Nellie Melba: The Complete Victor Recordings (1907-1916)

Nellie Melba: The Complete Victor Recordings (1907-1916)
Label: Romophone
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 3


UPC: 754238101120
EAN: 0754238101120
ASIN: B000001S3E


Release Date: 1994-01-01

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  1. The Greatest Classical Recordings
  2. Great Divas of the Golden Age

Tracks:

  1. Rigoletto: Caro Name
  2. La Boheme: Si. Mi Chiamano Mimi
  3. La Boheme: O Soave Fanciulla - Nellie Melba/Enrico Caruso
  4. Tosca: Vissi D'arte
  5. Faust: Air Des Bijoux: Ah! Je Ris De Me Voir Si Belle
  6. La Traviata: Ah! Fors' E Lui... Sempre Libera
  7. La Boheme: Donde Lieta Usci Al Tuo Grido D'amore
  8. Good-Bye
  9. La Serenata - Nellie Melba/Ada Sassoli
  10. Per Valli, Per Boschi - Nellie Melba/Charles Gilibert
  11. Un Ange Est Venu - Nellie Melba/Charles Gilibert
  12. Si Mes Vers Avaient Des Ailes - Nellie Melba/Ada Sassoli
  13. Le Nozze Di Figaro: Voi Che Sapete
  14. Hamlet: Mad Scene, Part 1: A Vos Jeux, Mes Amis, Permettez-Moi De Grace
  15. Hamlet: Mad Scene, Part 2: Pale Et Blonde, Dort Sous L'eau Profonde
  16. Se Seran Rose
  17. Lucia De Lammermoor: Mad Scene: Alfin Son Tua - Nellie Melba/Charles K. North
  18. Lo! Here The Gentle Lark - Nellie Melba/Charles K. North
  19. Il Pensieroso: Sweet Bird - Nellie Melba/Charles K. North
  20. Mattinata

Tracks:

  1. En Sourdine
  2. Down In The Forest
  3. The White Sea Mist
  4. D'une Prison
  5. Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
  6. Otello: Willow Song: Piangea Cantando Nell'Erma Landa
  7. Otello: Ave Maria, Piena Di Grazia
  8. La Boheme: Donde Lieta Usci Al Tuo Grido D'amore
  9. O Lovely Night
  10. Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonnie Doon
  11. La Boheme: Mi Chiamano Mimi
  12. La Boheme: Donde Lieta Usci Al Tuo Grido D'amore
  13. La Traviata: Ah! Fors' E Lui...Follie, Follie!...Sempre Libera
  14. Lo! Here The Gentle Lark - Nellie Melba/John Lemmone
  15. Le Nozze Figaro: Voi Che Sapete
  16. Se Saran Rose
  17. Faust: Air Des Bijoux: Ah! Je Ris De Me Voir Si Belle
  18. Il Piensieroso: Sweet Bird - Nellie Melba/John Lemmone
  19. Lucia De Lammermoor: Mad Scene: Ardon Gl'incensi - Nellie Melba/John Lemmone
  20. Don Cesar De Bazan: Sevillana: A Seville, Belles Senoras
  21. Hamlet: Mad Scene: Des Larmes De La Nuit

Tracks:

  1. Le Roi D'ys: Aubade: Puisqu' On Ne Peut Flechir... Vainement, Ma Bien Aimee
  2. Tosca: Vissi D'arte
  3. Otello: Willow Song: Piangea Cantando Nell'Erma Landa
  4. Otello: Ave Maria, Piena Di Grazia
  5. Good-Bye
  6. O Lovely Night
  7. By The Brook-Idyll - Nellie Melba/John Lemmone
  8. Il Re Pastore: L'amero, Saro Costante - Nellie Melba/Jan Kubelik
  9. Ave Maria 'Medtation On J.S. Bach's Prld in C' - Nellie Melba/Jan Kubelik
  10. Magdalen At Michael's Gate
  11. Mandoline
  12. Romance
  13. Louise: Depuis Le Jour
  14. Louise: Depuis Le Jour
  15. Old Folks At Home
  16. John Anderson, My Jo
  17. Comin' Thro' The Rye
  18. Les Anges Pleurent
  19. Chant Venetien
  20. Annie Laurie
  21. Songs My Mother Taught Me
  22. Songs My Mother Taught Me

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Just one omission.......2001-02-02

There is another recording of "Goodbye" by N.Melba on Victor 95012,released in the US in 1905.I wonder why it is not included in this "complete" Romophone release?

