Operatic Arias

Jussi Bjorling (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003EOJ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #366,565 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Aida, opera: Act 1: Se quel guerriero io fossi; Celeste Aida

2. Manon Lescaut, opera: Act 1: Donna non vidi mai

3. Rigoletto, opera: Act 3: La donna è mobile

4. Rigoletto, opera: Act 2: Ella mi fu rapita; Parmi veder le lagrime

5. Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act: Sicilana: O Lola

6. Faust, opera: Act 1: Sault demeure chaste et pure

7. Pagliacci, opera: Act 1: Vesti la giubba

8. La bohème, opera: Act 1: Che gelida manina

9. Prince Igor, opera (completed by Rimsky-Korsakov & Glazunov): Act 3: Vladimir's Recitative and Cavatina

10. Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 4: Come un bel dì di maggio

11. Martha, opera: Act 3: M'apparì tutt'amor

12. L'elisir d'amore, opera: Act 2: Una furtiva lagrima

13. Eugene Onegin, opera, Op. 24: Act 2: Förbi, förbi (Lensky's Aria)

14. Turandot, opera: Act 1: Non piangere, Liù

15. Turandot, opera: Act 2: Nessun dorma

16. Tosca, opera: Act 1: Recondita armonia

17. Tosca, opera: Act 3: E lucevan le stelle

18. Tosca, opera: Act 3: O dolci mani

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favourite tenors, October 27, 2004

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Ramona - See all my reviews

This review is from: Operatic Arias (Audio CD)

Bjoerling will be remembered as one of the greatest tenors ever and while I prefer his early live stuff (E.G. the live Gioconda and Ballo) I find this compilation to be magnificent. Especially Lensky's aria and Chenier's aria, so beautiful.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Music, November 3, 2000

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JEFF (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Operatic Arias (Audio CD)

Another one of the older RCA releases, but still in print because of the great collection of tracks. Try it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My very favorite tenor, March 11, 2008

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Peter Chordas "music lover" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operatic Arias (Audio CD)

Yes! I know that's saying a lot. There are and have been some fabulous ones out there - Luciano Pavarotti, Carlo Bergonzi, Nicholai Gedda, Fritz Wunderlicht, and Benimini Gili for example (And so many love Domingo but I'm personally impartial to his voice). But the crystal core and expression of Bjoerling's voice moves me like no other. His high notes absolutely melt you and he takes them so effortlessly. Being a dramatic tenor, his range was incredible. He could reach the highs and then dip way down to the lows with continued vibrato. There is never any strain.

His being Swedish only aggravated the Italians with envy and jealousy when he gained such high popularity in the late 40's and 50's. His diction may not have been very good when he sang in other languages but with a voice like that, WHO CARES?!! Troubled by alcohol, he died prematurely at 49. One of his last recordings was with Fritz Reiner performing Verdi's Requiem with Leontyne Price. If there's one flaw, it's that that aria is missing from this CD - and a must have I might ad. But still, I think any opera buff would recognize his pure tone and talent in these recordings.

There's another fabulous recording of his where he sings a duet with Sherill Milnes from the Pearl Fishers that is also worth owning. I will always love to hear him sing and it's his voice I hear in my head when I think of an aria. He truly had a gift.