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Highly recommended:
Divas: Mathilde Marchesi and Her Pupils
by Roger Neill
University of New South Wales Press
(available via Amazon)
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"Although human gifts are as nothing, with the nothingness of eternity, I feel a strange emotion when speaking on my singing records of many years ago... but the gift of song is like a soul entering a living spirit, and nothing has so well conveyed the bliss of joy."
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(1939 RADIO BROADCAST): Soprano Emma EAMES Comments on Her Recordings (1906 & 1911 discs included)
(Mapleson Cylinder): Soprano Fritzi Scheff "Live" in Faust (1903)
Soprano Elisabeth RETHBERG Sings Debussy on New York City Radio Station WOR (1941)
Harpist Ada SASSOLI: First Arabesque (1912) & Chanson De Pecheur (1920)
Contralto Carmela PONSELLE: O Don Fatale (1951)
Princess Watahwasao: By the Waters of Minnetonka (1917)
(No. 20): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: Vocalise (1915)
(No. 19): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: Vocalise (1915)
(No. 18): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: The Harmonic Minor Scale (1915)
(No. 17): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: Arpeggio & Descending Scales (1915)
(No. 16): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: Sustained Tones With Changing Vowels (1915)
(No. 15): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: Portamento Exercise in Fifths (1915)
(No. 14): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: Portamento (1915)
(No. 13): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: The Arpeggio (1915)
(No. 12): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: The Arpeggio (1915)
(No. 11): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: The Arpeggio (1915)
(No. 10): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: Exercise Preparatory to the Arpeggio (1915)
(No. 9): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: The Scale of the Ninth (1915)
(No. 8): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: Scales (1915)
(No. 7): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: Uniting of Five Tones (1915)
(No. 6): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: Uniting of Three Tones (1915)
(No. 5): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: Uniting of Two Tones (1915)
(No. 4): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: Sustained Tones (1915)
(No. 3): The Oscar Saenger Singing Lessons for Tenor: Tone Production (1915)
(The Czar's Bride): Soprano Alma GLUCK: Liuba's Air (1913)
Soprano Maria Ivogün: Il Pensieroso (1925)
(Handel): Soprano Lillian BLAUVELT: Come Unto Him (c.1909)
American soprano Rita FORNIA: Frühlingslied (1912)
Eleonora de CISNEROS: Lieti signor (1914)
Flautist John Lemmoné: Scherzo Capriccio (1910)