1904 Nellie "MELBA" Mauve RECORD LUCIA di LAMMERMOOR MAD SCENE Gaubert Flute
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I am currently selling a series of great Richard Wagner and classic European 78 rpm orchestral recordings on all the great European labels:
Superb MAUVE Melba Record
Nellie MELBA in her first recordings at her home at Cumberland Place
Nellie Melba 1904 Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor (Mad Scene) "Del ciel clemente un riso"
Nellie Melba's first original recordings London March 1904.
Dame Nellie Melba.
Melba, the last of the 19th century tradition of bel canto sopranos.
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
"Del ciel clemente un riso" (Mad Scene)
Lucia di Lammermoor
London March 1904
Words by Salvadore Cammarano (1801-1852)
after Sir Walter Scott.
Nellie Melba (vocalist : soprano vocal)
Frederick William Gaisberg (recordist)
Phillipe Gaubert (instrumentalist : flute)
Landon Ronald (instrumentalist : piano)
3/27/1904 London, England. Great Cumberland Place
Mauve Label Melba record w gold signature12" 78 rpm record..
Condition: VERY GOOD PLUS PLUS, plays very quiet light distortion on top notes
One of Melba’s closest friends was the elegant and wealthy Parisian composer Herman Bemberg (1859-1931). His opera Elaine was given through her influence both at Covent Garden (1892) and at the Metropolitan Opera (1894/5), Melba in the name part. She regularly sang his delightful songs (often accompanied by the composer) – and enjoyed his clowning and practical jokes. At an evening party in London, Melba was singing Nymphes et Sylvains with Bemberg at the piano when, just before the final cadenza, he accidentally modulated into the wrong key. Without turning a hair, Melba followed him, improvised a few bars leading back, and they finished together, no one having noticed. “Herman, you fool…are you drunk?” she enquired. “Her personal touches abound,” wrote PG Hurst of this recording, “and no other singer I can recall could express with her voice such lightness and gaiety.” Later, she recorded Bemberg’s Chant Vénitien, Les anges pleurent, Chant Hindou, Sur le lac and an aria from Elaine.
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