Word: tenoritis
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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...
Operatic Duets (Jan Peerce, tenor, Leonard Warren, baritone, with the RCA-Victor Orchestra, Jean Paul Morel and Erich Leinsdorf conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Peerce and Warren too often sing vocal duels instead of duets. The album includes Solenne in Quest' Ora from Verdi's La Forza del Destino and Ah, Mimi, Tu Più from Puccini's La Bohème. Recording: good...
Included on the program are Serenata (1930) of Casella; Kirchenkantate no. 189, "Meine Seele nuhint and preist," by Rach with tenor Yves Tinayre, as soloist; Divertimento (1946) by Piston; Serenade a Angelique (1945) by Honegger...
Included on the program are Serenata (1930) of Casella; Kirchenkantate no. 189. "Meine Seele unhint und preist," by Bach with tenor Yves Tinayre, as soloist: Divertimento (1946) by Piston; Serenado a Angelique (1945) by Honegger...
...familiar face of Enrico Caruso, in silver, turned up in the family-circle lobby of the Metropolitan Opera House. In a flurry of bulb-popping, the late great tenor's widow, Mrs. Dorothy Caruso (who had two unhappy marriages after Caruso's death, resumed the name of her devoted "Rico" after each divorce), presented a heroically scowling bust of the tenor, flanked by four full-blown little nymphs, to the Met's General Manager Edward Johnson...