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• Side A Oh! Susanna / Stephen Collins Foster. (John Brownlee assisted by the Songsmiths with orchestra directed by Harry Sosnik). Side B
• There's a long long trail / Zo Elliott - Stoddard King. (John Brownlee assisted by the Songsmiths with orchestra directed by Harry Sosnik).

• V. 2. Sea drift (with John Brownlee, baritone ; London Select Choir)
• Fennimore and Gerda. Intermezzo
• Over the hills and far away
• In a summer garden.

• Overture
• Vérone vit jadis deux familes rivales
• L'heure s'envole joyeuse et folle
• Eh bien? cher Pŕis!
• Ah! Qu'elle est belle! Écoutez! écoutez!
• Allons! jeunes gens! Allons! belles dames!
• Enfin la place est libre-- Mab, la reine des mensonges
• Voyons nourice-- Je veux vivre dans le rêve (Juliet's waltz)
• Le nom de cette belle enfant? Ange adorable
• Quel qu'un! C'est mon cousin Tybalt! Que la fête recommence!
• Entr'acte
• Ô nuit! sous tes ailes obscure
• L'amour! L'amour! Ah! lève-toi soleil!
• Hélas! Moi, le haïr!
• Écoute! On vient! Personne! Personne!
• Ô nuit divine!
• Ah! ne fuis pas encore!
• Entr'acte
• Mon père! Dieu vous garde!
• Dieu, qui fis l'homme à ton image
• Depuis hier je cherche ; Que fais-tu blanche tourterelle
• Ah! Ah! Voici nos gens!
• Allons! Tu ne me connais pas
• Qu'est-ce donc? C'est Tybalt! Ô jour de deuil!
• Eh quoi? Tou-jours du sang! Ah! Jour de deuil et d'horreur
• Entr'acte
• Va! Je t'ai pardonné-- Nuit d'hyménée
• Ah! tu dis vrai, c'est le jour!
• Mon père! Tout m'accable! Buvez donc ce breuvage
• Juliet's slumber
• C'est la! Salut! Ô ma femme!
• À toi, ma Juliette!
• Console-toi, pauvre ḿe.

From their first meeting until their tragic deaths, Jussi Björling and Bidú Sayô are a Romeo and Juliet you won't be able to forget. Their achingly beautiful voices convey all the passion and impetuousness of Shakespeare's poignant teenage lovers. But at the same time Björling and Sayao sing with an elegance and charm so necessary for French opera of the Belle Epoque

• Walk to the Paradise Garden : intermezzo from A village Romeo and Juliet (7:09)
• Sea drift / words by Walt Whitman (23:42)
• Intermezzo from Fennimore and Gerda (4:27)
• In a summer garden (13:37) ; Over the hills and far away (13:29).

• E soffito e pareti
• Dovunque al mondo
• Quale smania vi prende!
• Ecco! Son giunte al sommo del pendio
• Gran ventura
• L'imperial Commisario
• Vieni, amor mio!
• Ieri son salita tutta sola in segreto alla Missione
• O Kami! O Kami!
• Bimba, bimba, non piangere
• Viene la sera
• Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia
• Vogliatemi bene
• E lzaghi ed lzanami, Sarundasico e Kami
• Un bel di vedremo
• C'è. Entrate
• Yamadori ancor le pene dell'amor
• Ora a noi. Sedete qui
• Due cose potrei far
• E questo? E questo?
• Che tua madre dovrà prenderti in braccio
• Vespa! Rospo maledetto!
• Una nave da guerra
• Scuoti quella fronda di ciliegio
• Or vienmi ad adornar
• Coro a bocca chiusa (Humming chorus)
• Intermezzo-- Oh eh! Oh eh!
• Già il sole!
• Chi sia?
• lo so che alle sue pene
• Addio fiorito asil
• Suzuki! Suzuki! Dove sei?
• Come una mosca prigioniera
• Con onor muore chi non può serbar vita con onore

For a whole generation of opera goers the beloved soprano Licia Albanese embodied Madame Butterfly. Her vivid and passionate portrayal of the young geisha who tragically falls in love with an irresponsible US Navy officer remains as captivating today as it was half a century ago. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos brings out every nuance of Puccini's exotic and masterful score. Daniele Barioni is Pinkerton and John Brownlee sings Sharpless

