Cantiones sacrae

Cantiones sacrae or Sacrae cantiones (Latin for "Sacred songs") may refer to:

Enrico Caruso compact disc discography

The following discography contains all known published recordings by Enrico Caruso made from 1902 through 1920. The recordings are listed chronologically by recording date, title, composer and matrix number. A list of unpublished recordings follows the main discography. When more than one "take" was recorded for a selection, only the published take number appears after the matrix number; Occasionally, multiple takes of the same selection have been issued. If only one take was recorded, no take number is listed after the matrix number. Matrix numbers should not be confused with catalog numbers.

European recordings

The Gramophone & Typewriter Co. Ltd. Milan, 11 April 1902. Accompanied by Salvatore Cottone, piano.

Sacred Songs

Sacred Songs is American singer/songwriter Daryl Hall's first solo album. It was produced by guitarist Robert Fripp, who also played on the album.

The album was recorded in 1977 but Hall's label, RCA, did not release it for three years. According to Nick Tosches, who wrote Dangerous Dances, the authorized biography of Hall & Oates, "RCA refused to release Sacred Songs on the grounds that it wasn't commercial" (p 85). When finally released, sales were good, but there was no hit single.

Recording

Background

In the early 1970s, Hall had formed Hall & Oates, a partnership with guitarist/songwriter John Oates. They had produced several hit pop singles, but Hall had grown to feel artistically limited and in 1977 was much more concerned with expressing his own outlook on life and music than with making more hit songs.

Fripp had dissolved his group King Crimson in 1974, and after a sabbatical, returned to music with session work and other guest appearances.

According to the notes for the 1999 CD reissue of Sacred Songs, and to Eric Tamm's book-length study of Fripp's music, Hall and Fripp first met in 1974. Already familiar with one another's work, the duo felt an instant rapport, and planned to work together.