Maestro Manfred F. Kuttner Co-Host (with Jim Price) of "Immortal Sounds from the Past"

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	#1 - Salieri: Sinfonia in D                   Sullivan: The Lost Chord (Richard Crooks, tenor)                   Mozart: Die Zauberflöte: O Isis und Osiris                   (Alexander Kipnis, bass-baritone; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)                   Mozart: Variations on a Nursery Tune, K.265 (Jörg Demus, fortepiano)                   Puccini: La Bohème: Si, Mi Chiamano Mimi (Lucrezia Bori, soprano)                   Paganini/Kreisler: Violin Concerto                   (Fritz Kreisler, violin; Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting)
	#2 - Schubert: Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in a minor, D.821: mvts.2 & 3                  (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist; Dame Myra Hess, pianist)                  Giordano: Fedora: Amor Ti Vieta (Enrico Caruso, tenor)                  Leoncavallo: Mattinata (Enrico Caruso, tenor)                  Paderewski: Minuet in G, Op.14, No.1 (Ignace Paderewski, pianist)                  Verdi: La Traviata: Ah, Forse Lui…Sempre Libera (Bidu Sayao, soprano)                  Puccini: Tosca: Perche, Chiuso (Ramón Venay, tenor; Florence Quarteraro, soprano)                  Mendelssohn/Rachmaninov: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Scherzo                  (Serge Rachmaninov, pianist)                  Verdi: Aïda: Ritorna Vincitor (Rosa Ponselle, soprano)
	#3 - Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.61: mvt.3                  (Fritz Kreisler, violinist; Sir John Barbarolli)                  R.Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier: Di Rigori Armato (Richard Tauber, tenor)                  Handel: Halvarson Passacaglia from Harpsichord Suite No.7 in g minor                  (Jascha Hiefetz, violinist; William Primrose, violist)                  Verdi: Otello: Niun Me Tema (Florencio Constantino, tenor)                  Friml: Rose Marie: Indian Love Call (Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald)                  Horowitz: Variations on Themes from Bizet's Carmen (Vladimir Horowitz, pianist)                  Verdi: La Traviata: Di Provenza il Mar (Lauritz Melchior, baritone)                  Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prize Song (Lauritz Melchior, tenor)
	#4 - Mozart: Violin Concerto in D Major, K. Anh. 294a "Adelaide"                  (Yehudi Menuhin, violinist; Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, Pierre Monteux)                  Mozart: Das Veilchen (The Little Violet), K.476 (Leo Slezak, tenor)                  Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin: Act III (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Atruto Toscanini)                  Bellini: Norma: Casta Diva (Zinka Milinov, soprano; Robert Shaw Chorale;                  NBC Symphony Orchestra)                  Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.11 in a minor (William Kappel, pianist)                  Puccini: La Bohème: Vecchia Zimarra (Enrico Caruso, bass)                  Beethoven: Fidelio, Op.72: Abscheulicher! Wo Eilst du Hin?                  (Kirsten Flagstad, soprano; Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy)                  Schubert/Liszt: Variations on Der Lindenbaum (Egon Petri, pianist)
	#5 - Buxtehude: Prelude and Fugue in C Major (E. Power Biggs, organist)                  Bach: Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee (Dorothy Maynor, soprano)                  Schumann: Excerpt from Carnival, Op.9 (Serge Rachmaninov, pianist)                  Puccini: Nessun Dorma                  (Jussi Björling, tenor; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, Erich Leinsdorf)                  Trad.: This Old Man (Ann Leaf, organist)                  Schubert: Ave Maria, D.839; Op.52, No.6 (Marian Anderson, contralto)                  Verdi: Requiem: Confutatis Maledictus (Ezio Pinza, bass)                  L.Mozart: Sinfonia in G Major
	#6 - Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 in A Major, Op.9 "Italian": mvt.1                  (Philharmonia Orchestra, Guido Cantelli)                  Mozart: Don Giovanni, K.527: Il Mio Tesoro (John McCormack, tenor)                  Paganini: Caprice No.24 in a minor (Ossi Renardi, violinist)                  Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera: Eri Tu Che Macchiavi (Igor Gorin, baritone)                  Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier                  (Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist)                  Rodgers and Hart: With a Song in My Heart (Mario Lanza, tenor)                  Handel: Rodelinda: Art Thou Troubled? (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto)                  Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart: Piano Quartet in g minor                   (Crystal Genzer, violinist; Karl Stiroff, viola; Ewald Winkler, cellist; Erica Genzer, pianist)
	#7 - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana: Overture & Siciliana                  (Beniamino Gigli, tenor, Pietro Macagni; conductor)                  Puccini: Tosaca: Visi d'Arte                  (Ljuba Welitsch, soprano; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting)                  Beethoven: Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49, No. 2 (Artur Schnabel, pianist)                  Giordani: Caro Mio Ben (Heinrich Schlusnus, baritone)                  Carle: Sunrise Serenade (Glenn Miller & his band)                  Rossini: Barber of Seville: Largo al Factotum (Lawrence Tibbett, baritone)                  Hubay: Hejre Kati, Op. 32 (Rafael Mendez & his orchestra)                  Handel: Xerxes: Ombra Mai Fu (Enrico Caruso, tenor)                  R. Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss, conductor)
