pcc
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Post by pcc on Jul 8, 2008 17:25:10 GMT -5
Hello - does anyone have a copy of Charles Harrison's "Your tiny hand is frozen" (English version of Rodolfo's aria from La Boheme) on BA 2184 or his Mignon aria on BA 1994 (I think) for sale? Interested in Harrison and am picking up what I can find -- thanks!
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Post by matty on Jul 9, 2008 10:57:16 GMT -5
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pcc
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Post by pcc on Jul 9, 2008 14:08:02 GMT -5
Many thanks for that -- it's a lovely performance! _Very_ good sounding Amberola too. If you have a spare copy of that cylinder I'd be interested in it...
I've always thought that Harrison at his best was wonderfully lyric and unforced; his Victor recording of Bartlett's "A Dream" was a favorite of mine when I was young. He wasn't always perfect; his Columbia disc of "Cujus animam" from Rossini's Stabat Mater (his first recording) is assured all through, with a resonantly secure high Db, whereas his Edison Amberol of the same piece sounds very hurried (Edison's conductor, either Eugene Jaudas or Fred Ecke, takes an uncomfortably fast tempo) and the Db sounds like a yell. Very nasty!
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