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This disc contains over 600 complete recordings of almost 200 singers of Jewish heritage, including ...
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The second volume of the Audio Encyclopedia, Stars of David, is now on CD-ROM.
This disc contains over 600 complete recordings of almost 200 singers of Jewish heritage,
including operatic arias, classical songs, and Hebrew and Jewish cantorial and song.
All artists are listed with biographical information and pictures where they could be found.
Much of the material is exceptionally rare, and a great many of the recordings have
never been reissued or even published.
It is impractical to list here all of the singers on the disc, but here are a
few of particular interest.
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- Mikhail Alexandrovitch, tenor
- Cantor Richard Allen, baritone
- Mario Ancona, baritone
- Giuseppina Baldassare
-Tedeschi, soprano
- Cantor Selmar Cerini, tenor
- Charles Dalmores, tenor
- Cantor Louis Danto, tenor
- Elise Elizza, soprano
- Marisa Galvany, soprano
- Igor Gorin, baritone
- Robert Ilosfalvy, tenor
- Jan Kiepura, tenor
and his brother Wladislaw, tenor
- Nina Koshetz, soprano
and her daughter Marina, soprano
- Cantors David and
Moshe Kusevitsky, tenors
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- Cantor Sawel Kwartin, baritone
his granddaughter Evelyn Lear, soprano
- Hulda Lashanska, soprano
- Emanuel List, bass
- Rose Pauly, soprano
- Rosa Raisa, soprano
and her husband Giacomo Rimini, baritone
- Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, tenor
and his son Cantor Henry Rosenblatt bass-baritone
- Friedrich Schorr, baritone
and his father Cantor Mayer Schorr, baritone
- Neil Shicoff, tenor
and his father Cantor Sidney Shicoff, tenor
- Cantor Gerson Sirota, tenor
- Alexander (Sandor) Sved, baritone
- Georgy Vinogradov, tenor
- Josef Winogradoff, baritone
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Of course, we have included rare material from such well-known recording artists
as George London, Robert Merrill, Jan Peerce, Roberta Peters, Mark Reizen, Josef
Schmidt, Beverly Sills, Richard Tauber and Richard Tucker.
Clips with Descriptions
It is not unusual for the children of classical singers to be singers
themselves, but it is rare for the offspring of a famous artist to perform at a
similar level of artistry and acclaim. Perhaps because of the intensity of
exposure, such relationships are far more frequent in singers of Jewish
heritage. Rather than dwelling on families of cantors - as many as four
brothers were all noted as hazzans - I have chosen three examples where a
famous cantor was followed by a famous opera singer.
Cantor Mayer and Friedrich Schorr
Mayer Schorr was offered an opportunity by Gustav Mahler, then Director of
the Vienna Opera, to sing at that house. He refused for religious reasons and
remained a cantor all of his life. At the time of Friedrich's birth in 1888,
Mayer was the cantor of the main synagogue in Nagyverad, Hungary, but later
became the chief cantor of the Grand Synagogue in Vienna. Cantor Schorr was one
of the earliest cantors to record; this 1902 selection came to us through the
kindness of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Record Archive of the New York Public
Library. Weschomeru
Cantor Sawel Kwartin and Evelyn Lear
Savel (Zevulun) Kwartin was born in Khonorad, Ukraine in 1874. It is
difficult to classify his voice, since it was part tenor and part baritone.
Although offered many opportunities to sing in opera, he chose to remain
exclusively a cantor. He held important posts in Vienna, St. Petersburg, and
Budapest before emigrating to the United States in 1920. For 10 years he was
cantor at the Temple Emanuel in Brooklyn. After retirement, he moved to
Palestine, where he resided for 7 years, but then returned to New York, where
he died in 1953.
Hazur tumim um puseloi
Neil Shicoff was born in New York in 1949 and studied voice with his father,
as well as at Juilliard. His professional debut was as Rinuccio in Gianni
Schicchi at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976. He quickly gained renown as a
tenor, and has sung around the world. He is represented here in a 1986
performance of the Romeo et Juliette Act III
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