<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Para quem gosta de gravações históricas, o selo de um dos maiores especialistas em transferências digitais, com um catálogo que inclui, entre outros, Elsie Houston.<br><br><br><table><tbody><tr><td><br></td></tr> </tbody></table><p>We
are tremendously excited to be issuing the first comprehensive CD of
the incomparable Brazilian mezzo-soprano, Elsie Houston. Her vocal
production and interpretations defy description. The intensity of her
passion coupled with the raw energy of her expression make Elsie Houston
impossible to forget once you have heard any one of her records. She is
undoubtedly the most individual of any classically trained singer to
have recorded. Having studied singing with Lilli Lehmann and Ninon
Vallin, Houston took her voice and career in a completely different
direction, devoting the rest of her life to the performance of Brazilian
music. Her first recording, made in Paris in 1927, contained four songs
by Heitor Villa-Lobos with the composer's wife accompanying her at the
piano. Also among her first records was a group of Brazilian folk songs
that she collected and published. These are sung to the accompaniment of
guitar, clarinet, and various indigenous percussion instruments. She
made many night club appearances in Paris and later in the U.S. where
exoticism of things South American had become the rage.</p><br></div><a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/html/catalogue.htm">http://www.marstonrecords.com/html/catalogue.htm</a><br><br><h1>CD 1 [79:22]</h1>
<h3>Gramophone Company, Paris</h3>
<h4>20 June 1928</h4>
1.<span class="title">Desejo [Seresta No. 10]</span> (Villa-Lobos) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/01_desejo.html" target="_blank">text</a>]0:47
2.<span class="title">Na paz do outono [Seresta No. 6]</span> (Villa-Lobos) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/02_na-paz-do-outono.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:33 <span class="date">(BT4114-1) P760</span>
3.<span class="title">Realejo [Seresta No. 12]</span> (Villa-Lobos) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/03_realejo.html" target="_blank">text</a>]0:41
4.<span class="title">Estrela do céu é lua nova</span> (Villa-Lobos) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/04_estrela_do_ceu.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:12 <span class="date">(BT4111-1) P760</span>
<h3>Brazilian Columbia, Rio de Janeiro</h3>
<h4>early 1930</h4>
5.<span class="title">Côco dendê, trapiá</span> (arranged by Houston) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/05_coco_ende.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:16
6.<span class="title">Ai! Sabiá da mata</span> (arranged by Houston) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/06_ai_sabia_da_mata.html" target="_blank">text</a>]2:17 <span class="date"> (380885-1) 7050-B</span>
7.<span class="title">O barão da Bahia</span> (Maria Amelia Barros) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/07_o-barao-da-bahia.html" target="_blank">text</a>]3:11 <span class="date"> (380830-1) 7014-B</span>
8.<span class="title">Cadeé minha pomba rola</span> (arranged by Houston)3:15 <span class="date"> (380832-2) 7014-B</span>
<h3>Gramophone Company, Paris</h3>
<h4>26 September 1933</h4>
9.<span class="title">Eh! Jurupanan [Côco]</span> (arranged by Houston)3:05 <span class="date">(OPG 1016-1) K7055</span>
10.<span class="title">Berceuse Africano-Bresilienne</span> (arranged by Houston)1:01
11.<span class="title">Oia o sapo [Embolada]</span> (arranged by Houston) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/11_oia-o-sapo.html" target="_blank">text</a>]2:05 <span class="date"> (OPG 1017-1) K7055</span>
<h3>Liberty Music Shop, New York</h3>
12.<span class="title">Jongo</span> (composer unknown)2:34 <span class="date">June 1938; (1757) L232</span>
13.<span class="title">Fado</span> (composer unknown)2:39 <span class="date">June 1938; (1758) L232</span>
14.<span class="title">Toda p’ra você</span> (Fernandez) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/14_toda-pra-voce.html" target="_blank">text</a>]2:38 <span class="date">Recording date and matrix unknown; Unpublished test*</span>
15.<span class="title">Xangô</span> (Villa-Lobos) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/15_xango.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:17 <span class="date">Recording date and matrix unknown; Unpublished test*</span>
16.<span class="title">Villancico Andaluz</span> (Joaquin Nin) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/16_villancico_andaluz.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:50 <span class="date">Recording date and matrix unknown; Unpublished test*</span>
17.<span class="title">Villancico Gallego</span> (Nin) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/17_villancico_gallego.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:16 <span class="date">Recording date and matrix unknown; Unpublished test*</span>
18.<span class="title">Villancico Castellano</span> (Nin) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/18_villancico_castellano.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:19 <span class="date">Recording date and matrix unknown; Unpublished test*</span>
19.<span class="title">Sur l’herbe</span> (Ravel) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/19_sur_lherbe.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:58 <span class="date">Recording date and matrix unknown; Unpublished test*</span>
20.<span class="title">Quand je chante cette melodie</span> (Nilvar)2:10 <span class="date">Recording date and matrix unknown; Unpublished test*</span>
21.<span class="title">Mon ami</span> (Jamblan/Herpin)3:01 <span class="date">July 1939; (R163-1) L263</span>
22.<span class="title">The cherry tree</span> (S.L.M. Barlow)2:58 <span class="date">July 1939; (R164-1) L263</span>
<h3>RCA Victor, New York</h3>
<h4>1941</h4>
23.<span class="title">Foi numa noite calmosa [No. 5 Modinha Carioca]</span> (arranged by Luciano Gallet) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/23_foi_numa_noite_calmosa.html" target="_blank">text</a>]4:01 <span class="date">17 January 1941; (CS-060345-1) 13667</span>
24.<span class="title">Bahia [Carateristica]</span> (Alvaro Moreira/Hekel Tavares)1:51
