The grand tradition : seventy years of singing on record / J.B. Steane.
| Author/creator | Steane, J. B. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 2nd edition. |
| Publication Info | Portland, Or. : Amadeus Press, 1993. |
| Description | xv, 628 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Singers and records -- Part I. 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 Plancon -- 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 Sibiriakoff -- France: years of plenty. Emma Calve ; Edmond Clement ; Leon Escalais ; 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 II. 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 Ivogun ; Meta Seinemeyer ; Sigrid Onegin ; Richard Tauber ; Heinrich Schlusnus -- Lieder: more than singing. Elisabeth Schumann ; Lotte Lehmann ; Elena Gerhardt ; Karl Erb ; Herbert Janssen ; Gerhard Husch ; 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 Gianni ; 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 III. 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 Schqarzkopf ; Irmgard Seefried ; Lisa della Casa ; Hilde Guden ; Ljuba Welitsch ; Sena Jurinac -- Opera at home: five great singers. Maria Callas ; Victoria de los Angeles ; Jussi Bjorling ; 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: Mosco to Madrid. Regine 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 ; Gerard Souzay -- Ancient and modern: the singer as musician -- 1971: present and prospective. Montserrat Caballe ; 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. |
| Abstract | Before the gramophone could do justice to an orchestra, it was able to reproduce the human voice with comparative fidelity. Steane examines the great mass of singing on record and follows the fortunes of modern singers as well as old, in song, opera, and choral singing. This corrected second edition includes a preface and bibliography. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-612), discographical references, and index. |
| LCCN | 94114143 |
| ISBN | 0931340640 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML400 .S82 1993 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |