Siepi ∙ Del Monaco ∙ Tebaldi ∙ Serafin - Mefistofele Highlights FLAC album

Tracklist

1	Act 2 Scene 1
2	Ecco Il Mondo
3	Giunto Sul Passo Estremo
4	L'Altra Notte In Fondo Al Mare
5	Dimmi Se Eredo, Enrico
6	Colma Il Tuo Cor
7	Dai Campi, Dai Prati
8	Act 2 Scene 2
9	Son Lo Spirito Che Nega
10	Epilogue
11	Act 1
12	Prologue In Heaven
13	Spunta L'Aurora Pallida
14	Act 3
15	Lontano, Lontano
16	Sorge Il Di !
17	Salmodia Finale - Salve Regina

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
OS 25083	Cesare Siepi, Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco Other Soloists With Chorus And Orchestra Of Accademia Di Santa Cecilia, Rome Conducted By Tullio Serafin / Boito	Cesare Siepi, Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco Other Soloists With Chorus And Orchestra Of Accademia Di Santa Cecilia, Rome Conducted By Tullio Serafin / Boito - Mefistofele Highlights ‎(LP)	London Records	OS 25083	UK	1973
OS 26274, OS.26274	Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe Di Stefano ' Cesare Siepi, Orchestra And Chorus Of The Accademia Di Santa Cecilia Rome, Arrigo Boito, Tullio Serafin	Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe Di Stefano ' Cesare Siepi, Orchestra And Chorus Of The Accademia Di Santa Cecilia Rome, Arrigo Boito, Tullio Serafin - Mefistofele Highlights ‎(LP)	London Records, London Records	OS 26274, OS.26274	US	1973
5519	Arrigo Boito	Mefistofele Highlights ‎(LP, Mono)	London Records	5519	US	1958
LXT 5568	Siepi ∙ Del Monaco ∙ Tebaldi ∙ Serafin	Siepi ∙ Del Monaco ∙ Tebaldi ∙ Serafin - Mefistofele Highlights ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	Decca	LXT 5568	UK	1960
SET 558	Giuseppe Di Stefano as Faust, with Renata Tebaldi and Cesare Siepi	Giuseppe Di Stefano as Faust, with Renata Tebaldi and Cesare Siepi - Excerpts From Boito's Mefistofele ‎(LP)	Decca	SET 558	UK	1973

Credits

• Bass Vocals [Mephistopheles] – Cesare Siepi
• Chorus – Chorus Of The Accademia Di Santa Cecilia, Rome
• Composed By – Boito
• Conductor – Tullio Serafin
• Engineer [Uncredited] – Roy Wallace
• Mastered By – K
• Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Martha] – Lucia Danieli
• Orchestra – Orchestra Of The Accademia Di Santa Cecilia, Rome
• Producer [Uncredited] – Christopher Raeburn
• Soprano Vocals [Margherita] – Renata Tebaldi
• Tenor Vocals [Faust] – Mario Del Monaco

Notes

Recorded 17 June - 3 September 1958 in Rome.

Highlights from the complete recording which was issued in April 1959 as Decca SXL 2094-96 in the UK and in October 1959 as London Records OSA 1307 in the US.

First UK stereo version for this Category.

LABELS:
- Black/silver 'grooved wideband' labels
- "ORIGINAL RECORDING BY" at 11 o'clock
- "Made in England" at bottom
(labelography code: ED1)
- "B.I.E.M." in a box
- "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1958"
- Matrix numbers printed upside-down

SLEEVE:
- Front laminated
- 'Half-moon' flipbacks (aka scalloped)
- Triangular "DECCA STEREOPHONIC" logo in a box on front and without a box on back
- Thin spine with no text on it
- Uncredited liner notes in English on back
- "© The Decca Record Co. Ltd., London, 1960" on back
- "Made in England" on back

1st Category on sleeve.
2nd Category on labels.

Corresponding mono issue has Category LXT 5568

Tracklisting taken from labels.
Sub tracks are not banded on vinyl.
No track duration info on sleeve or labels.
No libretto.

Index for track A5 is given wrongly on label as "Act 3 Scene 2". Sleeve has the correct act number.

Barcodes

• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A - machine stamped - this variant): ZAL-4328-1K BN 3 1 CA
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B - machine stamped - this variant): ZAL-4329-1K BC ⵎT 3 1 CA
• Matrix / Runout (Matrix on label - side A): ZAL.4328
• Matrix / Runout (Matrix on label - side B): ZAL.4329
• Rights Society: B.I.E.M.

Companies

• Mastered At – Decca Studios
• Copyright (c) – The Decca Record Company Limited