The Golden Age of Singing: Vol. 3 1920-1930

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Music reviews of The Golden Age of Singing: Vol. 3 1920-1930

Music Review: Great Voices of the 1920s in Opera and Operetta.
Rating: 5 Stars

Whatever criteria you use to assess anthologies of great singers, you will probably be well satisfied with this splendid issue. If you collect the works of particular singers, you will find not only representative but also rare items. I count the Pinza item as both. It shows him at his best, and has hitherto not found its ways into my CD collection. Occasionally items are not sung in their original language. Frida Leider's "Don Giovanni" aria sung in German in 1922 is preferred to her 1927 remake sung in Italian. Hina Spani sings Elsa's Dream in Italian. Some singers are recorded at the very end of their careers. Scottish soprano Mary Garden, Debussy's first Melisande, is heard in 1927 at her last recording session. Representing a miracle of good singing and longevity is Lucien Fug?re recording a Gluck aria in 1928 at the age of 80. Tauber is heard near the beginning of his career in 1923. Youngest of all is the German baritone Gerhard H?sch, aged 27.

I doubt that many who are considering purchase, every heard any of these singers. I happen to have heard two of them, when a very young man - Ninon Vallin and Elisabeth Schumann. To those who collect great voices on record, whether ever heard in performance or not, I restate that these Nimbus anthologies offer recreations of acoustic recordings that are well worth considering.

General CDs

• Styles > Classical
• Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B ) > Bellini, Vincenzo
• Borodin, Alexander
• ( D ) > Donizetti, Gaetano
• ( G ) > Gluck, Christoph W.
• Gounod, Charles
• ( K ) > Korngold, Erich Wolfgang
• ( L ) > Leoncavallo, Ruggiero
• Lortzing, Albert
• ( M ) > Mascagni, Pietro
• Massenet, Jules
• Meyerbeer, Giacomo
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
• ( P ) > Puccini, Giacomo
• ( R ) > Rossini, Gioacchino
• ( V ) > Verdi, Giuseppe
• ( W ) > Wagner, Richard
• Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > Vocal & Song
• General
• Classical (c.1770-1830) > Vocal & Song
• General
• Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > Composers > Korngold, Erich Wolfgang
• Vocal & Song
• General Modern
• Romantic (c.1820-1910) > Vocal & Song
• Opera & Vocal > General
• Arias
• Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750)
• Classical (c.1770-1830)
• Modern & 20th Century
• Romantic (c.1820-1910)
• Languages > French
• German
• Italian
• Russian
• Operettas
• Borodin, Alexander - Works by Borodin
• Donizetti, Gaetano - Works by Donizetti
• Gluck, Christoph W. - Works by Gluck
• Gounod, Charles - Works by Gounod
• Massenet, Jules - Works by Massenet
• Meyerbeer, Giacomo - Works by Meyerbeer
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Puccini, Giacomo - Works by Puccini
• Classical - Historical Periods - Modern, 20th, & 21st Century - Composers - Korngold, Erich Wolfgang - General