Word: contraltos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handel: Messiah (Elsie Suddaby, soprano; Marjorie Thomas, contralto; Heddle Nash, tenor; Trevor Anthony, bass; Luton Choral Society and Special Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 42 sides). Sir Thomas has here equaled-and the recording has surpassed-his great performance of the Messiah recorded over 15 years...
Soloist with the Club will include Olga Averino, Boston soprano, and pupils Calliope Shenas, contralto, and baritone Paul Tibbetts '45. "There is nothing else like it," continued Professor Fine, who has been at the Club helm since 1946 and last year conducted its Bach concert in an unofficial capacity...
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Love Duet (Helen Traubel, soprano; Torsten Ralf, tenor; Herta Glaz, contralto, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Busch conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Traubel & Ralf take the famed love duet faster than Flagstad and Melchior. The result is surprisingly warmer, and the orchestral setting is fuller. Recording: good...
Mendelssohn: Elijah (Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Huddersfield Choral Society, Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting; with Isobel Baillie, soprano, Gladys Ripley, contralto, James Johnston, tenor, Harold Williams, bass-baritone; Columbia, 32 sides). It was Mendelssohn who revived Bach's great St. Matthew Passion 100 years after it was written. Now, 100 years after Mendelssohn's death, his own choral masterpiece, a work of simplicity and directness, gets an excellent performance on records. Recording: good...
Bach: Sacred Arias (Carol Brice, contralto, with the Columbia Broadcasting Concert Orchestra, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). The Agnus Dei and Qui Sedes from the B Minor Mass, and two arias from the Magnificat, warmly sung by a Negro of considerable talent, who is not yet a Marian Anderson. Recording: good...