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A series of great OPERA Records from early G&Ts to World War II recordings on 78 rpm Victrola Records
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Carusos last, 1917 recording of the famous Ensembles, with a young Amelita Galli Curci, Giuseppe de Luca, Perini, Jounet,Egener,:
Rigoletto Quartet (Bella figlia dell'amore) / Lucia Sextet (Chi mi frena)
Gaetano Donizetti - Chi Me Frena / Verdi Bella Figlia Dell' Amore
Label: Victor Red Seal – 10000
Format:
Shellac, 12", 78 RPM
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera
Lucia Di Lammermoor: Act II
A Amelita Galli-Curci, Minnie Egener, Enrico Caruso And Angelo Bada, Giuseppe de Luca (3), Marcel Journet– Sextette-Chi Me Frena = What Restrains Me?
Baritone Vocals – Giuseppe De Luca (3)
Bass Vocals – Marcel Journet
Contralto Vocals – Minnie Egener
Soprano Vocals – Amelita Galli-Curci
Tenor Vocals – Angelo Bada, Enrico Caruso
Composed By – Donizetti*
Rigoletto: Act IV
B Amelita Galli-Curci, Flora Perini, Enrico Caruso, Giuseppe de Luca (3)– Quartet-Bella Figlia Dell' Amore = Fairest Daughter Of The Graces
Baritone Vocals – Giuseppe De Luca (3)
Contralto Vocals – Flora Perini
Soprano Vocals – Amelita Galli-Curci
Tenor Vocals – Enrico Caruso
Composed By – Verdi*
Acoustically Recorded January 25, 1917
In Italian
Great quiet 1923 pressing 12" 78 rpm Victor Batwing record.
Condition: VERY GOOD PLUS PLUS/ EXCELLENT MINUS Lucia has some greying on few loud passages, fine scratch does not sound
Plays EXCEPTIONALLY quiet light distortion on few top notes on LUCIA
The Rigoletto Quartet and the Donizetti Sextet were the most heavily recoded and priced classical ensemble pieces, and for every company it was their flagship and highest priced recording. Just to summarize:Top The 3 Carusos: w Sembrich/Abott, Tetrazzini/ Galli Curci, and the 1926 electric remake with the 1917 cast and Gigli singin for Caruso. Columbia had Barrientos Stracciari Hacket, Edison recorded with VERLET in their only 84,000 Series High priced record, and even Pathe would throw in a Quartet.
Now, these 5 to 7$ prestige records were not necessarily intended to sell, so the marketing is a shrewed example: In the middle tier $1.50 you had the Columbia with no names, the Victor 1911 Purple Label with Lucy Isabelle Marsh, the Blue label with Olive Kline.
And Bargain basement 1$ the 1905 imported recordings with the great Giuseppina Huguet. Though - not produced in US, no celebrity singers - these lowly black labels include some of the great Milan La Scala singers, and the higher fidelity and immediate G&T acoustics of these recordings make them rival some of the expensive ones
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