Prima Voce - Sigrid Onegin, Volume 1

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True contraltos are uncommon; most of their roles are taken these days by multipurpose mezzos, whose voices have quite a different timbre. Contraltos with the range and agility of Sigrid Onegin (1889-1943) are even more uncommon. She had a deep, plummy, velvety voice, well-trained and evenly produced, always very beautiful, and with an astonishing pianissimo trill (used here to great effect in Bizet's "Pastorale"). But she lacked fire and passion--her Carmen is sexless--and New Grove aptly says that her performances "suggest something marmoreal in their smoothness and coldness of style." She isn't helped by the Nimbus transfer techniques, which here result in a considerable reduction of surface noise and an appropriate resonance but also eliminate overtones and are less than lifelike in their results. Still, there is beautiful singing to be heard on this disc, so it offers a good deal more than mere historic interest. --Alex Morin

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1. Lucrezia Borgia, Act 2: II Segreto Per Esser Felice
2. Carmen, Act 1: L' Amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle (Habanera)
3. Carmen, Act 3: En Vain Pour Eviter (Card Scene)
4. Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Weighe, Wotan, Weiche! (Erdas Warnung)
5. Gotterdammerung, Act 1, Scene 3: Seit Er Von Dir Geschieden... So Sitzt Er-Gotterdammerung
6. Aida, Act 4: Gia I Sacerdoti Adunansi
7. Un Ballo In Maschera, Act 1: Re Dell Abiso, Affrettati
8. II Trovatore, Act 1: Stride La vampa
9. Samson Et Dalila, Act 1: Printemps Qui Commence
10. Samson Et Dalila, Act 2: Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix
11. Der Evangelimann, Act 2: O Shone Jugendtage
12. Wo Du Hingehst (Trauungsgesang) - Sigrid Onegin/Georg Kniestadt
13. Von Ewiger Liebe, Op.43, No.1
14. Die Mainacht, Op.43, No.2
15. No.2, Op.32: Nicht Mehr Zu Dir Zu Gehen - Sigrid Onegin/Bruno Seidler-Winkler
16. Beherzigung - Sigrid Onegin/Bruno Seidler-Winkler
17. O Ma Tendre Musette
18. Menuett D'Exaudet
19. Jeunes Fillettes
20. Pastorale

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True contraltos are uncommon; most of their roles are taken these days by multipurpose mezzos, whose voices have quite a different timbre. Contraltos with the range and agility of Sigrid Onegin (1889-1943) are even more uncommon. She had a deep, plummy, velvety voice, well-trained and evenly produced, always very beautiful, and with an astonishing pianissimo trill (used here to great effect in Bizet's "Pastorale"). But she lacked fire and passion--her Carmen is sexless--and New Grove aptly says that her performances "suggest something marmoreal in their smoothness and coldness of style." She isn't helped by the Nimbus transfer techniques, which here result in a considerable reduction of surface noise and an appropriate resonance but also eliminate overtones and are less than lifelike in their results. Still, there is beautiful singing to be heard on this disc, so it offers a good deal more than mere historic interest. --Alex Morin

Track Listings:

1. Rathaus: Letzte Pierrot Op19; Sinfonie Op5
2. Salieri: La Passione / The New Orchestra / Chorus Musicus Cologne / Christoph Spering 2CD
3. Schubert: Fantasies for Piano Duet
4. Schumann: Album for the Young
5. Secular Folk-songs from Dalecarlia
6. She Walks in Beauty: Soprano Danielle Woerner Sings Chamber Music and Songs of Otto Luening and Robert Starer
7. Strauss: Edition Vol. 13
8. Sunday With the Times [Box set]
9. Symphony 5 in D K385 Haffner / Sym 40 G Minor K550
10. Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings; "Romeo and Juliet" Fantasy-Overture; "1812" Overture

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