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Florence Easton (1882-1955) was a remarkable singer, capable of learning roles within hours and frequently pinch-hitting for other sopranos on very short notice, with excellent
The Marston label pays tribute to one of America’s most brilliant and multi-faceted musicians with this eagerly anticipated reissue. Music connoisseurs perhaps know Arthur Loesser
The back of Marston’s jewel box has a blurb identifying Rosa Ponselle as “arguably this century’s greatest soprano.” Okay, no argument here, although these discs
Vocal collectors who’ve been hanging onto the defunct Bourg label’s horrific vinyl transfer of this 1912 Trovatore (sung in French, and slightly cut in places)
During his tenure as the New Yorker’s classical music correspondent in the 1970s Andrew Porter made a special plea for the reissue of Ernst Levy’s
Czech soprano Emmy Destinn’s stature as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century’s first decades could hardly be more substantiated than by her
On the subject of her studio recordings, opera legend Rosa Ponselle thought that none, except for a few songs, really reflected the way she sang.
Recorded in 1911 for Pathé, this first-ever recorded Carmen in French (it was proceded by a German version with Emmy Destin in the title role)
