SIX GREAT RECORDINGS : SIX GREAT SONGS AND ARIAS (15) : 2025 RESTORATIONS : COLOUR PHOTOS

I've created a playlist of the "Great Recordings" videos that I hope to steadily add to and if you wanted to listen to them all the link to the playlist is    • Great Recordings  
The singers on this video are Mario Lanza (1921 - 1959), Tito Schipa (1889 - 1965), Luciano Pavarotti (1935 - 2007), Kathleen Ferrier (1912 - 1953), Giuseppe di Stefano (1921 - 2008), Leonard Warren (1911 - 1960).
The music is as follows;
0:00 Mario Lanza : You'll never walk alone from Carousel (Rodgers and
Hammerstein) Rec 1956. Jeff Alexander Choir and Orchestra conducted by Irving Aaronson.
2:49 Tito Schipa : Sogno soave e casto from Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
Rec 1926
5:25 Luciano Pavarotti : Mattinata (Leoncavallo) Rec 1983
7:19 Kathleen Ferrier : What is life from Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) Rec 1946
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent.
11:36 Giuseppe di Stefano : Ah non credevi tu (Elle ne croyait pas) from Mignon (Thomas) Rec 1947. London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alberto Erde.
15:47 Leonard Warren : America the beautiful ( Bates/ Ward) Rec 1950. RCA Victor Orchestra
TRANSLATIONS TO ENGLISH
1.Sogno soave e casto
It took this mania
my plans to overturn!
Sweet and chaste dream
of my first years, goodbye.
Longing for riches and splendor
just for you, mine:
poor, abandoned,
fallen in low state,
first to see you miserable,
dear, I surrender to you.)
2. Mattinata
The dawn, dressed in white,
has already opened the door to the sun,
and caresses the flowers with its pink fingers.
A mysterious trembling seems to disturb all nature.
And yet you will not get up, and vainly
I stand here sadly singing.

Dress yourself also in white,
and open the door to your serenader!
Where you are not, there is no light;
where you are, love is born.

It's interesting to note that Mario Lanza was born Alfredo Arnold Cocozza in Philadelphia to Italian immigrant parents and Leonard Warren was born Leonard Warenoff in the Bronx to Russian Jewish immigrant parents.