While a big project slowly progresses, I’ll be posting occasional smaller updates. This latest includes three very different records, embracing opera, orchestra and piano.
Balfe – The Bohemian Girl – Vocal Gems:
Light Opera Company:
Sopranos: Della Baker, Helen Clark, Erva Giles, Emily Stokes Hagar, Olive Kline, Lucy Isabelle Marsh, Gladys Rice
Contraltos: Edna Indermauer, Marie Stone Langston, Mrs James Price
Tenors: Franklyn Baur, Richard Crooks, Charles H Hart, Lambert Murphy
Baritones: Royal Dadmun, Elliott Shaw
Basses: Frank Croxton, Wilfred Glenn
Light Opera Orchestra, Rosario Bourdon
Balfe – The Bohemian Girl – Vocal gems – Bourdon
(mp3 file – click to play, or right click the link, then select “Save as”)
His Master’s Voice C 1382
Matrices CVE-17507-01, 17508-10 (HMV sides 2-04606, 2-04607)
Recorded 25th August 1926, Victor Church Building Studio, Camden, New Jersey
Score references to Boosey The Royal Edition vocal score (1899)
Side 1:
Intro.: – Away to Hill and Glen – I dreamt that I dwellt (Eb, p96-98, on pitch) – Heart bow’d down – Silence (D, p82-84, 87, semitone down) – Fair Land of Poland – Happy and light (Eb, p114-117)
Side 2
Intro.: – In the gipsy life (G, p32-35 – on pitch) – Come with the Gypsy Bride – Bliss for ever past – What is the spell – Then you’ll remember me (Db, p178-9) – Oh what full delight
Brahms – Intermezzo Op.119 No.1 and Intermezzo Op.117 No.1
PM Ireland, piano
Brahms – Intermezzo Op.119 No.1 – PM Ireland
Brahms – Intermezzo Op.117 No.1 – PM Ireland
(mp3 file – click to play, or right click the link, then select “Save as”)
Private Recording by Levy’s Sound Studios Ltd, London W.1. England
73 & 101 New Bond St., W.1 – Mafair 8521/2
Lacquer on aluminium disc
Unnumbered, no matrix numbers. Probably recorded around 1950
I have been unable to trace any information about the pianist PM Ireland who is heard on these two sides.
Charles Shadwell – Lulworth Cove
Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra, Charles Williams
Shadwell – Lulworth Cove – QHLO, Williams
(mp3 file – click to play, or right click the link, then select “Save as”)
Chappell C.163 (single sided)
Matrix CTP 12319-1
Recorded 1942-5
This piece of British light music is inspired by Lulworth Cove, on the south coast of England.