tracks

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (Act 1): Dies Bildnis Ist Bezaubernd Schön (sung In Swedish As Ja, Detta är En ängels Bild)
Brahms: Die Mainacht
Liszt: Es Muss Ein Wunderbares Sein
Wolf: Verborgenheit
Schubert: Die Forelle
Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin: Die Böse Farbe
Bizet: Carmen (Act 2): La Fleur Que Tu M’avais Jetée (Flower Song)
Björling Announces Peterson-Berger Song As Substitute For The Originally Programmed Alfvén: Så Tag Mit Hjerte
Peterson-Berger: Jungfrun Under Lind
Alfvén: Skogen Sover
Sibelius: Demanten På Marssnön
Sibelius: Säv, Säv, Susa
Grieg: En Svane
Grieg: Ein Traum (sung In Norwegian As En Drøm)
Giordano: Andrea Chénier (Act 4): Come Un Bel Dì di Maggio
Tosti: Ideale
Richard Strauss: Zueignung
Opening Announcements & Firestone: If I Could Tell You
Announcements
Speaks: Sylvia (with Chorus)
Announcements
Puccini: Turandot (Act 3): Nessun Dorma
Announcements
Tosti: L’alba Separa Dalla Luce L’ombra
Announcements
Herbert: The Princess Pat: Neapolitan Love Song (with Chorus)
Announcements
Firestone: In My Garden And Concluding Announcements

notes

JUSSI BJÖRLING CONCERT
Bertil Bokstedt, Pianist
Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen, October 15, 1959
Live recording, first release

THE VOICE OF FIRESTONE
Broadcast of March 10, 1952
JUSSI BJÖRLING, Soloist, with the Voice of Firestone
Orchestra & Chorus, Howard Barlow, Conductor
First complete release

Original tape-to-digital transfer and digital restoration/remastering by Seth B. Winner
Sound Studios, Inc., November, 2015.
Booklet design, layout and editing by John H. Haley.
Cover photo: Jussi Björling in 1959 (photo credit: D.E. Nelson).
JSP Records gratefully acknowledges the assistance generously provided by Anders
Björling, Mark Elyn, John H. Haley, Stephen Hastings, Harald Henrysson, Jeff Lipton,
Claus Rasmussen, Dan Shea, Seth Winner, the Jussi Björling Museum in Borlänge,
Sweden, and the officers and members of the Jussi Björling Society of Sweden (Jussi
Björlingsällskapet), the Jussi Björling Society-USA, and the Jussi Björling Appreciation
Society-UK, in connection with source material, photographs, consultation and
other valuable information and support

companies

Recorded At – Falkoner Centret

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