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Onkel Greifenklau
United States
Registrace 4. 06. 2011
This channel is named after the Marschallin's uncle, who is mentioned toward the end of act one of Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier." It features recordings from the earliest days of the recording industry, as well as demonstrations of talking machines of the 1895-1929 period. I try to include recordings of less well known performers and recordings that are not readily found elsewhere. Although my collection cuts off in 1929, I have included a few interesting recordings from slightly later than that date. Many popular vocal recordings from this period contain language and portrayals that reflect racial and ethnic attitudes that were prevalent at that time; I include them here as historical documents and in no way condone or encourage these attitudes. Many of the records are in less than mint condition, so sound quality varies, and I do only a minimum of audio cleanup. None of my records are for sale.
Quant au douanier (Landouzy, Talexis, Lauger-Dubois, Billot, and Régis)
Lise Landouzy, Amélie Talexis, Tina Lauger-Dubois, Etienne Billet, and Georges Régis sing "Quant au douanier" from "Carmen" on Odeon 56149, recorded in 1907.
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Crucifix (Amélie Talexis)
zhlédnutí 30Před 9 hodinami
Amélie Talexis sings Jean-Baptiste Faure's "Crucifix" on Fonotipia 39348, recorded 6 October 1905.
Voi lo sapete, o mamma (Amélie Talexis) [Fonotipia 39349]
zhlédnutí 28Před 9 hodinami
Amélie Talexis sings "Voi lo sapete, o mamma" from "Cavalleria rusticana" (in French) on Fonotipia 39349, recorded 6 October 1905. This was the first of three recordings Talexis made of this aria (the other two are in Italian). Fonotipia 92106 can be heard here: czcams.com/video/xGOqRAY6cE0/video.html
Akh, istomilas', ustala ya (Amélie Talexis)
zhlédnutí 55Před 12 hodinami
Amélie Talexis sings "Akh, istomilas', ustala ya" from "Pikovaya dama" (in Italian) on Fonotipia 39309, recorded 28 September 1905.
Suicidio (Amélie Talexis)
zhlédnutí 33Před 12 hodinami
Amélie Talexis sings "Suicidio" from "La Gioconda" on Fonotipia 39315, recorded 12 October 1905.
Questa o quella (Romeo Berti)
zhlédnutí 34Před 12 hodinami
Romeo Berti sings "Questa o quella" from "Rigoletto" on Si-La-Fa R.1034 (from Columbia 10537), recorded in 1906.
Ebben, ne andrò lontana (Amélie Talexis)
zhlédnutí 44Před 12 hodinami
Amélie Talexis sings "Ebben, ne andrò lontana" from "La Wally" on Fonotipia 92405, recorded 12 October 1908.
E lucevan le stelle (Romeo Berti)
zhlédnutí 25Před 12 hodinami
Romeo Berti sings "E lucevan le stelle" from "Tosca" on Columbia 10525, recorded in 1906.
Ave Maria [Verdi] (Amélie Talexis)
zhlédnutí 32Před 12 hodinami
Amélie Talexis sings "Ave Maria" from "Otello" on Fonotipia 92404, recorded 3 October 1908.
Ella mi fu rapita . . . Parmi veder le lagrime (Romeo Berti)
zhlédnutí 22Před 12 hodinami
Romeo Berti sings "Ella mi fu rapita . . . Parmi veder le lagrime" from "Rigoletto" on Columbia 10540, recorded in 1906.
Moi seule il m'aime (Landouzy, Talexis, Lauger-Dubois, Dubois, Rigaux, Billot, and Régis)
zhlédnutí 29Před 12 hodinami
Lise Landouzy, Amélie Talexis, Tina Lauger-Dubois, Gaston Dubois, Lucien Rigaux, Etienne Billot, and Georges Régis sing "Moi seule il m'aime, et je doutais" from "L'Africaine" on Odeon 56132/56148, recorded in 1907.
Fra poco a me ricovero . . . Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali (Romeo Berti)
zhlédnutí 29Před 12 hodinami
Romeo Berti sings "Fra poco a me ricovero . . . Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali" from "Lucia di Lammermoor" on Columbia 10533, recorded in 1906.
Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa (Amélie Talexis)
zhlédnutí 43Před 12 hodinami
Amélie Talexis sings "Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa" from "Un ballo in maschera" on Fonotipia 92402/92403, recorded 3 October 1908.
Pays merveilleux . . . O paradis (Luigi Colazza)
zhlédnutí 63Před 14 dny
Luigi Colazza sings "Pays merveilleux . . . O paradis" from "L'Africaine" (in Italian) on Columbia 10416, recorded c. 1904.
O tu che in seno agli angeli (Alfredo Rigotti)
zhlédnutí 47Před 14 dny
Alfredo Rigotti sings "O tu che in seno agli angeli" from "La forza del destino" on Columbia 10670, recorded in 1907.
