A Record of Singers EMI (1982) Record 1 (Volume 1) Part 1 1899-1919

The Castrato Voice
1 Alessandro Moreschi–
Ave Maria
Composed By – Gounod*, Bach*

The Old School; Patti, Albani, and Sembrich
2 Adelina Patti–
La Sonnambula - Ah! Non Credea
Piano – Alfredo Barili

3 Adelina Patti–
Il Bacio
Composed By – Arditi*
Piano – Landon Ronald

4 Emma Albani–
L'Ete
Composed By – Chaminade*

5 Marcella Sembrich with Emma Eames–
Le Nozze Di Figaro - Sull'aria...Che Soave Zeffiretto!
Composed By – Mozart*

6 Marcella Sembrich with the Victor Orchestra*–
I Puritani - Qui La Voce
Composed By – Bellini*

7 Marcella Sembrich–
Si Mes Vers
Composed By – Hahn*
Piano – Frank La Forge

8 Marcella Sembrich–
Wohin?
Composed By – Schubert*
Piano – Frank La Forge

Melba and Marchesi Pupils
9 Nellie Melba–
Les Anges Pleurent
Composed By – Bemberg*
Piano – Gabriel Lapierre

10 Nellie Melba–
Chant Vénetien
Composed By – Bemberg*
Piano – Gabriel Lapierre

11 Sigrid Arnoldson–
Manon - Hélas! Hélas!...N'est-ce Plus Ma Main
Composed By – Massenet*

12 Emma Eames–
Gretchen Am Spinnrade
Composed By – Schubert*
Piano – Henri Gilles

13 Emma Eames–
Chanson Des Baisers
Composed By – Bemberg*

14 Lillian Blauvelt–
Le Retour Du Promis
Composed By – Dessauer*

15 Suzanne Adams–
Coquette
Composed By – Stern*

16 Ellen Beach Yaw–
Manon Lescaut - C'est L'histoire Amoureuse
Composed By – Auber*

17 Ellen Beach Yaw–
O Dolce Concento - Variations
Composed By – Paer*

18 Ellen Beach Yaw–
L'Etoile Du Nord - Cadenza
Composed By – Meyerbeer*

19 Blanche Marchesi–
Im Mai
Composed By – Goldschmidt*
Composed By – Goldschmidt*

English-Speaking Singers - Dramatic Sopranos
20 Agnes Nicholls–
At The Mid-Hour Of Night
Composed By – Cowen*
Piano – Hamilton Harty*

21 Agnes Nicholls–
Eli - I Will Extol Thee
Composed By – Costa*

22 Lillian Nordica–
Hunyadi László - Ah Rebéges, A Mi Vadúl
Composed By – Erkel*
Piano – Romayne Simmons

The Record of Singing is a compilation of classical-music singing from the first half of the 20th century, the era of the 78-rpm record.
It was issued on LP (with accompanying books) by EMI, successor to the British company His Master's Voice (better known as HMV) — perhaps the leading organization in the early history of audio recording.
The project was accompanied initially by two illustrated books, containing singers' biographies and appraisals, which were published in London, by Duckworth, in the late 1970s. It covers the period running from circa 1900, when the earliest recordings were made, through until the early 1950s, when the last 78-rpm records were produced. Singers are divided into groups arranged according to national 'schools' and fach or voice type. In practice, this means that there are separate Italian, German, French, Anglo-American and East European classifications.
Rather than concentrating on famous singers whose recordings are widely available elsewhere, The Record of Singing includes a large number of lesser-known artists in order to give a broad picture of the contemporary operatic world. Vocal artists of such lasting renown as Enrico Caruso, Nellie Melba, Titta Ruffo, Feodor Chaliapin, Kirsten Flagstad, Rosa Ponselle and Maria Callas are thus represented but by only a few recordings in each case. Nonetheless, no such compilation can ever be exhaustive in scope, and the project has been criticised from time to time since its initial release for overlooking a few important singers who, while largely forgotten today, were highly talented performers who once enjoyed substantial careers and made records of enduring artistic merit.
Origins
The original idea for the series came from the collector Vivian Liff, who chose the recordings used in the first two volumes, almost all of which came from the Stuart-Liff Collection, as well as the photographs of the singers which were published in the books that accompanied volumes 1 and 2 of the project. Michael Scott was asked to write these two books. They contained brief singers' biographies, too and featured a critical (sometimes controversial) commentary about their accomplishments, are gleaned from certain discs they had made. Bryan Crimp of EMI was responsible for the transfers of the original recorded material to LP. Keith Hardwick, however, was responsible for the transfers, etc., on the final two volumes of the survey (which were not accompanied by books).
The first two volumes were accompanied by books by Michael Scott:
• The Record of Singing to 1914, London, Duckworth, 1977, ISBN 978-0-7156-1030-5
• The Record of Singing Volume Two: 1914–1925, London, Duckworth, 1979, OCLC 6765624

The Record of Singing Volume 1 (1899–1919)[edit]
• The Castrato Voice: Alessandro Moreschi
• The Old School: Adelina Patti, Emma Albani, Marcella Sembrich
• Melba and the Marchesi Pupils: Nellie Melba, Sigrid Arnoldson, Emma Eames, Lillian Blauvelt, Suzanne Adams, Ellen Beach Yaw, Blanche Marchesi

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