Jussi Björling:
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Track Listing:
Oak Grove CD 2036 • ADD • TT: 68’17”
01 Adolphe Adam: Cantique de Noël (in Swedish: Julsång, ’O helga natt’) 4’46” With piano, NBC studio, New York, 21 December 1946
02 Sigmund Romberg: Will You Remember (from Maytime) 2’33” With Anna-Lisa Björling, sop., & piano. Further recording details unknown.
03–08 Charles Gounod: Excerpts from Faust (in Sw.; 05–08 other soloists in Ger.) 15’15”
03 Ô coupe des aieux…Mais ce Dieu…Me voici!, act I 3’43”
04 À moi les plaisirs…Ô merveille!, act I 3’29” Joel Berglund (Méphistophélès); Royal Orchestra & Chorus, Nils Grevillius, cond. Royal Opera House, Stockholm, 4 January 1936
05 Ne permettrez-vous pas, act II 2’12”
06 Il se fait tard!...Laisse-moi contempler, act III 3’08”
07 Eternelle! Ô nuit d’amour, act III 1’15”
08 Marguerite!, act III 1’11”
Esther Réthy (Marguerite), Alexander Kipnis (Méphistophélès); Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Josef Krips, cond. State Opera House, Vienna, 7 March 1937
09–19 Giuseppe Verdi: Movements from Messa da Requiem 45’23”
09 Tuba mirum 1’53”
10 Mors stupebit 3’08”
11 Liber scriptus 4’43”
12 Quid sum miser 3’24”
13 Rex tremendae majestatis 3’41”
14 Recordare 3’53”
15 Ingemisco 3’42”
16 Confutatis maledictis 5’44”
17 Lacrymosa dies illa 6’07”
18 Domine Jesu Christe 4’26”
19 Hostias 6’16”
Zinka Milanov, sop., Kerstin Thorborg, mezzo, Nicola Moscona, bass; Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Elite chorus from Lucerne Arturo Toscanini, cond. • Jesuit Church, Lucerne, 16 August 1939
(cover picture: Björling and Thorborg in Lucerne, probably 18 August 1939, from private 8 mm film)