[78-L] Miserere/La Vergine Degli Angeli

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Hi!

Just to add that this is a particularly common record.
I have seen multiple copies both on Victor and HMV.
The reason for this is simple.

The Forza side is one of the finest operatic excerpts on record (and 
this particular Forza excerpt wasn't issued that often) whereas the 
Miserere threatens to be THE definitive recording of this often 
performed excerpt. People bought this in their thousands...and 
rightly so. I wouldn't be without it! ;-)

Earl.

At 8:43 am -0800 06/12/2008, 78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com wrote:
>Hi All
>The coupling of Martinelli/Ponselle & Pinza/Ponselle was the same in North
>America.The Miserere had 2 takes issued.The second version can be identified
>when Martinelli makes his entry.The level is very high,almost blasting.You
>can hear the engineers cut the gain after a few seconds.
>Tom Hood
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Francesco Martinelli" <francesco.martinelli at gmail.com>
>To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 7:03 AM
>Subject: [78-L] Miserere/La Vergine degli Angeli
>
>
>>  Request of information from the learned members of the list:
>>  I saw that this coupling of two arias from two different Verdi operas
>>  (Trovatore/Forza) was used at least once, in a Ponselle/Martinelli (no
>>  relation alas) 78 rpm record for Victor. I have an English copy of it, I
>>  saw
>>  it was also printed for South America; I'd like to know when it was
>>  available for sale in the USA, and if it the same coupling was used in
>>  other
>>  editions.
>>  thanks for any help
>>  Francesco Martinelli
>>  Lungarno Mediceo 10
>>  56127 PISA ITALY
>  > http://xoomer.alice.it/upsma/index.htm