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A series of great  OPERA Records from early G&Ts to World War II recordings on 78 rpm Victrola Records

I am selling a number of early 1930 - 1938 young Jussi Bjoerling recordnigs, recorded between 1930 - 38 in SWEDEN, when he was still member of the Royal Opera in Stockholm, before his meteoric ascend to fame with the 1938 Cararnegie Hall concert. Many records are on SWEDISH HMV, and in Swedish Language. Conducted by Royal Opera Kapellmeister Nils Gervilius:

BJOERLING in his most breathtaking of his early records, the lilting entrance song of Paris:

Offenbach La Belle Helene: Paris entresang Au Mont Ida Trois Deesses /  MILLOECKER Beggar Student: Nu ar jag pank och fagelfr i

 

Original 10" Swedish HMV 78 rpm record.

Condition: BETTER THAN EXCELLENT PRISTINE, plays EXCEPTIOANALLY QUIET


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A series of great Opera recordings, from 1902 G&Ts to 1940 Wartime German records

Jussi Björling was among the best of the great tenors of the past century. The more people are exposed to Björling's immediately identifiable, incomparable voice, the better. Here are opera and operetta recordings in Swedish between 1930 (when he was only 20!) and 1938. The earliest tracks feature a full-throated tenor reveling in his voice and in the act of singing. Later ones retain those qualities and add more subtlety and a stronger tinge of poignancy along with a larger measure of the aristocratic elegance that became one of his most distinguishing characteristics. Thus his 1930 "Ah, lève-toi soleil" from Gounod's Roméo et Juliette isn't quite as eloquent or as poignant as his 1945 recording. Other selections from the early '30s exhibit the raw exuberance of youth--heard in the cackle he interpolates into the 1930 "Questo e quella" from Verdi's Rigoletto, an affectation mercifully missing from his later renditions.

Some of the lighter fluff, such as the song from Abraham's operetta Flower from Hawaii (!), is pretty awful except for the singing, but selections from Victor Herbert, Kalman, Romberg, Lehár, and Viennese staples are marked by Björling's sensitivity and his drop-dead gorgeous voice. On two duets, by Strauss and Millöcker, he's gloriously partnered by soprano Hjördis Schymberg. Those who have trouble with "wrong language" recordings should find their objections minimalized since Swedish is eminently adaptable to French, German, and even Italian texts. That point is amply proved in Björling's 1933 "Au mont Ida" from Offenbach's La belle Hélène, one of the all-time great tenor performances.

 

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