What a great bass he was.
Mozart - From The Magic Flute, sung in Italian, - In diesen heil'gen Hallen
Charles Gounod - Faust - Final Trio
with Emma Eames and Charles Dalmores
The acoustics of this recording didn't favor Eames voice, there are recordings of her that show she was quite a spectacular singer in her own right. This is regarded as real bel canto style singing from the "golden age", if you want to hear it these recordings are as close as you're going to get. I would recommend the transfers that Nimbus Prima Voce did, though they're hard to find. They used a huge wooden horn to play the original discs back into a hall and used that recorded sound, after considerable research to find the right playback speed. It was a real labor of love and the results were there to be heard. I hope someone reissues the ones that have gone out of production.
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