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The complete recordings / Alessandro Moreschi.
LIBRA Opal 823
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Moreschi, Alessandro, 1858-1922, performer.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Ave verum corpus (Music).
- Sacred songs (High voice).
- Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices).
- Sacred vocal music.
- Motets.
- Gregorian chants.
- Madrigals, Italian.
- Genre:
- Sacred vocal music.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.
- 12 in.
- Other Title:
- The last castrato.
- Alessandro Moreschi: the last castrato.
- Place of Publication:
- Wadhurst, East Sussex, [England] : Opal, [1984]
- System Details:
- analog
- 33 1/3 rpm
- microgroove
- mono
- Contents:
- 1902 Vatican Red Label: Domine salvum fac pontificem nostrum leonem / Aldega
- Et incarnatus est ; Crucifixus / Pratesi
- Ideale / Tosti
- Ave verum / Meluzzi
- Tui sunt coeli / Stehle
- Ave verum / Mozart
- Crucifixus / Rossini. 1904 Vatican Black Label: Crucifixus / Rossini
- Pie Jesu / Leibach
- Hostias et preces / Terziani
- Preghiera / Tosti
- Ave Maria / Bach, Gounod
- Incipit lamentatio / Gregorian Chant
- Laudamus te / Capocci
- Improperia / Vittoria
- La cruda mia nemica / Palestrina
- Oremus pro pontifice / Calzanera
- Ave Maria / Pope Leo XIII.
- Participant:
- Alessandro Moreschi, castrato; in part with the choir of the Sistine Chapel and other choruses and vocalists, unaccompanied or with piano or harmonium and violin.
- Notes:
- Sacred songs and choruses.
- Title on container: The last castrato : complete Vatican recordings.
- The only existing recordings of the castrati vocal tradition that flourished 1650-1750.
- Program notes, including biographical notes on Moreschi, by John Wolfson on container; further notes by Elsa Scammell ([2] p. : ill.) inserted.
- Historic recordings made at the Vatican, April 5 and 7, 1902 (side 1) and April 11, 1904 (side 2).
- Contains:
- Aldega, Giovanni, 1815-1862. Domine salvum fac pontificem nostrum Leonum.
- Pratesi, Luigi, 1806-1871. Et incarnatus est...Crucifuxus.
- Tosti, F. Paolo (Francesco Paolo), 1846-1916. Ideale.
- Meluzzi, Salvatore, 1813-1897. Ave verum.
- Stehle, Johann Gustav Eduard, 1839-1915. Tui sunt coeli.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Ave verum corpus.
- Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Petite Messe solennelle. Crucifixus
- Leibach. Dies irae. Pie Jesu.
- Terziani, Eugenio, 1824-1889. Hostias et preces.
- Tosti, F. Paolo (Francesco Paolo), 1846-1916. Preghiera.
- Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Ave Maria (Vocal version).
- Capocci, Gaetano, 1811-1898. Mass of Saint Bonaventura. Gloria. Laudamus te.
- Victoria, Tomás Luis de, approximately 1548-1611. Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae. Popule meus
- Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 1525?-1594. Madrigals, voices (4), book 2. Cruda mia nemica
- Calzanera, Emilio, 1850?-1914. Oremus pro pontifice.
- Domine salvum fac pontificem nostrum Leonum.
- Et incarnatus est.
- Ideale.
- Ave verum.
- Tui sunt coeli.
- Crucifixus.
- Pie Jesu.
- Hostias et preces.
- Preghiera.
- Ave Maria.
- Incipit lamentatio.
- Laudamus te.
- Improperia.
- Populus meus.
- La cruda mia nemica.
- Oremus pro pontifice.
- OCLC:
- 84362830
- Publisher Number:
- 823 Opal
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