Pescator, affonda lesca (Vincenzo Reschiglian)
zhlédnutí 33Před 14 dny
Pescator, affonda lesca (Vincenzo Reschiglian)
Suicidio (Margarete Matzenauer) [with Explanatory Talk]
zhlédnutí 46Před 14 dny
Suicidio (Margarete Matzenauer) [with Explanatory Talk]
Donna non vidi mai (Oreste Mieli) [Columbia]
zhlédnutí 37Před 14 dny
Donna non vidi mai (Oreste Mieli) [Columbia]
Recitar . . . Vesti la giubba (Pietro Venerandi)
zhlédnutí 26Před 14 dny
Recitar . . . Vesti la giubba (Pietro Venerandi)
Ne bronchez pas, soyez gentille (Filippo Aldobrandi)
zhlédnutí 30Před 14 dny
Ne bronchez pas, soyez gentille (Filippo Aldobrandi)
Ich bin ein vielgereister Mann (Robert Radford)
zhlédnutí 46Před 14 dny
Ich bin ein vielgereister Mann (Robert Radford)
Un bacio rendimi (Elvira Tetrazzini and Luigi Baldassarri)
zhlédnutí 50Před 14 dny
Un bacio rendimi (Elvira Tetrazzini and Luigi Baldassarri)
Per la conca d'argento (Nicolò Fossetta)
zhlédnutí 33Před 14 dny
Per la conca d'argento (Nicolò Fossetta)
Only real ones know what it sounds like in reverse
Very impressive singer!
Very enjoyable.
A wonderful baritone!
Such a rare record... I'd love a copy of that. Never seen it for sale
Great singer. A pity she died so young in a freak accident.
In very loving memory of Mrs. Arah "Baby" Moore-Fowler (1900 - 1965 R.I.P. Gone but NOT forgotten).
Thank you for unearthing this lovely recording !
You're very welcome.
When you are a guy known for an edgy halloween hack of earthbound nd a friend just asked you to record a track for their webcomic's first year:
MIBU with derpy face
Divino ❤
It's unfortunate they didn't clean up the hissing. Her voice is gorgeous and pure. Love it!
This is a wonderful recording, and you are a hero for posting it: but there is something very wrong about that information and those dates: that is no 14-y/o.
Most sources I have found give his birthdate as 1889, which would make him 14 when he made his three records. Teatro Nuovo says: “Umberto Pini-Corsi, the tenor son of the baritone named above, is our youngest. He was born in Bologna on Dec. 25 1889, started out as a boy soprano in performances with his parents, and made his only recordings in 1904 (exact date unknown but likely before Christmas). The poor lad died of tuberculosis at just 21, after only a handful of concert and operatic appearances. It would have been fascinating to hear the mature work of a teenager who could sing 'Ecco ridente in cielo' like this.” historicaltenors.net gives this information: “Son of bass-baritone Antonio Pini-Corsi and his wife, mezzosoprano Clorinda Nistri. He studied both voice and composition, made three recordings in 1904, at age 14, and sang with his father in 1901 in a concert. He also composed one opera, and died of tuberculosis at age 21.”
That's not the song Castles in Europe
The song is also called "Castle House Rag.'
Does anybody have any biographical information on Charles P. Lowe?
Matzenauer was one of the greatest!
Very Accomplished!
recorded early in 1912
recorded early in 1912
if you reverse it, its the song from daisy leaves
I have this disc and have always thought the coupling to be very strange.
Yes. I can't understand why they would wait so long to issue these recordings and then put both of them on the same disc. Very strange indeed!
Thanks for the interesting (and as usual with Edison, somewhat bizarre) relrease history and choices. Good recordings.
You're welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed them.
Another thumbs-up for this charismatic tenor… 🌹🌹🌹 I‘m glad I was allowed to discover him! 👍 Thank you for sharing his impressive recordings! 🙏🍀
Another extremely rewarding performance by Arthur Cavara… commanding… radiant… with a nice amount of vocal magnetism… 🌹⭐️🌹 Thanks for sharing! 🙏🍀
An impressive and attractive voice in combination with a very convincing interpretational talent… 🌹⭐️🌹 Can we please bring him back to today‘s opera stages…? Thank you for sharing Mr. Cavara‘s exciting and inspiring recordings! 🙏🍀
How strange that on the record Gounod is mentioned as the composer… I wonder how such a mistake can happen… But Puccini‘s beautiful, soulful music still sounds beautiful and soulful, and that‘s the most important part! ✨✨✨ Thank you for sharing this noteworthy (shortened) recording and performance! 🙏🍀
That is not the only time a company has gotten the composer's name wrong. Record labels are notoriously unreliable!
