Gounod: "Philemon et Baucis" - Berceuse: Que les songes sont heureux / Gounod: "Romeo et Juliette" - Ballade de la reine Mab
Berlioz: "La Damnation de Faust" - Chanson de la puce -&- Serenade de Mephistopheles
Bizet: "La jolie Fille de Perth" - Quand la flamme de l'amour / Bizet: "Les Pecheurs de perles" - L'orage s'est calme
Massenet: "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame" - Legende de la Sauge / Offenbach: "Les Contes d'Hoffman" - C'est moi, Coppelius
Chabrier: "Le Roi malgre lui" - Romance du Roi
Gerard Souzay, Baritone - New Symphony Orchestra of London conducted by Paul Bonneau 3 files zip WAV Mega Download
Decca 'Grandi Voci' 414 613 Issued 1986 (originally in LXT 5269) Recorded: 9-10 April & 9-10 July 1956 - Kingsway Hall
Many thanks for this wonderful album, which I had for many years. I am really looking forward to hearing it again!
ReplyDeleter
Hello Ronan.
DeleteCertainly is wonderful! ..but a Mystery why there are two tracks missing from the original LP release (and as is the case with the later CD) ..
It's interesting that on the original LP, Valentin's aria from Faust is also included, but missing from this "reissue".
ReplyDeleteWell this shows 'the missing bits' (possibly some of the session-tapes became defective?).
DeleteThis initial 'reissue' has been overlooked in the CHARM discography:
(in the-old-days the LXT would have been pretty expensive - assuming you could even find a copy - nor would it have been so immaculately (Dutch) pressed)
[a] RAMEAU Les Indes galantes : Invocation and hymn
[b] BERLIOZ La Damnation de Faust Op.24 : Chanson de la puce
[c] BERLIOZ La Damnation de Faust Op.24 : Voici des roses
[d] BERLIOZ La Damnation de Faust Op.24 : Sérénade
[e] GOUNOD Faust : Avant de quitter
[f] GOUNOD Philémon et Baucis : Que les songes
[g] GOUNOD Roméo et Juliette : Ballade de la Reine Mab
[h] BIZET La Jolie fille de Perth : Quand la flamme
[i] BIZET Les Pêcheurs de perles : L’orage s’est calmé
[j] CHABRIER Le Roi malgré lui : Beau pays
[k] MASSENET Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame : Légende de la sauge
[l] OFFENBACH Les Contes d’Hoffmann : Air de Coppélius
[a-l] (Feb57) LXT5269; (nr ’57) LL1567,
[abdf-l] (Oct94) 440 419.2DM.