Prima Voce
Early vocal recordings.
The early story of recording is more than just the history of an invention and an industry. Although the pioneers and entrepreneurs played important and fascinating roles, their work would hold little interest for us today had it not coincided with the unique artistry of Caruso and Melba, Chaliapin and Ponselle. It was the Golden Age of Singing and Prima Voce preserves this archive of great voices from the first half of the twentieth century in transfers which capture the immediacy of the original performances.
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... if persuasion be necessary, add this to Vol.1 (NI 7807) on your shelves. —
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The selection follows, in a wide span, the best years of the tenor's long career ... the Nimbus begins in 1922 ending 1942. The fresh, ripe vibrancy of the early voice is caught, its unreliable... —
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Special offer. Kirsten Flagstad - Dido And Aeneas & Götterdämmerung Arias
Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwartzkopf, Thomas Hemsley, Arda Mandikian, David Lloyd, Eilidh McNab, Sheila Rex & Anna Pollak
The Mermaid Singers and Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Geraint Jones, Wilhelm Furtwangler
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Lauritz Melchior
Lauritz Melchior (tenor), with Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), with Frida Leider (soprano), Lotte Lehman
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Conchita Supervia in Opera and Song
with Carlo Scattola, Giovanni Manuritta, Gaston Micheletti, Andrée Vavon, Andrée Bernadet
Conchita Supervia
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Sutherland could indeed have made a serious career in the dramatic German Fach: she sounds an outstandingly fluent and natural exponent of the titlerole. Conductor Fritz Stiedry’s preserved... —
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Historic Recording
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Legendary Voices
Luisa Tetrazzini, Enrico Caruso, Rosa Ponselle, Tito Schipa, Giuseppe de Luca, Grace Anthony, Eva Turner, Alfred Piccaver, Ezio Pinza, Alexander Kipnis, Lotte Lehmann, Kirsten Flagstad, Jussi Björling, Tito Gobbi, Fritz Wunderlich
Nigel Douglas's book Legendary Voices (Deutsch: 1992) gives engagingly appreciative accounts of 14 favourite singers, coupling a biographical sketch, and sometimes personal reminiscences, with... —