@@Onkel_Greifenklau Oh, I didn‘t know that! I only realized that the titles of songs and arias are often spelled wrong on CDs, especially when they aren‘t in English. Only the best labels aren‘t prone to these spelling mistakes…
Port by the sea anyone?
Hello, I wonder how do you transfer electrically cylinder records ?
I use one of Don Wilson's electronic cylinder machines.
@@Onkel_Greifenklau Thanks, I have 4 cylinders. I cannot afford this machine (1700$)
Did Robert Blass make the introduction? It sounds like his voice… I love this aria with its beautifully devilish essence! Love to listen to it performed by various singers… 🌟 Thanks for sharing! 🙏🍀
It does sound like Blass doing the announcement.
@@Onkel_Greifenklau 👍😊
A very enjoyable, story-telling song 🍷🍷🍷 that used to be quite popular in Germany with audiences and singers alike… Especially the deeper voices seem to have had a special affinity to it… 🌹🌹🌹 Thank you for the rewarding and notable upload! 🙏🍀
What a voice. Have you found any information on her life & career?
She is quite a fascinating singer. There is some information about her on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fausta_Labia I have posted two other recordings by her on this channel: czcams.com/video/SY1_JNr8wD4/video.htmlsi=5SRyn1XVx4PF-1si czcams.com/video/eT4FD4QBIkQ/video.htmlsi=M7B8yIIVhg1Dibwl and I have also posted a couple of recordings by her younger sister, Maria Labia.
Certainly a good voice and a competent singer… 🌹🌹🌹 I‘m trying to listen through the background (or surface) noise… Getting a little better now! 👍 Thank you for introducing Mario Gilion! 🙏🍀 He‘s worth it… 🌞
He is a relatively obscure and, for me, underrated singer. I find him quite exciting. It seems he did not have a major stage career, but he made many recordings for Fonotipia. There is quite a bit of information about him included with a posting from the Dead Tenors Society: Frustratingly little is known of the life of dramatic tenor Mario Gilion (1870-1914), whose brief career took him to major theaters on both sides of the Atlantic. Born Marius Gillion in Marseilles, his early life is clouded in mystery. Nothing is known of his training, but it is believed that he began his career as a baritone during the 1890s. Gilion’s debut as a tenor came about in 1901 in Monza as Vasco da Gama in L’Africaine, after which he spent a few years singing in the provincial theaters of Italy, Spain and Eastern Europe. Of his May 1904 appearances in Bucharest (in Tosca, La Bohème and Il Trovatore), a critic for Le Courrier Musical wrote that, “…a great tenor of great stature, Mario Gilione, his real name, Marius Gillion, originally from Marseilles, was discovered. Beautifully ringing and even voice, a fine physique, intelligent acting, this singer brings together all the qualities that make the great tenors and I do not think I'm wrong in predicting a very bright career.” The critic for Le Courrier Musical proved correct, for Gilion enjoyed a very fine career in both provincial houses and major theaters, including the Teatro Principale in Modena, Rome’s Teatro Costanzi, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Venice’s La Fenice, Trento’s Teatro Massimo, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Teatro Politeama in Buenos Aires, as well as theaters in Genoa, Turin, Barcelona, Budapest, Odessa and Warsaw. His repertoire of more than 20 roles included Radames in Aïda, Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Walter in Loreley, Eléazar in La Juive, the title roles in Otello, L’Amico Fritz, Guglielmo Ratcliff, Samson et Dalila, Tannhäuser, and his three “calling card” roles, Manrico in Il Trovatore, Raoul in Les Huguenots and Arnold in Guillaume Tell. Gilion made a rather late debut at the Opéra de Paris on New Year’s Eve, 1910. The role was Arnold which, one assumes, he sang in French. The tenor also sang Radames that same season, but never returned to the Opéra. His final performance seems to have been as Manrico at Barcelona’s Teatro Liceo in May of 1912. Gilion returned to the city of his birth, Marseilles, where he died on November 24, 1914 at the early age of 44. Attempting to examine the life and career of Mario Gilion raises more questions than it answers. Stories abound regarding his origins. Was he born in France or was he really Italian? His diction was frequently praised by Italian critics, who marveled at such impeccable Italian pronunciation from a singer who claimed to be French. This very attribute has led to the notion that Gilion was actually Italian born. There is no doubt that the bulk of Gilion’s career was spent in Italian theaters and that nearly all of his recordings were sung in Italian. However, the occasional hint of a southern French twang…as well as frequent references by critics to his French background…betray the tenor’s true origins. As to where Gilion received his vocal training, some have suggested Italy, others France. In reality, no one seems to have the vaguest idea of where this artist was educated. Based on the vocal production we hear on his records, the technique seems to be decidedly of the 19th century French school, in the tradition of Escalaïs, Scaramberg and Affre. Another question that arises is why Gilion left the stage at the age of 42? One might suspect an illness of some sort, since the tenor passed away at such a young age. Even the circumstances of his death are a matter of conjecture. One rumor has it that he “died in uniform”, that is, on the battlefield. This is hardly likely since at 44, Gilion would have been a bit too old for military service. Besides that, he died in Marseilles…not the site of any major WWI skirmishes. The answers to these and other riddles regarding Gilion are probably lost to the ages. Mario Gilion possessed a remarkable instrument of tremendous power and range and seemed to have almost inexhaustible vocal resources. According to a critic for Lo Spettatore, during a January 1906 Il Trovatore in Rome, the tenor sang “Di quella pira” (complete with the da capo), then encored the entire cabaletta, for a total of ten high Cs. Gilion’s brilliant high notes made for some very exciting, full throated singing and yet he was also capable of very sensitive phrasing. All in all, Mario Gilion was a force to be reckoned with during his all too brief career and worthy of the reputation he continues to enjoy more than a century after his death. The entire recorded legacy of Mario Gilion is comprised of nearly 60 discs made for the Fonotipia label between 1906 and 1910. Most of the repertoire consists of operatic arias and duets, almost exclusively sung in Italian. In this recording, Gilion sings "Ah, sì ben mio" from Verdi's Il Trovatore. This was recorded in Milan on May 11, 1906.
