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Record of Singing: v. 1 Paperback – Import, April 22, 1993

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Lavishly illustrated with rare photographs from the Stuart-Liff collection, this monumental two-volume work by the founder of the London Opera Society surveys the history of operatic singing and recordings up to 1925.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd; New Ed edition (April 22, 1993)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0715616293
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0715616291
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.01 pounds
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2013
    THIS IS A COMPILATION OF THE GREATEST OPERA VOICES OF THE GOLDEN AGE . ITS OUTSTANDING THE GOOD SOUND AND REPRODUCTION OF THOSE OLD RECORDS. GREAT FOR ANY OPERA RECORD COLLECTOR. JMLOPEZ
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2021
    This book is a very thorough analysis of opera singers who recorded up until 1914. All of the great ones, and ones whose names are less familiar are included. Individual singers begin with Adelina Patti and end with Feodor Chaliapin. Included also, among MANY others, are Marcella, Sembrich, Nellie Melba, Ellen Beach, Lillian Nordica, Olive Fremstadt, Geraldine Ferrar, Louise Homer, Jean de Reszke, Victor Maurel, Pol Plancon, Eduard de Reszke, Emma Calve, Mary Garden, Mattia Battistini, Antonio Scotti, Giuseppe de Luca, Pasquale Amato, Titta Ruffo, Adamo Didur, Fernando de Lucia, Alessandro Bonci, Francesco Tamagno, Enrico Caruso, Luisa Tetrazzini, Maria Galvany, Lina Cavalieri, Frieda Hempel, Selma Kurz, Lilli Lehmann, Johanna Gadski, Emmy Destinn, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Margarete Matzenauer, and Leo Slezak. Earlier singers, like the castrati, David, Duprez, Viardot, Catalani, Garcia, Malibran, etc. are also discussed. The author goes into great detail when discussing the various singers, so much so that this book is not for the faint-hearted. One must be VERY interested in those singers who performed in "The Golden Age of Opera". Just reading about the details of a singer's vocal technique and the sound he or she produced can only go so far. Maybe experts in the singing voice would be able to "hear" a voice just from literary descriptions, but the average person cannot. So I have found a way to remedy this. Almost all the singers the author writes about are on Youtube, and listening to them while reading about the details of their vocal prowess makes what the author writes about very comprehensible. Without Youtube one would need to have recordings of the various singers, which would fill an entire library. But with the magic of Youtube a book like this one comes alive. I withhold a fifth star because I would have wanted more information about the singers' voices and less about their teachers, their spouses, their professional associations, etc. But this is a quibble; in general the book elucidates why singers in this period constitute "The Golden Age of Opera. It is a book of great scholarship--227 pages long--two columns to a page--but there are many pictures of the artists in their various costumes, so the book reads shorter than the number of pages might indicate. Highly recommended for devotees of the opera stars early in the 20th century. Well-written and clear, the author is clearly one of the experts on the singing voice who ever wrote about it.
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2020
    This book is full of information about very old (in the past) singers, most of whom are known very little. If you are fanatic on classical vocalists, the book is for you. Otherwise, as general info, it will put you to sleep.