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John McCormack Edition Vol. 5

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8111315

Barcode: 0747313331529

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th August 2007

Works

Schubert
Softly Through the Night is Calling (D. 957, No. 4)

Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana: Ave Maria (adapted from the ‘Intermezzo’)

Ball
Who Knows?

Lohr
The Little Grey Home in the West

Olcott
My Wild Irish Rose

Lehmann
Bonnie Wee Thing

Fearis
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere

Wellings
Golden Love

D’Hardelot
Because

King
Avourneen

Nelson
Mary of Argyle

Kneass
Ben Bolt

Bartlett
A Dream

Balfe
The Bohemian Girl: When other lips and other hearts

Foster
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming

Denza
Funiculì, funicular

Verdi
Rigoletto: Bella figlia dell’amore

Verdi
La Traviata: Parigi, o cara

Puccini
La Boheme: O soave fanciulla

Artists

John McCormack (tenor)
Fritz Kreisler (violin)
Vincent O’Brien (piano)
Francis Lapitino (harp)
Rosario Bourdon (cello)
Lucrezia Bori (soprano)
Lucy Isabelle Marsh (soprano)
Josephine Jacoby (contralto)
Harry Macdonough (tenor)
Lambert Murphy (tenor)
Reinald Werrenrath (baritone)
William F. Hooley (bass)

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Artists

About

Of the many singers who bridged the musical worlds of the Victorian era and the twentieth century, John McCormack was the most versatile, the most adventurous and the most modern.

The excerpts from Aida, Rigoletto and La Traviata demonstrate that McCormack, with his clear, clarion delivery, was an exceptional Verdi tenor.

In the selections from Victorian operas by Balfe, Benedict and Wallace, McCormack is the master of florid vocalism and the seamless line. The popular Irish and Irish-American songs are sung with a level of artistry and musical imagination that transcends their humble origins.

With Luigi Denza’s Funiculì, funiculà we are returned to the threshold moment in McCormack’s career when the Italian composer adjudicated the 1903 Dublin Feis Ceoil music competition and awarded McCormack the gold medal – the beginning of one of the great musical careers of the twentieth century.