	#8 - Haydn: Symphony No.100 in G Major "Military" rehearsal                  (Royal Philharmonic; Sir Thomas Beecham)                  Verdi: Othello: Esultare (Francesco Tamaño, tenor)                  Chopin: Impromptu No.2 in f-sharp minor, Op.36 (Vladimir de Pachmann, pianist)                  Villa-Lobos: Bacchianas Brasileiras No.5 (Bidu Sayao, soprano; Leonard Rose, cellist;                  Heitor Villa-Lobos, conducting)                  Haydn/Casals: Adagio from Sonata No.9 in D Major                  (Pablo Casals, cellist; Eugene Istomin, pianist)                  Mozart: Magic Flute, K.620: Die Hölle Rache Kocht in Meinem Herzen                  (Miliza Korjus, soprano)                  Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622: mvt.4                  (Benny Goodman, clarinetist; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch)                  Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci: Prologue (Leonard Warren, baritone)
	#9 - Mozart: Divertimento in E-Flat Major, K.563                  (Jascha Heifetz, violinist; William Primrose, violist; Emanuel Feuermann, cellist)                  Gounod: Faust: Final Scene (Nelly Melba, soprano; John McCormack, tenor)                  Kreisler: Leibesfreud (Fritz Kreisler, violinist)                  Puccini: La Bohème: Che Gelida Manina (Aureliano Pertile, tenor)                  Bach: Fugue in C Major, BWV-564 (Albert Schweitzer, organist)                  Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So (Avon Long, Margeret Tynes)                  Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore: Una Furtiva Lagrima (Tito Schipa, tenor)                  Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op.84 (Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter)
	#10 - Copland: Lincoln Portrait                     (Carl Sandburg, narrator; New York Philharmonic, André Kostelanetz)                     Weber: Der Freischutz: Aria of Agathe (Lotte Lehmann, soprano)                     Rachmaninov: Prelude in c-sharp minor (Serge Rachmaninov, pianist)                     Lehar: The Land of Smiles: Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz (Fritz Wunderlich, tenor)                     Haydn: Toy Symphony in C Major (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky)                     Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin. D.795: Mein (Axel Schiøtz, tenor)                     J.Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz (Joseph Lhevinne, pianist)                     Dinicu/Heifetz: Hora Staccato (Jascha Heifetz, violinist)
	#11 - Mozart: Symphony No.36 C Major, K.425 "Linz" Rehearsal                     (Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter)                     Courante: O Ma Charmant (Mattia Battestini, baritone)                     Handel: Chaconne in G Major (Edwin Fischer, pianist)                     Caccini: Two Troubadour Songs (Utz Guenaud, tenor; Herman Lieb, lutenist)                     Verdi: Aida: Rittorna Vincitor (Eva Turner, soprano; Sir Thomas Beecham, conducting)                     Schubert: The Village (Vienna Boys' Choir)                     Verdi: Rigoletto: Il Nome Vostro Ditemi                     (Giuseppe de Luca, baritone; Lily Pons, soprano)
	#12 - Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV-244: Prelude                     (Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Willem Mengelberg)                     Bizet: Carmen: Habañera (Maria Callas, mezzo-soprano)                     Bruch: Kol Nidrei for Cello and Orchestra, Op.47                     (Pablo Casals, cellist; London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Landon Ronald)                     Wagner: Die Walküre: Wintersturme Wichen dem Wonnemond                     (Lauritz Melchior, tenor; NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini)                     Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Love Duet Excerpt                     (Lauritz Melchior, tenor; Frieda Leider, soprano)                     Mercer: Goody, Goody (Benny Goodman, clarinetist)                     German Folk Song: In Einem Kuhlen Grunde (Von Trapp Family Singers)                     Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini)
	#13 - Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf                     (Basil Rathbone, narrator; All-American Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski)                     Beethoven: Fidelio Op.72: Gott! Welch Dunkel Hier! (Franz Völker, tenor)                     Mozart: Horn Concerto No.3 in E-Flat Major, K.447: Allegro                     (Dennis Brain, french hornist)                     Silcher: Die Lorelei "Ich Weiss Nich, Was Soll es Bedeuten"                     (Ernestine Schuman-Heink, contralto)                     Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio, Op.72                     (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Clemens Krauss)                     Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Address of the Mastersingers                     (Friedrich Schorr, baritone)
