SUSAN METCALFE CASALS, Vtg 12" 78rpm, HMV Private Yellow Label, RARE 4-Records
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Description
A very rare collection of the recordings of Susan Metcalfe Casals, 1878-1959.
Madame Susan Metalfe Casals Gerald Moore, piano Four 12" 78rpm records on the His Masters Voice Private Yellow Label. See labels for selections of Schumann, Schubert, Faure Condition: E+ Binder of linen and buckrum is included. Binder is in very condition vintage condition with minor shelf wear.
Susan Metcalfe Casals made no fully commercial recordings, but in 1937 she recorded, for private distribution, eight sides of 78 rpm records on His Master's Voice yellow label with Gerald Moore accompanying. The recordings had very limited distribution. She was born Susan S. Metcalfe in 1878 in Florence, Italy, the daughter of Dr. Frank J. Metcalfe, a Manhattan, New York City physician and Helene Metcalfe, a prominent member of New Rochelle, New York society. As a recitalist, Susan Casals made her debut in New York in 1897 and gave few, but very select recitals each year. In 1904 she met the cellist Pablo Casals, gave a recital with him (Casals accompanying her at the piano), and briefly developed a friendship, which cooled when Casals established his close relationship with Guilhermina Suggia in 1906. In 1908 Metcalfe embarked on a European tour during which she sang for the British royal family. As the Pablo’s relationship with Suggia became strained, Metcalfe and Casals corresponded. They met again after Casals had given a concert in Berlin and they were married on April 4, 1914, at New Rochelle. After this they moved together to Europe. The marriage lasted until 1928, when they were formally separated, but they did not divorce until 1957. The marriage with Casals was stormy and, following their separation in 1929, Mme. Metcalfe Casals lived in Paris. Her last known recital was at the École Normale de Musique there in 1951. Later she moved back to the U.S. to live with her sister, and died at New Rochelle, New York in 1959.
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