Record of the Week 2 — Teatro Nuovo

August 31, 2020 August 31, 2020/ Guest User

La Perla de Barcelona

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60 - La Perla de Barcelona
Josefina Huguet

July 27, 2020 July 27, 2020/ Guest User

Missing in Action

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59 - Missing in Action
Grete Stückgold

July 13, 2020 July 13, 2020/ Guest User

Even Bravest Heart May Swell

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58 - Even Bravest Heart May Swell
Reinald Werrenrath

July 07, 2020 July 07, 2020/ Guest User

Mr. Goddard, et al. One of the most extraordinary recording pioneers - and one of the most appealing singers ever to leave traces of his voice - was the Spanish (or possibly Cuban) baritone Emilio de Gogorza. He was born in 1874 (or mayb

57 - Mr. Goddard, et al.
Emilio de Gogorza

June 09, 2020 June 09, 2020/ Guest User

Black Lives  Throughout America - throughout the world - all minds are on Black Lives Matter and the extraordinary protests that have welled up in the past ten days or so. It doesn’t seem right to focus on anything else this week -

56 - Black Lives
Roland Hayes, Henry T. (Harry) Burleigh, Florence Cole-Talbert, Antoinette Garnes, C. Carroll Clark, and Anita Patti Brown

June 01, 2020 June 01, 2020/ Guest User

Pseudo-Baroque

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55 - Pseudo-Baroque
Ria Ginster, H. Lane Wilson

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020/ Guest User

Rossini mezzo Eugenia Mantelli is a famous name today only to record collectors. Her ultra-rare Zonophones of approximately 1905, besides commanding dizzying prices when original copies change hands, set what long seemed to be an unreach

54 - Rossini mezzo
Eugenia Mantelli

May 11, 2020 May 11, 2020/ Guest User

The Good Mr. Widdop If I had to rely on one example to illustrate the beauty of J.S. Bach’s sacred vocal music, this week’s record would be it. First, there is the oboe solo of Léon Goossens (1897-1988), who makes out of the ten-bar prel

53 - The Good Mr. Widdop
Walter Widdop

May 04, 2020 May 04, 2020/ Guest User

Il vascello fantasma For this week, a pair of curiosities that I was moved to revisit by Conrad L. Osborne’s recent blog posts on Der fliegende Holländer. For those who don’t know Osborne: he was the single best active critic in the fi

52 - Il vascello fantasma
Alberto Caffo, Emilia Corsi

April 30, 2020 April 30, 2020/ Guest User

Like a Rock Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi, despite both her surnames, was French, born and raised in Paris, but her initial training was Italian. It came from her father, a tenor named Enzo Ciampi-Cellai. The “Ritter” is a pseudonym adopted by

51 - Like a Rock
Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi

April 21, 2020 April 21, 2020/ Guest User

Relaunch and Updates Welcome back to our readers, and to the updated Record of the Week series!  The new features: In response to many requests, the past entries are now numbered for easy reference, and the name of the principal

50 - Relaunch and Updates
Edward Lloyd

October 22, 2019 October 22, 2019/ Guest User

Dúo

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49 - Dúo
Alfonso Ortiz Tirado and Pedro Vargas

October 14, 2019 October 14, 2019/ Guest User

Truth Meets Fiction I don’t really recommend reading George Du Maurier’s Trilby - the writing is florid and self-indulgent; the passages about music are sufficiently well-informed to convince an untrained reader but not to avoid irrita

48 - Truth Meets Fiction
Sigrid Onegin

October 06, 2019 October 06, 2019/ Guest User

The Composer’s Voice How does a composer learn to write well for the human voice? The simplest way is by singing, and opera lovers might be surprised to learn how many composers could. I don’t mean professionally - by the time the great

47 - The Composer’s Voice
Samuel Barber and Reynaldo Hahn

September 30, 2019 September 30, 2019/ Guest User

46 - Brillante
Antonio Pini-Corsi

September 23, 2019 September 23, 2019/ Guest User

45 - A Bass for the B-Team
Guido Cacialli

September 16, 2019 September 16, 2019/ Guest User

Yankee Diva Lillian Nordica (born Norton, in Farmington, Maine, 1857) was a superstar, and by all rights we should have a long and satisfying series of records to show why. But instead of joining the crowd at Victor (where just such a se

44 - Yankee Diva
Lillian Nordica

June 18, 2019 June 18, 2019/ Guest User

La Bori

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43 -La Bori
Lucrezia Bori

June 11, 2019 June 11, 2019/ Guest User

Staying Power

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42 - Staying Power
John Forsell

June 04, 2019 June 04, 2019/ Guest User

41 - Strong Light
Tito Schipa