Victor records (May 1914)

VICTOR RECORDS Number .-5 opera, Qenoveoa, several cantateis and many religious works, part songs, four symphonies, besides chamber music and much for organ and piano — and lastly, the wonderful series of songs, 130 of which were composed in a single year, 1840! SCHUMANN COMPOSITIONS — See also “ Traumerei* * and “ Two Grenadiers '* Beiden Grenadiere (German) Arthur Van Eweyk i and DasErkennen (Loewe) Arthur Van Eweyk G8327 Die Lotusbiume (The Lotus Flower) (Opus 25, No. 7) Leo Slezak 61 207 Mondnacht (Moonlight) Ernestine Schumann-Heink 88197 ProphetBird (Vogel als Prophet) Piano (2) Spring Song de Pachmann 74285 Return of Spring Evan Williams 64217 Voice of Love — Serenade Cornet and Flute and Rosary Cornet — Keneke 16046 SCHUMANN-HEINK, ERNESTINE, Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink is the most popular and beloved contralto who has ever visited America. Her superb voice and thoroughly artistic singing and acting, as well as her genial personality, have endeared her to audiences everywhere.^ Mme. Schumann-Heink is the daughter of Herr Rossler, an Austrian army officer, who at the time of her birth was stationed in Lieben, Bohemia. At the age of ten little Ernestine was sent to the Convent of the Ursuline Nuns in Prague, where she sang in the choir, but entirely by ear. Her father was afterward transferred to Graz, where a teacher named Marietta von Le Clair, who had recognized the signs , which told of a voice worth cultivating, kindly offered to give schumann-heink the budding genius her best efforts without pay. The girl’s voice at that time was a deep contralto, with no high notes. The wise teacher kept her on nothing 'but exercises for two years before she gave her songs by Mendelssohn, Schubert and other composers. Her first appearance in New York was in 1898, and she was such a great success that American audiences refused to allow her to return to Germany. She has now taken up her residence here and has become an American citizeness, making only short trips to Europe to fill special engagements. This singer’s capacity for work is simply phenomenal, and her record of 1904, when she made ninety-two appearances in four and one-half months, is still remembered as a feat unequaled by any prima donna. But the engagements which interest the largest number of persons are those which the great contralto fills in the Victor Laboratory. Large as her audiences always are, they would seem small indeed compared to the great public she sings to by means of the Victor. The records by this artist which we present are superb in quality and are pronounced to be perfect reproductions of one of the most glorious and sympathetic of true contralto voices. Mme. Schumann-Heink, desiring that her records should be as nearly perfect as possible, and worthy of her great reputation, has signed an exclusive agreement with the Victor Company. SCHUMANN-HEINK RECORDS (Sung in German unless noted) A ChilcTs Prayer In English Brandon-Harold 87094 10 2.00 ’ COPVT DUPONT Bizet 88416 12 3.00 Hermann 88400 12 3.00 Weingartner 87032 10 2.00 Reese-Salter 88336 12 3.00 Chadwick 87020 10 2.00 Schubert 87013 10 2.00 Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) In Latin (Piano acc.) Barbchen (2) Schlafliedchen Children’s Prayer In English (2) Liebesfeier In German Cry of Rachel In English Danza, The In English Der Tod und das Madchen (Death and the Maiden) Die Forelle (TheTrout) (Op. 32* (Piano by M rs. Kaiharina Hoffman) Schubert 87104 10 2.00 Erlkenig (The Erlking) (Op. 1) _ Fr. Schubert 88342 12 3.00 Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rath (By God’s Decree) Mendelssohn 88155 12 3.00 Fruhlingszeit (Springtide) Becker 87012 10 2 00 His Lullaby In English Carrie Jacobs-Bond 88118 12 3.00 Im Kahne (In the Boat) (Op. 60, No. 3) (Poem by Vilhelm Krag, 1 | 1871 ) Edvard Grieg 871 70 102.00 Irish Love ^ng In English Margaret Lang 87022 10 2.00 1 und mei Bua (1 and My Boy) Yodel Song Kerry Dance, The In English Lcggiero invisible (Bolero, “Oh. Light Invisible’*) Lucrezia Borgia — Brindisi (It is Better to Laugh) Mignon — Kennst du das Land (Knowest Thou the Land) Mondnacht (Moonlight) Millocker 88139 12 3.00 Molloy 88451 1 2 3.00 (In Italian) Arditi 88093 12 3.00 Donizetti 88188 12 3.()0 Thomas 88090 12 3.00 Schumann 88197 12 3.00