Feodor Chaliapin - 50th Anniversary Album - 64 sides - Gramophone/HMV 1902-1936

Glinka:  "A Life for the Tsar" / "Ruslan & Ludmilla"   Side One/Bands 1-2-4    Side One/Band 3
Dargomijsky:  "Rusalka"   Side One/Bands 5-6    Rubinstein:  "The Demon"  Side One/Bands 7-8  
Mussorgsky:  "Boris Gudonov"  Side Two/Band 1    Side Two/Bands 2-5    Side Two/Bands 3-4     Side Three/Band 1
Borodin:  "Prince Igor"   Side Three/Bands 2-3-4    Rimsky-Korsakov:  "Sadko"  Side Three/Band 5
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Rossini / Bellini    Side Four/Bands 1-2-3     Meyerbeer / Donizetti / Verdi    Side Four/Bands 4-5-6    
Verdi / Boito    Side Four/Bands 7-8
Gounod / Delibes    Side Five/Bands 1-2-4-5     Gounod / Flegier / Massenet    Side Five/Bands 3-6-7    
Marseillaise / Glazunov    Side Five/Band 8 + Side Seven/Band 3
Beethoven / Mussorgsky    Side Six/Bands 1-6     Schubert / Koenemann / Sokolov    Side Six/Band 2 + Side Seven/Bands 4-5
Tchaikovsky / Glinka    Side Six/Band 3 + Side Seven/Band 1-2      Glinka / Rubinstein    Side Six/Bands 4-8    
Mussorgsky / Rubinstein / Stenka Razin    Side Six/Bands 5-7 + Side Seven/Band 9
Unaccompanied Folksongs    Side Seven/Bands 6-8 + Side Eight/Band 1    Brigands / Red Sun / Nevstruev    Side Seven/Band 7 + Side Eight/Bands 2-3     Wedel / Strokin / Gretchaninov / Archangelsky    Side Eight/Bands 5-6-7-8
Telephone Sketch    Side Eight/Band 9
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HMV  EX 7 61065 1  (1988: 4LP's DMM - bought 1989)   Transfers by Keith Hardwick  (much editing required......)     Full details are in the album notes, below >>>

Beecham / LPO - Rossini. Overtures / Respighi. Rossiniana / Gretry - Columbia 1933-1940

Rossini: Overtures:
"La Scala di Seta"     /    "William Tell"    /      "La Gazza Ladra"     /     "Semiramide"
Respighi: "Rossiniana" - suite  
Gretry: "Zemire et Azor" - Air de Ballet * 
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London Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Thomas Beecham  
EMI World Records   SH 313   1979 LP    Matrices: 2XEA 6534 -1 / 2XEA 6535 -1  
*Gretry from SHB 55 - French Showpieces  (coupled on 78's with 'Semiramide').   Transfers by Anthony Griffith.      Sleeve-note >>>

Arturo Toscanini / NBC SO - Rossini Overtures - RCA 1945

Gioachino Rossini:  Operatic Overtures -

"Il Barbiere di Siviglia"    (28 June 1945)
"La Gazza Ladra"        (28 June 1945)    
"La Cenerentola"      (8 June 1945)   
"Il Signor Bruschino"      (8 June 1945)                                                            4 files zip FLAC  Mega Download

The NBC Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Arturo Toscanini 
HMV  ALP 1007   1956 pressing.  RCA LM 1044 matrices: E0-LRC 3806 -21S / 3807 -21S   Recorded: Carnegie Hall, New York.   
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John McCormack. Opera Arias - Odeon 1907-09 / with Melba, Thornton, Sammarco, Kirkby-Lunn, Destinn - HMV 1910-12

1907/8....  Mascagni: Cavalliera Rusticana - Siciliana  /  Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci - On with the motley  /  Puccini: Tosca - E lucevan le stelle  /
                  Puccini: La Boheme - Che gelida manina  
1908/9....  Thomas: Mignon - In her simplicity  /  Bizet: Carmen - Il fior che avevi a me  /  Donizetti: La favorita - Spirito gentil.  /
                  Verdi: Aida - Celeste Aida
1909/10...  Verdi: Rigoletto - Questa o quella  /  La donna e mobile.  /  Bella figlia dell'amore  /  Gounod: Faust - All'erta!
1911/12...  Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: O meglio mi scordavo..  /  Ponchielli: La Gioconda - Badoer questa notte.. /
                   Wolf-Ferrari: I Gioielli  della Madonna - T'eri un giorno  /  Rossini: 'Mira la bianca luna'        4 files zip FLAC Mega Download
with:  Nellie Melba ~ Edna Thornton ~ Mario Sammarco ~ Louisa Kirkby-Lunn ~ Emmy Destinn  ...see sleeve-note for full recording details.      
EMI World Records  SH 399    Issued 1982.  Matrices: 2XEA 7174 -1 / 2XEA 7175 -1.   
Transfers by Keith Hardwick (and a vast amount of editing by me).  The sound can be very vivid. (Now on CD..)      Sleeve-note >>>