Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK
Keywords
Jussi Bjorling, performances, recordings
Abstract
After the above century-long perspective on Bjorling, by Jurgen Kesting, we quote a few excerpts from John Steane's lecture on the same day. That perspective reached back to Gigli, Pertile, and implicitly Caruso, and was titled ' "Jussi Bjorling in London." Here Mr Steane compares Jussi's classic 1939 recordings for HMV of arias from Il Trovatore with the recording of an actual Covent Garden performance that year of that opera:
Recommended Citation
Steane, John
(2004)
"John Steane Recalls Some of Bjorling's Great Performances,"
Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK: Vol. 8:
No.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jussibjorlingsocietynl/vol8/iss1/7