Licia Albanese - "Tatiana's Letter Scene" - Stokowski conducts

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Channel: adam28xx · 2014 · Music

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'In Memoriam' Licia Albanese, who has died at the age of 105. Here is her 1951 recording of Tatiana's 'Letter Scene' from Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin." She learnt it in Russian specially for this recording, on which Leopold Stokowski conducted his own Symphony Orchestra of top-flight New York musicians. These included Robert Bloom, oboe, and Julius Baker, flute.This track comes from a Cala CD that also features highlights from Saint-Saens's "Samson and Delilah." (Cala CACD0540).

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