[78-L] O, Oda -- was Re: Exciting announcement [FWD]

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Jan 2 19:17:21 PST 2009


Michael Biel wrote:
> David Lennick wrote:
>> Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
>>   
>>>> In the May 1942 issye I found a fullpage ad with picture
>>>> announcing some new records made by Oda Slobodskaya exclusively for the
>>>> Rimington, Van Wyck Ltd store by Decca.   I'll slip this ad in  my
>>>> copy of her Peter and the Wolf. 
>>>>       
>> I wonder if these are the ones reissued on London 5678? Songs by Balakirev, 
>> Borodin, Gretchaninov and 3 folk songs, with Ivor Newton at the piano.
>>
>> dl
> 
> Apparently not, although Ivor Newton  accompanied these also.  The 
> songs  in this set were buy Tcherpnin, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Cesar 
> Cui, and Taneiev.
> 
> Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com
> ___________________________________________

When I returned the London LP to the shelf, I looked at the two Saga LPs of 
Slobodskaya Recitals issued in 1961 and Newton was the accompanist on those as 
well (plus accompanying her on the newer recordings on London).

dl



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