1917 CLAUDIA MUZIO LOUISE Depuis le Jour SEGRETO DI SUSANNA PATHE IRCC 3134 78 x

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I am currently selling a series of great Richard Wagner and classic European 78 rpm orchestral recordings on all the great European labels:
Claudia Muzio in her 1917 Pathe recordings
Pathé, New York 1917/1918
66682 Segreto di Susanna (Wolf-Ferrari): O gioia, la nube leggera 63025, 5377, Act ??, rr: IRCC3134
67206 Louise (Charpentier): Depuis le jour 54027, 5590, rr: IRCC3134
Issued on IRCC vinyl pressing 12" 78 rpm record
CONDITION: EXCELLENT close to pristine, faint scuffs, plays EXCEPTIONALLY quiet
A CHOICE COPY
The tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi wrote of Muzio “singing with that unique voice of hers made of tears and sighs and restrained interior fire.” The best years around 1930 were probably her best precisely the years in which she did not record! Between 1924 and 1934 there is a ten-year gap. The missing period would seem to be the very one in which her interpretations had matured while her voice was still in prime condition. The early records may lack the intensity and creativeness of her later recordings and in the famous Columbias one is aware of some physical limitations (uneasy high notes flatness mannerisms in style and enunciation vowels!) but there is a pathos an inner committment and charm in her singing that is immensely moving and touching. Only a few sopranos equalled her in this aspect of emotional involvement.
Unfortunately because of personellpolitics she never had a big career at the Met but excelled in Chicago and San Francisco. That in part prevented her from a major recording career.
We are fortunately enough that someone put her performance of Act I Tosca at the 1932 opening of the new built SF opera house on disc. Other than that precious little has Muzio recorded: There are a smattering of early Pathes some great 1920 Edisons (on auction now) then nothing for a long time and then a year before her death about 20 sides recorded in Rome (in auction now).
Unbelievable as it is Muzio did not record after 1920 and only a year before her death in 1934/35 did she record a few electric sides in Rome.
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1 record: 4.75 – 5.50$
2 records: 6.50$
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