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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... this reissue is of inestimable value for bringing into the CD catalogue one of the most, if not the most stylish and moving piece pieces of Verdi singing ever committed to disc, and that... — More…
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Divas Vol.1 - (1906 - 1935)
Luisa Tetrazzini, Nellie Melba, Adelina Patti, Frieda Hempel, Amelita Galli-Curci, Rosa Ponselle, Lotte Lehmann, Eva Turner, Nina Koshetz, Eidé Norena, Maria Nemeth, Claudia Muzio
Lehmann, Melba, Galli-Curci, Hempel, Tetrazzini, Patti, all of them being heard at their characteristic best and on first-class copies. — More…
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Great Singers Vol.1 - (1909 - 1938)
Luisa Tetrazzini, Enrico Caruso, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, John McCormack, Amelita Galli-Curci, Riccardo Stracciari, Rosa Ponselle, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Eva Turner, Lawrence Tibbett, Conchita Supervia, Beniamino Gigli, Marian Anderson, Tito Schipa, Mafalda Favero, Claudia Muzio, Richard Tauber
... every item here is a gem, each gem from its own well-stocked mine. — More…
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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. — More…
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Arguably the finest Italian bass of his time and acclaimed as the leading exponent of Don Giovanni, Cesare Siepi is heard here in roles central to his repertoire and lighter songs in which his... — More…
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Mozart: The Mercy of Titus
Joan Sutherland (Vitellia), Richard Lewis (Titus), Monica Sinclair (Sextus), Jennifer Vyvyan (Servilia), Anna Pollak (Annius), Thomas Hemsley (Publius)
London Mozart Players & BBC Chorus, John Pritchard
Richard Lewis is superb in the title role, while Sutherland shows why she won such acclaim as she was about to move into her best coloratura roles. Monica Sinclair has only two arias, but she... — More…
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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... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Historic Recording
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The 1906 recording of "M'appari" from Martha comes first, and it introduces an aspect of Caruso's singing that rarely finds a place in the critical commentaries: his subtlety ... As to the transfers,... — More…
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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 — More…
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