Program:
- Wagner, Richard
O Heilige Götter
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- Toscanini Conducts Wagner
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- RCA Victor
- Tigranian, Armen
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- Anoush
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- Parseghian Records
- Vardapet, Komitas
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- Isabel Bayrakdarian: Gomidas Songs
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- Nonesuch
- Janáček, Leoš
Act I Chorus Scene; Finale
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- Jenufa
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- Erato
- Rimsky-Korsakov
Tableau 4 (The Merchants Sequence)
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- Sadko
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- STU
- Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
Da, cas nastal!...Prostite vï, kholmï, polya rodnïye
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- Romantique
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- Deutsche Grammophon
1. O Heilige Götter-Helen Traubel (soprano); Lauritz Melchior (tenor); Arturo Toscanini (conductor); NBC Symphony Orchestra. A brief preview of our broadcast for Wagner's bicentennial.
2. Anoush-Gohar Gasparian (soprano); Dikran Levonian (tenor); Arshavir Garabedian (baritone). Secondary roles filled by: Olga Gabaian; Gohar Galachian; Henry Alaverdian; Valerie Haroutyunian; Olga Zakharian; Marieta Andonian; Araxia Mansourian; Neli Karimian; Marieta Shakhverdian. Roupen Ayzazian (Choir Conductor); Hagop Voskanian (Orchestra Conductor). Alexander Sbendarian's Academic Operatic Choir and Orchestra.
3. Gomidas Songs-The three songs were entitled Akh Maral Jan, Keler Tsoler, and Hoy Nazan. Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano); Serouj Kradjian (piano); Eduard Topchjan (conductor); Chamber Players of the Armenian Philarmonic Orchestra.
4. Jenufa excerpts-Karita Mattila (soprano); Anja Silja (soprano); Jerry Hadley (tenor); Jorma Silvasti (tenor); Bernard Haitink (conductor); Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House.
5. Sadko-The songs of the three foreign merchants that appear in Tableau IV. Soloists in this sequence included: G Nelepp; M. Reizen; I. Kozlovsky; P. Lisitisian. N. Golovanov conducted the Bolshoi Theatre Chorus and Orchestra.
6. Da, cas nastal!...Prostite vï, kholmï, polya rodnïye-Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano); Yves Abel (conductor). Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
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