	#14 - Grieg: Piano Concerto in a minor, Op.16: mvt.1                     (Dinu Lipatti, pianist; Philharmonia Orchestra, Alceo Galliera)                     Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer: Ballad of Senta (Elizabeth Rethberg, soprano)                     Handel: The Harmonious Blacksmith (Walter Gieseking, pianist)                     Charles: The Green-Eyed Dragon with the Thirteen Tails                     (John Charles Thomas, baritone)                     Bloch: Baal Shem Suite: Yidui and Nigun                     (Joseph Szigeti, violinist; Andor Farkas, pianist)                     Prima: Sing, Sing, Sing (Benny Goodman and His Orchestra)
	#15 - Goldmark: Symphony, Op.26 "Rustic Wedding": mvt.5                     (Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Henry Svoboda)                     Wagner: Siegfried: Forging Song (Lauritz Melchior, tenor)                     Wagner: Siegfried: Forging Song (Jean de Reszke, tenor)                     Rossini: Il Barbieri di Siviglia: La Calunnia (Fyodor Chaliapin, bass)                     Lauder: When I Was Twenty-One (Sir Harry Lauder, humorist)                     Bizet: Carmen: Air de la Fleur                     (Jan Kiepura, tenor; Hans Wilhelm Steinberg, conducting)                     First Piano Quartet, trans.: Variations on a Theme by Paganini (First Piano Quartet)                     Bach: The Musical Offering: Ricercare (Hermann Scherchen, conducting)
	#16 - Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra: Allegretto (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner)                     Mozart: Piano Sonata No.11 in A Major, K.331 "Turkish" (Walter Gieseking, pianist)                     Sarasate: Introduction and Tarantelle, Op.43 (Jascha Heifetz, violinist)                     Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci: Vesti la Giubba (Enrico Caruso, tenor)                     Sullivan: The Lost Chord (Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians)                     Gounod: Faust: Prayer of Valentin (Umberto Urbano, baritone)                     Holländer: Ich Bin von Kopf Bis Fuss Auf Liebe Eingestellt                     (Marlene Dietrich, vocalist; Burt Bacharach Orchestra)
	#17 - Beethoven: Fidelio: Prison Scene                     Beethoven: Fidelio: Gott! Welch Dunkel Hier (Heinz Sauerbaum, tenor)                     Porter: Begin the Beguine (Artie Shaw and His Orchestra)                     Bach: Prelude in C Major (Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist)                     Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria (Jeanette MacDonald, soprano)                     Trad. American: Deep River (Paul Robeson, baritone; Lawrence Brown, pianist)                     Cohan: I Want to Hear a Yankee Doodle Tune (George M. Cohan, vocalist)                     Achron: Hebrew Melody (Mischa Elman, violinist)                     Beethoven: Ich Liebe Dich,WoO-123 (Fritz Wunderlich, tenor)
	#18 - Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, Op.9                     (Orchestre Théâtre National de l'Opéra, Andre Cluytens, conducting)                     J.Strauss: The Gypsy Baron: Ja, Das Alles auf Ehr (Joseph Schmidt, tenor)                     Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera: Eri Tu (Pasquale Amato, baritone)                     Trad. Russian: Russian Orthodox Funeral Dirge (Don Cossacks Choir, Serge Jaroff)                     Trad. Russian: Old Polka; Two Cossack Songs (Don Cossacks Choir, Serge Jaroff)                     Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore: When I Was a Lad                     (John Charles Thomas, baritone)                     Schubert: Der Tot und das Mädchen (Marian Anderson, contralto)                     Trad. Yiddish: A Cantor on the Sabbath (Al Jolson, vocalist)                     Verdi: Aida: Finale (Beniamino Gigli, tenor; Maria Caniglia, soprano)
	#19 - Brahms: Song of Destiny, Op.54                     (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Beecham Choral Society, Sir Thomas Beecham)                     Harmati: The Bluebird of Happiness                     (Jan Peerce, tenor; Art Mooney and His Orchestra)                     Dvorák: Biblical Songs, Op.99: Psalm 137 "On the Waters of Babylon"                     (Sir George Henschel, baritone)                     Bach/Segovia: Two Gavottes from Partita No.3 (Andrés Segovia, guitarist)                     Horowitz: Variations on Themes from Bizet's Carmen (Vladimir Horowitz, pianist)                     Ochs: Variations on 'S Kommt ein Vogel Geflogen in the Style of Old Masters
	#20 - Brahms: Song of Destiny, Op. 54                     (Royal Phil. Orch., Beecham Choral Society, Sir Thomas Beecham)                     Godard: Jocelyn: Berceuse (John McCormack, tenor; Fritz Kreisler, violinist)                     Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618 (Strasbourg Cathedral Choir)                     Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: Summertime (Dorothy Dandridge, vocalist)                     Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight" Mvt. 1                     (Ignace Paderewski, pianist)                     Tobias & Simon: Little Curly Hair in a High Chair (Eddie Cantor, vocalist)                     Charles: The Green-Eyed Dragon with the 13 Tails                     (Manfred Kuttner, baritone, recorded on Major Bowes' Amateur Hour)                     Ries: Suite No. 3 in G Major, Op. 34, No. 5 "Perpetuum Mobile" (Jan Kubelik, violinist)
