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Alessandro Moreschi : the complete recordings.
- Title
- Alessandro Moreschi : the complete recordings.
- Author
- Moreschi, Alessandro, 1858-1922.
- Publication
- Sparrows Green, East Sussex : Opal ; N.Y. [i.e. New York] : Dist. by Qualiton Imports, ℗1984.
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Musical recording | Use in library | LS- 11967 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.
- Alternative Title
- Last castrato
- Subject
- Note
- Add. title on container: The last castrato.
- Principally sacred music with piano acc. or unacc.
- "Moreschi .. was the last known castrato, and the only one to have made records. His recordings were made in 1902 and 1904 at the Vatican where he was a soloist ... includes all twelve records which Professor Moreschi is known to have made, as well as five choral records on which his voice is clearly discernible"--Container.
- Distributor from label on container.
- Program notes, notes on the recordings, and biographical notes on Moreschi on and in container (2 p.).
- Event (note)
- Recorded Apr. 3 and 5, 1902 (1st-7th works) and Apr. 11, 1904 (remainder).
- Contents
- Domine salvum fac Pontificem nostrum Leonem / Giovanni Aldega (with chorus) -- Et incarnatus est/Crucifixus / Luigi Pratesi (with chorus) -- Ideale / Paolo Tosti -- Ave verum / Salvatore Meluzzi (with Singers of the Sistine Chapel) -- Tui sunt coeli / Gustavo Edoardo Stehle (with Chorus of the Sistine Chapel) -- Ave verum / W.A. Mozart (with quartet and Singers of the Sistine Chapel) -- Crucifixus : from the Petite Messe Solenelle / G. Rossini (recorded 1902) -- Crucifixus : from the Petite Messe Solenelle (recorded 1904) -- Pie Jesu : versetto from the Dies irae / Leibach -- Hostias et preces / Eugenio Terziani -- Preghiera / Paolo Tosti -- Ave Maria / Bach-Gounod -- Incipit lamentatio : Gregorian chant -- Laudamus te : from the Mass of Saint Bonaventura / Gaetano Capocci (trio: Moreschi, Boezi, Dado, with boys' choir ; Moreschi, conductor) -- Improperia / Tomaso Ludovico Vittoria (with chorus of Roman choristers ; Baron Kanzler, conductor) -- La cruda mia nemica / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (quartet ; Kanzler, conductor) -- Oremus pro Pontifice / Emilio Calzanera (chorus of Roman choristers ; Moreschi, conductor) -- The voice of Pope Leo XIII (recorded 5 February, 1903).
- LCCN
- 92765070
- OCLC
- ocm26396982
- 26396982
- SCSB-2096343
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library