RECITAL JOAN SUTHERLAND / JOAN SUTHERLAND OPERATIC RECITAL

  [order from London LP, side 1:]
Donizetti: from Lucia di Lammermoor: "Ancor non giunse! . . . Regnava nel silenzio"
Verdi: from Ernani (act I): "Surta e la notte  . . . Ernani! involami"
Verdi: from I vespri siciliani (act V): "Bolero: Merce, diletti amiche"
  [side 2:]
Donizetti: from Linda di Chamonix (act I): "Ah! tardai troppo . . . O luce di quest'anima"
Donizetti: from Lucia di Lammermoor (act II): "Il dolce suono ... Ardon gl'incensi" (Mad scene)

Nello Santi, conductor; Joan Sutherland, soprano; Paris Opéra chorus (René Duclos)

DESCRIPTION: 1 disc, 33 1/3 rpm, 12 in. stereo.   

NOTES: Recorded 28-30 April 1959, Maison de la Chimie, Paris.

Decca fr. LXT 5531 (d. l. 1962)  @Discogs

• • Also:

    • London X 5515. Program notes by Gordon Stewart and biographical notes by Harold Rosenthal on slipcase. June 1959

    • London OS 25111. Matrix no. N ZAL.4506 (label; etched + -2E), N ZAL.4507 (etched + -3D). Notes as above.

    • Decca Ace of Diamonds SDD 146 stereo

  • CDs:

    • CD: Mad scene, in Ten Top Sopranos:  Decca 4364612, tr. 10 (duration 16:07). 1993 (March 16).

    • CD: Id., in The Greatest Hits: Joan Sutherland: Decca 2894582092, tr. 11 (duration 16:09). 1998 (12 May).

INDEX: 60~045  1959-04-28