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Summary: The Bible of Recorded Singing
Review: Anyone interested in opera and singing would appreciate this book. Steane is one of the greatest listeners around, and reading (and re-reading) his insights on these singers will make you a better listener too.
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Summary: The Bible of Recorded Singing
Review: Anyone interested in opera and singing would appreciate this book. Steane is one of the greatest listeners around, and reading (and re-reading) his insights on these singers will make you a better listener too.
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Summary: A Grand Experience
Review: I am saddened that this book is OP though perhaps a reprint is in the works. JBS from Gramaphone takes us on a tour of the history of recorded opera and lieder singing. His knowledge and enthusiasm lead me into a world of singing that I scarcely knew existed. His lucid style and comprehensive take on the records have had me buying and enjoying scores of CD's as an entire era has opened for me. I can't thank him enough for guiding me through the thicket of various recordings and providing insights that have deepened my understanding and enjoyment of singing. This exciting history has been a bedside favorite for years and I still turn to it when I see a new historical issue. Though the book covers singing up to more recent years, I may never make it to the 50's! Though the book could stand updating for current CD issues, it's not hard to translate dates of recordings to current issues. A tremendous acheivement. I could only wish for more, though I get that in his long running column in Gramaphone.
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Summary: Contents:
Review: Part 1: The Golden Legend, Pre-Electrical Recording 1900-1925
The Old Order: Nineteenth-Century Echoes (Adelina Patti, Francesco Tamagno, Lilli Lehmann)
The Golden Age: Five Great Singers (Nellie Melba, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Fernando de Lucia, Mattia Battistine, Pol Plancon)
New Times, New Gods: The Changing Opera (Enrico Caruso, Titta Ruffo)
Good Deeds in a Naughty World: Lyricism Resistant (Lucrezia Bori, Alma Gluck, John McCormack, Alessandro Bonci, Giuesppe de Luca)
Coloratura: The Soprano as Virtuoso (Marcella Sembrich, Luisa Tetrazzine, Amelita Galli-Curci, Frieda Hempel, Selma Kurz, Margarethe Siems)
Approach to Wagner: Questions of Balance (emmy Destinn, Johanna Gadski, Jacques Urlus, Hermann Jadlowker)
Eastern Europe: A Cultural Exchange (Olimpia Boronat, Antonina Neshdanva, Dmitri Smirnoff, Feodor Chaliapin, Leff Sibiriakoff)
France: Years of Plenty (Emma Calve, Edmond Clement, Leon Escalais, Maurice Renard, Marcel Journet)
America: Talent and Training (Emma Eames, Geraldine Farrar, Frances Alda)
Italy: Bel Canto con Forza (Celestina Boninsegna, Salomea Krusceniski, Giuseppe Anselmi, Riccardo Stracciari, Pasquale Amato)
Part II: Decline and Survival, The Electrical 78 1925-1950Decline: New Talents and Lost Discipline (Lily Pons, Aureliano Pertile)
Italy: A Handful of Exceptions (Toti dal Monte, Hina Spani, Tito Schipa, Benjamine Gigli, Renato Zanelli)
Around Italy: A Second Harvest (Lina Pagliughi, Magda Olivero, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Mariano Stabile, Tancredi Pasero)
Germany and Austria: Keepers of the Seal (Maria Ivogun, Meta Seinemeyer, Sigrid Onegin, Richard Tauber, Heinrich Schlusnus)
Lieder: More than Singing (Elisabeth Schumann, Lotte Lehmann, Elena Gerhardt, Karl Erb, herbert Janssen, Gerhard Husch, Alexander Kipnis)
Wagner: The Triumph of Lyricism (Frida Leider, Lauritz Melchior, Friedrich Schorr)
Splendid Isolationists: Standards in Britain and France (Florence Austral, Eva Turner, Claire Croiza, Ninon Vallin) Old Worlds and New: Chicago and the Elevating Influence (Claudia Muzio, Dusolina Giannini, Conchita Supervia, Marian Anderson, Richard Crooks)
Metropolitan: Five Great Singers (Rosa Ponselle, Elisabeth Rethberg, Giovanni Martinelli, Lawrence Tibbett, Ezio Pinza)
Survival: Wartime and Aftermath (Helen Traubel, Maggie Teyte, Kathleen Ferrier, Julius Patzak, Mark Reizen)
Part III: Renaissance, The Long Plaing Record 1950-1970 Wagner: Every Note, Every Word (Kirsten Flagstad, Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans Hotter, Gottlob Frick)
Trial by Mozart: Vintage Soprano (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried, Lisa della Casa, Hilde Guden, Ljuba Welitsch, Sena Jurinac)
Opera at Home: Five Great Singers (Maria Callas, Victoria de los Angeles, Jussi Bjorling, Tito Gobbi, Boris Christoff)
Let the Florid Music Praise: Rococo Revival (Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills, Anna Moffo, Teresa Berganza, Marilyn Horne)
America: The Seal Goes West (Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verrett, Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, James McCracken, Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill)
Italy: A Tale of Two Tableaux (Renata Tebaldi, Mirella Freni, Giulietta Simionato, Fiorenza Cossotto, Franco Corelli, Carlo Bergonzi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Luciano Pavarotti)
European Notes: Moscow to Madrid (Regine Crespin, Rita Gorr, Irene Arkhipova, Nicolai Gedda, Geraint Evans)
Singer and Song: An Exhibition of Artists (Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig, Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerard Souzay) Ancient and Modern: The Singer as Musician
1971: Present and Prospective (Montserrat Caballe, Gundula Janowitz, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolai Ghiaurov
Conclusions: The Grand Tradition Index of Composers General Index Bibliographical Note The pictures are of the singers mentioned above.
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