Tracks 1-5 Tracks 6-9 Tracks 10-20

Georges Bizet

1 (1838-75) L’amour est un oiseau rebelle (Carmen) 4:27 2



Vincenzo Bellini

(1801-35) Casta Diva (Norma)

Christoph Willibald Gluck

5:19

3

(1714-87) J’ai perdu mon Eurydice (Orphée et Eurydice) 4:27

Giacomo Puccini

4 (1858-1924) Un bel dì vedremo (Madam Butterfly)

4:47

5 (1813-1901) D’amor sull’ali rosee (Il trovatore)

4:14

Giuseppe Verdi

LUCIA POPP

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Des Knaben Wunderhorn

total cd duration: 

Ablösung im Sommer Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen Wer hat dies liedlein erdacht

1:41 7:08 2:14

ELISABETH SÖDERSTRÖM

Modest Musorgsky (1839-81) Nursery Songs

10 With nanny 11 In the corner 12 The beetle 13 With the doll 14 Going to sleep 15 On the hobby-horse 16 The cat sailor

Emil Sjögren (1853-1918)

17 Klinge, klinge, mein Pandero 18 Jahrlang möcht’ ich so Dich halten 19 In dem Schatten meiner Locken

1:39 1:24 2:03 1:51 1:59 3:02 2:10 3:03

Tracks 1-5 recorded 1955-61 Tracks 6-9 recorded live at St John’s, Smith Square, London on 8 July 1991 Tracks 10-20 recorded live at St John’s, Smith Square, London on 5 March 1979 Producer Misha Donat Editing and mastering Jennifer Howells Cover Arena Pal, Getty, EMI The Maria Callas tracks appear by kind permission of Warner Classics. Tracks taken from Maria Callas Remastered – The Complete Studio Recordings (1949-1969) www.warnerclassics.com For texts of the arias and songs see: classical-music.co.uk/sopranotexts

2:24 3:52

Waldemar Thrane (1790-1828) 3:15

20 Norwegian Echo Song

4:01

65:05

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Vol. 22 No. 12

Vol. 22 No. 12

6 Rheinlegendchen

7 8 9

the great sopranos arias and songs

the great sopranos arias and songs

MARIA CALLAS

Maria Callas (soprano) Lucia Popp (soprano) Irwin Gage (piano) Elisabeth Söderström Martin Isepp (piano)