John McCormack

I can't be selective about this album - which takes you through some of the highlights of the Irish tenor's recordings for HMV between 1923 and 1941 - so I'm posting the whole LP.



To emphasise the impossibility of the whittling-down process, the zipped file throws in a few other tracks of similar material not on the HMV set, such as 'She Moved Thro' the Fair'.

The pianist Edwin Schneider provides accompaniment to most of the songs, a significant exception being Rachmaninov's 'To The Children', on which Fritz Kreisler plays violin.

Tracklist:

To the children (Newmarch-Rachmaninov) 1923
How fair this spot (Newmarch-Rachmaninov) 1923
Du bist die ruh (Ruckert-Schubert) 1924
Feldeinsamkeit (Allmers-Brahms) 1924
Is she not passing fair (Charles, Duke of Orleans trans. Costello-Elgar) 1932
The quietest things (Wymer-Haydn Wood) 1934
Cradle song (Colum-Harty) 1935
Love's secret (Blake-Bantock) 1935
She rested by the broken brook (Stevenson-Coleridge-Taylor) 1935
Traume (no. 5 of Wesendonk lieder), Wagner, 1936
The white peace (Mcleod-Bax) 1941
Linden lea (Barnes-Vaughan willians) 1941
Praise ye the lord (from Cantata con stromeni, McCormack attrib. Handel arr. Franke) 1941
BONUS TRACKS
All Alone
Croppy Boy
She moved thro' the fair
Silent noon
Somewhere A Voice Is Calling

Get the whole thing:

John McCormack - The HMV Treasury