This email is actually horn related. I spent my Fourth of July transferring some records for Bill Melton's wife. I don't think she'd mind too much <g> if you also listened to the following one.
**You may have to copy & paste the URL into your browsers for it to work.** This is Margaret Matzenauer, singing Ich folg' dem innern Triebe from Fidelio. This is the fast section of Leonore's Abscheulicher aria from Act I: http://www.ampexguy.com/kiri/b11789-5.19130325.gram.74602-matzenauer.ich.folg.dem.innern.triebe.mp3 This was never issued on Victor. My copy is a German Gramophone, record no. 74602 (which looks like a Victor record no. but isn't), Victor matrix no. B 11789-5, recorded Camden, N.J., 25 Mar 1912. Camden is right across the river from Philadelphia. Maybe this had the Philadelphia Orchestra horn section, including the Horners, playing, and maybe it didn't. There's no way to tell. Fair warning: Mme Matzenauer's high concert E at the end will clear your sinuses! She also recorded something from Fidelio that Philip L. Miller's discography calls "Komm Hoffnung" for Victor and "Abscheulicher!" for Edison. Between all of them one would think it would be possible to splice together a complete performance of Leonore's aria. However, unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), I don't have either of these other two discs. So you just get the closing section. Matzenauer was quite a gal. She had perfect pitch and saved the day during the U.S. premiere of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex by humming the pitch for a colleague who had gotten lost. She was also at a party where a violinist who knew the Franck sonata was present (as a partier, not as the entertainment) with his accompanist. The accompanist hadn't brought any music, whereupon Matzenauer accompanied him in the Franck sonata from memory! Apparently she did not think this remarkable. Howard Sanner [email protected] "Pessimists are surprised as often as optimists, but always pleasantly"--The Giant Rat of Sumatra, by Richard L. Boyer, p. 61. _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
