Research Catalog

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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Details

Additional Authors

• Leo XIII, Pope, 1810-1903.
• Cappella musicale Pontificia. prf

Description

1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.

Alternative Title

Last castrato

Subject

• Sacred songs (High voice) with piano
• Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices)

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