1911 EMMY DESTINN Experiment LAMINATED ONE SIDED EDISON 82525 GIOCONDA SUICIDIO
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Description
A series of great EDISON DIAMOND DISC recordings:
FIRST RECORDING ever from the pre-launch famous EXPERIMENTAL 1910 - 1912 Preliminary TEST RECORDINGS for Diamond Disc:
Rare early ONE SIDED PRESSING
QUIET LAMINATED PRESSING !
FIRST US RECORDING by Great EMMY DESTINN - Edison caught her, and then dropped her into the lap of first Columbia and then Victor
This copy was issued at the very start of the Diamond Disc program, way before the explanatory notes were recorded in 1914!
Rec Numb 82525-R 82525-L Take A Title GIOCONDA (Amilcare Ponchielli / Arrigo Bonto): Suicidio! in questi fieri momenti BLANK Artist Emmy Destinn (S), (O) Recorded 1911.12.16 . Place NYC
Condition:
EXCELLENT MINUS NO LAM CRACKS, rare hint of greying, the very last groove is brown, plays E- EXCEPTIONALLY QUIET quiet loud and clear, hint of fuzziness on top notes
No lamination issue
A CHOICE COPY
Musically, this recording takes advantage of the long duration of the DD - this is the most dramatically drawn out Suicidio that I know.
IN SHORT - a CHOICE RECORD none of the flaws have any effect on the recorded sound.
More about the EDISON DIamond Disc Trials from
During 1910û12, Edison engineers conducted numerous experimental disc recording sessionsùprimarily in London, and to a lesser extent in New York and Parisùusing eminent operatic singers. Thomas Edison reviewed the results closely.
The excerpts below were trancribed by Ray Wile from Edison's handwritten notes in the ENHS archive.
AINO ACKTE (mx. 871):
"Woman good singer, has only little tremolo... We can use this woman in future with soft accompt and good tunes." (5/6/1912)
ADELINA AGOSTINELLI (mx. 430):
"Her tremolo queers this song. Hold it." (5/8/1912)
GIOVANNI ALBANESE (mx. 1067):
"Don't care for him." (1912)
THOMAS CHALMERS (mx. 813):
"A non-tremolo singer." (2/13/1912)
EDUARDO DE BURY (mx. 469):
"Singer no good." (1912)
CHARLES HACKETT (mx. 1050):
"Hackett has a very variable voice, sharp in some notes soft in others, and nasty rapid tremolo." (1912)
HEINRICH HENSEL (mx. 549):
"Rotten. Never use this voice." (5/17/1912)
AGNES KIMBALL (mx. 852):
"This singer has too many glaring defects of voice." (1912)
HEINRICH KNOTE (mx. 634):
"Fine sustained tone, no tremolo... only wants proper accompt." (1912)
HEINRICH KNOTE (mx. 638):
"Singer goodùhas some tremolo but not highly conspicuous." (1912)
MARIA LABIA (mx. 861):
"Nip & tuck between Bori & Labia." (1912)
GIOVANNI MARTINELLI (mx. 1064):
"Good tenor has some tremolo and gutteral sounds but his high beats Caruso. He is a far better singer than Caruso is now." (1912)
GIOVANNI POLESE (mx. 494):
"Not as good as Chalmers." (1912)
GIOVANNI POLESE (mx. 987):
"Some opera perverts have probably got educated to this type of voice. The tune pulls him through." (5/22/1912)
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