Mary Littlefield Collective Memory
Listen to Great performances from the past, on antique phonographs and gramophones from their era (1903 or so to 1942 or so).
These shellac recordings are time capsules that are able to transport us back in time....nice experience.
Enjoy!
1919. Pathé 2038. Vallin sings Les Contess d'Hoffmann: Elle a Fui La Torturelle. Photo is Vallin!
1926. Vallin sings Sérénade Du Passant by Massenet w Lily Laskin-harp, Y. Curti -violin
1914. Ninon Vallin Pardo sings Puccini- La Boheme-'On m'appelle Mimi' on early Fr Gramophone Lable
1932. Sleep My Savior Sleep -- Allin, Baillie, Nash and Brunskill!
1932. Rose Bampton sings Care Selve by Handel. Charles O'Connell piano acc
1926. Pablo Casals and Nicholai Mednikoff performing the Berceuse from Jocelyn by Godard.
1926. Pablo Casals plays Schumann, Op. 85. No. 12 Abendlied. Piano acc. Nicolai Mednikoff
1926. Heinrich Schlusnus sings Schubert's Am See (On the Lake)Piano acc, Franz Rupp. Brunswick recrd
1922. Nina Koshetz sings Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame - Liza's Air. Brunswick Label 50036
1927. Nina Koshetz sings Chopin-Etude in E Major (arr. F. Litvinne) w/piano acc. by Pierre Leboshutz
July 11, 1930. Reynaldo Hahn accompanies himself on piano singing Le Retour Du Marin (traditionelle)
1932. Ethel Merman sings "Eadie Was A Lady." Brunswick record 6456
1911. John McCormack sings Macushla. Victor 64205. Dermot MacMurrough, music, Josephine Rowe, lyrics
1929. Toti Dal Monte sings La Sonnambula-Ah! Non Credea Mirarti -w/orch La Scala, Carlo Sabajno-cond
1930. Vallin sings -Tyndaris-from Études Latin by Renaldo Hahn. Odéon recording 188741
1928. Nina Koshetz sings Estrellita by Manuel Maria Poncé.
1929. Mme. Ninon Vallin sings Montagnarde (Castille) acc. by the composer, Joaquim Nin
1928. Evelyn Scotney sings Caro Nome from Verdi's Rigoletto.
1933. Du Bist Die Ruh (Schubert) sung by Elisabeth Schumann. Text by Friedrich Rückert.
1913. Edmond Clement and Geraldine Farrar sing Lontano from Boito's well loved Opera--Mefistofele.
1943. Ninon Vallin sings Dove Sono,Air de La Contesse frm The Marriage of Figaro. Mozart. Pathe rec.
1939. Dorothy Maynor sings Franz Schubert. Ave Maria (Jungfrau Mild) Árpád Sándor--piano.
1928. Amelita Galli-Curci sings La Paloma with husband Homer Samuels at the piano.
1923 André Baugé/Ninon Vallin sing Mozart's famed duet from Don Juan
Ezio Pinza sings Caro Mio Ben & Bellissimi Capelli, 1940 Victor Red Seal. Piano acc by F Kitzinger
1911. John McCormack sings-She is Far from the Land -by Moore-Lambert, w/orchestra
1930 Vallin sings Schumann Frauenliebe und Leben-first in song cycle "Since I Saw Him." Andolfi acc.
1914. Caruso sings Amor Mio (Vocal Waltz) by V. Ricciardi & G.E. Gaeta
1920 Ninon Vallin sings Berlioz- D'amour l'ardente flamme- from The Damnation of Faust. Pathé record
1933 Ninon Vallin sings La Petite Morte by H Ackermans. Pathé recording