days and our nights (The Masque in Dioclesian) / MAX WORTHLEY
19. Verdi: O figli miei! … Ah, la paterna mano (Macbeth, Act IV) / DONALD SMITH
20. German: The Yeomen of England (Merrie England) / JOHN CAMERON
21. Weston & Barnes: When father papered the parlour / BILLY WILLIAMS
Disc 4
1. Berlioz: Sanctus (Grand Messe des Morts, Op. 5)/ RONALD DOWD
2. Puccini: Nessun dorma (Turandot) / KENNETH NEATE
3. Britten: People! … No! I will speak! (Peter Grimes) / RAYMOND NILSSON / JOHN LANIGAN
4. Puccini: Lovely maid in the moonlight (O soave fanciulla) (La Bohème)/ JOHN LANIGAN / GLENDA RAYMOND
5. Bizet: La fleur que tu m’avais jetée (Carmen) / ALBERT LANCE
6. SUTHERLAND AND HER CIRCLE: Donizetti: Cruda, funesta smania … La pietada in suo favore (Lucia di Lammermoor)/ JOHN SHAW
7. Verdi: Una fatale del mio destino (La forza del destino)/ ROBERT ALLMAN
8. Massenet: De l’autel vénéré … O divine Esclarmonde! (Esclarmonde) / CLIFFORD GRANT
9. Meale: I am behind you, Voss … Nothing could be safer or more solid (Voss) / CLIFFORD GRANT/GEOFFREY CHARD/HEATHER BEGG
10. Meale: I am looking at the map of my hand (Voss) / ROBERT GARD
11. Verdi: Vieni o levita … Tu sul labbro (Nabucco)/ NEIL WARREN-SMITH
12. Graun: Se il dovere in quest’addio (Montezuma)/ LAURIS ELMS
13. Elgar: In Haven (Capri) (Sea Pictures, Op. 37) / MARGRETA ELKINS
14. Rossini: La fioraia fiorentina / JOAN SUTHERLAND
15. Donizetti: Ah! tardai troppo … O luce di quest’anima (Linda di Chamounix)/ JOAN SUTHERLAND
16. Gounod: Oh Dieu! Que de bijoux … Ah! Je ris (Jewel Song) (Faust)/ JOAN SUTHERLAND
17. Catalani: Ebben? … Ne andrò lontana (La Wally)/ JOAN CARDEN
18. Novello: We’ll gather lilacs (Perchance to Dream)/ YVONNE KENNY
19. Kálmán: Mary kam vom gold’nen Strande (Die Herzogin von Chicago)/ DEBORAH RIEDEL
20. Gounod: Dieu ! quel frisson … Amour, ranime mon courage (Roméo et Juliette)/ EMMA MATTHEWS

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