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Eileen Farrell and Earl Wrightson perform two songs from the 1946 show, "John Paul Jones". This was the 58th annual production by the Mask and Wig Club of the University of Pennsylvania. This radio broadcast with Farrell...

From his 1967 Ravel album, here is John Browning performing the final movement, Toccata, from Ravel's suite "Le tombeau de Couperin".

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From the "Te Deum" by Hector Berlioz, here is Welsh tenor Richard Lewis singing the prayer "Te ergo quaesumus" with the BBC forces under the direction of Antal Dorati. This was the final musical performance in Westminster...

"Élégie" by Gabriel Fauré performed by the late Hungarian-American cellist János Starker (1924-2013). Dean Dixon conducts the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra. From 1964.

Elegy: "A poem or song composed especially as a ...

French TV footage of soprano Mady Mesplé performing Leïla's Act II aria "Comme autrefois dans la nuit sombre" from Bizet's "Les pêcheurs de perles" (The Pearlfishers) and Rosina's Act I cavatina, "Una voce poco fa" (sung i...

The "Grande Dame of Song", Maureen Forrester, sings four songs by Canadian composer Violet Archer. John Newmark is the pianist.

I. "First Snow" (Arthur Stanley Bourinot)

II. "Cradle Song" (Amy Bissett England)

III. ...

Benjamin Luxon sings this English folk style song (©1913) by Fred Weatherly and Wilfrid Sanderson which depicts a Somerset family on a day out in London, where they meet the King and Queen, William and Mary. The farmer hus...

"Tell me, some pitying angel" (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation) by Henry Purcell, sung by English soprano April Cantelo with George Malcolm, harpsichord. From 1958.

Here are five songs from a 1952 concert in the Netherlands with countertenor Alfred Deller and Gustav Leonhardt at the harpsichord.

I. "Thrice happy lovers" (Fairy Queen)

II. "O lead me to some peaceful gloom" (Bonduca)...

Here is a wonderful performance of the Britten Cantata which was written for Dame Janet Baker. She is accompanied by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of János Ferencsik from 1979.

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Here is a wonderful performance of the Brahms Rhapsody with Dame Janet Baker and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of János Ferencsik from 1979.

"Vater der Liebe, ein Tonseinem Ohre vernehmlich, so erqui...

The famed Danish singer gave a recital of Schubert's "Winterreise", D. 911, at Carnegie Hall in April, 1964 with pianist David Burge. Aksel Schiøtz was singing as a baritone at this time following a stroke he suffered in ...

The magical/musical duo of Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten perform Schubert's "Auf der Bruck" (Auf der Brücke), D. 853. From an HMV recording in 1950. It is very clear why the famed Gerald Moore considered Benjamin Britt...

Tenor Max Lichtegg with Georg Solti at the piano perform two songs from Schubert's "Schwanengesang", D. 957. Decca recordings from 1949.

VII. "Abschied" (Ludwig Rellstab)

VI. "In der Ferne" (Rellstab)

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"Parle-moi de ma mere" from Bizet's "Carmen" with Léopold Simoneau & Pierrette Alarie from 1959.

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Act I, scene 3, from a live 1965 performance of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" with tenor Cesare Valletti as Ernesto and Salvatore Baccaloni in the title role. The scene is complete and includes "Sogno soave e casto" and "Mi ...

From a live 1965 performance of Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale" here is tenor Cesare Valletti, in the role of Ernesto, performing two arias and a duet with the New Orleans Opera Association.

I. "Povero Ernesto!... Cerch...

From Handel's opera "Semele", here is the Act II aria "There, from mortal cares retiring" sung by Welsh soprano Mary Thomas (Iris). Helen Watts sings the role of Juno. From a 1969 BBC broadcast.

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From the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, here is Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire performing Brahms' "Piano Concerto No. 2" with Valery Gergiev conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra. 5 April 2010.

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From an October, 1948 Carnegie Hall concert, here is Eleanor Steber with pianist Edwin Biltcliffe performing Samuel Barber's piece. The work was commissioned by Steber and premiered by her earlier in 1948 with the Boston ...

From a 1984 recital, here is the late American tenor Jerry Hadley (1952-2007) performing the romanza "Una furtive lagrima" from the opera "L'elisir d'amore" by Donizetti. Cheryll Drake Hadley at the piano.

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From a live performance on 8 March 1967, here is Norman Treigle in the title role of Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi". Franco Patanè is the conductor.

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The great American bass-baritone sings the role of Escamillo in this performance of Bizet's "Carmen" from Mexico City. 11 October 1966. Two days after this performance, on the 18th, he appeared in Gounod's "Faust" opposit...

From a private recording of the artist, here is Welsh tenor Gerald Davies performing "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" (in English) with an unknown organ/piano accompaniment. Davies had been principal tenor for Sadler's Wells O...