Catalog of RCA Victor Records (1948)

Me RCA VICTOR RED SEAL RECORDS McCORMACK, JOHN, Tenor (Continued) ROSES OF PICARDY Weatherly-Wood John McCormack, Tenor, with Edwin Schneider at the Piano 10" Record No. 1321 .75 SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND Thomas Moore-Lambert John McCormack, Tenor, with Orchestra, Lawrance Collingwood, Conductor 12" Record No. 14611 1.00 SILVER THREADS AMONG THE GOLD Rexford-Danks John McCormack, Tenor, with Orchestral Accompaniment 10" Record No. 1173 .75 SOMEWHERE A VOICE IS CALLING Newton-Tote John McCormack, Tenor, with Orchestral Accompaniment 10" Record No. 1247 .75 SWEETLY SHE SLEEPS, MY ALICE FAIR Stephen Foster John McCormack, Tenor, with Edwin Schneider at the Piano 10" Record No. 1700 .75 TILL I WAKE (No. 4 from "Four Indian Love Lyrics") Hope-WoodfordeFinden John McCormack, Tenor, with Gerald Moore at the Piano 10" Record No. 2169 .75 Traviata, La: Act 111; PARIGI O CARA (Far from Gay Paris) Verdi Lucrezia Bori, Soprano, and John McCormack, Tenor, with Orchestral Ac¬ companiment (Recorded in 1914) One 12" Heritage Series Record Envelope Masterpiece No. EM-11 3.50 EM(15-1009) WEARING OF THE GREEN (Old Irish) John McCormack, Tenor, with Orchestral Accompaniment 10" Record No. 788 .75 WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING (from "The Isle of Dreams") OlcottGraff, Jr. -Ball John McCormack, Tenor, with Orchestral Accompani¬ ment 10" Record No. 788 .75 WHEN YOU AND I WERE YOUNG, MAGGIE Johnson-Butterfield John McCormack, Tenor, with Orchestral Accompaniment 10" Record No. 1173 .75 WHO IS SYLVIA? Shakespeare-Franz Schubert John McCormack, Tenor, with Edwin Schneider at the Piano 10" Record No. 1306 .75 MCDONALD, MARL, Conductor See Philadelphia Orchestra VMELBA, NELLIE, Soprano Lucia di Lammermoor: Act III; MAD SCENE Donizetti In Album M-816 See "Voices of the Golden Age of Opera" in Title Section MELCHIOR, LAURITZ, Tenor Lauritz Melchior, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, is considered one of the greatest heroic tenors in musical history. Raised by a grandfather and father experienced in child psychology, the young Mr. Melchior studied music because he wished to do so, and because he found immense satisfaction in singing. With his blind sister, Agnes, he would sit in the Royal Opera and hear many of the operas that he was to sing later in life. To her, he owes many of the telling influences that started him on his great career. In 1908, Mr. Melchior began to concentrate seriously on his vocal lessons. Four years later, a privilege granted only the most gifted students of the country was awarded him when he was admitted to the School of the Royal Opera. In 1919 he appeared at Queen's Hall in London, where Hugh Walpole, dropping in by chance, was so impressed by the vigor and strength of the tenor's voice, that from then on, he helped Lauritz Melchior with money, sound advice and encouragement. It was on Walpole's suggestion that Melchior went to Bayreuth. There he received an invitation from Cosima and Siegfried Wagner to study the Wagnerian roles with them. From that time on, the name of Melchior has been associated with Richard Wagner's operas throughout the world. At the Metropolitan Opera House, where he has made history in the number and diversity of his appearances, he has been a mainstay of the Wagnerian wing since 1926. ARIAS FROM PARSIFAL AND LOHENGRIN Parsifal: Act II; AMFORTAS! DIE WUNDE! (Amfortas! The Spear Wound!) Parsifal: Act III; NUR EINE WAFFE TAUGT (Only One Weapon Serves) (Schlussgesang) Lohengrin: Act III;. LOHENGRINS ABSCHIED (Lohengrin's Farewell) Wagner Lauritz Melchior, Tenor, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eu¬ gene Ormandy, Conductor Two 12" Records Album No. M-516 M(15212-15212 BECAUSE Teschemacher-d'Hardelot Lauritz Melchior, Tenor, with Orchestra, Jay Blackton, Conductor 10" Record No. 10-122 Gotterddmmerung, Die: Act III; IN LEID ZU DEM WIPFELN (In Grief to th Branches) Wagner Lauritz Melchior, Tenor, and O. Helgers, Bas: with Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra, Robert Heger, Conductc 12" Record No. 7659 Gotterdammerung, Die: Act III; MIME HIESS EIN MURRISCHER ZWERG (Mime Was a Crabbed Old Dwarf) Wagner Lauritz Melchior, Tenor, and O. Helgers, Bass, with Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra, Robert Heger, Conductor 12" Record No. 76' HOUSE I LIVE IN, THE Allan-Robinson Lauritz Melchior, Tenor, with Orchestra and Chorus, Jay