@@Onkel_Greifenklau Thank you so much for sharing all this information! I hope that a lot of listeners will discover Mario Gilion AND read this educational text. He deserves to be brought back from oblivion; that was my first impression and I find proof for my opinion in this text. I‘ll now do some browsing on his behalf, hoping to find another recording or two. And I suppose I‘m going to find them not only on „Dead Tenors’ Society“, but also on your excellent channel! Thank you once more for your wonderful work and great dedication! 🙏🙏🙏 All the best! 🍀🍀🍀
@@hrbooksmusic7878 I have uploaded many of his records on my channel--around 23 of them, including some duets.
@@Onkel_Greifenklau I discovered several of them and put them on my playlist! Already listened to two more of them… 🌟
@@hrbooksmusic7878 Please let me know what you think of them.
What a wonderful introduction to this soprano these uploads have been. Many thanks! 😊
1913
1913
Thank you for this very interesting recording.
Thank you for this enjoyable recording ... yet another early 20th century singer I had never heard of !
This disc is widely considered to be one of his best. He made dozens (hundreds?) of recordings, some memorable and some indifferent.
It is a beautiful aria, too, from an unjustly overlooked opera. I was fortunate to see it live on two occasions.
Impressive
As you're probably aware, Krauss sang much better on his later recordings.
I don't know his voice all that well, although I do have a large number of his records, several of which I have posted on this channel. I will have to do a detailed comparison when I get a chance. Most of the records I have by him are relatively early, but I do have some later Gramophones and a couple of Polydors from as late as 1920.
@@Onkel_Greifenklau His singing definitely improved with age. I believe he recorded some sides with Berth Morena, a wonderful Wagner soprano?
Thank you for posting these wonderful recordings of this fine French baritone Jean Noté.
You're very welcome.
A magnificent voice !
The man who, 4 years later, created the role of Jake Wallace in "La Fanciulla del West" for Puccini, singing the gorgeous "Che faranno i vecchi miei la lontano" at the old Metropolitan Opera house.
Anyone come from france eas 1940
Thank you for sharing: 1909. 💎
You're welcome.
Excellent singer. Trivia: she acted opposite Enrico Caruso in his 1918 silent movie, my cousin, and was one of the first women to sing Minnie in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West after the Met premiere.
I recently watched "My Cousin," and it was very interesting to see Carolina White.
Excellent contralto and one of my favorites! I first heard her sing when I was a little kid of about seven or eight when my dad bought an LP titled Unforgettable Voices in Unforgotten Performances from the French Operative Repertoire! Her selection was a true obscurity and oddity, Masse's "Chanson du Tigre" from Paul et Virginie, and hers is the only recording of it I have ever heard or seen anywhere. I thought even then she clearly had an astonishing voice. Years later, I bought a superb Complete Recordings of Jeanne Gerville-Reache on a Pearl CD. So happy to see you post some of the original pressings of her work--and it is a shame she died so tragically and so young.
Excellent contralto and one of my favorites! I first heard her sing when I was a little kid of about seven or eight when my dad bought an LP titled Unforgettable Voices in Unforgotten Performances from the French Operative Repertoire!
Excellent sound quality for 1915, particularly a Columbia of that era.
I have not ever heard of her, and she is excellent! I looked her up and read about her and was impressed with her career in the US and her famous (perhaps infamous?) jewelry collection which sounds amazing.