Columbia Record Catalog (1921)

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| COLUMBIA RECORDS } MARDONES, JOSE, Basso HERE is no use for you to waste your time J. learning to sing as you have no voice to develop.” The above words from the professor of the Madrid Conservatory of Music so far from discouraging the young Spanish boy Mardones, inspired him to sing to himself in his own room with no other instructor than a tuning fork! A ‘few years later the almost self-taught José Mardones created a sensation at the Royal Theatre, Madrid, 66 as soloist in an oratorio. The manger of the Royal José Mardones records exclusively for Theatre at San Carlos engaged Mardones for an CélanikiatReeordts appearance as Ramfis in Aida, the role in which he still sweeps the great audiences of the Metropolitan Opera House into frenzied applause. Mardones has been acclaimed the possessor of the most beautiful bass voice before the American public. Twelve-Inch: $1.50 (All Mardones records in Italian, with orchestra.) A5200 Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini): La calunnia ¢ un venticello. calumny is like a zephyr.) Faust (Gounod): Serenata. Tu che fai ’addormentata. who art sleeping.) (Ab} (Dear one A5201 Simon Boccanegra (Verdi): Il lacerato spirito. (The wounded spirit.) Stabat Mater (Rossini): Pro peccatis. In Latin. A5216 Mefistofele (Boito): Ballata del fischio—Son io spirito che nega, (Whistling Song—I am the spirit that denieth.) Mefistofele (Boito): Ecco il mondo. (The world I show you.) A6095 Carmen (Bizet): Toreador Song. Assisted by Columbia Male Chorus, Ernani (Verdi): Infelice, e tuo credevi. (Unhappy one that I go trusted.) A6134 Asleep in the Deep. (Petrie.) Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep. (Knight-Gooch.) This catalog is only a partial list of Columbia Records —ask for the latest monthly supplement. 437