Various Artists (Menuhin, Milstein, Elman, …) - Great Combinations (Händel, Tchaikovsky, Offenbach, Massenet, Rachmaninoff, ...)
COMPILATION
Rise Stevens - Mezzo-soprano (A5, B1)
Robert Merrill – Baritone (A2, B4)
Jan Peerce – Tenor (A3, B3)
Violin - Yehudi Menuhin (A2, B4), Nathan Milstein (A4, B2), Mischa Elman (A3, A5, B1, B3)
Contralto - Marian Anderson (A1, B5)
Cello - Gregor Piatigorsky (A1, B5)
Bass - Ezio Pinza (A4, B2)
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Optimal Media GmbH
Label : Analogphonic
Original Label : RCA Victor
Remastered by Rainer Maillard at Emil Berliner Studios in Berlin
Originally released in 1952
Reissued in 2019
Tracks:
Side A:
- Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (James A. Bland)
- Xerxes, HWV 40, Act I: May the Fates be Kind "Ombra mai fu" (Georg Friedrich Händel)
- Angel's Serenade (Gaetano Braga)
- 6 Romances, Op. 6, No. 6: None but the Lonely Heart (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
- Les Contes d'Hoffman, Act II: Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour, "Barcarolle" (Jacques Offenbach)
Side B:
- Elegie (Jules Massenet)
- Calm as The Night, Op. 326, No. 27 (Karl Böhm)
- O Dry Those Tears (Teresa del Riego)
- 6 Songs, Op. 4, No. 3: In the Silence of The Secret Night (Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff)
- My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (Stephen Foster)
Reviews:
“It used to be quite the vogue when the disk business was young to pair great singers with string players of equal renown. RCA Victor has revived the practice on this disk with what seems to be a 'Potent' platter property. The diskery has the artists, and the album jackets almost seems to dare, 'Can you match this?' Here are the pairings: Marian Anderson and Gregor Piatigorsky, Robert Merrill and Yehudi Menuhin, Jan Peerce and Mischa Elman, Ezio Pinza and Nathan Milstein, and Rise Stevens and Elman. Selections, two by each combo, are all light and tuneful. In all, a sound commercial and artistic idea, finely executed.” Billboard
Ratings :
Discogs : 5 / 5