His Master's Voice/La Voix de Son Maitre

His Master's Voice/La Voix de Son Maitre
Author: Alan Kelly
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 734
Release: 1990-09-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0313387745

This is a companion volume to the Italian catalogue, La Voce del Padrone, already published by Greenwood Press. This new volume provides a complete catalogue of French gramophone recordings made by the Gramophone Company Ltd. between 1898 and 1929. During this period the Compagnie Francaise du Gramophone was the continental European, African, and Asian end of a powerful partnership between the Victor Talking Machine Company and the Gramophone Company Ltd. The volume includes details of Victor recordings issued outside the Americas and hence is a useful adjunct to the series The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings, also published by Greenwood Press. The first three sections conform to the previously established pattern of listing Gramophone black and celebrity labels followed by the Zonophone green labels and the Gramophone green labels. In 1920, it was decided to issue records specifically for the Belgian/Flemish market; these are detailed in the fourth section. The contents of each section are listed in numerical order following the pattern of the early printed catalogues, that is, bands followed by orchestras followed by talking, etc. A list of the series actually used precedes each section and acts as a table of contents for the section. Each catalogue entry comprises as much as possible of the following information: the original numerical catalogue number; the matrix (serial) number; the date of the recording; the name of the artist(s) involved; the title of the piece; alternative issue numbers; and occasional notes. The introduction provides an overview of the company's recording practices and cataloging systems. This volume provides much-needed guidance for the serious collector and will be a valuable resource for the music historian.

The Teatro Solís

The Teatro Solís
Author: Susana Salgado
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2003-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780819565945

The first comprehensive history of the oldest major opera house in the Americas.

The Vano Saradjishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, 1917-2007

The Vano Saradjishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, 1917-2007
Author: Manana Doijašvili
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781600219108

The Tbilisi State Conservatoire was the first European-type musical higher education institution not only in Georgia but in the Caucasus as a whole. The Conservatoire has a rich history of creativity, a flourishing concert life including performances by Leopold Auer, Sergei Rachmaninov, Anton Rubinstein, Henryk Wieniawski and hundreds of other luminaries and an star-studded list of alumni including legendary bass Feyodor Chaliapin. This new book traces the history of this famous institution over the last 80 years including its ups, downs and persistent quest for musical and human excellence.

Adolphe Adam, Master of the Opéra-Comique, 1824-1856

Adolphe Adam, Master of the Opéra-Comique, 1824-1856
Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2023-01-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1527590801

The composer Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803-1856) is known all over the world for the famous Christmas anthem ‘Minuit chrétiens’ (‘O Holy Night’). However, he wrote much more than just this. His ballet Giselle (1841) is the quintessence of mystical Romanticism and one of the most enduring works of the dance repertoire. Adam composed a series of ballets, principally for the Paris Opéra, establishing this genre as a serious and integral musical form. His last work was Le Corsaire (1856) which reaches sublime heights. However, Adam was just as famous as a composer for the lyric stage. With Boieldieu, Hérold and Auber, he forms one of the quartet of masters that represent the second school of that profoundly French genre of the opera-comique. The charming and elegant Le Chalet (1834) received over 1500 performances in Paris, and the exuberant and adorable Le Postillon de Lonjumeau (1836) is still played on stages throughout the world. This study considers this gentle, unassuming composer’s life and work, examining his 42 operas and 14 ballets in the context of the vibrant musical scene in Paris during the decades 1820-1860.