1904 Nellie MELBA RECORD G&T Mauve Signature HAMLET Ophelia's Mad Scene II 95021
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A series of great OPERA Records from early G&Ts to World War II recordings on 78 rpm Victrola Records
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Superb Original Victor MAUVE MELBA RECORD with gold signature, recorded in her first G&T London Sessions.
Nellie MELBA in the great G&T London recording
Mad scene Part II
Hamlet. A vos jeux, mes amis
Ambroise Thomas (composer)
Nellie Melba (vocalist : soprano vocal)
Landon Ronald (instrumentalist : piano)
Frederick William Gaisberg (recordist)
Language: French
March 1904 London, England. Great Cumberland Place [1] Master Victor 95021
Please see top of the page for condition
One of Melba’s closest friends was the elegant and wealthy Parisian composer Herman Bemberg (1859-1931). His opera Elaine was given through her influence both at Covent Garden (1892) and at the Metropolitan Opera (1894/5), Melba in the name part. She regularly sang his delightful songs (often accompanied by the composer) – and enjoyed his clowning and practical jokes. At an evening party in London, Melba was singing Nymphes et Sylvains with Bemberg at the piano when, just before the final cadenza, he accidentally modulated into the wrong key. Without turning a hair, Melba followed him, improvised a few bars leading back, and they finished together, no one having noticed. “Herman, you fool…are you drunk?” she enquired. “Her personal touches abound,” wrote PG Hurst of this recording, “and no other singer I can recall could express with her voice such lightness and gaiety.” Later, she recorded Bemberg’s Chant Vénitien, Les anges pleurent, Chant Hindou, Sur le lac and an aria from Elaine.
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