Jean de Reszke singing Africaine and Faust

"O Paradis" ( mapleson cylinder)
Metropolitan Opera, 1901
Philippe Flon, conducting

"High C from Faust"
Cylinder, 1892?
from a french broadcast

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[angelparsifal]

I meant that the 1892? cylinder was broadcasted between the 40s and 60s

in France

I don't know if it's a bettini one.. In the broadcast is said that was found in Bayreuth, in the Wagner family collection, but it could be a far possibility.

I heard that the 1st broadcast EVER from the met was in 1931.

[MagdaKinsky]

thanks for your explanation!

Bottomline is, if it wasn't ''surreptitious'' but done overtly perhaps we'd have more live recordings from those days.

How come they didn't do it that way?

[eclecticdufus]

@warnie1 Thanks for the clarification. He sounded like Escalais to me. However, Angelo Santini made his recordings for Columbia in 1904-08. I have a 1904 Columbia disc of the 'Salut demeure' but he made other Faust excerpts as well. Smith also faked a Patti cylinder but it was actually an Edison recording of Lucette Korsoff.

[eclecticdufus]

@MagdaKinsky They weren't made illegally. Surreptitiously if you will but both Met management and the singers knew Mapleson was making them and would come by his office (he was Met librarian) to hear them. You are right about the falling debris though. That may have stopped it. Too bad, if he'd gone one more season we could have live Caruso.

[eclecticdufus]

The upper Ab is beautifully blended voix mixte. Quite a baritional sound. Probably a very large house-filling one too. Broad phrasing. I would say the closest thing to him nowadays is Jonas Kauffmann (or Ben Heppner in his absolute prime). I wish the latter would sing some Meyerbeer parts.

The 2nd tenor doesn't sound like the same singer to me. Could be, it would have been years earlier. Bettini wasn't recording in 1892. It sounds much closer to Leon Escalais to me. Not singing Faust either.

[MagdaKinsky]

as far as I know these recordings were made illegally by history's first ever pirates. They hid the recording machines amongst the decoration until.... one time one of those fell on the head of a singer during a performance nearly killing her.

Shame!

[superwhooper69]

The quality of the recording is so bad it prevents any assessment whatever of this guys voice.

If you are reading this dont waste your time trying to listen to the you tube recording.

[dottormalatesta]

Comprendere qualcosa da 'sta roba è malafede... Non si sente nulla, non si capisce nulla. Sono fruscii con un "gemito" di sottofondo...

[seektheforce]

@moo7chi7ld Both :) I like Jussi Bjoerling's in version in Swedish.

[rupepill]

@bradleyjenks Hello. If you Google for:

"The celebrated Mapleson cylinders and historical Wagner collections", that should give you a website page with information for ordering the Mapleson Cylinders on a CD-ROM at the remarkably low price of $10.

[abracadabranque]

Super!!! Moi tout compris!!!..Crrrrrrrrrrrr..?C'­est le ténor?

Est-ce bien nécessaire?Faust peut-être...