Browse: Jussi Björling (tenor)
This page lists all recordings performed by Jussi Björling.
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedVictoria de los Angeles, Jussi Björling, Fernando Corena, Robert Merrill, Giorgio Tozzi
The Columbus Boychoir & RCA Victor Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham
A classic, with extra electricity derived from the hasty recording, with Beecham's living, vivid conducting and a superb cast, both stellar and supporting, even though the mono sound is less... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2008, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Puccini: Turandot
RecommendedBirgit Nilsson (Princess Turandot), Jussi Björling (Calaf), Renata Tebaldi (Liù), Mario Sereni (Ping), Piero De Palma (Pang), Tommaso Frascati (Pong), Giorgio Tozzi (Timur) & Alessio De Paolis (Emperor Altoum)
Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Erich Leinsdorf
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Grammy Awards, 3rd Awards (1960), Best Opera Recording
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Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedRobert Merrill (Rigoletto), Roberta Peters (Gilda), Jussi Björling (Il Duca), Anna Maria Rota (Maddalena), Giorgio Tozzi (Sparafucile)
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Jonel Perlea
[On the original release in 1956] under Perlea, the orchestral playing is firm and dramatic, well balanced with the voice. The music is well paced. Björling’s tone is a constant pleasure. He... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
2 CDs
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
RecommendedLicia Albanese (Manon Lescaut), Jussi Björling (Des Grieux), Robert Merrill (Lescaut), Franco Calabrese (Geronte/Un sergente degli arcieri), Mario Carlin (Edmondo/Il maestro di ballo/Lampionaio), Anna Maria Rota (Una voce sola), Plinio Clabassi (L'oste/Un comandante di Marina)
Rome Opera House...
With Bjoerling as Des Grieux giving one of this very finest performances on disc and with Robert Merrill in glorious voice as Lescaut, the Romanian conductor Jonel Perlea conducts one of the... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2006, First Choice
2 CDs
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Jussi Björling in Opera
RecommendedJussi Bjoerling (tenor), Royal Orchestra, Rome Opera Orchestra, Jussi Björling (tenor), RCA Orchestra
Nils Grevillius, Jonel Perlea, Erich Leinsdorf, Renato Cellini
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Grammy Awards, 2nd Awards (1959), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Puccini: Turandot
RecommendedBirgit Nilsson, Giorgio Tozzi, Jussi Bjorling, Piero de Palma
Rome Opera Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
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Grammy Awards, 3rd Awards (1960), Best Opera Recording
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Jussi Bjorling (Manrico), Zinka Milanov (Leonora), Leonard Warren (Il Conte di Luna), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Nicola Moscona (Ferrando), Margaret Roggero (Ines), Paul Franke (Ruiz), George Cehanovsky (Un vecchio zingaro), Nathaniel Sprinzena (Un messo)
RCA Victor Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale,...
among the very finest recorded versions. The transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn bring out the full beauty and character of all four principals very vividly...Bjorling is, as ever, superb in his heroic... — More…
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Verdi: Requiem Mass & Te Deum
Zinka Milanov (soprano), Bruna Castagna (mezzo), Jussi Björling (tenor), Nicola Moscona (bass)
NBC Symphony & Westminster Choir, Arturo Toscanini
For a conductor famous for incandescence and relentless intensity, this account of the Requiem, from a Carnegie Hall concert of November 23, 1940, is most remarkable for its lyrical beauty and... — More…
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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
Zinka Milanov, Jussi Björling, Robert Merrill, Margaret Roggero, Carol Smith
The Robert Shaw Chorale, RCA Victor Orchestra, Renato Cellini
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Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus RecommendedHilde Güden (Rosalinde), Eberhard Wächter (Eisenstein), Giuseppe Zampieri (Alfred), Rita Streich (Adele), Gerhard Stolze (Orlofsky), Peter Klein (Blind), Walter Berry (Falke), Erich Kunz (Frank), Josef Meinrad (Frosch), Elfriede Ott (Ida)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert...
The most luxuriantly Viennese of all Fledermice, with Karajan and the Philharmonic at their most effervescent and a delectable Staatsoper cast, plus a gala of 1950s Decca stars including Björling,... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2022, Also Recommended
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