Produced for the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, by Peter Downes, Susan Bartel and Roger Flury.

Biographical and programme notes inserted in container.

Issue number given as ACD 500 on CDs, but given as ACD 400 on container spine.

Compact disc.

Sung in English, Italian, Russian and Māori.

Treasures in sound = He puiaki pūoru

CD 1. Acis and Galatea. I rage, I melt, I burn ; O ruddier than the cherry ; Whither fairest art thou running? ; Cease to beauty to be suing / Handel

The immortal hour. Dalua's aria / Boughton

The devil take her. The doctor's scene / Benjamin

Meet the navy (songs featured in the stage production 1945): Shenandoah ; Blow the man down ; Hullabaloo balay ; The drunken sailor ; Rio Grande ; Billy Boy ; Out where the big ships go

Meet the navy (excerpts from the soundtrack of the British National film 1945): A song of Canada ; Blow the man down ; Brothers in arms ; Oh remembrance ; Memories of Russia (in Russian)

The magic flute. O Isis and Osiris ; Within these temple walls / Mozart

The merry wives of Windsor. Drinking song / Nicolai

CD 2. Oh could I but express in song / Malashkin

I love you dear / Beethoven

Élégie: Song of mourning / Massenet

Creation's hymn / Beethoven

Captain Harry Morgan / Bantock

Shanty songs of the Shanty Men. The drunken sailor ; Rio Grande ; Shenandoah ; A'rovin'

Shenandoah

The drunken sailor

Don Carlo. Ella giammai m'amò / Verdi

Song of the flea / Mussorgsky

The foggy dew

If / T. Evans

South Pacific. This nearly was mine / Rodgers

Messiah. Thus saith the Lord ; For Behold! Darkness shall cover the earth ; The people that walked in darkness ; Behold, I tell you a mystery ; The trumpet shall sound / Handel

Now is the hour / Kaihau and Scott (in Māori and English).

Popular music > New Zealand > 1941-1950.

Operas > Excerpts.

National Library of New Zealand.

Alexander Turnbull Library.