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Italian opera singer (1821-1865)
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2015-01-11 01:00:00
Vivaldi: Farnace – Zanasi, Mingardo, Savall – Madrid 2001
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Farnace (Highlights) Furio Zanasi baritono (Farnace), Sara Mingardo contralto (Tamiri), Adriana Fernandez contralto (Berenice), Gloria Banditelli soprano (Selinda), Sonia Prina mezzosoprano (Pompeo), Cinzia Forte soprano (Gilade), Fulvio Bettini baritono (Aquilio), Coro del Teatro de la Zarzuela Le Concert des Nations Jordi Savall Alia Vox AV9830 (2003) [flac, cue, log, scans]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2014-11-06 14:12:36
The first woman violinist on record. Any guesses?
Professor Robert Eschbach has come up with a fascinating tale from the mists of gramophone history. A student of Sam Franko and Joseph Joachim, Dora Valesca Becker (1870-1958) was born in Galveston, Texas and became the first female violinist on record (1898). In the first year of recorded violin playing, she cut fourteen cylinders for the Bettini label, five years before Joachim made his own iconic recordings for Gramophone and Typewriter. You can hear her here: In an 1895 article on “American Girls as Violinists” in the Ladies’ Home Journal we read that Dora’s mother “had, as a child, the greatest craving to study the violin, but her wish was never realized, because her father, a wealthy Hungarian merchant, was opposed to the idea of having a girl educated in music. Mrs. Becker was therefore determined, should she be blessed with a daughter, to have her learn the violin. […]
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