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Historic Italian Baritones - The first half of the twentieth century was graced with an extraordinary range of singers of many sorts - just in time to be captured on records. Eduardo Gabarra has collected well over 350 recordings by fifty Italian baritones to provide this volume of the Audio Encyclopedia. 

To complement the audio recordings, brief video clips are included of some of the singers; those selections should be seen as supplementary to the purpose of the disc since their operation on the full range of computer systems has not been verified. While we hope that the video adds to your pleasure, it is not the purpose of the disc and cannot be guaranteed to work on your system.

Pasquale Amato

Mario Ancona

Ernesto Badini

Aristide Baracchi

Mario Basiola

Mattia Battistini

Gino Bechi

Giuseppe Bellantoni

Armando Borgioli

Sesto Bruscantini

Giuseppe Campanari

Francesco Cigada

Antonio Cotogni

Giuseppe Danise

Raffaele De' Falchi

Giuseppe De Luca

Cesare Formichi

Benvenuto Franci

Carlo Galeffi

Emilio Ghirardini

Eugenio Giraldoni

Tito Gobbi

Apollo Granforte

Giovanni Inghilleri

Giuseppe Kaschmann

Antonio Magini-Coletti

Enzo Mascherini

Enrico Molinari

Luigi Montesanto

Carlo Morelli

Enrico Nani

Ettore Nava

Giuseppe Pacini

Taurino Parvis

Afro Poli

AnTenore Reali

Giacomo Rimini

Titta Ruffo

Mario Sammarco

Ugo Savarese

Antonio Scotti

Paolo Silveri

Mariano Stabile

Riccardo Stracciari

Giuseppe Taddei

Carlo Tagliabue

Umberto Urbano

Giuseppe Valdengo

Gino Vanelli

Domenico Viglione-Borghese

Gaetano Viviani

Renato Zanelli

Clips with Descriptions

The first volume of the Audio Encyclopedia devoted to a single class of voice offers artists as familiar as Giuseppe Taddei - still singing in 2000 - and inexplicably unknown. For illustration, I've chosen "Vision fugitive" from Massenet's Hrodiade. The three baritones here are among those who will surprise most listeners; why are they not all among the household names? While the others singing the aria on the disc - such as the three Giuseppes: de Luca, Danise and Taddei - are better known, they are not necessarily better artists or singers.