WUOT 91.9

ECHOES OF A GOLDEN AGE
Sunday night at 7 p.m.
Produced and hosted by WUOT Program Director, Daniel Berry

If you have comments or questions, please send them to: dberry@utk.edu
PLAYLISTS posted the week after the show airs.

AUGUST 2004
1 Potpourri
8 Martial Singher
15 Stainer's Crucifixion
22 Otello, Covent Garden 1926
29 Pavel Lisitsian

JULY 2004
4 Caruso I
11 Caruso II
18 Caruso III
25 Caruso IV

JUNE 2004
6 Potpourri
13 Stainer's "Crucifixion"
20 Ernani
27 Germania

MAY
2 Potpourri
9 The Chicago Opera 75 years ago
16 The Canaries
23 Jan Peerce I
30 Jan Peerce II

APRIL
4 Pre-empted
11 Le Nozze di Figaro
18 The Greatest Generation: The Italian Tenors of the 1920's
25 De Angelis and his world

PLAYLISTS

DATE: August 22, 2004
SUBJECT: The 1926 Covent Garden Otello

4 Act I: Una vela!...Esultate. w/Apollo Granforte & La Scala Chorus HMV 11/8/26 Pearl CD 9074 [7/13] 4:56

11 Act I: Inaffia l'ugola! 3:50

17 Act II: Mio Signore...Che brami? 4:00

23 Act II: Atroce!...Ora e per sempre addio 4:34

29 Act II: Ah! Mille vite...Si pel ciel 3:31

34 Act III: Dio! Mi potevi scagliar 4:11

40 Act III: Tutto e spento...Quest'e una regna 4:00

46 Act IV: Piangea cantando (Sie sass mit Leide). Lotte Lehmann Odeon c.1930 Seraphim 60060 [1/1] 3:16

51 Act IV: Niun mi tema 4:33

Otello: Giovanni Zenatello
Iago: Giuseppe Noto
Cassio: Luigi Cilla
Roderigo: Octave Dua
Montano: Michele Sampieri
Lodovico: Edouard Cotreuil

Orchestra of Covent Garden, London
Vincenzo Bellezza, c.
June 17, 1926
HMV

Unless noted above.

DATE: August 15, 2004
SUBJECT: Stainer's Crucifixion
"Stainer: Crucifixion"
Richard Crooks (tenor);
Laurence Tibbett (baritone);
Wilfred Glenn (bass);
Trinity Choir, dir unspecified;
Herbert Dawson, organ;

Victor Set 1928 52:00

DATE: August 8, 2004
SUBJECT: Martial Singher

Gretry Richard, Coeur de Lion-Blondel's Air. Columbia 1945 4:12

Thomas Hamlet-O vin disippe la tristesse. Columbia 1945 3:49

Ravel Don Quichotte a Dulcinee-Chanson epique. HMV 11/30/34 Seraphim LP 6143

Wagner Lohengrin-Allons! Debout! Compagne de ma honte. W/Marjorie Lawrence. HMV 1933 Preiser CD 89011

Offenbach The Tales of Hofmann-Scintille diamant and continuation. W/Rosalind Elias. RCA LM 2310 c1959

Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro-Crudel! Perche fin'ora. W/Nadine Conner. Metropolitan Opera Record Club MO 315 c.1956

Gounod Romeo et Juliette-Mab, la reine. Columbia 1945

Berlioz The Damnation of Faust-Puce gentille...Voici les roses. W/David Poleri. RCA Victor 2/54 RCA LM 6114

DATE: August 1, 2004
SUBJECT: Potpourri

3 Kahn Ave Maria. Enrico Caruso, Mischa Elman, violin; Victor 3/20/13 Naxos CD 8.110724 [19] 4:06

9 Tchaikovsky None but the lonely heart. Boris Christoff. EMI 1961 3:09

14 Verdi La Forza del destino-Ah per sempre. Maria Caniglia, Galliano Masini, Liano Avogadro, Ernesto Domenici. Cetra May 1941 Naxos CD 8.110106-07 [1/5-7] 9:14

