Golden Age of Singing Vol.2 (1910-20)

Titta Ruffo (Performer), Pasquale Amato (Performer), Giuseppe de Luca (Performer), Gaetano Donizetti (Composer), Carlos Gomes (Composer), Jules Massenet (Composer), Georges Bizet (Composer), Ruggero Leoncavallo (Composer), Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Composer), Giacomo Meyerbeer (Composer), Pietro Mascagni (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Mikhail Glinka (Composer), Charles Gounod (Composer), Gustave Charpentier (Composer), Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (Composer), Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Amilcare Ponchielli (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Titta Ruffo, Pasquale Amato, Giuseppe de Luca
• Composer: Gaetano Donizetti, Carlos Gomes, Jules Massenet, Georges Bizet, Ruggero Leoncavallo, et al.
• Audio CD (August 15, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Nimbus Records
• ASIN: B00004TYQT
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,592 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Per Viver Vicino - John McCormack

2. Qui Fortuna Insistenza... Quando Nascesti Tu - Enrico Caruso

3. En Fermant Les Yeux (Dream) - Edmond Clement

4. L'amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle (Habanera) - Frank La Forge

5. Quel Fiamma Avea Nel Guardo!... Stridono Lassu (Ballatella) - Alma Gluck

6. The Nightingale In The Grove - Natalia Yermolenko-Yuzhina

7. Averla Tanto Amata - Mattia Battistini

8. O Mio Fernando - Margarete Matzenauer

9. Tu Ch' Odi Lo Mio Grido - Bernardo De Muro

10. Der Holle Rache - Antonina Nezhdanova

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Disc: 2

1. Eri Tu - Pasquale Amato

2. Suicido - Emmy Destinn

3. E Lucevan Le Stelle - Giovanni Martinelli

4. O Luce Di Quest' Anima - Luisa Tetrazzini

5. Dich Teure Halle - Lotte Lehmann

6. Les Oiseaux Dans La Charmille - Mabel Garrison

7. Largo Al Factotum - Giuseppe De Luca

8. Die Lustigen Weiber Von Windsor: Nun Eilt' Herbei - Maria Ivogun

9. Redoutez La Fureur D'un Dieu (Anatheme De Balthazar) - Marcel Journet

10. Cortigiani, Vil Razza Dannata - Riccardo Stracciari

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Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Singers of Great Renown, December 14, 2001

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John Austin "[e-mail]" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Golden Age of Singing Vol.2 (1910-20) (Audio CD)

As the years go by, recordings of singers of the past become cheaper, less bulky to store, and reproduce in better sound. Nimbus Records have developed a method of reproducing recordings from the years before the introduction of electrical recording in 1925. The results are especially kind to singers who recorded in the early decades of the C20th.

This double CD presents recordings from the decade 1910 to 1920. The oldest singer represented is the great Australian diva Melba, heard in one of her loveliest recordings - an excerpt from "Louise" by Charpentier. Amongst the youngest is Tito Schipa, aged 24, in an aria from "Lucia di Lammermoor", and Rosa Ponselle as Tosca at the age of 21. Listening to these ancient recordings is a relatively comfortable experience here, but I would caution against devoting a full two and a half hours to listening to all of them in one sitting.

J B Steane, the eminent authority on singers of the past on record, provides a superb essay. Full details of the recordings are provided, together with a synopsis of each item. Having provided so much to collectors of historic singers, Nimbus Records is now to close its operations. Collectors should therefore be aware that CDs like this and its companion volumes will soon be unprocurable.