Victor records (Nov 1915)

Fa VICTOR RECORDS Number | = FARRAR RECORDS—Continued Segreto di Susanna— Via! cosinon mi lasciate (Do Not Go Like This) /talian |87136|10)2.00 Tales of Hoffman-—Barcarolle (Night of Love) French with Scotti Offenbach|87502|10/3.00 Tannhauser—Elizabeth’s Prayer In German Wagner|88053) 12/3.00 Tosca—Vissi d’arte e d’amor (Love and Music) In Italian Puccini}88192)12|3.00 Wanderer’s Nachtlied (Wanderer’s Night Song) Ger. with Schumann-Heink|87504) 10/3.00 Wonnevoller Mai, o komm herbei (Come Joyous Month of May) Jn German|87127) 10|2.00 Ye Banks and Braes 0’ Bonnie Doon In English Burns|87062/10/2.00 Fascinating Base-Ball Slide (Janis) Elsie Janis/60090/10| .75 Fascination Waltz—Whistling Guido Se ie LENIOL ts Southern Melodies—Xylophone (Contents under “Medleys’’) Wm. Reitz Fascinator March—One-Step (Scheid) Pryor’s pare laceollaneds Society Swing Two-Step—for Dancing (Frantzen) Pryor’s Band fe Fateful Moment (Tschaikowsky) ‘Cello obbligato Russian Michailowa|61133)10)1.00 Father as a Scientist (Case) Charlie net 16g2R IA os Fourth of July at Jayville Centre Harlan, Stanley and Cho . Father Was Out Murry K. oe easelias Flanagan’s Motor Car Steve Porter eat FATHER—Comic Songs About—See “‘ Everybody Works But Father,” **Mother Hasn’t Spoke to Father,’’ “‘Same as His Faither Was,’’ i “Take a Little Tip From Father ”’ and ““ What’sthe Matter With Father’’ | Fatherland, the Motherland, the Land of My Best Girl Se 75 Always Treat Her Like a Baby (Irving Berlin) irving Kaufman LiGso ne Fatinitza Selection (von Suppé) Pryor’s pene Barcarolle—Contes d’Hoffman (Offenbach) Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler FAURE, JEAN—See “Charité,” ‘‘Crucifix,’”’ ‘Rameaux” and “‘Palms’’ FAUST, by Berlioz—See ‘‘ Damnation of Faust” FAUST (Fowst) by Gounod (Sung in French unless otherwise indicated) Opera in five acts; libretto by Barbier and Carré, founded upon Goethe’s tragedy ; music by Gounod. First produced in Paris, 1859; London, 1863; New York, 1863. Faust, a German philosopher, after a life of meditation, becomes disgusted with the smallness of human knowledge and his own inability to unravel the mysteries of Nature. He summons to his aid the Spirit of Evil, who appears to him under the form of Mephistopheles. Through the supernatural power of the latter, Faust is restored to youth and endowed with personal beauty and Juxurious garb. Mephistopheles, in a vision, reveals to him the village maid Margaret, with whom the student falls in love. Margaret, noted for her loveliness, has been left by her soldier brother, Valentine, under the care of Dame Martha, a worthy but not very vigilant personage. The maiden at first rejects the stranger's advances, but Faust, aided by the influence of Mephistopheles, urges his suit, and Margaret’s resistance is at length overcome. Valentine, on returning from the wars, learns what has occurred; he challenges his sister’s betrayer, but, through the intervention of Mephistopheles, he is killed in the duel. Margaret, horror-stricken at the calamity of which she is the cause, gives way to despair. Her reason becomes affected, and in a frenzy she kills her infant. She is thrown into prison, and Faust, aided by Mephistopheles, obtains access to the cell in which she is confined. They both eagerly urge her to fly, but Margaret, in whom holier feelings have obtained the ascendant, spurns their proffered aid, and expires. Mephistopheles is triumphant at the apparent success of his schemes to destroy a human soul, but a chorus of heavenly voices is heard proclaiming that there is pardon for the repentant sinner, and the Evil One, foiled and overcome, crouches in terror as the spirit of Margaret is borne to heaven by ministering angels. The complete opera has been recorded by the Victor, with the exception of a few unimportant bits which are not interesting without the action. The numbers are printed in the order of their occurrence in the opera. For a more complete description of the opera with English translations and twenty-six illustrations see ‘* Victor Book of the Opera.” 16827/10| .75 ACT J—rneE stTupio OF FAUST Prelude to Faust L’Orchestre Symphonique|58016| |2 La vaga pupilla (Rise, Slumb’ring Maiden) Jn/Jtalian de Tura and Chorus|76019} 12 lo voglio il piacer (Pleasures of Youth) G. Pini-Corsi and Sillich J/talian nd_ Forza del Destino—Solenne’ in quest’ ora—Colazza and Caronna 63174 10. O merveille (Heavenly Vision) Finale, Act! Caruso and Journet' 89039 |2 4.00 1.00 2.00 “he