Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Childhood of Christ," by Johann Christoph Bach, featured four superb soloists backed up by a fine orchestra-chorus combination. Conductor Alfred Patterson obviously had his musicians well trained; the attacks were accurate and confident, and balance between singers and orchestra came pretty close to perfection. The outstanding soloist was tenor Oscar Henry, whose strong but subdued voice sounded good, despite the sore throat he had to combat...
...mood, but the second brought them to life with Billy's fight with one of Claggart's henchmen and Claggart's bitter monologue rejoicing in his own depravity -sung by Basso Frederick Dalberg. Britten's triumph was the third act, in which Captain Vere (Tenor Peter Pears) walks to Billy's door, accompanied by long-measured chords, to deliver the death verdict. When the curtain fell for the act, there were seconds of silence, and then shouts of "Bravo, Benjy." Billy's fourth-act soliloquy, poetically sung by U.S. Baritone Theodor Uppman, and Captain...
Mario Lanza Sings Christmas Songs (Victor, 2 sides LP). Tenor Lanza tears into The First Noel, O Come, All Ye Faithful, and six more, with as much zest as if they were Puccini arias...
Mozart: Don Giovanni (John Brownlee, baritone; Ina Souez, Audrey Mildmay and Luise Helletsgruber, sopranos; Koloman von Pataky, tenor; Salvatore Baccaloni, bass; the Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra and Chorus, Fritz Busch conducting; 6 sides LP). First released in the U.S. in 1938 in a 78-r.p.m. album, this is still the best performance of the Don on records; no one voice is brilliantly outstanding, but the temper of the ensemble more than makes up for that. The sound, good on shellac, is, if anything, improved...
Debussy: Pelléas and Mélisande (Irene Joachim, soprano; Germaine Cernay, contralto; Jacques Jansen, tenor; Paul Cabanel, bass; Etcheverry, baritone; the Yvonne Gouverné Chorus and orchestra, Roger Désormiére conducting; 6 sides LP). This recording grew out of a 40th anniversary performance of Debussy's nebulous nightshade opera at the Paris Opéra-Comique in 1942. It is now released for the first time in the U.S., and Pelléas partisans will find it well worth the wait. Recording: excellent...