Frank D. B. Byng Vídeos
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Joseph Hislop Gounod Byng Hayward Steane Covent Garden 1884 1914 1920 1926 1934 1937 1977
'Salut, demeure' was recorded on 9 June 1926, with orchestra conducted by George Byng and violin by Marjorie Hayward. It is difficult to improve upon John Steane's appreciation of the art of Joseph Hislop. 'He is a singer for whose ways and means one comes to have much affection, partly through the interaction of opera and song,' wrote Steane in 'The Grand Tradition.' As regards his records of Scottish songs and English ballads, Steane spoke of Hislop's 'tender and restrained way...varying his tone from a clear, incisive ring to a gentle mezzo voce, veiled and floated with fine control. In relation to the operatic recordings, Steane was a little less enthusiastic, but only a little. Michael Scott certainly found his singing to be clean and vigorous, with everything 'done to a high degree of competence.' Hislop was born in Edinburgh on 5 April 1884. He gained a musical education as a choirboy, but initially pursued a career in photoengraving. Ultimately, photography was jettisoned in favour of singing studies - in Stockholm, where he made his debut in 1914. He made his Covent Garden and North American debuts in 1920, and continued to sing in opera until 1934. He also made many concert tours, including to Australia. Retiring from singing in 1937, he began a teaching career in Stockholm, later continuing it in England. He died in Fife, Scotland, on 6 May 1977.
Elisabeth Schumann Schumann Hayes Byng Richard Strauss Florence Kirk Otto Klemperer Lotte Lehmann Bruno Walter Wilhelm Furtwängler Hamburg State Opera Metropolitan Opera Vienna State Opera 1888 1909 1914 1915 1919 1920 1926 1938 1952
Elisabeth Schumann sings 'Voi che sapete,' recorded in Studio B at Hayes on 19 May 1926, with orchestra conducted by George W. Byng. I transferred this side from an Australian laminated pressing of HMV DB 946. From Wikipedia: Elisabeth Schumann (13 June 1888 – 23 April 1952) was a German soprano who sang in opera, operetta, oratorio, and lieder. She left a substantial legacy of recordings. Born in Merseburg, Schumann trained for a singing career in Berlin and Dresden. She made her stage debut in Hamburg in 1909. Her initial career started in the lighter soubrette roles that expanded into mostly lyrical roles, some coloratura roles, and even a few dramatic roles. She remained at the Hamburg State Opera until 1919, also singing during the 1914/1915 season at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. From 1919 until 1938, she was a star of the Vienna State Opera. Her most famous role was that of Sophie in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, but she also excelled in Mozart, taking the roles of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. The conductor Karl Alwin was her second husband from 1920 until 1938. In 1938, she emigrated to New York City where she lived until her death on 23 April 1952, aged 64. During World War II she gave recitals but mainly taught singing, privately and at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. One of her pupils at Curtis was soprano Florence Kirk. After the war she gave many recitals in Europe, making a particularly successful comeback in England. She was a much-loved artist, admired for her vivacity, elegance, and beauty. She was closely connected with Richard Strauss, Otto Klemperer, Lotte Lehmann, Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and other leading musicians of the first half of the 20th century. Elisabeth Schumann died in New York City, New York. She was buried in St Martin's Church, Ruislip, England. Her son is also interred in the same plot.
