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How Do I Love Thee? (Browning) (more info)
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1.   How Do I Love Thee? - 2:53


The Song of Solomon: '...let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; ...' (more info)
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2.   From The Song Of Solomon - 3:20


A Birthday (Rossetti) (more info)
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3.   A Birthday - 3:32


Romeo and Juliet: Act II Scene 2: O Romeo, Romeo! / Act III Scene 2: Gallop apace... (Shakespeare) (more info)
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4.   Romeo And Juliet - 4:09


Tosca (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra MGM Studio Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Rome Teatro Reale Opera Orchestra Josef Pasternack Orchestra Nils Grevillius Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Victor De Sabata Enrico Caruso Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Gerhard Lenssen Josef A. Pasternack Oliviero De Fabritiis Gaetano Merola Markus Lehtinen Gerhard Steeger Alberto Erede Lorenzo Molajoli Walter B. Rogers Franco Ghione Frieder Weissmann Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Charles Gerhardt Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Jukka-Pekka Saraste Richard Bradshaw Constantine Orbelian Giacomo Spadoni David Parry Andrew Litton Kurt Striegler Ivan Anguelov Max Rudolf
Ian Caddy, baritone
Nellie Melba, soprano
Lina Bruna-Rasa, soprano
David Sellers, boy soprano
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Dora Zschille, soprano
Gregory Yurisich, baritone
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Richard Tauber, tenor
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano
Miroslav Dvorsky, tenor
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Karita Mattila, soprano
Armando Borgioli, baritone
Ernesto Dominici, bass-baritone
Silvano Carroli, baritone
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Grace Moore, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Hans Hopf, tenor
Melchiorre Luise, bass
Studio pianist, piano
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Dusolina Giannini, soprano
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Jan Durco, baritone
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Dino Fedri,
Andrew Shore, bass
Stanislav Benacka, bass
Giorgio Lamberti, tenor
Andrea Piccinni, bass
Jozef Spacek, baritone
Dario Caselli, bass
Salvatore Cottone, piano
Maria Callas, soprano
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, bass
Angelo Mercuriali, tenor
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Franco Calabrese, bass
Alvaro Cordova, tenor
Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Nelly Miricioiu, soprano
Jane Eaglen, soprano
Hui He, soprano
Meta Seinemeyer, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Ljuba Welitsch, soprano
Alessandra Marc, soprano
Richard Margison, tenor
Raimo Sirkia, tenor
Recording date: 31 January 1921


5.   Vissi d'arte - 3:21


Attributed letter from Marianna Alcoforado to the Marquis of Chamilly and St Leger (more info)
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6.   Letter From Marianna Alcoforado To The Marquis Of Chamilly And St. Leger - 2:17


Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay (more info)
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7.   Letter From Mary Wollstonecraft To Gilbert Imlay - 2:29


To My Dear and Loving Husband (Bradstreet) (more info)
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8.   To My Dear And Loving Husband - 1:30


We Two (Kuan Tao-Sheng) (more info)
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9.   We Two - 1:32


Letter from Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de l'Espinasse to the Comte de Guibert (more info)
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10.   Letter From Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de l'Espinasse To The Comte de Guibert - 1:18


Psychology: 'Just for a moment both of them stood silent in that leaping light (Mansfield) (more info)
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11.   English String Festival, Elegy, Opus 58 - 2:31


Letter from Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murray (more info)
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12.   Letter From Katherine Mansfield To John Middleton Murray - 1:42


Letter from Heloise to Abelard (more info)
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13.   Letter From Heloise To Abelard - 2:18


Wuthering Heights:'My love for Heathcliffe resembles the eternal rocks beneath...' (Emily Bronte) (more info)
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14.   Wuthering Heights - 3:44


La boheme (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Stockholm Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Frankfurt Brandenburg State Orchestra Berlin City Opera Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Symphony Orchestra Montreal Opera Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Eugene Goossens Orchestra Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Eugene Goossens Cesare Sodero Enrico Caruso Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Will Humburg Gaetano Merola Gerhard Steeger Rudolf Kempe Alberto Erede Victor Trucco Izler Solomon Giuseppe Antonicelli Walter Goehr Walter B. Rogers Rosario Bourdon Umberto Berrettoni Renato Cellini Fritz Zweig Frieder Weissmann Jacques Lacombe Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Alexander Rahbari Robert Heger Tullio Serafin Joseph Rescigno Charles Rosekrans Antonino Votto Thomas Beecham Heribert Beissel Vincenzo Bellezza Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Constantine Orbelian David Parry Mikko Franck Gerhard Wiesenhutter Eugene Szenkar
Manon Feubel, soprano
John McCormack, tenor
Nellie Melba, soprano
Anna-Lisa Bjorling, soprano
Antoine Belanger, tenor
Etienne Dupuis, baritone
Gianna Corbisiero, soprano
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Lisa Otto, soprano
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Licia Albanese, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Tatiana Menotti, mezzo-soprano
Afro Poli, baritone
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Leonard Warren, baritone
Erna Berger, soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Lucrezia Bori, soprano
Aurora Rettore, soprano
Robert Easton, bass
Titta Ruffo, baritone
Hilde Gueden, soprano
Tito Schipa, tenor
Landon Ronald, piano
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Hjordis Schymberg, soprano
Carlo Forti, bass
Fabio Previati, baritone
Carmen Gonzales, soprano
Ivan Urbas, bass
Boaz Senator, baritone
Maria Zamboni, soprano
Grace Moore, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Nicola Moscona, bass
George Cehanovsky, baritone
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Giacinto Prandelli, tenor
Giovanni Inghilleri, baritone
Fernando Corena, baritone
Piero De Palma, tenor
Melchiorre Luise, bass
Ildebrando Santafe, bass
Patrice Munsel, soprano
Alan Opie, baritone
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Nicola Zaccaria, bass
Franco Ricciardi,
William Dazeley, baritone
Andrew Shore, bass
Robert Merrill, baritone
Dora Labbette,
Stella Andreva,
Robert Alva,
John Reardon, baritone
Giorgio Tozzi,
Lucine Amara,
William Nahr,
Thomas Powell,
George del Monte,
Stanislav Benacka, bass
Jiri Sulzenko, bass
Richard Novak, bass
Ladislav Hallon, tenor
Elfriede Trotschel, soprano
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
Marie McLaughlin, soprano
Maria Callas, soprano
Rolando Panerai, baritone
Heddle Nash, tenor
Browning Mummery, tenor
Frederic Collier, bass
Edouard Cotreuil, bass
Valerian Ruminski, bass
Mario Sammarco, baritone
Diana Soviero, soprano
Edward Johnson, tenor
Bidu Sayao, soprano
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Carmen Dragon,
Raffaele Arie, bass
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Cynthia Haymon, soprano
Alastair Miles, bass
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Manuel Spatafora, baritone
Carlo Badioli, bass
Anna Moffo, soprano
Eraldo Coda, bass
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Jonathon Welch, tenor
Agnieszka Piass, soprano
John Brownlee, baritone
Geraldine Farrar, soprano
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
Marianne Fiset, soprano
Recording date: 12 December 1942


