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Notes and Editorial Reviews
Here is a potpourri of arias and instrumental tidbits, those featuring Caruso, Kreisler, Chaliapin, and castrato Alessandro Moreschi drawn from the Victor and HMV catalogs. There are even (virtually inaudible) the voice of Emile Berliner and two orchestral items, the widely circulated Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture recorded in 1920 by Nikisch and a 1924 Hebrides Overture of Mendelssohn with Walter, the latter sonically feeble even by "acoustic" standards but interesting for boasting a rhythmic steadiness not always typical of this conductor in his middle years...
-- Mortimer H. Frank, FANFARE [5/1999]
Here is a potpourri of arias and instrumental tidbits, those featuring Caruso, Kreisler, Chaliapin, and castrato Alessandro Moreschi drawn from the Victor and HMV catalogs. There are even (virtually inaudible) the voice of Emile Berliner and two orchestral items, the widely circulated Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture recorded in 1920 by Nikisch and a 1924 Hebrides Overture of Mendelssohn with Walter, the latter sonically feeble even by "acoustic" standards but interesting for boasting a rhythmic steadiness not always typical of this conductor in his middle years...
-- Mortimer H. Frank, FANFARE [5/1999]
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Works on This Recording
1.
The voice of Emile Berliner by Emile Berliner
Performer:
Emile Berliner ()
Date of Recording: c1897
Venue: ?USA
Length: 0 Minutes 33 Secs.
Notes: This selection is an excerpt from a spoken letter to his sister-in-law Sara Hahn.
2.
Hail to the Spirit of Liberty by John Philip Sousa
Orchestra/Ensemble:
London Municipal Military Band
Period: Romantic
Written: 1900; USA
Date of Recording: c1898
Venue: ?London
Length: 2 Minutes 6 Secs.
3.
Ave Maria by Charles Gounod
Performer:
Alessandro Moreschi ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1859; France
Date of Recording: 04/11/1904
Venue: Rome, Italy
Length: 3 Minutes 12 Secs.
4.
Otello: Esultate! by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Francesco Tamagno ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887; Italy
Date of Recording: 02/1903
Venue: Ospedaletti, San Remo, Italy
Length: 1 Minutes 18 Secs.
5.
Otello: Ora e per sempre addio by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Francesco Tamagno ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887; Italy
Date of Recording: 02/1903
Venue: Ospedaletti, San Remo, Italy
Length: 2 Minutes 3 Secs.
6.
Ave Maria, for voice & piano by Mapelli
Performer:
Francesco Tamagno ()
Date of Recording: 02/1903
Venue: Ospedaletti, San Remo, Italy
Length: 3 Minutes 43 Secs.
7.
Auld Lang Syne by Traditional
Performer:
Nellie Melba ()
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Band of Coldstream Guards
Period: Classical
Written: Scotland
Date of Recording: 09/1905
Venue: London, England
Length: 3 Minutes 4 Secs.
8.
La Bohčme: O soave fanciulla by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:
Nellie Melba (),
Enrico Caruso ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Italy
Date of Recording: 03/17/1907
Venue: New York, NY
Length: 3 Minutes 25 Secs.
9.
La Bohčme: O Mimě, tu piů non torni by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (),
Antonio [Baritone Vocals] Scotti ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Italy
Date of Recording: 03/17/1907
Venue: New York, NY
Length: 3 Minutes 13 Secs.
10.
L'Africaine by Giacomo Meyerbeer
Performer:
Enrico Caruso ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1865; Germany
Date of Recording: 02/20/1907
Venue: New York, NY
Length: 3 Minutes 44 Secs.
11.
L'Elisir d'Amore: Una furtiva lagrima by Gaetano Donizetti
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (),
C.H.H. Booth (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1832; Italy
Date of Recording: 02/01/1904
Venue: New York, NY
Length: 3 Minutes 7 Secs.
12.
Pieces (2) for Piano, Op. 45: no 2, Guitarre by Moritz Moszkowski
Performer:
Alfred Grünfeld (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: Germany
Date of Recording: 1907
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Length: 3 Minutes 5 Secs.
13.
Arrangement for piano of Johann Strauss II's "Frühlingsstimmenwalzer, Op 410" by Alfred Grünfeld
Performer:
Alfred Grünfeld (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Date of Recording: 04/29/1913
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Length: 4 Minutes 3 Secs.
14.
Liebesfreud by Fritz Kreisler
Performer:
Haddon Squire (Piano),
Fritz Kreisler (Violin)
Period: Romantic
Written: Austria
Date of Recording: 1911
Length: 3 Minutes 19 Secs.
15.
Liebesleid by Fritz Kreisler
Performer:
Haddon Squire (Piano),
Fritz Kreisler (Violin)
Period: Romantic
Written: Austria
Date of Recording: 1911
Length: 3 Minutes 38 Secs.
16.
Boris Godunov: Proscháy, moy syn by Modest Mussorgsky
Performer:
Feodor Chaliapin ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1868-1874
Date of Recording: 10/15/1911
Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia
Length: 4 Minutes 48 Secs.
17.
Un ballo in maschera: Alla vita che t'arride by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Heinrich Schlusnus ()
Period: Romantic
Written: 1859; Italy
Date of Recording: 1917
Venue: Berlin, Germany
Length: 3 Minutes 47 Secs.
18.
Lieder (8), Op. 10: no 1, Zueignung by Richard Strauss
Performer:
Richard Strauss (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1885; Germany
Date of Recording: 1921
Venue: Berlin, Germany
Length: 1 Minutes 45 Secs.
19.
Hebrides Overture, in B minor Op. 26 "Fingal's Cave" by Felix Mendelssohn
Conductor:
Bruno Walter
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1829-1832; Rome, Italy
Date of Recording: 1924
Venue: Berlin, Germany
Length: 9 Minutes 31 Secs.
20.
Le carnaval romain Overture, Op. 9 by Hector Berlioz
Conductor:
Arthur Nikisch
Period: Romantic
Written: 1843-1844; France
Date of Recording: 1920
Venue: Berlin, Germany
Length: 8 Minutes 53 Secs.
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