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The Mapleson cylinders, 1900-1904.

Title
The Mapleson cylinders, 1900-1904.
Publication
New York : Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, [1985], ℗1985.

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  • Mapleson, Lionel S.
  • Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
  • Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
Description
6 audio discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono; 12 in.
Subject
Note
  • Title from container.
  • Original cylinders from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
  • Historical and program notes by David Hall, John Stratton, and Tom Owen, biographies of the artists by Robert Tuggle and texts to the selections with English translations (71 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.) laid in box.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 70.
Event (note)
  • Recorded by Lionel Mapleson in the Metropolitan Opera House between March 30 or 31, 1900 and January 17, 1904; also included are Mapleson family recordings, made 1909-1911.
Contents
  • Operatic excerpts from : Faust ; Roméo et Juliette / Gounod -- Les Huguenots ; L\u0027Africaine / Meyerbeer -- Le Cid / Massenet -- Carmen / Bizet -- La fille du régiment ; Lucia di Lammermoor / Donizetti -- Il flauto magico / Mozart -- Ernani ; La Traviata ; Aida / Verdi -- Cavalleria rusticana / Mascagni -- Pagliacci / Leoncavallo.
  • Ero e Leandro / Mancinelli -- Tosca / Puccini -- Manru / Paderewski -- Lohengrin ; Tannhäuser : Tristan und Isolde ; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ; Die Walküre ; Siegfried ; Götterdämmerung / Wagner -- La Gioconda / Ponchielli. Non operatic selections : Voci di primavera / Johann Strauss, Jr. -- Parla vals / Luigi Arditi -- Printemps : Valse chantée / Leo Stern.
  • Sylvia. No. 14 ; Coppélia. No. 3 / Delibes -- Danse macabre / Saint-Saëns -- Piano improvisations by Carl Müller -- Kaisermarsch / Wagner.
ISBN
  • 0871042878
  • 9780871042873
OCLC
  • ocm13035483
  • 13035483
  • SCSB-5608618
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Columbia University Libraries