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Help in Choosing Your First Records
If you find it confusing to select records from among so many thousands, here is a list that may help you. You should also look into the great collections of music embodied in the Victor Musical Masterpiece Series, and in the special series of records arranged for the Automatic Victrola. These will both
be found listed under Musical Masterpieces.
Operatic Arias Pagliacci—Prologue—Part 1 (Si Puo!—A Word) Italian Tibbett Pasgliacci—Prologue—Part 2 ( Un nido di memorie) Lawrence Tibbett
Forza del Destino—Solenne in quest’ ora (Swear in This Hour) (Verdi) Italian Gigli-De Luca
Bohéme—Ah Mimi, tau piu (Ah, Mimi, False One!) (Puccini) Italian Gigli-De Luca
Dinorah—Ombra leggiera—Part 1 (Shadow Song) /talian Galli-Curci Dinorah—Ombra leggiera—FPart 2 (Meyerbeer) Amelita Galli-Curci
Mefistofele—Dai campi, dai prati (From the Green Fields) (Boito) Italian Beniamino Gigli
Mefistofele—Giunto sul passo estremo ( Nearing the End of Life) Gigli
Mignon—Polonaise—Je suis Titania (I’m Fair Titania) (Thomas) French Marion Talley Tales of Hoffman—Les oiseaux dans la charmille (Offenbach) j Talley
Boris Godounow—Farewell of Boris (Moussorgsky) Feodor Chaliapin Boris Godounow—Death of Boris Feodor Chaliapin
Lohengrin—Elsas Traum (Elsa’s Dream) (Wagner) German Jeritza
Tannhéuser—Elisabeths Gebet (Elizabeth's Prayer) (Wagner) German Jeritza
Pagliacci—Serenata d’Arlecchino (Harlequin’s Serenade) (Leoncavallo) [talian Tito Schipa Manon—II Sogno (The Dream) (Massenet) Italian Tito Schipa
Louise—Depuis le jour (Ever Since the Day) (Charpentier) French Mary Garden Résurrection—Dieu de Grace (Prayer) (Alfano) French Mary Garden
Forza del Destino—O tu che in seno agl’ angeli Martinelli Cavalleria Rusticana—Addio alla madre Giovanni Martinelli
Pagliacci—Ballatella—Che volo d’augelli! (Ye Birds) /talian Lewis Thais—Meditation (Massenet) French Mary Lewis
Bohéme—Death Scene—Part 1 (Puccini) /n Italian Bori-Schipa Bohéme—Death Scene—Part 2 Bori-Schipa
Aida—La fatal pietra (The Fatal Stone) (Verdi) /talian
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Aida—Morir! si pura e bella! (To Die! So Pure) Ponselle-Martinelli{
Aida—O terra addio—Part 1 (Farewell, Oh Earth) (Verdi)
Ponselle-Martinelli Aida—O terra addio—Part 2 Italian Ponselle-Martinelli
Standard Songs
Schumann-Heink Ernestine SchaumannHeink
By the Waters of Minnetonka (Lieurance) Trees ( Kilmer-Rasbach)
Gypsy Love Song (‘‘Fortune Teller’’) Reinald Werrenrath Duna (Pickthall-McGill) Reinald Werrenrath
Beautiful Ohio (Macdonald-Earl) Kline-Baker Dear Little Boy of Mine (Brennan-Ball) Elsie Baker
Old Black Joe (Foster) Lawrence Tibbett Uncle Ned (Foster) Lawrence Tibbett
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