25 Brahms Wie bist du meine Koenigin. Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, Gerald Moore. EMI Seraphim 6072 [4/1] 4:15

31 Faure En priere. Georges Thill. Columbia 1936 Pearl CD 9947 [13] 3:02

36 Meyerbeer Le Prophete-Priere and Finale, Act III. James McCracken. CBS 34340 [Side 5] 9:32

48 Bellini La Sonnambula-Ah non giunge. Amelita Galli-Curci. Victor 9/16/24 VIC 1518 [1/6] 2:50

53 Cilea L'Arlesiana-E la solita storia. Giuseppe di Stefano. EMI 1947 EMI CD

DATE: Month of July , 2004
SUBJECT: Enrico Caruso, Parts 1 - 4

Written and Narrated by David Timson.

Naxos CD 8.558131-34 CD 1

DATE: June 27, 2004
SUBJECT: Germania

4 Io pure la visione. Matteo Dragoni HMV 4/17/22 IRCC CD 812 [1] 3:37

10 Tu meri innanzi. Tu m'eri innanzi Fonotipia 1910 IRCC CD 812 [2] 2:43

15 Studente! Udite! Enrico Caruso G&T 4/11/02 Naxos CD 8.110703 [1] 1:53

19 Ah, vieni qui...No, non chiuder gli occhi Enrico Caruso G&T 4/11/02 Naxos CD 8.110703 [2] 2:45

24 Ferito prigionier Mario Sammarco G&T 4/1902 Preiser CD 89100 [17] 3:31

30 All'ardente desio. Amelia Pinto G&T 4/11/02 Symposium CD 1111 [19] 3:26

36 Ascolta! Io moriro. Mario Sammarco Fonotipia 1909 Preiser CD 89100 [18] 2:49

41 Qui spira arcano Giuseppe Agostini Odeon ? IRCC CD 812 [8] 2:10

46 Ponchielli La Gioconda-La turbini. Giovanni Gravina G&T 1902 2:59

51 Germania-Studenti! Udite!; No, non chiuder gli occhi. Piero Pauli, tenor. HMV circa 1930. IRCC CD 812 [3,4] 5:05

DATE: June 20, 2004
SUBJECT: Ernani

3 Come rugiada al cespite. Giovanni Martinelli. Victor 5/11/15 Romophone CD 82012 [2/2] 3:21

8 Ernani involami. Rosa Ponselle. Columbia 6/9/22 Pearl CD 9964 [1/2] 4:00

14 Qui mi trasse amor possente...Da quel di che t'ho veduta. Celestina Boninsegna, Francesco Cigada G&T 1905 Pearl CD 9219 [4] 4:16

20 Infelice! E tuo credevi. Jose Mardones. Columbia 1919 Scala 810 3:03

25 Lo vedremo, o veglio audace (w/Aristodemo Silich); Veni meco, sol di rose (w/Emilia Corsi). Mattia Battistini. HMV November 1906 Seraphim LP 6153 [2/5,6] 5:40

32 O dei verd'anni miei. Benvenuto Franci. HMV 2/15/28 Pearl CD 9233 [7] 4:26

36 O sommo Carlo. Giuseppe de Luca, Grace Anthony, Alfio Tedesco. Victor 4/5/28 Pearl CD 9160 [3/10] 4:21

42 Gran scene e terzetto finale, Act IV. Catarina Mancini, Gino Penno, Giacomo Vaghi. Cetra 1951 Cetra/Soria 1210 [Side 6] 15:47

DATE: June 6, 2004
SUBJECT: Potpourri

2 Falla Jota. Victoria de los Angeles. EMI 1962 Angel LP 35775

7 Wagner Tristan und Isolde-O Koenig, dass kann ich dir nicht sagen. Ludwig Suthaus, Margarete Baeumer, Theodor Horand. Urania 10/50 Preiser CD 90453 [2/12] 7:33

