The Tenor / The Stronger / Two Song Cycles

~ Release by Hugo Weisgall (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Annotation

label: CRI(757) << Maybe a re-release as per https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/hugo-weisgall-two-operas-and-two-song-cycles but there are liner notes available here.

Annotation last modified on 2025-09-30 08:46 UTC.

Tracklist

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1The Tenor: "Coming! Coming!"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
3:24
2The Tenor: "Who's who in smells, sir"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
1:53
3The Tenor: "Have you forgotten what you were hired for?"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
3:30
4The Tenor: "To belong to you"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
3:17
5The Tenor: "My trunks, costumes, scores?"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
1:43
6The Tenor: "Forty minutes left"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
4:15
7The Tenor: "Sitting in the dark"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
5:12
8The Tenor: "I am young, Gerardo, I am pure"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
5:24
9The Tenor: "Surprise, surprise, quite a surprise!"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
6:19
10The Tenor: "Here is my card"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
1:54
11The Tenor: "That was a noble trick"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
5:16
12The Tenor: "Nils Hansen brought the house down in London last night"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
4:02
13The Tenor: "I am just likely, am I not"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
2:35
14The Tenor: "I have left my home forever"
orchestra:
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert Grossman
partial recording of:
The Tenor
composer:
Hugo Weisgall (American composer) (from 1948 until 1950)
librettist:
Ernst Lert (Austrian librettist) and Karl Shapiro
9:50
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