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Nellie Melba : Complete Gramophone Company recordings. Vol. 4.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 30678
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Melba, Nellie, Dame, 1861-1931, performer.
- Series:
- Great singers (Naxos Historical (Sound recording label))
- Great singers, Nellie Melba
- Language:
- English
- French
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--Excerpts.
- Operas.
- Operas--Excerpts, Arranged.
- Songs (High voice) with piano.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Excerpts.
- Arrangements (Music)
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on container: Hayes and London recordings (1921-1926)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Naxos Historical, [2004]
- Language Note:
- Sung in French, English, or Italian.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- mono
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Sadko. Les diamants chez-nous sont innombrables (Chanson hindoue) / Rimsky-Korsakov
- Away on the hill there runs a stream ; Down in the forest / Ronald
- By the waters of the Minnetonka / Lieurance
- Annie Laurie / Douglas-Scott
- Home, sweet home / Bishop
- Otello. Piangea cantando (Willow song) ; Ave Maria / Verdi
- La bohème. Entrate
- C'è Rodolfo? ; Donde lieta uscì ; Addio dolce svegliare alla mattina ; Gavotta, minuetto ; Sono andati? ; Io musetta
- Oh come è bello e morbido / Puccini
- Address by Lord Stanley of Alderley
- Dame Nellie Melba's farewell speech
- La traviata. Dita [i.e. Dite] alla giovine / Verdi
- Un ange est venu / Bemberg
- Clair de lune : op. 83, no. 1 / Szulc
- Swing low, sweet chariot / Traditional.
- Participant:
- Nellie Melba, soprano ; with: Aurora Rettore, mezzo-soprano (tracks 11-14) ; Browning Mummery, tenor (tracks 11-14) ; John Brownlee, baritone (tracks 11-14, 17-18) ; Frederic Collier, Edouard Cotreuil, basses (tracks 11-14) ; Landon Ronald (tracks 1-6), Harold Craxton (tracks 17-20), piano ; Royal Opera House Orchestra (tracks 7-14) ; [Vincenzo Bellezza (tracks 7-14), conductor].
- Credits:
- Ward Marston, producer and audio restoration engineer.
- Notes:
- Recorded May 12, 1921 at the Hayes Middlesex Grammophone Studio (tracks 1-6); live, during her farewell performance June 8, 1926, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (tracks 7-16); and Dec. 17, 1926, Small Queen's Hall, London (tracks 17-20).
- Compact disc.
- Program notes in English in container.
- Contains:
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908. Sadko (Opera). Pesni͡a indiĭskogo gosti͡a. French.
- Ronald, Landon, 1873-1938. Songs of the hill. Away on the hill there runs a stream
- Ronald, Landon, 1873-1938. Cycle of life. Down in the forest
- Lieurance, Thurlow, 1878-1963. By the waters of Minnetonka.
- Scott, John, Lady, 1810-1900. Annie Laurie.
- Bishop, Henry R. (Henry Rowley), 1786-1855. Clari. Home, sweet home; arranged
- Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Otello. Piangea cantando
- Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Otello. Ave Maria
- Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Bohème. Selections
- Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Traviata. Dite alla giovine; arranged.
- Bemberg, H. (Herman), 1859-1931. Ange est venu.
- Szulc, Joseph. Mélodies, op. 83. Clair de lune
- Swing low, sweet chariot.
- OCLC:
- 56604821
- Publisher Number:
- 636943178027
- 8.110780 Naxos Historical
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