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Soprano Frances Alda (1879-1952)
Serenata (Tosti)
Recorded: April 25, 1910 in New York
Frances Davis Alda (31 May 1879 – 18 September 1952) was a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised operatic soprano. She achieved fame during the first three decades of the 20th century due to her outstanding singing voice, fine technique and colourful personality, as well as her frequent onstage partnerships at the New York Metropolitan Opera with Enrico Caruso.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Alda
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Soprano Frances Alda (1879-1952)
Serenata (Tosti)
Recorded: April 25, 1910 in New York
Frances Davis Alda (31 May 1879 – 18 September 1952) was a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised operatic soprano. She achieved fame during the first three decades of the 20th century due to her outstanding singing voice, fine technique and colourful personality, as well as her frequent onstage partnerships at the New York Metropolitan Opera with Enrico Caruso.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Alda
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![Tenor Ben DAVIES: A Spring Night; I Attempt From Loves Sickness To Fly (1924)
Tenor Ben Davies (1858-1943)
A Spring Night (Schumann) I Attempt From Loves Sickness To Fly from The Indian Queen (Purcell, Arr. W. H. Cummings)
Recorded: 1924
The Gramophone advertisement is from The Observer (London, Greater London, England), Sunday, January 6, 1924 (page 7)
Ben Davies (6 January 1858 – 28 March 1943): Welsh tenor singer who appeared with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, in operetta and light opera, and on the concert and oratorio platform. He was spoken of as a successor of Edward Lloyd as a leading British tenor and retained something of his style and repertoire in concert performance. The earliest recordings by Davies are Pathé brown wax cylinders from the mid-1890s. Davies had an early start among British singers in making gramophone records, beginning in 1901. Joe Batten noted: Sir Landon Ronald persuaded [him] to make his first records. He had laughed at the idea of singing into a tin trumpet, but when the test record of Henry Bishops My Pretty Jane was played back to him, he was inexpressibly delighted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Davies_(tenor)
******************************************* Tenor Ben DAVIES: A Spring Night; I Attempt From Loves Sickness To Fly (1924)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RLnrK4v2lQ4/mqdefault.jpg)