"IN OLD MADRID" - Emilio de Gogorza (1920) скачать в хорошем качестве

"IN OLD MADRID" - Emilio de Gogorza (1920)

IN OLD MADRID - Baritone with orchestra (Clifton Bingham - H. Trotere) Emilio de Gogorza Victrola, 64953, 1920. (one-sided 10-inch record) Please watch in high definition for better picture quality! I wanted to include one of the records from the collection of my great-grandparents, and have chosen this story of thwarted love, sung by the great baritone, de Gogorza. The somewhat melodramatic "In Old Madrid" has long been a favorite of mine, and it is also one of the few records of my great-grandparents that is not an opera record. One will not find a popular song or a record "for dancing" in their collection! The records that have survived were most likely purchased by them after they moved to California in 1912, after a year touring Europe, and settled into a large, comfortable house in a town near San Francisco. The records were stored in four ornately bound albums (patented by the Victor Talking Machine Co. in 1918!), which now sit on a shelf in my home. "In Old Madrid" was written in 1910 in London as an instrumental piece, but the composer soon realized that it lent itself to a vocal interpretation, and lyrics were written for it. Emilio de Gogorza's powerful yet gently nuanced voice seems the perfect fit for this song of a love that was not to be. Although born in Brooklyn, New York, de Gogorza was raised in Spain and England before settling permanently in America, where he had a successful career as a concert and recording artist. To quote from the Victor record catlog of 1930: "He has Anglo-Saxon strength and virility, Spanish passion and abandon, Italian subtlety and fire, and French perfection." The song's lyrics are poetic, but also stilted and written in an almost archaic English. Mr. de Gogorza's annuciation is flawless, but the words are nonetheless difficult to catch. Therefore, I have not only included them here in the description, but in the video as well. I have used the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915, as the setting for the video. All the backgrounds are scenes from the fair, with the Tower of Jewels and the Great South Gardens appearing in the first scene. "Long years ago, in old Madrid, Where softly sighs of love the light guitar, Two sparkling eyes a lattice hid, Two eyes as darkly bright as love's own star! There, on the casement ledge, when day was o'er, A tiny hand was lightly laid; A face look'd out, as from the river shore, There stole a tender serenade! Rang the lover's happy song, Light and low from shore to shore, But ah! the river flow'd along Between them evermore! "Come, my love, the stars are shining, Time is flying, Love is sighing, Come, for thee a heart is pining, Here alone I wait for thee! "Far, far away from old Madrid, Her lover fell, long years ago, for Spain; A convent veil those sweet eyes hid; And all the vows that love had sigh'd were vain! But still, between the dusk and night, 'tis said, Her white hand opes the lattice wide, The faint sweet echo of that serenade, Floats weirdly o'er the misty tide! Still she lists her lover's song, Still he sings upon the shore, Though flows a stream than all more strong Between them evermore!"