25.<span class="title">Danza de caboclo [Côco]</span> (arranged by Tavares) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/25_danca-de-cabloclo.html" target="_blank">text</a>]0:50 <span class="date">24 January 1941; (CS-060371-1) 13667</span>
26.<span class="title">Bia-ta-tá [Côco]</span> (arranged by Tavares) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/26_bia-ta-ta.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:23
27.<span class="title">Benedicto pretinho</span> (arranged by Tavares)1:01 <span class="date">24 January 1941; (CS-060372-2) 13668</span>
28.<span class="title">Berimbau, Op. 4</span> (Manuel Bandeira/Jayme Ovalle) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/28_berimbau.html" target="_blank">text</a>]3:15 <span class="date">24 January 1941; (CS-060373-1) 13668</span>
29.<span class="title">Chariô [Tres potos de Santo, Op. 10, No. 1]</span> (Jayme Ovalle) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/29_chario.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:03
30.<span class="title">Aruanda [Tres potos de Santo, Op. 10, No. 2]</span> (Jayme Ovalle) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/30_aruanda.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:05
31.<span class="title">Estrella do Mar [Tres potos de Santo, Op. 10, No. 3]</span> (Jayme Ovalle) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/31_estrella_do_mar.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:32 <span class="date">24 January 1941; (CS-060374-1) 13669</span>
32.<span class="title">Tayêras [Song and dance of the Mulatresses from Bahia]</span> (arranged by Gallet) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/32_tayeras.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:39
33.<span class="title">Bambalelê [Song from Pernambuco]</span> (arranged by Gallet) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/33_bambalele.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:22 <span class="date">24 January 1941; (CS-060375-1) 13669</span>
34.<span class="title">Canção do carreiro [Seresta No. 8]</span> (Villa-Lobos) [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/34_cancao-de-carreiro.html" target="_blank">text</a>]4:21 <span class="date">17 January 1941; (CS-060344-1) 17978</span>
<span class="title">Siete canciones populares Españolas (Traditional, arranged by de Falla)</span>
35.<span class="title">El paño moruno</span> [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/35_el-pano-moruno.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:14
36.<span class="title">Seguidilla murciana</span> [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/36_seguidilla-murciana.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:19
37.<span class="title">Asturiana</span> [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/37_asturiana.html" target="_blank">text</a>]2:25
38.<span class="title">Jota</span> [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/38_jota.html" target="_blank">text</a>]3:20
39.<span class="title">Nana</span> [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/39_nana.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:12
40.<span class="title">Canción</span> [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/40_cancion.html" target="_blank">text</a>]0:59
41.<span class="title">Polo</span> [<a href="http://www.marstonrecords.com/houston/texts/41_polo.html" target="_blank">text</a>]1:29 <span class="date">18 April 1941; (CS-063377-1, CS-063378-1, CS-063379-1, and CS-063380-1) unpublished</span>
<p>*The unpublished Liberty Music Shop recordings
contained here were originally recorded on lacquer-coated aluminum
discs. These unique test discs were in private hands for many years but
have now apparently been lost. Fortunately, a magnetic tape transfer of
the discs was made in the 1970s which we have used for this issue. We
hope that the original discs survive somewhere.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The following selections are re-recorded from copies in the
collection of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence C Witten II, the Yale Collection of
Historical Sound recordings, Yale Music Library: Tracks 7 and 8</p>
<p><strong>Accompaniment:</strong> Tracks [1-4] with
Lucilia Guimarães Villa-Lobos, piano; [5 and 6] with Gaó, Zezinho,
Jonas, and Chaves; [7] with Gaó, Zezinho, and Jonas; [8] with Gaó,
Zezinho, Jonas, and Petit; [9 and 11] with Carlitos and his Brazilian
Orchestra; [10] unaccompanied; [12] with unidentified percussionist;
[13] with unidentified guitarists; [14-20] with unidentified pianist;
[21 and 22] with Cy Walter, piano, and ensemble; [23-41] with Pablo
Miguel, piano</p>
<p><strong>Languages:</strong><br>Portuguese [1-9,
11, 13-14, and 23-34];” dialect of the Makumba religion [10, 12, 15];
Spanish [16, 18, and 35-41]; Galician Portuguese [17]; French [19-21];
English [22]</p>
<p> </p>
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<p><i>Producers:</i> Scott Kessler and Ward Marston</p>
<p><i>Audio Conservation:</i> Ward Marston</p>
<p><i>Audio Assistance:</i> J. Richard Harris</p>
<p><i>Photos:</i> Gregor Benko, Roger Gross, and Arquivo Nirez</p>
<p><i>Booklet Design:</i> Takeshi Takahashi</p>
<p>Marston is grateful to the Estate of John Stratton (Stephen Clarke, Executor) for its continuing support.</p>
<p>Marston would like to thank Gregor Benko, John Bolig, Giulio Draghi,
Lawrence F. Holdridge, David Mason, Peter Oehlkers, Ben Roth, and
Richard Warren for their help in the production of this CD release.</p>
<p style="text-align:center">Dedication<br>
This CD is produced in loving memory of Andy Karzas: a great friend, a lover of opera, and an advocate of historic recordings.</p><br><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>carlos palombini<br>ph.d. dunelm<br>professor de musicologia ufmg<br>professor colaborador ppgm-unirio<br><a href="http://goo.gl/KMV98I" target="_blank">ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2" target="_blank">www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2</a><br><a href="http://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=YLmXN7AAAAAJ" target="_blank">scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=YLmXN7AAAAAJ</a><br></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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