But, how about the very loud low B-nat. (concert) before the last fermata ???? Sounds like the rear fanfare of an elephant ??? And the rhythm is not perfect with the horns. But very interesting recording.
################################################## Am 05.07.2011 um 04:44 schrieb Howard Sanner: > 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/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
