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"JUSSI BJOERLING RARITIES".(Review)
Jussi Bjoerling "JUSSI BJOERLING RARITIES" Arias, songs and scenes by Puccini, Meyerbeer, Verdi, Gounod, Massenet, Bizet, R. Strauss, Rossini, Leoncavallo, Alfven and others. With A. Bjoerling, Moore, Steber; D. Dickson. Various orchestras, Rapee, Iturbi, Ormandy Weissman, Ehrling, Barlow, Vorhees, Gustafsson. No texts. VAI Audio VAIA 1189
Although Jussi Bjoerling's repertoire of arias and songs was quite large, only a fraction of it found its way into his substantial recorded legacy. He had a habit of re-recording his favorite recital pieces on different occasions, sometimes frustrating his legion of enthusiasts eager to discover hitherto unrecorded riches. They will find partial solace in this collection of rarities lovingly assembled and knowingly annotated by Cantor Don Goldberg, a Bjoerling scholar. They come from radio concerts from 1937 (the year of his American debut) to 1953, and the recorded sound varies in quality from fair to acceptable, but Bjoerling fans (present writer included) can overlook the sometimes noisy surfaces to find the unmistakable tonal magic relatively unimpaired.
Of special interest is a 1938 sequence under Jose Iturbi that contains Bjoerling's first "Salut, demeure" (in Swedish; the French version followed a year later), with a stunning high C, and his first recording of Des Grieux's "Le Reve," with a marvelous diminuendo. The same remarkable diminuendo is on display in Don Jose's flower song (1939). James Carroll Bartlett's "A Dream" and Charles W. Glover's "The Rose of Tralee," not recorded by Bjoerling elsewhere, are obvious gestures to please the artist's new American audience, but there are also two ...
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- Magazine article from: Opera News Innaurato, Albert October 1, 1996 700+ words
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- Reference information from: Contemporary Musicians January 1, 1989 700+ words
...puckish personality, he is largely perceived as the opera performer who best recalls previous greats such as Caruso and Jussi Bjoerling. As Hubert Saal noted in a 1976 Newsweek , “ More than any other tenor today, Luciano Pavarotti …...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff August 18, 1996 700+ words
...with my score analysis. I was also lucky to work with Frederick Schauwecker, who had been the collaborative pianist with Jussi Bjoerling, and to this day my greatest passion is for Lieder." From Chicago, Revzen progressed to New York and Juilliard; on...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff September 13, 1996 700+ words
...those of the Golden Three will be. The standing of two tenors however, has never really changed -- Enrico Caruso and Jussi Bjoerling. Now we have for the first time in English a full biography of Bjoerling, "Jussi," by his widow, Anna-Lisa Bjoerling...
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- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 7, 1996 700+ words
...virtuoso. Other luminaries of the past testify to the series' broad range of musical genres: Nelson Eddy, Paul Robeson, Jussi Bjoerling, the Vienna Boys Choir and the Trapp Family Singers. The nation's premiere orchestras have filled the hall with glorious...
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- Magazine article from: Opera News Hastings, Stephen April 13, 1996 700+ words
...veteran tenor Alessandro Ziliani (who was soon to become his first manager) was struck by the voice's resemblance to Jussi Bjoerling's. If one compares the two singers singing "Che gelida manina" in the sets conducted by Beecham and Karajan (EMI 47235...
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- Magazine article from: Opera News Kellow, Brian December 14, 1996 700+ words
...exclusives. I loved that. Of course, the rock stuff paid for us still does. But I remember the Rigoletto very well, because JUSSI BJOERLING was in it. We did the quartet once, and luckily it came out well, because he didn't want to do it again. On the Barbiere...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Jerry Taylor, Globe Staff March 31, 1996 700+ words
...always adored opera," he said. "I had a subscription to Opera News from the age of 8. I listened to Ezio Pinza and Jussi Bjoerling. I fell madly in love with Lily Pons when I saw her in St. Louis as a tongue-tied boy of 11." Elvins proposed to his...