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Alma Gluck: Recordings 1911-1917

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Louise: Depuis le jour
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Jocelyn: Cachés dans cette asile - Berceuse
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Carmen: Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante - Micaëla's aria
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Elegie
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Le Timbre d'Argent: Le bonheur est chose légère
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Hippolyte et Aricie: Rossignols amoureux
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L'heure exquise
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Lo! Here the gentle lark
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Have you seen but a whyte lilie grow?
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Atalanta: Care selve
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Theodora: Angels ever bright and fair
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Hänsel und Gretel: Süsse, liebe Süsse
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War schöner als der schönste Tag
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Hubi?ka: Bohemian Cradle song
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La Bohème: Donde lieta usci - Addio di Mimi
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La Bohème: Quando m'en vo soletta
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La Sonnambula: Ah! non credea mirarti
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La Serenata
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Snow Maiden: Gathering Berries
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Snow Maiden: Song of the shepherd Lehl
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Sadko: Chanson Hindoue
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  • Audio CD (January 11, 2000)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Nimbus Records
  • Run Time: 78 minutes
  • ASIN: B00003INIT
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsLoveliest of Lyric Sopranos
By Doug - Haydn Fan VINE VOICE on September 3, 2010
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Desmond Shawe-Taylor, who writes so well about all the greatest singers, bubbles over in his praise of Alma Gluck; "No soprano of her own or subsequent generations has surpassed the instrumental purity of her tone and line, which could fairly be called immaculate." At her premiere at the Met, the New York Times critic describes her voice as one of "delicious purity, smoothness and limpidity with all the freshness of youth." Gluck's high notes were simply beyond compare, Nigel Douglas, who writes wonderful notes for this Cd and must be given full credit for the two choice quotes above, rightly calls Gluck, 'seraphic', and for once this oft over-used expression perfectly captures a voice.

Up until very recent decades reissues of Gluck's voice did not make it through the processing from her old acoustic recordings. By the end of the Nineties things changed dramatically. Marston Records issued a fabulous 2 Cd set in 1997, with sensational stuff, and actual Gluck rarities - odd, but true when talking about the best selling female singer of her day to speak of rarities! Alma Gluck Then Nimbus issued this single set, filled with top selections, in 2000. If you can afford - and find - the Marston set it's a must buy, but this still available Nimbus offer is certainly first rate. While some of this Nimbus series of reissues suffer from excessive reverberation, the result of using an enormous acoustic horn, in the case of sopranos this process can pay dividends.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn ethereal voice with perfect technique
By Ralph Moore TOP 500 REVIEWER on August 20, 2011
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There are several parallels between the voices and careers of Alma Gluck and John McCormack, in that both possessed voices of the utmost purity, capable of seamless legato and apparently endless reserves of breath, both retired early from the operatic stage to concentrate on concert performances and recording and both were accused of peddling "muck", (to borrow McCormack's ironic choice of word) in that they invariably included in their programmes songs of blatantly populist appeal alongside classical items. As a result, both belong to that category of singer whose popularity with the public was promulgated through sales of gramophone records in the infancy of the medium, during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Gluck became Victor's best-selling female recording artist, her sales exceeded only by McCormack and, of course, Caruso. Gluck, however, did not have anything like so long a career as McCormack, ceasing all public performance after an unsuccessful return to the concert platform in 1924 and dying at only 56 in 1938, just before McCormack came out of retirement for the war effort.

I well remember the first time I heard Gluck's voice, singing in English in her celebrated recording, included here, of "Care Selve" from Handel's "Ariodante".I was immediately struck by the instrumental, almost otherworldly, timbre. This surely, was how an angel sounds. Additionally, Gluck had by the time of this recording developed greater resonance in her lower voice to enhance emotional intensity and complement her ethereal top notes. It forms a perfect complementary companion to McCormack's equally mesmerising recording of the same aria.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAlma Gluck Recording
By Joseph V. Patterson on March 29, 2009
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These musical selections had all had been recorded before 1925, the advent of electrical recording. Alma Gluck had ceased recording by this time. Modern techniques used in making this CD have restored her voice and reduced record hiss to a very large extent. This is an excellent journey into the past, bringing to life a voice that has been gone for over 70 years.
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