Track Listing

CD1 (75:38)
Gramophone and Typewriter Limited
Paris, ca. 1902
1. LE CID: Pleurez, mes yeux (Massenet) 3:14
  (1358 F) 33158  
2. Les Berceaux (Fauré) 2:56
  (1359 F) 33159  
3. SAMSON ET DALILA: Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (Saint-Saëns) 3:02
  (1360 F) 33160  
4. HAROLD: Lullaby (Nápravnik) 2:37
  (1361 F) 33161  
5. Noch (Rubinstein) 2:10
  (1362 F) 23196  
6. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: Mild und leise [Liebestod] (Wagner) 3:49
  (1363 F) 33162  
7. DIE WALKÜRE: Ho-jo-to-ho (Wagner) 1:51
  (1364 F) 33163  
8. Ich grolle nicht (Schumann) 2:03
  (1365 F) 33182  
Gramophone and Typewriter Limited
Paris, ca. 1903
9. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: Mild und leise [Liebestod] (Wagner) 3:53
  (2253 F) 33162X  
10. SAMSON ET DALILA: Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (Saint-Saëns) 2:50
  (2254 CS) 33160X  
11. SAPHO: O ma lyre immortelle (Gounod) 3:57
  (2255 CS) 033000  
12. Les Berceaux (Fauré) 2:47
  (2256 CS) 33159X  
13. Noch (Rubinstein) 2:11
  (2257 CS) 2319X  
14. Ich grolle nicht (Schumann) 2:02
  (2258 CS) 33182X  
15. HAROLD: Lullaby (Nápravnik) 2:34
  (2272 CS) 33161X  
16. FAUST: Seigneur, daignez (extracts from “Church Scene”) (Gounod) 1:52
  (2273 CS) 033001  
17. DIE WALKÜRE: Ho-jo-to-ho (Wagner) 1:55
  (2274 CS) 33163X  
18. LE CID: Pleurez, mes yeux (Massenet) 3:38
  (2275 F) 33158X  
Pathé Frères
Paris, ca. 1904
19. SAPHO: O ma lyre immortelle (Gounod) 2:22
  (2819) 348  
20. LES TROYENS À CARTHAGE: Adieu (Berlioz) 2:19
  (2820) 349  
21. FAUST: Je voudrais bien savoir…Il était un roi de Thulé (Gounod) 2:26
  (2821) 350  
22. FAUST: Seigneur, daignez (extracts from “Church Scene”) (Gounod) 2:14
  (7259) 351  
23. L’Incrédule (Hahn) 2:04
  (2822) 352  
Fonotopia
Paris, 1904 or 1905
24. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Voi lo sapete (Mascagni) 3:05
  (XPh 675) 39052  
25. LOHENGRIN: Einsam in trüben Tagen (Wagner) 3:00
  (XPh 676) 39182  
26. Ich grolle nicht (Schumann) 2:03
  (XPh 693) 39060  
27. AIDA: I sacri nomi (Verdi) 2:59
  (XPh 694) 39217  
28. L’AFRICAINE: Sur mes genoux (Meyerbeer) 3:30
  (XPh 695) 39218  

CD 1:
Accompaniment: Tracks 1-8 piano, Alfred Cortot; Tracks 9-28 piano
Languages: French [1- 4, 6-12, 14-23, 25, 27-28]; Russian [5 and 13]; Italian [24]; German [26]

 

CD 2 (77:18)
Odeon
Paris, 1910 and 1911
1. SAMSON ET DALILA: Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (Saint-Saëns) 3:17
  (XP 5022) 56219  
2. LA FAVORITE: O mon Fernand (Donizetti) 3:12
  (XP 5023) 56220  
3. LE TROUVÈRE: La nuit calme et sereine (Tacea la notte) (Verdi) 3:13
  (XP 5024) 56221  
4. LE TROUVÈRE: Brise d’amour (D’amor sull’ali rosee) (Verdi) 3:33
  (XP 5160) 56225  
5. CARMEN: L’amour est un oiseau rebelle [Habanera] (Bizet) 2:46
  (XP 5158) 56224  
6. L’AFRICAINE: Sur mes genoux (Meyerbeer) 2:41
  (XP 5161) 56226  
7. LE CID: Pleurez, mes yeux (Massenet) 3:19
  (XP 5177) 56223  
SELECTED RECORDINGS BY NATALYA YERMOLENKO-YUZHINA
Gramophone Company Limited
8. TANNHÄUSER: Dich, teure Halle (Wagner) 2:55
  1909; (7056r) 2-23458  
9. TANNHÄUSER: Allmächt’ge Jungfrau, hör’ mein Flehen (Wagner) 3:01
  1909; (7057r) 2-23475  
10. IL TROVATORE: Tacea la notte (Verdi) 3:09
  28 October 1911; (16124b) 2-23607  
11. AIDA: Ritorna vincitor (Verdi) 4:05
  6 February 1909; (406m) 023042  
12. AIDA: Fuggiam gli ardori inospiti (Verdi) 3:51
  with David Yuzhin, tenor
July 1908; (339m) 0243029		  
13. LA GIOCONDA: Suicidio! (Ponchielli) 3:09
  1908; (7201L) 2-23314  
14. MEFISTOFELE: Lontano, lontano! (Boito) 2:18
  with David Yuzhin, tenor
1908; (7196L) 2-24027		  
15. RUSLAN AND LUDMILA: O my Ratmir! (Glinka) 2:56
  6 February 1909; (8661L) 2-23416  
16. Russalka: Through the rushes (Dargomyzhsky) 2:20
  3 February 1910; (14199b) 2-23494  
17. ROGNEDA: The blue sea moaned (Serov) 2:30
  1908; (7191L) 2-23310  
18. JUDITH: I shall don my robe of byssus (Serov) 3:09
  8 February 1909; (8664L) 2-23418  
19. PRINCE IGOR: How dreary is everything [Yaroslavna’s Aria] (Borodin) 3:07
  3 February 1910; (14200b) 2-23486  
20. THE SOROCHINSKY FAIR: Parassia’s daydream (Mussorgsky) 3:23
  1 February 1910; (1949c) 023048  
21. THE OPRICHNIK: Little nightingale (Tchaikovsky) 3:36
  31 October 1911; (2520c) 023090  
22. MAZEPPA: Cradle song (Tchaikovsky) 2:25
  1908; (7197L) 2-23311  
23. ENCHANTRESS: To look from Nijai (Tchaikovsky) 3:48
  1908; (1977c) 023060  
24. PIKOVAYA DAMA: Ah, I am weary [Midnight Aria] (Tchaikovsky) 3:00
  1908; (7200L) 2-23313  
25. DUBROVSKY: Masha’s Arioso (Nápravnik) 2:26
  6 February 1909; (8662L) 2-23417  

CD 2:
Accompaniment: Tracks 1-13, 15-21, and 23-25 orchestra; Tracks 14 and 22 piano
Languages: French [1-7]; Russian [8-25]

 

 

Producer: Ward Marston

Audio Conservation: Ward Marston

Photographs: Girvice Archer and Charles Mintzer

Booklet Design: Takeshi Takahashi

Marston would like to thank Stephen R. Clarke, Ramona Fasio and John Philbrook for their help in the production of this CD release.

The following selections are re-recorded from copies in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence C. Witten II in the Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings, Yale University Library:
CD 1: Tracks 1, 8, 12, 13, 15, 19, 21, and 23
CD 2: Tracks 10, 11, and 22

Various selections are re-recorded from copies in the collections of J. Neil Forster, the Estate of Sir Paul Getty, Harry Glaze, and Lawrence F. Holdridge.