15.   'Si, me chiamano Mimi' - 5:23


Meeting (Rossetti) (more info)
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16.   Meeting - 2:52


Letter from Claire Clairmont to Lord Byron (more info)
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17.   Letter From Jane Clairmont To Lord Byron - 2:48


If Thou Must Love Me (Browning) (more info)
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18.   Adagio, Violin Concerto No. 1 In G Minor - 1:36


Jane Eyre: 'I had not intended to love him...' (Charlotte Bronte) (more info)
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19.   Jane Eyre - 4:19


Letter from George Sand to Pietro Pagello (more info)
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20.   Letter From Georges Sand To Pietro Pagello - 4:35


Night and Day: 'They brought themselves by these means...' (Woolf) (more info)
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21.   Le Jardin Seerique, Ma mere l'oye - 6:01


Song of the Geishas: At Kataushike the river water/ Runs gently, and the plum blossom/ bursts out laughing... (more info)
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22.   From Song Of The Geishas - 0:30


Madama Butterfly (more info)
Performed by: Grosses Rundfunkorchester Dresden Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Frankfurt Brandenburg State Orchestra Prague Philharmonia Rome Opera Orchestra Montreal Opera Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome Stuttgart State Orchestra Russian Philharmonia
Composed by: Enrico Caruso Giacomo Puccini Hans-Hendrik Wehding
Conducted by: Herbert von Karajan Josef A. Pasternack Oliviero De Fabritiis Felix Prohaska Alberto Erede Steven Mercurio Dino Olivieri Frieder Weissmann Michael Halasz Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Joseph Rescigno Gianandrea Gavazzeni Richard Bradshaw Lothar Zagrosek Heribert Beissel Leo Blech Constantine Orbelian Yves Abel Ivan Anguelov Hans Lowlein Charles Rosenkrans
Antonio Scotti, baritone
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Lucia Danieli, mezzo-soprano
Mario Borriello, baritone
Renato Ercolani, tenor
Luisa Villa, mezzo-soprano
Mario Carlin, tenor
Plinio Clabassi, bass
Enrico Campi, bass
Norberto Mola, choirmaster
Gregory Yurisich, baritone
Licia Albanese, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Erna Berger, soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Mario Basiola, baritone
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Ernesto Dominici, bass-baritone
Toti Dal Monte, soprano
Vittoria Palombini, alto
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Alzbeta Michalkova, contralto
Grace Moore, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Giovanni Inghilleri, baritone
Fernando Corena, baritone
Piero De Palma, tenor
Melchiorre Luise, bass
Cheryl Barker, soprano
Galina Gorchakova,
Vladimir Kubovcik, bass
Guiseppe Campora, tenor
Nell Rankin, mezzo-soprano
Ana Maria Martinez, soprano
Jozef Spacek, baritone
Nelly Boschkowa, mezzo-soprano
Robert Szucs, tenor
Jozef Abel, tenor
Ana Tomkovicova, mezzo-soprano
Maria Stahelova, soprano
Helena Hanzelova, soprano
Helena Rott,
Elfriede Trotschel, soprano
Maria Huder,
Adelio Zagonara, tenor
Gino Conti, bass
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
Maria Spacagna,
Maria Callas, soprano
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Arturo la Porta, bass-baritone
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Nicolai Gedda, tenor
Hui He, soprano
Yordy Ramiro, tenor
Bruno Sbalchiero, bass
Diana Soviero, soprano
Meta Seinemeyer, soprano
Helen Jung, mezzo-soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Anna Maria Canali, mezzo-soprano
Heinz Sauerbaum, tenor
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Georg Tichy, baritone
Agnieszka Piass, soprano
Richard Margison, tenor
Joan Hammond, soprano
Recording date: July 1939


23.   'Un bel di, vedremo' - 4:37


Conviction IV (Stevie Smith) (more info)
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24.   Conviction IV - 0:23


Letter from Clara Wieck to Robert Schumann (more info)
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25.   Letter From Clara Wieck To Robert Schumann - 3:23


Ulysses: '...and then I asked him with my eyes and then he asked me would I yes...' (Joyce) (more info)
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26.   From Molly Bloom's Concluding Soliloquoy - 4:41

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