Jussi Björling Opera arias and songs, vol. 2. 1 CD. EMI

Jussi Björling sings 23 arias from Opera: Rigoletto, Romeo and Juliet, Cavalleria Rusticana, Manon, etc. Stockholm's opera orchestra conducted by Niles Grevillius, in some recordings from 1933 to 1949.

1 CD. EMI Classics. 7647072

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1.  Rigoletto: Questa o quella by Giuseppe Verdi 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1851; Italy
Date of Recording: 03/27/1944
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 2 Minutes 12 Secs. 
 
 
 
2.  Rigoletto: E' il sol dell' anima by Giuseppe Verdi 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor), Hjördis Schymberg (Soprano)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1851; Italy
Date of Recording: 06/17/1941
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 22 Secs. 
 
 
 
3.  Rigoletto: La donna è mobile by Giuseppe Verdi 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1851; Italy
Date of Recording: 12/04/1936
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 2 Minutes 10 Secs. 
 
 
 
4.  Il trovatore: Di quella pira by Giuseppe Verdi 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1853; Italy
Date of Recording: 12/15/1939
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 1 Minutes 39 Secs. 
 
 
 
5.  Les pêcheurs de perles: Je crois entendre encore by Georges Bizet 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Stockholm Opera Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1863; France
Date of Recording: 09/07/1945
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 39 Secs. 
 
 
 
6.  La belle Hélène: Au mont Ida trois déesses by Jacques Offenbach 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1864; Paris, France
Date of Recording: 05/31/1938
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 19 Secs.
Language: Swedish 
 
 
 
7.  Roméo et Juliette: Ah! lève-toi, soleil by Charles Gounod 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Stockholm Opera Orchestra
Written: 1867
Date of Recording: 09/06/1945
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 24 Secs. 
 
 
 
8.  Carmen: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée "Flower song" by Georges Bizet 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1873-1874; France
Date of Recording: 08/10/1938
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 54 Secs.
Notes: Composition written: France (1873 - 1874). 

 
 
9.  Manon: Instant charmant...En fermant les yeux "Dream of des Grieux" by Jules Massenet 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1883-1884; France
Date of Recording: 08/10/1938
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 47 Secs. 
 
 
 
10.  Requiem Mass: Ingemisco by Giuseppe Verdi 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1874; Italy
Date of Recording: 10/12/1938
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 4 Minutes 8 Secs.
Language: Latin 
 
 
 
11.  La Gioconda: Cielo e mar by Amilcare Ponchielli 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra
Written: 1876
Date of Recording: 09/03/1937
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 4 Minutes 13 Secs. 
 
 
 
12.  Cavalleria Rusticana: O Lola, ch'ai di latti la cammisa by Pietro Mascagni 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Stockholm Opera Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1890; Italy
Date of Recording: 09/15/1948
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 2 Minutes 36 Secs. 
 
 
 
13.  Cavalleria Rusticana: Mamma, quel vino è generoso "Addio" by Pietro Mascagni 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1890; Italy
Date of Recording: 03/27/1944
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 55 Secs. 
 
 
 
14.  Prince Igor: Daylight is fading "Vladimir's Aria" by Alexander Borodin 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1869-1887; Russia
Date of Recording: 03/21/1933
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 13 Secs.
Language: Swedish
Notes: Orchestrated: Rimsky-Korsakov & Glazunov 

 
 
15.  Manon Lescaut: Donna non vidi mai by Giacomo Puccini 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Stockholm Opera Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; Italy
Date of Recording: 09/15/1948
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 2 Minutes 25 Secs. 
 
 
 
16.  La Bohème: O soave fanciulla by Giacomo Puccini 
 
Performer: Anne-Lisa Björling (Soprano), Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Stockholm Concerts Associations Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Italy
Date of Recording: 08/10/1949
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 35 Secs. 
 
 
 
17.  Andrea Chénier: Come un bel dì di maggio by Umberto Giordano 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Italy
Date of Recording: 03/27/1944
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 15 Secs. 
 
 
 
18.  Songs (6), Op. 4: no 3, In the silence of the night by Sergei Rachmaninov 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Stockholm Concerts Associations Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1890; Russia
Date of Recording: 11/27/1947
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 0 Secs.
Language: English 
 
 
 
19.  Songs (12), Op. 21: no 5, Lilacs by Sergei Rachmaninov 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Stockholm Concerts Associations Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902; Russia
Date of Recording: 11/27/1947
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 2 Minutes 13 Secs.
Language: English 
 
 
 
20.  Romanze (2): no 1, Ideale by Francesco Paolo Tosti 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Conductor: Nils Grevillius
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: by 1882
Date of Recording: 09/05/1937
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 20 Secs. 
 
 
 
21.  Adelaide, Op. 46 by Ludwig van Beethoven 
 
Performer: Harry Ebert (Piano), Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Period: Classical
Written: 1794-1795; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 07/15/1939
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 6 Minutes 53 Secs. 
 
 
 
22.  Lieder (4), Op. 27: no 4, Morgen by Richard Strauss 
 
Performer: Harry Ebert (Piano), Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1894; Germany
Date of Recording: 07/15/1939
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 21 Secs. 
 
 
 
23.  Mattinata by Ruggero Leoncavallo 
 
Performer: Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1904; Italy
Date of Recording: 03/27/1944
Venue: Small Aud, Concert Hall, Stockholm
Length: 2 Minutes 18 Secs.

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 O soave fanciulla

Verdi: Rigoletto (1997 Digital Remaster)

E il sol dell'anima

Rigoletto (1997 Digital Remaster)

Questa o quella

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera: Di tu se fedele (Act I) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Puccini: Turandot Nessun dorma (Act III) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Giordano: Andrea Chénier (1997 Digital Remaster)

Come un bel dì di maggio

Giordano: Fedora Amor ti vieta (Act II) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (1997 Digital Remaster)

Mamma, quel vino è generoso

Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (1997 Digital Remaster)

Recitar!....Vesti la giubba

Leoncavallo: Mattinata (1997 Digital Remaster)

Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore (1997 Digital Remaster)

Una furtiva lagrima

Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles (1997 Digital Remaster)

Je crois entendre encore

Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (1997 Digital Remaster)

Ah! lève-toi, soleil

Massenet: Manon Je suis seul!...Ah, fuyez, douce image (Act III) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Cliea: L'arlesiana (1997 Digital Remaster)

E la solita storia

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (1997 Digital Remaster)

O Lola (Siciliana)

Puccini: Manon Lescaut (1997 Digital Remaster)

Donna non vidi mai

Puccini: Tosca (1997 Digital Remaster)

Recondita armonia

E lucevan le stelle

Puccini: La Bohème (1977 Digital Remaster)

O soave fanciulla

Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (1997 Digital Remaster)

Ange adorable

Godard: Jocelyn Op. 109 (1997 Digital Remaster)

Berceuse: Concealed in this Retreat

Tosti: L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra (1997 Digital Remaster)

Geehl: För Dig Allen' (For You Alone) (2008 Digital Remaster)

Leoncavallo: Mattinata (2008 Digital Remaster) ()

Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (1997 Digital Remaster)

Höj dig, du klara sol (Ah! lève-toi soleil!)

Verdi: Rigoletto (1997 Digital Remaster)

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