Nimbus
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Supported by a warmly ambient recording, the playing here is… sharply characterised and powerfully projected… —
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A collection of Schubert songs recorded between 1927 and 1943 has appeared on Nimbus' Prima Voce series, and playing it has been a happily fortifying experience: almost (in a broad sense of... —
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This almost forgotten tenor had a lovely lyric voice, used most ravishingly in the duet with Maria Cebotari from Madama Butterfly. —
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The Era of Adelina Patti
Victor Maurel, Pol Plançon, Emma Eames, Lucien Fugère, Adelina Patti, Francisco Viñas, Emma Calvé, Maurice Renaud, Fernando De Lucia, Francesco Tamagno, Nellie Melba, Félia Litvinne, Wilhelm Hesch, Lillian Nordica, Mario Ancona, Edouard De Reszke, Marcella Sembrich, Francesco Marconi, Josefina Huguet,...
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Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci
Beniamino Gigli (tenor), Iva Pacetti (soprano), Mario Basiola (baritone), Giuseppe Nessi (tenor), Leone Paci (baritone), Lina Bruna Rasa (soprano), Maria Marcucci (mezzo-soprano), Gino Bechi (baritone), Giulietta Simionato (contralto)
The Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan, Franco Ghione,...
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Great Singers in Donizetti
Mariano Stabile, Luisa Tetrazzini, Marcel Journet, Rosina Storchio, Carlo Albani, Francesco Navarrini, Clara Butt, Giuseppe Anselmi, Olimpia Boronat, Lucrezia Bori, Giovanni Martinelli, Maria Galvany, Aristodemo Giorgini, Fernando de Lucia, Ernesto Badini, Mattia Battistini, Ricardo Stracciari, Renato...
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Great artist, great woman ... by the end of this excellent selection of her recordings the special quality of her voice and artistry and of the woman herself could hardly leave the listener... —
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Geraldine Farrar in Italian Opera
with Enrico Caruso, Antonio Scotti, Gina Viafora, Josephine Jacoby
Geraldine Farrar
All the original copies are excellent, and respond well to the Nimbus method of transfer —
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The Nimbus transfer gives an added ambience, as if one is picking up an additional acoustic … —
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... the CD is well chosen to show the wide range of Lehmann's achievements ... a cornucopia of delights that anyone interested in the history of singing on disc ought to possess —