16 De Curtis Senza nisciuno. Enrico Caruso. Victor 9/11/1919 [3] 2:55

22 Gounod Faust-Act II. Victoria De Los Angeles, Martha Angelici, Nicolai Gedda, Jean Borthayre, Boris Christoff. EMI 1953 RCA Victor 6400 [Side 2] 27:41

52 Steffe-Howe The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Dennis Morgen. Columbia 1940's. Columbia ML 4272 [1/1] 3:55

DATE: May 30, 2004
SUBJECT: Jan Peerce II

1 Moya Song of Songs. The Philharmonia Orchestra/Anatole Fistoulari, c. RCA Victor DM 1514 September 1950 3:30

6 J.S. Bach Cantata 113-Jesus nimmt die Suender an. Decca c.1958 Decca DL 79405 [2/2] 4:22

12 Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor-Finale, Act I Qui di sposa...Veranno a te. W/Roberta Peters. RCA 1957. RCA LP 6055 [2/1] 6:45

20 Bloch Psalm 137. United Artists 1964 United Artists 3412 [2/2] 5:10

27 Trad. A Plea to God. RCA Victor 1960 RCA CD 61687 [1] 3:30 P.239

32 Handel Judas Maccabaeus: Sound an alarm. Westminster 9/62 Westminster XWN-19028 [2/5] 2:55

36 Verdi La Traviata-De' miei bollenti spiriti. United Artists 1965 UA 6477 [2/6] 3:58

42 Newley What Kind of Fool Am I. United Artists c.1962. United Artists 3248 [1/4] 2:42

47 Alan Beck-Hugo Winterhalter What is a Girl. RCA Victor 10-3468 4:00

52 Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana-Mamma quel vino e generoso. RCA Victor c.1955 3:36

DATE: May 23, 2004
SUBJECT: Jan Peerce I

0 Di Capua O sole mio. RCA Victor 12/8/44 RCA CD 68531 [21] 2:51

6 Verdi Rigoletto-La donna e mobile. RCA Radio Transcription "Lucky Strike Presents Jan Peerce singing "La Donna e mobile". circa 1940 2:15

10 Heyman-Davies-Harmati The Bluebird of Happiness. RCA Victor 6/7/45 RCA CD 68531 [19] 4:56

17 Verdi La Traviata-De' miei bollenti spiriti. RCA Victor 1945 LV CD 89952 [3] 3:51

23 Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor-Tomb Scene. W/ Arthur Kent, baritone; Chorus and the Victor Symphony Orchestra/Wilfred Pelletier, c. RCA Victor Set DM 845 1942 14:59

40 Puccini La Boheme-Chi e la...Che gelida manina. W/Licia Albanese. NBC Symphony/Arturo Toscanini. Broadcast 2/3/46 RCA Victor 6006 [Side 1] 7:28

49 Verdi Rigoletto-Giovanna, ho dei rimorsi..E il sol del'anima. W/Erna Berger, Mary Kreste. RCA Victor 6021 Spring 1950 [Side 2] 6:56

DATE: May 16, 2004
SUBJECT: The Canaries

3:00 Arditi Parla Waltz. Erna Sack. Telefunken 8/34 Naxos CD 8.120722 [3] 4:46

9:00 Fevrier L'Oiseau. Mado Robin French radio 12/46 INA 040 [1] 2:46

13:00 Adam Le Toreador-Ach, Mama, ich sag' es dir. Miliza Korjus HMV 1934 LV LP 72 [1/3] 4:14

19:00 Strauss Jr.-La Forge Fledermaus Fantasy. Lily Pons Columbia 10/3/45 SONY CD 60655 [2/10] 7:28

28:00 Masse Les Noces de Jeannette-Jeannette's air. Valeria Barsova. Parlophon 1928 Melodiya LP M10-42829-30 [1/4] 4:17

36:00 Carosio Gorgheggi bell'alba. Margherita Carosio. HMV late 1930's. Rococo 5309 [2/last] 4:12

