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 by: gggg gggg - Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:18 UTC

On Friday, August 20, 2010 at 10:49:58 AM UTC-7, William Sommerwerck wrote:
> I just found the Prima Voce CD (NI 7909) of Leo Slezak recordings. Not being
> a vocal expert, I will say that his voice falls pleasingly on the ear. I
> think of most tenors as having "ball-less" voices (which might be the reason
> Gilbert didn't like tenors), but this is not true of Slezak. It takes only a
> few seconds' listening to recognize that we are hearing Walter Slezak's
> father.
> The sound is very good. This is a "direct acoustical" transfer in which the
> cylinder (or disk) is played on an acoustic phonograph/gramophone with a
> huge horn, and he sound picked up with an Ambisonic mic array. To my ears,
> the result is a lot more natural-sounding than an electrical transfer --
> there is considerable air and "space" to the sound.
> --
> "We already know the answers -- we just haven't asked the right
> questions." -- Edwin Land

(Recent Y. upload):

Leo Slezak (1873-1946): Mozart, Meyerbeer, Wagner, Goldmark, Puccini & more (R.1905-’07)

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 by: ifan - Fri, 15 Oct 2021 23:35 UTC

Thinking about the name Slezak but slightly off topic, has anyone ever "cleaned up" (digitized) the Mapelson cylinders? I know that it wold be a lot of work but what a treasury if we could hear the voices cleaned up from from the backgorund grime. Maybe I have missed it but all I have been able to find are issues with dim voices sunk into a scratchy mire.

Ifan

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 by: Nils-Göran Olve - Sat, 16 Oct 2021 09:58 UTC

Marston's Three American Sopranos (2003) contains the Nordica cylinders, a little more than half an hour. But I don't know if anyone has gone back to transfer the cylinders again, or if they are still playable. The LP issue may be the best source now.
Nils-Göran

lördag 16 oktober 2021 kl. 01:35:19 UTC+2 skrev ifan:
> Thinking about the name Slezak but slightly off topic, has anyone ever "cleaned up" (digitized) the Mapelson cylinders? I know that it wold be a lot of work but what a treasury if we could hear the voices cleaned up from from the backgorund grime. Maybe I have missed it but all I have been able to find are issues with dim voices sunk into a scratchy mire.
>
> Ifan

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