Various singers (featuring Irena Bohuss, Janina Korolewicz-Wayda, Anna El-Tour, Nadezhda Ivanovna Zabela-Vrubel', Maria Nikolaevna Kuznetsova, Lydia Jakovlevna Lipkowska, sopranos; Evgenia Ivanovna Zbrueva, contralto; Dmitry Alexeevich Smirnov, tenor), with other singers, and unnamed orchestral or piano acc
Pearl: GEMM CD 9004--GEMM CD 9006.
Opera arias and songs.
Previously released material.
Compact discs.
Historical and biographical notes by Harold Barnes, detailed contents, and composer index ([16] p.)--in container.
Recorded 1901-1924, in Lwow, Warsaw, London, Moscow, St. Petersburg, or Paris.
Sung in Russian (principally in translation), Polish, Italian, and French.
Irena Bohuss (Lwow, G & T, 1902) [songs and arias by Niewiadomski, Zelenski, Verdi, Gall, Puccini, Newhauser] -- Janina Korolewicz-Wayda (Warsaw, G & T, 1901, 1908; London, Nicole, 1904; Warsaw, Favorite) [songs and arias by Zarzycki, Moniuszko, Komorowski, Puccini, Halévy] -- Anna El-Tour (Moscow, Gramophone Co., 1910) [songs by Rachmaninov, Rubinstein, Rimsky-Korsakov] -- Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel' (St. Petersburg, Gramophone Co., 1912) [song and aria by Rimsky-Korsakov] -- Maria Kuznetsova (St. Petersburg, G & T, 1904; Paris, Pathé Frères, 1920) [songs and arias by Glinka, Verdi, Samuel-Rousseau] -- Lydia Lipkowska (St. Petersburg, Gramophone Co., 1912) [arias by Rimsky-Korsakov, Rossini] -- Dmitrij Smirnov (St. Petersburg and Moscow, Gramophone Co., 1909, 1912-13; London, Gramophone Co., 1921, 1923-24; Paris, Cie. française du gramophone, 1912, 1924) [songs and arias by Tchaikovsky, Napravnik, Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Borodin, Gretchaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Kashevarov, Amani] -- Evgenija Zbrueva (St. Petersburg, G & T, 1903, 1907; Gramophone Co., 1909-11, 1913) [songs and arias by Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Arensky, Gounod, Sokolovsky, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Dargomyzhsky, Borodin, Rubinstein, Bizet, Bemberg]