1 KHOVANSHCHINA, Musorgsky, All is quiet in the camp 5.33
Rec: 8 June 1942 Matrix: CS 07136-1 Victor Cat: 11-8250
2 Musorgsky, Hopak 3.12
Rec: 4 May 1938 Matrix: BS 022983-1 Victor Cat: 4414
3 Grechaninov, Over the Steppe 3.08
Rec: 28 April 1938 Matrix: BS 022939-2 Victor Cat: 4414
4 Tchaikovsky, None but the lonely heart 3.22
Rec: 28 April 1938 Matrix: BS 022941-1 Victor Cat: 4436
5 DIE KÖNIGIN VON SABA, Goldmark, Lift thine eyes 3.48
Rec: 3 July 1941 Matrix: CS 066379-1 Victor Cat: 18402
6 DIE TOTE STADT, Korngold, My Longing, My Yearning 4.52
Rec: 3 July 1941 Matrix: CS 066384-1 Victor unpublished
7 Mattei, Non č ver 4.34
Rec: 28 April 1938 Matrix: CS 022942-2 Victor Cat: 12437
8 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, Rossini, Largo al factotum 4.40
Rec: 28 April 1938 Matrix: CS 022940-1 Victor Cat: 12437
9 ATTILA, Verdi, Dagli immortal vertici 4.47
Rec: 3 July 1941 Matrix: CS 066380-1 Victor Cat: 18402
10 PAGLIACCI, Leoncavallo, Prologue Si puň ... Un nido di memorie 5.36
Rec: 4 May 1938 Matrix: BS 022937-2 / Victor Cat: 4409
11 SOROCHINTSY FAIR, Musorgsky, Reverie of the young peasant 4.16
Rec: 10 April 1939 Matrix: PBS 036113-5 Victor Cat: 2038
12 Musorgsky, The garden by the Don 1.55
Rec: 23 June 1939 Matrix: PBS 036114-8 Victor Cat: 2039
13 Musorgsky, Forgotten 2.21
Rec: 23 June 1939 Matrix: PBS 036115-9 Victor Cat: 2039
14 Musorgsky, Where art thou, little star? 3.42
Rec: 23 June 1939 Matrix: PBS 036112-16 Victor Cat: 2038
15 Musorgsky, Songs and Dances of Death Lullaby 4.27
Rec: 8 April 1939 Matrix: PBS 036108-5 Victor Cat: 2036
16 Serenade 4.15
Rec: 8 April 1939 Matrix: PBS 036109-3 Victor Cat: 2037
17 Trepak 4.35
Rec: 8 April 1939 Matrix: PBS 036107-3 (or 8) Victor Cat: 2036
18 The field-marshall 4.52
Rec: 8 April 1939 Matrix: PBS 036110-3 Victor Cat: 2037
Tracks 1 Charles O’Connell, conductor
Tracks 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10 Wilfred Pelletier, conductor
Tracks 5, 6, 9 Bruno Reibold, conductor
Tracks 11-18 Max Rabinowitsch, piano
From the middle of the 19th Century Americans have been inordinately proud of their native-born singers, and in particular of their baritones. From the concert platform to oratorio, opera, operetta, musical comedy, countless movies and Broadway musicals, the American baritone, with his persuasive and virile vocal tone no doubt the result of the great cultural and ethnic mix that makes up the United States, has been a mainstay of musical America. All the more unlikely then that a young baritone from the Ukraine would became one of the most recognised and loved voices on record and radio, in opera and recital.