42:00 Benedict Carnaval de Venise. Claire Clairbert Polydor c.1930 EMI LP 64970/71 [3/3] 4:00

47:00 Strauss Jr. Fruehlingsstimmen. Erna Berger. HMV 1948 EMI CD 63759 [13] 8:03

56:00 Herbert Naughty Marietta-Italian Street Song. Jeannette MacDonald. RCA Victor 1/31/45 RCA Victor CD 60877 [5] 2:05

DATE: May 9
SUBJECT: The Chicago Opera 75 years ago

4:00    Bizet    Carmen-Habanera.    Maria Olszewska. HMV 1927 Preiser CD 89979    [10]    4:21

10:00    Verdi    Aida-Ritorna vincitor. Eva Turner    Columbia 5/10/26   EMI CD 69791 [3] 6:34

18:00    Wagner    Die Walkure-Was es so schmaelich.   Frida Leider   HMV 1927 Pearl CD 9137    [2/2/13]    3:30

23:00    Wagner    Die Walkure-Leb' wohl.    Alexander Kipnis. HMV 1926    Seraphim 60163    [2/5]    8:25

33:00    Bellini    Norma-Ah bello a me ritorno.   Rosa Raisa. Brunswick UP 1929   Marston CD 53001    [3/7]    3:07

38:00     Mussorgsky    Boris Godunov-Death of Boris. Vanni Marcoux. HMV 1927 Pearl CD 9912    [10]    7:09

48:00    Gounod    Romeo et Juliette-Ah leve toi soleil. Charles Hackett. Columbia 10/9/22    Marston CD 51005    [7]    4:21

54:00    Hume    Afton Water. Mary Garden. Victor UP 11/22/27    Romophone CD 81008    [11]    3:17

DATE: May 2, 2004
SUBJECT: Potpourri

3:00 Di Capua O sole mio. Giuseppe Lugo. DG 1934 LV 161 [2/6] 3:00

8:00 Tosti L'Ultima canzone Umberto Urbano. DG 1928 Preiser 89974 [5] 4:27

14:00 Korngold Die tote Stadt-Mein Sehnen, mein Waehnen. Carlo Drago Hrzic. DG 1928 [14] 4:29

20:00 Giordano Andrea Chenier-Vicino a te. Mary Curtis-Verna, Richard Tucker. Metropolitan Opera Record Club 1957 MO 826 [side 4 end] 6:48

28:00 Cornelius The Barber of Bagdad-So schwaermt Jugend. Alexander Kipnis DG c.1924 Club 99-55 [1/2] 4:01

34:00 Verdi Aida-O patria mia. Montserrat Caballe. EMI 1976 Angel 36830 [1/3] 6:57

43:00 Bizet Carmen-Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante. Cecile Eyreams. Zonophone 1907. Rubini LP 304 [3/1] 3:46

48:00 C. Milligan Fox, arr. Spencer Clay. The Foggy Dew. John McCormack. Victor 1/3/13 Naxos CD 8.120748 [11] 2:04

52:00 Cilea Adriana Lecouvreur-O vagabonda stella d'Oriente. Cloe Elmo. Cetra 1941 LV 1326 [2/1] 3:45

DATE: May 9
SUBJECT: The Chicago Opera 75 years ago

DATE: April 25, 2004
SUBJECT: DeAngelis and his Contempories

3:00 Verdi Ernani-Infelice! E tuo credevi. Nazzareno De Angelis. Fonotipia 1907 CO 425 [1/4] 3:08

8:00 Halevy La Juive-Voi che del Dio. Francesco Navarini Fonotipia 2/4/07 EMI CD 64860 [11] 2:50

12:00 Rotoli Mia sposa sara la mia bandiera. Vittorio Arimondi Columbia 1907 Sony CD 62334 [2/25] 3:55

18:00 Verdi Aida-Nume custode e vindice. Oreste Luppi, Edoardo Garbin Fonotipia 1905 Symposium CD 1113 [8] 4:22

