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CMYK N AXOS Historical 8.110145 DUSOLINA GIANNINI ADD h DISC PROHIBITED. THIS COMPACT AND COPYING OF BROADCASTING RESERVED.TRANSLATIONS PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, UNAUTHORISED TEXTS AND THIS SOUND RECORDING, ARTWORK, ALL RIGHTS IN Arias and Duets 8.110145 2003 HNH International Ltd. VERDI: La forza del destino: 1 Act I: Son giunta!...Madre, madre, pietosa vergine 6:38 2 Act IV: Pace, pace mio dio 5:29 San Francisco Opera Orchestra • Gaetano Merola Broadcast excerpts: War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 19th September, 1943 3 THOMAS: Mignon: Act I - Connais-tu le pays? 6:08 GIANNINI: Arias and Duets DUSOLINA 4 PONCHIELLI: La Gioconda: Act IV - Suicidio! 4:19 Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra • Pietro Cimini g Broadcast excerpts: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 15th August, 1943 2003 HNH International Ltd. 5 VERDI: Aida: Act I - Ritorna vincitor! 6:37 6 ROGERS / NEVIN: The Rosary 2:32 7 JACOBS-BOND: I Love You Truly 1:52 8 PUCCINI: Tosca: Act II - Vissi d’arte 3:12 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra • Gaetano Merola Broadcast excerpts: War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 30th January, 1944 MASCAGNI: Cavalleria rusticana 9 Scene ii - Dite, Mamma Lucia... Sono scomunicata Scene iv - Voi lo sapete... Aiutatela voi, Santa Maria! with Claramae Turner, contralto 9:01 0 Intermezzo 3:28 San Francisco Opera Orchestra • Gaetano Merola Broadcast excerpts: War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 19th September, 1943 DUSOLINA GIANNINI: Arias and Duets DUSOLINA Blessed with a rich, dark timbre, whose metal adds a keen edge to many of her recordings, Dusolina Giannini was rated as one of the world’s finest ‘Italian’ sopranos. This selection of arias, taken from original MADE IN broadcasts in the 1940s, represents some of Giannini’s best rôles, including Leonora in Verdi’s La forza del destino, and the title roles from both Aida and Tosca. These are combined and contrasted by the two E.C. Edwardian popular ballads The Rosary and I Love You Truly in which Giannini makes the most of these barely-remembered miniatures. 8.110145 Digital Noise Reduction and Post-production: K&A Productions Ltd. With thanks to William Shaman www.naxos.com AXOS Historical N Cover Photograph: Dusolina Giannini (Private Collection) .

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