	#21 - Mozart: Don Giovanni, K.527: Overture and Act I, Scene 1                     (Alexander Kipnis, bass; Ezio Pinza, bass; Norman Cordon, bass; Rose Bampton, soprano;                     Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Bruno Walter)                     Gregorian Chant: Asperges Me and Kyrie (Monks of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes)                     DeSylva, Brown & Henderson: Birth of the Blues (The Revelers)                     Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals: The Swan                     (Pablo Casals, cellist; Nicolai Mednikov, pianist)                     Presidential Address to Congress, Monday, December 8, 1941                     (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, speaker)                     Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op.48: mvt.4                     (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky)                     Korngold: Violin Concerto: mvt.3                     (Jascha Heifetz, violinist; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfred Wallenstein)
	#22 - Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals                      (Sir Noel Coward, narrator; Leonid Hambro and Jasche Zayde, pianists;                      Andre Kostelanetz, conducting)                      Cadman: From the Land of Sky Blue Water, Op.45, No.1 (Alma Gluck, soprano)                      Daquin: Le Coucou (Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist)                      Verdi: La Forza del Destino: La Virgine Degli Angeli                      (Rosa Ponselle, soprano; Ezio Pinza, bass)                      War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast, Sunday, October 30, 1938                      (Orson Welles and the Mercury Radio Company on the Air)                      Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini)
	#23 -  Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue                      (Oscar Levant, pianist; Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy)                      Delibes: Lakme: Bell Song (Lily Pons, soprano)                      Meyerbeer: L'Africaine: O Paradiso (Joseph Schmidt, tenor)                      Handel: Messiah: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth                      (Dora Labbette, soprano; Sir Thomas Beecham, conducting)                      Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Cobbler's Song                      (Friedrich Schorr, bass-baritone)                      Barber: Dover Beach (Samuel Barber, baritone; Curtis String Quartet)                      Excerpt from Allen's Alley                      (Fred Allen, Kenny Delmar, Parker Fennelly, and Minerva Pious)
	#24 -  Verdi: Aida: Triumphal March (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini)                      Schubert: Moment Musicale in f minor, D.780, No.5 (Artur Schnabel, pianist)                      Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer: Die Frist Ist Um (Joel Berglund, baritone)                      D'Hardelot: Because God Made Thee Mine (Enrico Caruso, tenor)                      Smetana: The Bartered Bride: Komm, Mein Sohnchen, auf ein Wort                      (Michael Bohnen, bass-baritone; Joseph Schmidt, tenor)                      Shakespeare: Hamlet: To Be or Not To Be (John Barrymore, speaker)                      Rossini: La Danza (Miliza Korjus, soprano)                      Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso in e minor, Op.14 (Joseph Hofmann, pianist)
	#25 -Mozart: The Magic Flute, K.620: Overture                    (Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham)                    Verdi: Reqiuem: Ingemisco; Confutatis Maledictus; Lacrymosa                    (Maria Caniglia, soprano; Ebe Stignani, alto; Beniamino Gigli, tenor; Ezio Pinza, bass;                    Orchestra and Chorus of the Rome Opera House, Tullio Serafin)                    Thomas: Hamlet: Drinking Song (Martial Singer, baritone)                    Stromberg: Come Down, My Evening Star (Lillian Russell, vocalist)                    Donizetti: La Favorita: Splendor Piu Belle (Ezio Pinza, bass)                    Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Una Voce Poco Fa (Luisa Tetrazzini, soprano)                    R.Strauss: Zueignung Op.10, No.1 (Heinrich Schlusnus, baritone; Franz Rupp, pianist)                    Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov: Death of Boris (Fyodor Chaliapin, bass)
	#26 -  Brahms: Symphony No.2 in D Major, Op.73: mvt.4                      (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler)                      Donizetti: La Favorita: Spirito Gentil (Alessandro Bonci, tenor)                      Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini)                      Haydn: Cello Concerto in D Major: mvt.3 (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist)                      Verdi: Il Trovatore: Di Quella Pira (Jussi Björling, tenor)                      Gruber: Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht (Ernestine Schumann-Heink, contralto)                      Bizet: Carmen: Finale                      (Gladys Swarthout, mezzo-soprano, Ramon Vinay, tenor, Robert Shaw                      Chorale, RCA Victor Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf)
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