Keith Hardwick in Memoriam

Armand Crabbé (Performer), Benvenuto Franci (Performer), Riccardo Stracciari (Performer), Friedrich Schorr (Performer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Gaetano Donizetti (Composer), Juan De Dios Filiberto (Composer), George Frederick Handel (Composer), Jewish Traditional (Composer), Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Paolo Tosti (Composer), Georges Bizet (Composer), Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomizhsky (Composer), Franz [Vienna] Schubert (Composer), Franz Liszt (Composer), Carl Alwin (Conductor), Gabriele Santini (Conductor), Rosario Bourdon (Conductor), George W. Byng (Conductor) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Armand Crabbé, Benvenuto Franci, Riccardo Stracciari, Friedrich Schorr
• Conductor: Carl Alwin, Gabriele Santini, Rosario Bourdon, George W. Byng
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gaetano Donizetti, Juan De Dios Filiberto, George Frederick Handel, Jewish Traditional, et al.
• Audio CD (June 29, 2004)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pearl
• ASIN: B0001ULKR6
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #756,698 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ach, Ich Liebte - State Opera Orchestra

2. Le Ricchezze Ed Il Grado - Toti Dal Monte

3. Ay Zamba - Armand Crabbe

4. Verrano 13 A Te - Tito Schipa

5. Honour And Arms - Peter Dawson

6. Eili, Eili - Nina Koshetz

7. Giusto Cielo Ripondete - Beniamino Gigli & Ezio Pinza

8. Schmerzen - Frida Leider

9. Una Furtiva Lagrima - Beniamino Gigli

10. Eri Tu, Che Macchi Avi - Benveuto Franci

11. Abbietta Zingara - Ezio Pinza

12. Ideale - Ricardo Starcciari

13. Pressi il Bation Di Sivglia - Conchita Supervia

14. The Miller's Aria - Feodor Chalipain

15. Il Mio Tesoro - Aksel Schiotz

16. Der Hirt Suf Dem Felsen - Lotte Schone

17. Als Du In Dunem Sange - Friedrich Schorr

18. O Lieb, So Lang Du Lieben Kannst - Meta Seinemeyer

19. Dio! Mi Potevi Scahliar - Lauritz Melchior

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars In Honour of Kieth, November 18, 2010

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This review is from: Keith Hardwick in Memoriam (Audio CD)

Keith Hardwick may have had his own generation in mind when he set about preserving their operatic history on record, but he must have also had younger generations, like mine, in mind as well. I would never have known that people like Armand Crabbe (such artistry), Nina Koshetz (such emtional power and vocal glories) and Aksel Schiotz (elegant, measured, Motzartian) ever existed. Keith wasn't alone of course, but he is one of those to whom we who love singing, are endebted.

This selection from Keith's own records has some relatively rare and memorable tracks. The previously mentioned Nina Koshetz singing Eili Eili (a rare performance and song), Stracciari's Tosti item and Schiotz' Il mio tesoro are stand outs. So also, for me at least, Meta Seinemeyer's steely and graceful Liszt and two items that turn up elsewhere fairly regularly, the Schorr and the Melchior. In fact, Melchoir's Otello aria is so ideal I always forget about being sung in German. It seems irrelevant. Being, as I am, an antipodean, I have to mention Dawson. Dawson for me ticks all the boxes: voice, technique, diction and communication. He is my personal pick of Austrlian singers of the twentieth century and I remain eternally grateful for his small but utterly wonderful number of operatic recordings. The Handel is astonishingly good but my personal pick is his prelude from Pagliacci (available on Hamburger Archiv Fur Gesangkunst 10063).

The sound is fairly typical Pearl. The transfers are impecably done with no great attempt to pretty them up but that suits some people. I'm easy but I generally prefer what Nimbus and others have done.