Nellie MELBA. LAST LONDON ELECTRIC RECORDING. La Traviata.Small Queen's Hall. Dite alla giovine.1926
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- This is an electrical recording of Dame Nellie Melba aged 65,with fellow Australian baritone John Brownlee, December 1926 recorded in the Small Queen's Hall,London---seating capacity 500.
La Traviata, Act 2:Dite alla giovine
She also recorded Claire de lune by Szulc on the same day.
The larger Queen's Hall was the home of the Promenade Concerts by Henry Wood---the Small Queen's Hall was inside.
Situated in Langham Place,London now demolished following wartime damage.
Most of Melba's recordings were made during the Acoustic Recording era.
This recording was made six months following her Farewell Performance at the Royal Opera House,Covent Garden, London June 1926------IT IS AN ELECTRICAL RECORDING on my UA-cam uploads page. Enjoy.
In early 1927 Melba returned to Australia never to return to the international stage.
Dame Nellie Melba,19 May 1861 - 23 February 1931
Born and died in Australia.
PHOTOS:
Melba
John Brownlee
Queen's Hall, Langham Place, London.
If one consults the video at 1:45 , the Small Queen's Hall is above and behind the triangular pediment. It occupied floors above entrance and circulation foyers etc for the main hall. The curving wall with what look like chimneys is the outside of the wall of the SQH. The stage end is on the left, but HMV recorded in the body of the SQH which was flat-floored. The item at the very top with the two triangular pediments is a raised section in the SQH ceiling for clerestory windows. George Bernard Shaw described the SQH as 'cigar shaped'. The entrance to the SQH is just visible at the very left of the building (in Riding House St). With the coming of electrical recording in mid-1925 His Master's Voice used the SQH as a regular recording venue, initially as a remote location (look for BR on the matrix number in the shellac of 10-inch records, CR on 12-inch), but later installed equipment and used it as their 'C Studio' (A and B were old studios at Hayes). This recording has a Cc 12-inch matrix mark which indicates it was recorded after equipment was installed.
Thankyou for all the useful information. Much more detailed than I could muster.
Cette dame mérite sa notoriété : elle chante sans aucun effort, très facilement. De plus la maîtrise du souffle est parfaite
This is good singing because:
1. It sounds easy
2. The voices have 'ring' in them
3. Nothing is over -pronounced. It is so natural and unforced. The voice flows like a stream.
I hate modern opera but I love this!!!
Same here
Try watch shenyun performance they singing in bel canto
Ces enregistrements n'ont pas de valeur tellement ils sont précieux dans l'histoire de l'Opera. Merci UA-cam
GREATNESS = BEAUTY + LEGATO + SOUL !
This is lovely!
thank you australia for this lady
Wonderful all about breath control regardless of age.
Wow! voices from 90 years ago! The year The Queen was born.
Yes Yohanes,it really takes us back into the so-called Golden Age.
How good was John Brownlee!
I prefer Melba's electrical recordings than the acoustic ones. Although in her mid 60s here...she showed no signs of vocal decline.
Her electrics ARE her best recordings! 😊 The Szulc Clair de lune and the Bemberg duet Un Ange est venu with Brownlee are my favorite Melba recordings of all. The Act 3 Boheme aria from her 1926 Covent Garden farewell is justly famous too. She never lost her voice. Steady as a rock and genuinely beautiful right to the end of her career. As I listen to her sing this Traviata duet at age 65, I think of the countless Violettas and Gildas and Lucias she had sung all throughout the previous 40 years of her career and bow to her greatness.
@@jeffreymiller4814 I love ,, swing low, swing chariot” her another Electric Recording… Truly unique timbre.
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These are super. Where are you getting them from?
J. I found them in Gramophone Magazine. That's where I discovered many of the historical recordings.R.