The Record of Singing (EMI) 1979 Record 9 Volume 2 1914 -1925

1 John O'Sullivan 1878-1948 –
Otello - (a) Ensultate Act 1. (b) Ora E Per Sempre Addio (Act 2). Recording Date Unknown, In Italian.
Composed By – Verdi

2 Frank Mullings 1881-1953 & Miriam Licette 1892-1969 –
Otello (Act 1) - Stilled By The Gathering Darkness (Love Duet). Recorded February, 1924, In English
Composed By – Verdi

3 John Coates 1865-1941–
Come Into The Garden, Maud. Recorded December, 1912, In English.
Composed By – Balfe

4 Gervase Elwes 1866-1921–
Morning Hymn. Recorded March, 1912, In English.
Composed By – Henschel

5 Walter Hyde 1875-1951 –
The Pilgrim Of Love. Recording Date Unknown, In English.
Composed By – Bishop

6 Paul Reimers 1877-1942–
Songs My Mother Taught Me. Recorded 1907, In English.
Composed By – Dvorak

7 John McCormack 1884-1945 –
Mignon (Act 3) - In Her Simplicity (Elle Ne Croyait Pas). Recorded September, 1908, In English
Composed By – Thomas

8 John McCormack –
Before My Window. Recorded 1925, In English
Composed By – Rachmaninov

9 Reinald Werrenrath 1883-1953 –
O Cessate Di Piagarmi. Recorded 1915, In Italian
Written-By – Scarlatti

10 Peter Dawson 1882-1961 –
I Am A Friar Of Orders Grey. Recorded c.1909, In English
Written-By – Reeve

11 Peter Dawson & Robert Radford 1874-1933 – Israel In Egypt - The Lord Is A Man Of War. Recorded January, 1925, In English.
Composed By – Handel

12 Horace Stevens 1876-1954–
La Prigione d'Edimburgo - Sulla Poppa. Recorded 1925, In Italian
Composed By – Ricci

13 Malcolm McEachern 1883-1945 –
Maritana - Hear Me Gentle Maritana ... The Mariner And His Barque. Recording Date Unknown, In English.
Composed By – William Vincent Wallace

THE GERMAN STYLE IN EVOLUTION

14 Eva Von Der Osten 1881-1936 –
Lohengrin (Act 1) - Einsam In Trüben Tagen. Recorded 1911, In German.
Composed By – Wagner

15 Luise Perard-Petzl 1884-1936–
Die Zauberflöte (Act 2) - Ach Ich Fühls. Recorded 1919, In German.
Composed By – Mozart

16 Zinaida Jurjevskaya 1896-1925 –
Jenufa (Act 2) - Mutter Ich Hab Den Kopf Schwer. Recorded October, 1921, In German.

Composed By – Janáček

The Record of Singing is a compilation of classical-music singing from the first half of the 20th century, the era of the 78-rpm record.
It was issued on LP (with accompanying books) by EMI, successor to the British company His Master's Voice (better known as HMV) — perhaps the leading organization in the early history of audio recording.
The project was accompanied initially by two illustrated books, containing singers' biographies and appraisals, which were published in London, by Duckworth, in the late 1970s. It covers the period running from circa 1900, when the earliest recordings were made, through until the early 1950s, when the last 78-rpm records were produced. Singers are divided into groups arranged according to national 'schools' and fach or voice type. In practice, this means that there are separate Italian, German, French, Anglo-American and East European classifications.

Origins

The original idea for the series came from the collector Vivian Liff, who chose the recordings used in the first two volumes, almost all of which came from the Stuart-Liff Collection, as well as the photographs of the singers which were published in the books that accompanied volumes 1 and 2 of the project. Michael Scott was asked to write these two books. They contained brief singers' biographies, too and featured a critical (sometimes controversial) commentary about their accomplishments, are gleaned from certain discs they had made. Bryan Crimp of EMI was responsible for the transfers of the original recorded material to LP. Keith Hardwick, however, was responsible for the transfers, etc., on the final two volumes of the survey (which were not accompanied by books).
Publication on LPs
EMI first released the collection on vinyl LP (long-playing) records.
Volume 1 first appeared in 1977, with a second edition in 1982 including corrections to the pitch of many of the recordings. The supplement also appeared around 1982. Volume 2 was published in 1979. Volume 3 and Volume 4 were released around 1984 and 1989 respectively.
The complete set was on 47 discs. Volumes 1, 2 and 3 each occupied 13, with Volume 4 having 8 discs. The original intention was apparently to produce 12 LPs per volume; but the selection of singers included in Volume 1 proved controversial, and an extra record (entitled a 'Supplement') was added to partly correct oversights. Volumes 2 and 3 were then assigned 13 records each.
Compact disc.

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