GERARD SOUZAY RECITAL NO. 2 / GERARD SOUZAYS SINGS CLASSIC AIRS
     Beethoven: In questa tomba oscura
     Handel: from Berenice: Demetrio's aria, Si, tra i ceppi
     [Monteverdi:] from Orfeo: Elle est morte (Tu se' morta)
     Lully: from Persée: Air des songes (O tranquille sommeil)
     Debussy: from Ballades de François Villon: Ballade que feit Villon à la requeste de sa mère pour prier Nostre Dame
     Debussy: from Chansons de France: La Grotte (text: Tristan l'Hermite), orch. Louis Beydts
     Debussy: Mandoline (text: Verlaine), orch. Louis Bedts
     Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (text: Paul Morand)
          Chanson romanesque – Chanson épique – Chanson à boire

Édouard Lindenberg, conductor. Gérard Souzay, baritone

DESCRIPTION: 1 disc, 33 1/3 rpm. 12 in. [but see 78 rpm issues, below]

NOTES: Recorded 2 June 1949 and 14 February 1950 (Ravel). Orfeo excerpt wrongly attributed to Gluck.
 

• Decca LXT 2568 (d. l. 1952)
• Also:
  • London LLP 194. Program notes by E. C. Stone on container. $5.95. [1950; rev. April 1951ff.]
• 78s:
  • 78: Ravel released as 78 rpm, 10 in. Decca AG 21,232. Matrix numbers: DEDR 104-1 (side 1: Chanson romantique; Chanson à boire), FDR 105-1. (d. l. 1951).
  • 78: Beethoven and Handel apparently released on 78 rpm. [rev. September 1950ff.]
• Other LPs:
  • LP: Debussy and Ravel issued as London LD 9091 (Classics for Pleasure CP 9091), 33 1/3 rpm, 10 in. $2.95. [rev. July 1950ff.]
• CDs:
  • CD: Ravel, in Gérard Souzay: The Early Recordings, Dutton Laboratories CDLX 7036, tr. 23. July (Europe), October (US) 1999.
  • CD: Gerard Souzay / Schubert, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel. Pearl 0159. With Songs by Fauré & Schubert (Jacqueline Bonneau, piano). Transfers by Roger Beardsley. Diapason d'Or, 2002. January (Europe), February (US) 2002.
  • CD: Debussy, Ravel in Gérard Souzay / Ravel, Debussy, Chausson, Duparc. Testament SBT 1312. November 2003.