24:00 Ponchielli La Gioconda-La turbini e farnetichi. Giovanni Gravina G&T 1902 Symposium CD 1065 [3] 2:59

29:00 Verdi Rigoletto-Storm Trio. Linda Brambilla, Amelia Codolini, Aristodemo Sillich G&T 1907 Victor 58306 4:14

35:00 Tchaikovsky Queen of Spades-Tomsky's aria, Act I Adamo Didur Fonotipia 1905-06 Club 99-89 [1/2] 3:00

40:00 Verdi Requiem-Confutatis maledictis. Lev Sibiriakov Gram. 1912 Pearl CD 9111

49:00 Boito Mefistofele-Ave Signor. Feodor Chaliapin HMV 4/26/12 EMI CD 64860 [2/13] 3:23

54:00 Rossini Mose-Dal tuo stellato soglio. Nazzareno De Angelis, Elena Cheni, Ida Mannarini, Emilio Venturini. Columbia 1928 LV 85 [1/3] 3:45

DATE: April 18, 2004
SUBJECT: The Greatest Generation

VERDI Aida-Celeste Aida. Giovanni Martinelli. Victor 3/10/26 PEARL CD 0030

PUCCINI Tosca-Recondita armonia. Aureliano Pertile. Fonotipia 5/19/27 Rubini LP 539
CILEA L'Arlesiana-E la solita storia. Tito Schipa. Victor 1927 RCA LP 20113

PUCCINI Manon Lescaut-Donna non vidi mai. Beniamino Gigli. Victor 10/27/26 NAXOS CD 8.110265

BELLINI I Puritani-A te o cara. Giacomo Lauri Volpi. Victor 1928 Preiser 89012

GIORDANO Fedora-Mia madre, la mia vecchia madre. Giovanni Martinelli Victor 3/11/26 PEARL CD 0030

LEONCAVALLO Pagliacci-Vesti la giubba. Aureliano Pertile Fonotipia 10/19/26 Rubini LP 539

MASSENET Manon-Il dolce incanto Tito Schipa Victor 1926 RCA LP 20113

GIORDANO Andrea Chenier-Un di all'azzurro spazio. Beniamino Gigli. Victor 10/5/22 RCA CD 7811

GOMES Lo Schiavo-Quando nascesti tu. Giacomo Lauri Volpi Victor 1928 Preiser CD 89012

BUZZI-PECCIA Torna amore. Beniamino Gigli. Victor 12/9/26 NAXOS CD 8.110265

BARRERA Granadinas. Tito Schipa. Victor 9/7/26 Pearl CD 9183

DATE: April 11, 2004
SUBJECT: Le Nozze di Figaro

3:00 Se a casa madama. Elisabeth Rethberg, Ezio Pinza. Victor 5/11/40 2:32

7:00 Se vuol ballare. Ezio Pinza Victor 5/11/40 2:32

12:00 La vendetta. Salvatore Baccaloni Columbia 1942 3:15

17:00 Non so piu cosa son Rise Stevens Columbia 1941 3:17

22:00 Non piu andrai Ezio Pinza Victor 5/8/39 4:04

28:00 Porgi amor Elisabeth Rethberg Victor 5/11/40 3:34

33:00 Voi che sapete Jarmila Novotna 1940 c.3:00

38:00 Vedro ment'rio sospiro John Brownlee 1944 3:02

43:00 Dove sono. Eleanor Steber Victor 1945 4:26

49:00 Aprite un po' quegli occhi. Italo Tajo. Cetra 1951 4:08

53:00 Deh, vieni, non tardar Bidu Sayao RCA Victor 5/15/40 5:02

Premiere February 20 1940 Pinza, Sayao, Brownlee, Rethberg, Stevens, Lazzari, Petina, De Paolis, D'Angelo, Farell, Paltrinieri/Panizza. Production directed by Herbert Graf; Sets by Jonel Jorgulesco