• Overture
• Prologue: Ladies! Gentlemen! And others! (Dialogue)
• Do you still belong to me
• Alfred! What was I imagining? (Dialogue)
• Though your pulse is very weak
• Alfred!
• How did you know (Dialogue)
• Let me tell you you're no bargain
• But you don't understand (Dialogue)
• I've a plan for a man
• What's this? (Dialogue)
• The graying sea, the leaden sky, the autumn leaves that fall
• No!-- No, what? (Dialogue)
• What a lovely rendezvous!
• The scene you see appears to be a scene of domesticity
• You will find if your mind is an ever sharp stilletto
• Ladies and gentlemen (Dialogue)
• I've many peculiarities whenever I'm the host
• Aren't you drinking, your Highness (Dialogue)
• It seems we're entertaining an uninvited guest -- Look me over once, look me over twice
• Bastille? (Dialogue)
• What a beauty!
• There she is, your highness!
• Some days you're lonely, there's gray upon the morning
• Bravo! Bravo! Contessa, bravo!
• King Champagne! A Bacchanalian revel, tra-la la la la la la la
• When we are gone, where do we go? -- Happy days! Here's to all the happy days!
• Ladies and gentlemen (Dialogue)
• Polkas
• Let's hope this never halts
• Entr'acte
• What's the time, somebody? (Dialogue)
• Then up with the wine and drink her down
• That newspaper certainly is sleeping (Dialogue)
• I am portraying a farm girl
• Not bad for a chambermaid (Dialogue)
• Quite so. Quite so -- The case that you take up
• Brilliant, my dear. Simply brilliant! (Dialogue)
• Die Fledermaus, die Fledermaus, eternal tale of man and spouse

Eugene Ormandy conducts a distinguished cast in this English-language version of Johann Strauss's effervescent operetta. Risë Stevens is sensational as the extravagant Prince Orlofsky, whose costume ball is at the center of the action. Richard Tucker sings Alfred, the luckless opera singer who is wooing his old flame Rosalinde (Marguerite Piazza) and is mistakenly hauled off to prison in place of her husband, Eisenstein (Charles Kullman). Patrice Munsel is Rosalinde's maid, Adele, John Brownlee sings Dr. Falke, and Jack Gilford gives a hilarious performance as the jailer Frosch

• DI molte faci il lume
• Perdon, perdonoi
• Il mio tesoro intanto
• Ah, pietai signori miel!
• Tu m'invitasti a cena
• Ah! Signori per carita!
• Ahi dov' e il perfido?
• Io men vado in un ritiro.

• Semele. Where' er you walk / George Handel
• La traviata. Dite alla giovine ; Di Provenza il mar / Giuseppe Verdi
• La Bohème. In un coupe?... O Mimi, tu più non torni ; Entrate... C'è Rodolfo / Giacomo Puccini
• Hamlet. Comme une pâle fleur ; O vin dissipe la tristesse / Ambroise Thomas
• Hérodiade. Salome! Demande au prisonnier ; Vision fugitive ; Thaïs. O messager de Dieu / Jules Massenet
• Carmen. Votre toast, je peu vous le rendre / Georges Bizet
• Le nozze di Figaro. Sei vuol ballare ; Non più andrai ; Vedrò mentro io sospiro ; Don Giovanni. Finch'han del vino ; Deh vieni alla finestra ; La ci darem la mano ; A sweetheart or a Maiden / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

• 12646-D
• 12657-D: Prelude ; Pantomime
• When at night
• Susy, little Susy ; Did you hear? ; I shut the children's peepers
• What, Hansel? ; Hansel, what have you done?
• Hallo, here's mother ; There stands a little man
• Tra la la la ; The witches' ride
• Most simple is the bill of fare ; But where do you think?
• I'm up with early dawning ; Father! Mother!
• Where am I? ; We're saved
• Stand still! ; Sister dear, o beware!
• Nible, nible, mouse ; Yes, Gretel mine
• Get you right out of my sight ; Now, Gretel, be a good little girl.