Bizet

Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.

During a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris,...

1925: Landmarks from the Dawn of Electrical Recording (Various Artists, 1920-25) - PASC734

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TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4
SAINT-SAËNS Danse Macabre
BIZET Petite Suite
Music by Chopin, Meyerbeer, Mascagni, Schubert & many more

Studio and Live Recordings, 1920 - 1925
Total duration: 2hr 20:22

Alfred Cortot
Jesse Crawford
Giuseppe De Luca
Art Gillham
Mischa Levitzky
Margarete Matzenauer
Landon Ronald
Leopold Stokowski
and many more

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BEECHAM Bizet - Carmen (Met Opera, 1943) - PACO176

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BIZET Carmen

Live broadcast performance, 1943
Total duration: 2hr 32:32

Carmen - Lily Djanel
Don José - Raoul Jobin
Micaëla - Licia Albanese
Escamillo - Leonard Warren

Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera
conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

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BEECHAM Bizet: The Fair Maid of Perth (1956) - PACO227

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BIZET The Fair Maid of Perth
(La jolie fille de Perth, sung in English)

Studio broadcast recording, 1956
Total duration: 2hr 14:39

Catherine Glover - Mattiwilda Dobbs
Henry Smith - Alexander Young
Le Duc de Rothsay - Kevin Miller
Ralph - David Ward
Mab - Anna Pollack
Simon Glover - Owen Brannigan

BBC Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

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BEECHAM in Seattle Vol. 3: Beethoven, Bizet, Massenet, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Sibelius (1943) - PASC277

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BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
Shorter works by Bizet, Massenet, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Sibelius
Recorded 1943
Total duration: 74:32

Seattle Symphony
conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

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BEECHAM The Complete Acoustics (1910-1918) - PASC755

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DEBUSSY Petite Suite
OFFENBACH Tales of Hoffman
STRAVINSKY The Firebird - Suite
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"
and many more

Studio recordings, 1910-1918
Total duration: 2hr 32:36 (CD) or 2hr 39:21 (download)

Beecham Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

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FREDERICK STOCK and the Chicago Symphony, Vols. 1-6 (1930-41) - PABX050

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BACH Prelude and Fugue in E-flat, “St. Anne”
BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor
BENJAMIN Overture to an Italian Comedy
BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1
CHAUSSON Symphony in B-flat
DVOŘÁK Carnival Overture
DVOŘÁK In Nature’s Realm
ELGAR Enigma Variations
GLAZUNOV The Seasons
GLINKA Ruslan and Ludmila - Overture
GOLDMARK Rustic Wedding Symphony
GRIEG Peer Gynt excerpts
MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream excerpts
R. STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra
R. STRAUSS Aus Italien - On the Shores of Sorrento
SAINT-SAËNS Danse macabre
SMETANA The Bartered Bride - Overture
STOCK Symphonic Waltz
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Marche slave
WAGNER Siegfried - Forest Murmurs
WAGNER Die Meistersinger - Prelude

plus music by: Bizet, Carey, Dohnányi, Enescu, François Schubert, Glière, Handel, Ippolitov-Ivanov, J. Strauss II, Järnefelt, Liadov, MacDowell, Meacham, Mozart, Paganini, Ponchielli, Rezniček, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Simonetti, Suk, Suppé, Thomas, Toch, Volkmann, Walton, Weber and Wolf-Ferrari

Studio recordings, 1930-1941

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Frederick Stock

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