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Singer: Crooks, Richard

Accompanier: La Forge, Frank

Short characteristic of recordings Die schoene Muellerin D 795 Franz Schubert


 

Discography item

C 01


 

 

Information Artists & Performance

 

Singer (name) – Internet Information

Richard Crooks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Crooks 
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Crooks-Richard.htm

    Voice / age in recording year           

Tenor / 33

    Year of birth / Country

1900 / USA († 1972)

Accompanier – Internet Information

Frank La Forge - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_La_Forge

          Instrument                    

Piano

Language / Version

D / --

Total time (min / sec)

(52:51 with omissions)

     Songs 1 - 5 // 6 - 10

1:verses 3,4&5 omitted; 2:1’54; 3:1’24; 4:1’59; 5:2’07; 6:4’30 ; 7:verses 2&3 omitted; 8: verses 3&4 omitted; 9:verse 3 omitted; 10:verses 3,4,5&6 omitted

     Songs 11-15 // 16 - 20

11:2’24 ;12:verse1 & first half of verse 2 missing;13:verse 2 omitted;14: verses 3,4&5 omitted;15: 1’42;16:verses 2&3 omitted;17: 2’26;18:4’09;19:4’54; 20:verses 2&3 omitted

 

 

Information CD considered


 

Medium /Label /code/technique+S/M

CD / Claremont / CD GSE 78-50-67 / AAD MONO

Date of recording / Location

1933; 1-5: 19-IV; 6-9 + 19: 26-X; 10-11: 19-VI; 12-18 + 20: 21-VI

Editor / Exec.Producer / Art direction

Donald Graham

Booklet / author(s)

E / Donald Graham (producer’s note), John E. Barker

Songtexts / languages

D

Other releases

Victor 78 rpm-1946;Vic 11-9251/3 (set M1067 incomplete); CD Delos DE 5501

Supplementary on CD

4 Arias and songs Haendel / Pessard / Arne

Miscellanious

Historical . RICHARD CROOKS: Die Schöne Müllerin (Complete Cycle, incl. several Unpublished parts) (Schubert), The Celebrated 1933 Performance, the published portions not released until 1946; the Unpublished portions from Crooks' Test Pressings, never before issued in any form! Songs by Pessard, Arne & Handel, 1940 recordings. (South Africa) Claremont GSE CD 78-50-67. Transfers by Graham Sound. Clearance Title, Reduced to 9.90

 

 

Reviews

Gramophone 5.1997

 

 

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