1938 ODA SLOBODSKAYA Russian Taneyev Song Ivor Newton78

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A series of great  classical orchestral and instrumental performances by major conductors, composers and instrumentalists.

Wonderful Russian Singer Oda Slobodskaya - equal in expressiveness to Nina Koshetz in her 1938

recording of Taneyev Song w Piano Ivor Newton

Taneyev Nocturne/Tchaikovsky Was not I one like a tender Blade that sprung Op 47.7

Taneyev Dreams - My Heart is throbbing/Taneyev In the Silence of the Night - Tcherepnin I would have kissed you

Original Issue British Decca 2x 12" 78 rpm 

Condition:

EXCELLENT PRISTINE, one faintest scratch, one scuff, needs cleaning

HEAR TWO OF HER TANEYEV SONGS BELOW Not this record

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Oda Slobodskaya

Russian soprano, 1888 - 1970

Biographical notes:

Her biographer Maurice Leonard quotes her birthdate as 28 November 1888. Her parents worked in a second-hand clothes shop in the village of Vilno (near the Polish border). She won a scholarship for secondary education, but at the end of this found herself working in the clothes shop, which displeased her. From amateur singing efforts she was aware she had musical gifts, and in 1907 she applied for an audition at the St Petersburg Conservatoire. The director, Glazunov, and her subsequent teacher, Natalya Iretskaya (one of the best Russian tutors) accepted her, and both awarded her a scholarship. The course of study was a long one, and it was not until 1916, that she made her real debut, as Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Mariinsky Theatre which was a success. The revolution and civil war brought many ups-and-downs. In 1921 she escaped to Berlin. Early success in Germany brought a call from Diaghilev to join him in Paris to star in the premiere of Stravinsky’s opera Mavra. She did not like like the piece, but the opportunity was not to be turned down, and so she appeared as Mavra in 1922. She had a successful solo debut at Carnegie Hall in New York too but had difficulties with finding a good manager. Slobodskaya took to self-managment, but that did not work at all. She was reduced to appearing in Vaudeville under the pseudonym of “Odali Careno.” In 1931 she was back in opera, with Chaliapin at the Lyceum, and she made England her home.  She married in 1932. Things started to pick up, and in the same year she began a career at Covent Garden, principally in Wagner! Appearances at the Colón and La Scala followed. The 1930s were kind to her, but even before the end of that decade she was beginning to be worried about vocal decline. Then followed wartime entertainment work, and participation in the National Gallery Concerts of Myra Hess. After the war, during which her husband had died, Slobodskaya’s career never really looked up, but Saga records “rediscovered” her in the late 1950s and released two LPs with her. By this time she had virtually retrained her voice from lyric soprano to a (dramatic) character-mezzo. The records were superb and were claimed as such. This prompted Decca to wake up to the fact that they had several unissued Slobodskaya recordings from 1939 - 1945. They were released in 1961. A fine set of Polish songs and a LP of classical Russian art and folk songs followed. After a painful illness, Oda Slobodskaya died in 1970 (Pearl). Here ashes were scattered in the Rose Garden in the Liberal Jewish Cemetary in Willesden, London.

Recordings:

Russian Art Songs: Oda Slobodskaya 1931/1938 and Vladimir Rosing 1931/1937. Songs byTaneiev, Tchaikovsky, Tcherepnin, Rachmaninov, Cui, Rubinstein, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tratitional songs

Pearl

Medtner - Songs

EMI

Mike Richter’s Opera Page: Stars of David/The Record of Singing Vol. 3

CD-ROM

Comment:

Oda Slobodskaya is a singer who was never properly appreciated, and it is not surprising because she was neglected by all companies and opera houses. Like  Nina Koshetz and Kyra Vayne she was a displaced Russian living abroad at a time when knowledge of Russian music and demand for it were far less widespread than they are now.

She was an individualist (a “prickly” character as Haynes wrote) who never belonged for long to an opera company. Pearl released her earlier recordings (1931/1938).

You hear a voice of immense purity, steadiness, agility and expressiveness. She was 50 years old at the time! You would not believe it! The color of her voice is “Russian” but she is much more a  singer of musical discipline than Nina Koshetz and Kyra Vayne . The songs discussed here are true treasures. Oda Slobodskaya is one of my favourite sopranos.

My favorite recordings:

- The Rose (Rubinstein / HMV 1931)

- Parassia’s daydream (Sorochintsy Fair / Mussorgsky / HMV 1931)

- The golden cornfields (Tchaikovsky / Decca 1938)

- So soon forgotten (Tchaikovsky / Decca 1938)

- It’s pleasant here! (Rachmaninov / Decca 1938)

- All are asleep (Taneiev / Decca 1938)

- Was I not like the green grass (Tchaikovsky / Decca 1938)

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