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VARIOUS - LES INTROUVABLES DU CHANT - EMI / Pathe (France) ORIGINAL EIGHT MONO RECORD BOX-SET    2910753

Extensive Collection of Verdi Arias from the turn of the century to mid century.  This collection, whose French title might be translated "Verdi Vocal Rarities," is a unique contribution to the Verdi centennial year. Its 136 selections on eight LPs offer an in-depth survey of singers who recorded notable Verdi performances during the era of 78-rpm recording. Coincidentally, this period covers, within a few years, the half- century after the composer's death, in 1901. Some of the singers in the earliest cuts--tenor Francesco Tamagno and bass Victor Maurel, for example--had known Verdi and sung for him. Many of the singers will be familiar to connoisseurs of Verdi discography--Enrico Caruso, Boris Christoff, Fedora Barbieri, Ezio Pinza, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Tito Gobbi, Beniamino Gigli, and Jussi Bjoerling, to name a few. Others, such as Frieda Hempel, Emmy Destinn, Martha Modl, Joseph Schwarz, Gino Cigna, and Mattia Battistini, are names you come across in books about opera, but you have heard their voices only if you spend a lot of time with historic recordings. And a lot of performances, including some of the best, are likely to be the work of singers encountered for the first time.

    * Pasquale Amato (Baritone)
    * Ivar Andrésen (Bass)
    * Giannina Arangi-Lombardi (Soprano)
    * Margarethe Arndt-Ober (Mezzo Soprano)
    * Lola Artôt de Padilla (Soprano)
    * Florence Austral (Soprano)
    * Fedora Barbieri (Mezzo Soprano)
    * Mattia Battistini (Baritone)
    * Gino Bechi (Baritone)
    * Jussi Björling (Tenor)
    * Elsa Bland (Soprano)
    * Celestina Boninsegna (Soprano)
    * Dino Borgioli (Tenor)
    * Olimpia Boronat (Soprano)
    * John Brownlee (Baritone)
    * Clara Butt (Alto)
    * Margherita Carosio (Soprano)
    * Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
    * Maria Cebotari (Soprano)
    * Boris Christoff (Bass)
    * Gina Cigna (Soprano)
    * Luigi Colazza (Tenor)
    * Emilia Corsi (Soprano)
    * Salvatore Cottone (Piano)
    * Harold Craxton (Piano)
    * Charles Dalmorès (Tenor)
    * Nazzareno de Angelis (Bass)
    * Inez De Frate (Soprano)
    * Giuseppe de Luca (Baritone)
    * Fernando de Lucia (Tenor)
    * Emmy Destinn (Soprano)
    * Giuseppe Di Stefano (Tenor)
    * Claire Dux (Soprano)
    * Cloe Elmo (Mezzo Soprano)
    * Léonce Escalais (Soprano)
    * Tino Folgar (Tenor)
    * Benvenuto Franci (Baritone)
    * Ernest Frank (Bass)
    * Paul Franz (Tenor)
    * Carlo Galeffi (Baritone)
    * Amelita Galli-Curci (Soprano)
    * Maria Galvany (Soprano)
    * Dusolina Giannini (Soprano)
    * Beniamino Gigli (Tenor)
    * Tito Gobbi (Baritone)
    * Vito Gobbi (Baritone)
    * Frieda Hempel (Soprano)
    * Louise Homer (Alto)
    * Maria Ivogün (Soprano)
    * Herbert Janssen (Baritone)
    * Sabine Kalter (Alto)
    * Giuseppe Kaschmann (Baritone)
    * Alexander Kipnis (Bass)
    * Margarete Klose (Mezzo Soprano)
    * Heinrich Knote (Tenor)
    * Marie Kousnietzoff (Soprano)
    * Salomea Kruszelnicka (Soprano)
    * Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (Tenor)
    * Lilli Lehmann (Soprano)
    * Frieda Leider (Soprano)
    * Lydia Lipkowska (Soprano)
    * Félia Litvinne (Soprano)
    * Martha Mödl (Soprano)
    * Giovanni Martinelli (Tenor)
    * Margaret Matzenauer (Mezzo Soprano)
    * Umberto Mazetti (Piano)
    * Ester Mazzoleni (Soprano)
    * Nellie Melba (Soprano)
    * Francesco Merli (Tenor)
    * Zinka Milanov (Soprano)
    * Claudia Muzio (Soprano)
    * Francesco Navarini (Bass)
    * Antonina Neshdanova (Soprano)
    * Eidé Noréna (Soprano)
    * Giuseppe Pacini (Baritone)
    * Rolando Panerai (Baritone)
    * Graziella Pareto (Soprano)
    * Paul Payen (Bass)
    * Alfred Piccaver (Tenor)
    * Ezio Pinza (Bass)
    * Pol Plançon (Bass)
    * Rosa Ponselle (Soprano)
    * Rosa Raisa (Soprano)
    * Elisabeth Rethberg (Soprano)
    * Helge Rosvaenge (Tenor)
    * Titta Ruffo (Baritone)
    * Giannina Russ (Soprano)
    * Lotte Schöne (Soprano)
    * Heinrich Schlusnus (Baritone)
    * Joseph Schwarz (Baritone)
    * Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano)
    * Antonio Scotti (Baritone)
    * Sophie Sedlmair (Soprano)
    * Meta Seinemeyer (Soprano)
    * Aristodemo Sillich (Bass)
    * Leo Slezak (Tenor)
    * Ebe Stignani (Mezzo Soprano)
    * Hertha Stolzenberg (Soprano)
    * Riccardo Stracciari (Bass)
    * Björn Talén (Tenor)
    * Francesco Tamagno (Tenor)
    * Richard Tauber (Tenor)
    * Vera Terry (Soprano)
    * Luisa Tetrazzini (Soprano)
    * Dame Turner (Soprano)
    * César Vezzani (Tenor)
    * Miguel Villabella (Tenor)
    * Natalia Yushina (Soprano)

CONDUCTORS:

    * Renato Arduini
    * John Barbirolli
    * Thomas Beecham
    * Umberto Berrettoni
    * Carl Besl
    * Henri Défosse
    * Alberto Erede
    * Anatole Fistoulari
    * Alceo Galliera
    * Nils Grevillius
    * Herbert Karajan
    * Hans Löwlein
    * Georges Lauweryns
    * Lorenzo Molajoli
    * Erich Orthmann
    * Franco Patanè
    * Percy Pitt
    * Julius Prüwer
    * Argeo Quadri
    * Walter Rogers
    * Carlo Sabajno
    * Gabriele Santini
    * Wilhelm Schüchter
    * Franz Schmidt
    * Bruno Seidler-Winkler
    * Tullio Serafin
    * Giulio Setti
    * Hanns Steinkopf
    * Walter Susskind
    * Edoardo Vitale
    * Ignatz Waghalter
    * Frieder Weissmann
    * Fritz Zweig

ENSEMBLES:

    * Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra
    * Berlin State Opera Orchestra
    * Chorus
    * London Symphony Orchestra
    * Metropolitan Opera Chorus
    * Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
    * Milan Symphony Orchestra
    * Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus
    * Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
    * Odeon Grand Orchestre
    * Orchestra
    * Philharmonia Orchestra
    * RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra
    * Rome Opera House Chorus
    * Rome Opera House Orchestra
    * Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra
    * Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

THE VINYL IS IN NEAR MINT CONDITION - FOR ALL EIGHT RECORDS 

THE OUTER BOX IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - lightest edge wear - PLEASE SEE ALL PHOTOS

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