5 out of 5 stars Prima Donna Assoluta.......1999-11-29

Just how much Nellie Melba can one take at one sitting? Judging by this set an awful lot and that is no mean achievement given the unflattering recording, and Melba's maddening habit of recording an aria again and again. Melba's singing lacks charm - judging from contemporary reports the lady could boast little of this anyway. But it has an astonishing technique, a limpid and glorious tone, and at times some indefinable but terribly moving quality. A great, great singer - in fact for my money marginally the best on record.

5 out of 5 stars In a class by herself.......1999-11-23

Melba achieves perfection more often than any other singer (with the exception of Pol Plancon). Her phrases, her high notes, her ritardandi are beyond conventional emotion and beauty. There is something almost otherworldly in her best moments. In the grand Puccini arias, she seems at first too cool, too controlled. But you soon notice her supreme artistry as well as the fire, the sheer physical force just beneath the utterly smooth surface. In fact, she is sometimes more explosive, more dramatic, than the great Callas herself. And she gives so much of herself! In the Boheme arias, her generosity is perhaps most apparent. In marveling at one perfect top note after another, one almost does not realize how cohesive she can make the pieces seem, how architectural and intelligent her approach is.

5 out of 5 stars Only One Melba.......1999-02-12

That was certainly Dame Nellie's assessment of herself, and she must have been something. Yes, both Peach Melba and Melba toast are named after her, and yes, she was worshipped. Even such a curmudgeon as Bernard Shaw could appreciate her greatness. Puccini praised the fact that she sang HIS music, not "Melba-Puccini." So why, then, do her recordings not reveal to us the scope of her artistry? Granted, we can marvel at the technical accomplishments (listen, for example, to the "Hamlet" mad scene, or "Sweet Bird") and occasionally catch a phrase that makes us understand what she was about, but she lacks the grandeur and opulence of Ponselle, or the tender vulnerability of Galli-Curci. It may be that Melba was, after all, an artist of the theatre, and that the cramped, primitive conditions of early recording studios simply did not inspire her to her greatest work. However, for devotees of Golden Age voices, this Romophone set is indispensible. The transfers are masterfully done, so that even those allergic to the acoustic sound of early recordings will not be bothered.

Music CD:

  1. Handel - Serse (Xerxes) / Watkinson · Hendricks · Esswood · Wenkel · Rodde · Cold · U. Studer · Malgoire ~ George Frideric Handel, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Barbara Hendricks, Carolyn Watkinson, La Grande %C3%89curie et La Chambre du Roy, Ensemble Vocal Jean Bridier, Paul Esswood, Ortrun Wenkel, Anne-Marie Rodde, Ulrik Cold, Ulrich Studer, Gilbert Bezzina
  2. Tsar's Bride ~ Rimsky-Korsakov
  3. Rachmaninov:Aleko/The Miserly Knight/Le Chevalier Avare/Francesca Da Rimini
  4. Jules Massenet: Werther
  5. Francesca Da Rimini
  6. The Gamblers
  7. Falla: Atlàntida
  8. Vives - Bohemios / C. Álvarez, Bayo, Lima, Ros-Marba
  9. Bizet: Carmen / Uria-Monzon, Papis, Le Texier, Vaduva, Lombard ~ Georges Bizet, Alain Lombard, B%C3%A9atrice Uria-Monzon, Christian Papis, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Choeur du Grand-Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre de Bordeaux, Vincent Le Texier, Leontina Vaduva, Maryse Castets, Martine Olmeda, Lionel Sarrazin, Olivier Lallouette, Franck Legu%C3%A9rinel, Paul Renard Thierry Tr%C3%A9gan
  10. Mozart: Magic Flute Highlights /Karajan, Vienna Philharmonic [MONO]

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

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