Blackton, Conduct* 10" Record No. 10-122 2.85 .75 1.00 1.00 .75 MELCHIOR, LAURITZ, Tenor (Continued) Lohengrin: Act III; BRIDAL CHAMBER SCENE Wagner Kirsten Flagstad, Soprano, and Lauritz Melchior, Tenor, with the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Edwin McArthur, Conductor Two 12" Records Album No. M/DM-897 2.85 M(1 1-8159-1 1-8160) DM(1 1-8161—11 -8162) Meistersinger, Die: Act III; ABENDLICH GLUHEND IM HIMMLISCHER GLUTH (Evening's Heavenly Light) Wagner Lauritz Melchior, Tenor, and Friedrich Schorr, Baritone, with the London Symphon • Orchestra, Robert Heger, Conductor 12" Record No. 7681 1.00 Meistersinger, Die: Act III; QUINTET-SELIG, WIE DIE SONNE MEINES GLUCKES LACHT Wagner Elisabeth Schumann, Soprano; Gladys Parr, Contralto; Lauritz Melchior and Ben Williams, Tenors; Friedrich Schorr, Baritone, with the London Symphony Orchestra, John Barbirolli, Conductor 12" Record No. 7682 1.00 Parsifal: Act II; DUET Wagner Kirsten Flagstad, Soprano, and Lauritz Melchior, Tenor, with Gordon Dilworth, Baritone Soloist, and the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Edwin McArthur, Conductor Also included as Final Side in this Album: Siegfried: Act I; HO-HOI SCHMIEDE, MEIN HAMMER (Ho, Ho! Smithy, My Hammer) (Hammerlied) (Hammer Song) Wagner Lauritz Melchior, Tenor, with the RCA Vic¬ tor Symphony Orchestra, Edwin McArthur, Conductor Four 12" Records Album No. M/DM-755 4.85 M (17774-1 7777) DM( 17782-1 7785) SCANDINAVIAN SONGS STILLE MIT HJAERTE, Op. 17, No. 1 (Quiet My Heart) Hannikainen TIL NORGE, Op. 58, No. 1 (To Norway) Grieg EROS, Op. 70, No. 1 (Hear Me, Ye Frosty Cold Hearts) Grieg SKOVEENSOMHED (Forest Loneliness) Heise FORAARSSANG (Spring Song) Henriques DENGANG JEG VAR KUN SAA STOR SOM SAA (The Jester's Song) (from "Twelfth Night") Heise FLYG MINA TANKAR (Fly My Thoughts) Henneberg HVITA ROSOR (White Roses) Korling SVARTA ROSOR (Black Roses) Sibelius HVOR NILEN VANDER AEGYPTERENS JORD (Where the Nile Flows Through the Land of Egypt) H. C. Andersen-H. Rung I WURZBURG RINGE D? KLOKKER (In Old Wurzburg the Bells Are Ringing) Thor Lange— Lange-Miiller FLAGET (The Flag) Juel-Rygaard DANMARK (Denmark) Juel-Rygaard KONGERNES KONGE (King of the Kings Art Thou) Hornemann DER ER ET YNDIGT LAND (There Isa Beautiful Country) Oehlenschliiger Kroyer Lauritz Melchior, Tenor, with Ignace Strasfogel at the Piano, and Chorus, with Orchestra, Johan Hye-Knudsen, Conductor » Six 10" Records Album No. M-851 5.25 SCENES FROM WAGNER OPERAS M(21 88-2193) Tristan und Isolde: Act II; LOVE DUET Lohengrin: Act III; IN FERNEM LAND (In Distant Land) (Lohengrin's Nar¬ rative) Tannhauser: Act I; DIR TONE LOB! (All Praise Be Thine!) (Tannhduser's Hymn to Venus) Tannhauser: Act III; ROME NARRATIVE Siegfried: Act I; HO-HO! SCHMIEDE, MEIN HAMMER (Ho, Ho! Smithy, My Hammer) (Hammerlied) (Hammer Song) The Flying Dutchman: Act I; STEUERMANNSLIED (Steerman's Song) Kirsten Flagstad, Soprano, and Lauritz Melchior, Tenor, with the Philadel¬ phia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor; San Francisco Opera Orches¬ tra and the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Edwin McArthur, Conductor Five 12" Records Album No. M/DM-979 5.85 M(1 1-8674-1 1-8678) SCHUMANN DUETS DM(1 1-8679-1 1-8683) ER UND SIE, Op. 78, No. 2 (He and She) Kerner-Robert Schumann Reibold ICH DENKE DEIN, Op. 78, No. 3 (I Think of Thee) FAMI LIEN-GEMALDE, Op. 34, No. 4 (Family Portrait) SO WAHR DIE SONNE SCHEINET, Op. 37, No. 12 (True As the Sun Shines) UNTER'M FENSTER, Op. 34, No. 3 (Under the Window) Robert SchumannReibold Lotte Lehmann, Soprano, and Lauritz Melchior, Tenor, with Orchestra Bruno Reibold, Conductor Two 10" Records Album No. M-560 2.25 M(1906-1907) SELECTIONS FROM SIX WAGNERIAN OPERAS The Flying Dutchman: Act I; STEUERMANNSLIED (Steerman's Song) Siegfried: Act I; HO-HO! SCHMIEDE, MEIN HAMMER (Ho, Ho! Smithy, My Hammer) (Hammerlied) (Hammer Song) Lohengrin: Act III; IN FERNEM LAND (In Distant Land) (Lohengrin's Nar¬ rative) Tannhauser: Act I; DIR TONE LOB! (All Praise Be Thine!) (Tannhauser's Hymn to Venus) Tannhauser: Act III; ROME NARRATIVE Die Meistersinger: Act I; AM STILLEN HERD (By Silent Hearth) Die Meistersinger: Act III; PREISLIED (Prize Song) Die Gotterddmmerung: PROLOGUE (Duet) Wagner Kirsten Flagstad, Soprano, and Lauritz Melchior, Tenor, with the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy and Edwin McArthur, Con¬ ductors Five 12" Records Album No. M-749 5.85 M( 17725-1 7729) 476