Jose Mardones (bass) - Piff! Paff! ('Les Huguenots' - Meyerbeer) (1910) скачать в хорошем качестве

Jose Mardones (bass) - Piff! Paff! ('Les Huguenots' - Meyerbeer) (1910)

José Mardones sings 'Piff! Paff!,' with orchestra conducted by Charles A. Prince, recorded in New York on 11 April 1910. From Wikipedia (translated): José Mardones, real name José García de Mardones Ortiz de Pereda (Fontecha, Álava, August 14, 1868 -Madrid, May 4, 1932), was a Spanish bass singer. Mardones was born in Fontecha in 1868, son of Juana Ortiz de Pinedo, a native of San Martín de Don, in the Tobalina Valley, and Gordiano García de Mardones, a native of Fontecha. When José was three years old, his mother died and he spent time with his aunts in the town of Briviesca, where he began his first musical studies. He sang as a soprano in the choir of the Collegiate church. He initially trained to enter the church, but his voice - a powerful and deep, bass - determined that he left his ecclesiastical studies. He got his first job in Palencia, as Psalmist of the Cathedral. He moved to Madrid, where he survived singing in churches. He became a soloist at the church of San Millán and also performed in secondary companies. By then he had already married Catalina Laredo. He began acting in zarzuela with the company of Emilio Sagi Barba, but as his desire was to devote himself to opera he took advantage of the opportunity offered to him to sing at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Subsequently, he obtained some engagements in Seville, Bilbao and other Spanish capitals. The success he achieved in these performances was spread by the press, and he received advantageous proposals from abroad. After performing triumphantly at the Teatro Nacional de San Carlos in Lisbon, he went to Milan and from there to Buenos Aires and the United States, where he remained for twelve years as the idol of the public at the Metropolitan in New York. At the Met, he debuted on November 12, 1917 in Verdi 's Aida, playing the role of Ramfis, and his last performance took place on April 17, 1926, in the role of Alvise in La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli. His last performance with the Metropolitan company took place days later, on May 6, 1926, playing the role of Sparafucile in Verdi's Rigoletto at the Eastman Theater in New York, under the direction of the famous director Tullio Serafin. In total he sang 409 performances for that company. Retiring in 1926, he returned to Spain, where in 1928 he gave a memorable concert in Madrid with the collaboration of the Symphony Orchestra and in 1929 in Barcelona, ​​in a festival organized by the Daily Press Association. He died in Madrid in the early hours of May 4, 1932, after a long illness. Mardones had a robust voice, with beautiful notes in the deep bass range and a no less beautiful timbre in the high regions, which included baritone domains. He was also distinguished by his exquisite good taste, delightful phrasing and perfect diction, the fruit of a highly cultivated talent. I made this transfer from Columbia A 5192.