Peter Dawson Dawson Hayes Byng Stevens Sir Charles Santley Battistini Mortimer Forge Amy Castles Gerald Moore Moore Handel Mendelssohn Elgar Covent Garden Wigmore Hall 1882 1903 1904 1905 1907 1909 1914 1924 1926 1931 1933 1935 1939 1948 1958 1961
Peter Dawson sings 'The Palms,' recorded at Hayes on 15 January 1926, with orchestra conducted by George Byng. From Wikipedia: Peter Smith Dawson (31 January 1882 – 27 September 1961) was an Australian bass-baritone and songwriter... Although Dawson's repertoire embraced a great deal of contemporary popular songs and light music, he possessed a remarkably fluent and technically adroit vocal technique which enabled him to excel in highly demanding classical pieces. His voice combined an attractive dark timbre with an ideal balance of diction and vocal placement. He also possessed a smooth legato, a strong but integrated 'attack' that eschewed intrusive aspirates, and a near-perfect ability to manage running passages and difficult musical ornaments such as roulades... If Dawson's interpretations were not profoundly penetrating, they were not shallow either; and in his chosen field of English concert pieces of the vigorous, manly, outdoors kind, he remains unequalled. The tremendously high technical finish of his Handelian singing sets an unmatched standard, too... Peter Dawson was born in 1882 in Adelaide, South Australia, to immigrant Scottish parents... At the age of 17 he joined a church choir and received singing lessons from C.J. Stevens. Then, aged 19, he won a prize for the best bass solo in a competition at Ballarat, Victoria, and began taking up concert engagements... He was sent to London to be taught by Sir Charles Santley, who first sent him to F. L. Bamford of Glasgow for six months' basic training and coaching in vocal exercises, arias, oratorio pieces and classical songs. He then studied from 1903 to 1907 with Santley... He attended a large number of performances at Covent Garden during the first decade of the 20th century, and heard many of the leading lower-voiced male singers of the age... Throughout his life he acknowledged the 'bel canto' example of Battistini... On 20 May 1905, he married Annie Mortimer 'Nan' Noble... Around this time, a Russian medical specialist assisted him to extend his upper range, until his compass extended from E-flat in the bass to a high A or A-flat. In 1909, he appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as the Night Watchman in The Mastersingers of Nuremberg... However, he did not find the pressures of the opera stage to be a congenial fit with his easygoing personality, and he elected instead to forge an alternative career as a concert and oratorio singer... Dawson...made a successful six-month tour of Australia with the Amy Castles company of singers. On his return, he began appearing in Promenade Concerts. A second long tour with his own company in Australia and New Zealand ended with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914... After the war...Dawson returned to England... A British tour ensued with International Celebrity Concerts, involving recitals of operatic numbers. Accompanied on the piano by Gerald Moore, he then gave lieder recitals at the Wigmore Hall in 1924. An extensive Australian tour (his sixth) occurred in 1931, and he paid further visits to his homeland in 1933, 1935, early 1939 and 1948–49. He made an extensive singing tour of India, Burma and the Straits Settlements during the 1930s; he also visited Ireland. His first BBC radio broadcast was made in 1931... [and] he subsequently became a prolific broadcaster, and was still active 'on air' as late as the 1950s... His last public performance was a concert for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in his home town of Adelaide, in January 1961. He died of heart failure in Sydney in September of that year and was buried in Rookwood Cemetery. The gramophone was a major factor in the promotion and progression of Dawson's career. He made his first 78-rpm acoustic recordings in 1904, and continued to release songs for EMI and HMV until 1958... Dawson's repertoire was essentially adapted to the purposes of the recital platform... He was an advocate of singing in English, and ensured that his diction was of the utmost clarity when he sang. He owed to his vocal mentor Charles Santley a taste and technique perfectly suited to oratorio... Handel standards...and Mendelssohn...remained constantly in his work. He sang Elgar roles in exemplary fashion, too...[together with] concert operatic titles... The art of the German Lied attracted him also... Russian standards also appeared in his recital programs... Most of these songs were sung in English. However, it was in British song that Dawson was especially famous, and his career helped to preserve the concert recital, and many of the older ballad type of songs, at a time when other forms of popular music were displacing the Victorian standards. He was particularly successful with the heartier, rollicking type of song... Many songs became personally identified with him... He composed a number of songs himself...His recitals were also enlivened by the inclusion of many Australian songs...
Byng Alhambra 1867 1901 1919 1939
Phillip Sear plays an impassioned 'serenade from a distance' from 1919 by the Irish-born composer Frank D. Byng +••.••(...)). / Alas I know very little about the composer of this piece, except that his full name was Francis D. Bulkley-Byng, and that he was born in Dublin, Ireland,. He was living in Honor Oak Park, London in 1901 (he subsequently moved to Herne Bay in Kent, where he died). I also know that he was apparently a music director at the Strand Theatre, and that he was a pioneer in arranging music for silent movies (as early as 1901), and that he published some books of piano pieces suitable for the purpose in the early 1910s. I believe he may have worked with a brother, David George Bulkley-Byng, who was a violinist at the Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square, London. I guess that the title of this piece represents a lover serenading his beloved from afar. / / Played by Phillip Sear (http•••) (Email: •••@••• WhatsApp: (http•••) )
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