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Genre/Form: | sound recordings Sound recordings History Enregistrements sonores |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Steane, J.B. Grand tradition. New York, C. Scribner's Sons [1974] (OCoLC)610470228 |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
J B Steane |
ISBN: | 0684136341 9780684136349 |
OCLC Number: | 996289 |
Description: | xii, 628 pages illustrations 25 cm |
Contents: | 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 Battistini ; Pol Plançon -- 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 ; Giuseppe de Luca -- Coloratura: the soprano as virtuoso. Marcella Sembrich ; Luisa Tetrazzini ; 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 Neshdanova ; Dmitri Smirnoff ; Feodor Chaliapin ; Leff Sibiriakof -- France : years of plenty. Emma Calvé ; Edmond Clément ; Léon Escalaïs ; Maurice Renaud ; 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 2 : Decline and survival : the electrical 78, 1925-1950 -- Decline : new talents and lost discipline. Lily Pons ; Aureliano Pertile -- Italy : a handful of exceptions. Toti dal Monte ; Hina Spani ; Tito Schipa ; Beniamino 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 Ivogün ; Meta Seinemeyer ; Sigrid Onegin ; Richard Tauber ; Heinrich Schlusnus -- Lieder : more than singing. Elisabeth Schumann ; Lotte Lehmann ; Elena Gerhardt ; Karl Erb ; Herbert Janssen ; Gerhard Hüsch ; 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 3 : Renaissance : the long-playing 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 Giiden ; Ljuba Welitsch ; Sena Jurinac -- Opera at home : five great singers. Maria Callas ; Victoria de los Angeles ; Jussi Björling ; 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. Régine 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 ; Gérard Souzay -- Ancient and modern : the singer as musician -- 1971 : present and prospective. Montserrat Caballé ; Gundula Janowitz ; Placido Domingo ; Sherrill Milnes ; Nicolai Ghiaurov -- Conclusion : the grand tradition -- Appendix : Essays in comparison. From Patti to Callas ; From Gerhardt to Fischer-Dieskau. |
Responsibility: | [by] J.B. Steane. |
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