11 November 2012

Webster Booth sings... Arias -&- Songs - HMV 1938-1944

Handel:  "Serse" - 'Grove so beautiful & stately...Shadows so sweet'  /   Handel:  "Jeptha" - 'Deeper & deeper still.. Waft her angels'
Handel:  "Semele" - 'Where'er you walk'
Mozart:  "Don Giovanni" - 'Mine be her burden' / 'Speak to me my lady'  
Mendelssohn:  "Elijah" - 'Ye people rend your hearts... If with all your hearts'  
Verdi:  "Aida" - '... Heavenly Aida'  /  Gounod:  "Faust" - 'All hail thy dwelling pure & lowly'  /   Bizet:  "Carmen" - 'Flower song'
Puccini:  "La Boheme" - 'Your tiny hand is frozen'  /   "Madama Butterfly" - 'Ah, love me a little' (with Joan Hammond, Soprano)
Boughton:  "The Immortal Hour" - 'The Faery Song'   /   Sullivan:  "The Gondoliers" - 'Take a pair of sparkling eyes'
German:  "Merrie England" - 'English Rose'  /  Coleridge-Taylor: "Hiawatha" - 'Onaway! Awake, beloved'    
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HMV  HLM 7109   Issued 1977/matrices: 2XEA 5836 -2 / 2XEA 5837 -2.   78 Transfers by Bryan Crimp - except Keith Hardwick: "Madama Butterfly" (Liverpool PO/ Sir Malcolm Sargent. Rec: 21 Oct.1943 - from "The Art of Joan Hammond" HMV  RLS 2900143 (2LP 1984).      Full recording details/sleeve-note >>>




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  1. Thanks
    I own a Dutton Labs CD of this record issued in 1998 (still available online) but I prefer the EMI/HMV LP.

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    1. Hello Joe,

      I'll have to find someone to 'lend' *me* some Historical LP's..!!

      Webster Booth is distinctly good in most of this repertoire - and was surprised to see most of these were not available (didn't 'find' the Dutton).

      'Celeste Aida' is really very fine - and Bryan Crimp did some pretty decent transfers (but there's a lot of low-frequency 'hum' in the Verdi - though I had to tackle some severe groove problems (side 1/Track 1 - from 1-minute - lasting for about 25 secs) - which I hope aren't now too obvious?

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