April 4 - Fund Raiser edition

DATE: March 28, 2004
SUBJECT: Queens, Princesses and Potentates

3:00 MEYERBEER Les Huguenots-O beau pays. Joan Sutherland. Decca 13107 [5/1] 5:30

10:00 PUCCINI Turandot-In questa reggia. Eva Turner Columbia 7/17/28 EMI CD 69791 [10] 5:38

17;00 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Le Coq d'Or-Hymn to the Sun. Lily Pons. RCA VICTOR 3/7/40 VIC 1473 [2/4] 4:19

23:00 MOZART Die Zauberflote-O zittre nicht....Zum leiden . Wilma Lipp. EMI 2/3/50 EMI LP RLS 764 [3/6] 4:38

29:00 VERDI Don Carlo-Tu che le vanita. Montserrat Caballe EMI 8:25

39:00 STRAUSS Elektra-Allein! Weh, ganz allein. Inge Borkh. DG 138 690/91 [1] c.9:00

50:00 VERDI Aida-O patria mia. Leontyne Price. RCA CD 68153 [1/4,5] 7:11

DATE: March 21, 2004
SUBJECT: Fernando Corena

3:00 MOZART: Don Giovanni-Madamina! Il catalogo e questo. Decca London OSA 1401 [side2] 6:18 MET DEBUT 2/6/54 [76]

11:00 PUCCINI: Tosca-Sommo giubilo, Eccellenza! Decca 1962 DECCA CD 289 466 384 [7,8] 5:40 [121]

19:00 ROSSINI Il Barbiere di Siviglia-A un dottor della mia sorte. RCA 1958 RCA CD 68552 [2/8] 6:39 [116]

28:00 CIMAROSA Il Maestro di Capella. Decca 1961 London 33217 17:45

48:00 DONIZETTI L'Elisir d'amore-Udite, udite, o rustici. Decca 1955 LONDON CD 411 699 [9] 7:08

55:00 OFFENBACH La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein-Piff paff puff. Decca 1:46

DATE: March 14, 2004
SUBJECT: The Ring

3:00 Das Rheingold-Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla. Waldemar Kmentt, George London, Kirsten Flagstad, Set Svanholm, Oda Balsborg, Hetty Pluemacher, Ira Malaniuk. Vienna Philharmonic/Georg Solti, c. Decca 1958 9:21

15:00 Die Walkure-Siegmund heiss ich. Mario Del Monaco; Lucilla Cipriano. Decca 1964 Decca CD 289 467 919 [11] 3:46

20:00 Die Walkure-Chevauchee des Walkyries. Marjorie Lawrence with artistes of the Opera, Paris/Piero Coppola, c. HMV 1933 Romophone CD 88001 [5] 9:02

31:00 Siegfried-Forging Scene. Lauritz Melchior, Albert Reiss. HMV 5/16,17/29 Pearl CD 9137 [Vol III/CD1/10-12] 12:06

[Dead Roll 39:00]

45:00 Gotterdammerung-Finale, Act III. Kirsten Flagstad; Philharmonia Orchestra/Wilhelm Furgwaengler, c. HMV 3/26/48 EMI CD 63030 [3]

DATE: March 7, 2004
SUBJECT: Potpourri

3:00 Chausson Amour d'Antan. Germaine Corney. Polydor. Club 99 99-507 2:58 [2/6]

8:00 Donaudy O del mio amato ben. Tito Schipa. HMV 10/12/33 Angel COLH 2048 [2/4] 3:39

14:00 Handel Serse-Ombra mai fu. Emma Albani G&T 1904 Symposium CD 1093 [10] 3:30

19:00 Verdi Aida-Pur ti riveggo mia dolce Aida. Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, Aroldo Lindi, Armando Borgioli. Columbia 1930 Bongiovanni LP 1015/6/7 [4] 12:00

33:00 Faure Requiem-Libera me. Sherrill Milnes. Decca 1988. London CD 421 440 [6] 5:20

39:00 Puccini Madama Butterfly-Un bel di. Amelita Galli-Curci. Victor 1924 Victor 74786 3:15