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Chopin Helena Zboińska 1877 1926 1948
Helena Zboińska-Ruszkowska (1877, Lwów - 1948, Kraków), one of the greatest Polish soprano singers of that era. Sings on the acoustic Syrena-Record the most popular Chopin's Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2. The piece which has been so often rendered vocally by the most outstanding lady singers. The condition of the record required for playing it a special, more smoother and bent needle as well as a support of a hand for the heavy membrane head, to some safer moment and point of the record. The direct, cable transfer of this recording was presented once in the radio program of the author and may be listened to in this link, time 4:10 : (http•••) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Ewa Bandrowska Turska Karol Szymanowski Fryderyk Chopin Alexander Skriabin Richard Wagner Richard Strauss Claude Debussy Maurice Ravel Aleksander Bandrowski Helena Zboińska Albert Roussel Opéra Comique Odeon 1882 1894 1918 1919 1921 1924 1926 1930 1934 1937 1960 1979
Born in 1882 Karol Szymanowski was one of the truly outstanding composers of the first half of the 20th Century. He was certainly the greatest and most influential Polish composer of that period. His works included four symphonies, two violin concertos, the operas „Hagith" „King Roger", the ballet-pantomime „Harnasie", the oratorio „Stabat Mater", as well as numerous piano, violin, vocal and choral compositions. His career as a composer can most easily be envisaged as being in three very distinct phases. Szymanowski's early works before the First World War display a strong affinity with the work of Fryderyk Chopin, Alexander Skriabin, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. The subsequent period of his development was characterised by a fascination with the Orient and with Mediterranean cultures during which he was clearly influenced by the French impressionists Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. This period produced many of his best known and loved compositions. From 1921 his music became increasingly distinctive as he drew upon Polish folk themes, especially from the Podhale mountain region around Zakopane, to define a specifically Polish music. This period produced much of his very greatest work. Afflicted by disease and financial concerns, Szymanowski effectively ceased to compose from 1934. He died in 1937 at the age of 57 leaving behind an outstanding collection of works that are today more loved, and more widely performed and recorded than ever before. One if his creations including homoerotic threads was opera „King Roger", composed within 1918-1924 and premiered in Warsaw, 1926. The scene of the drama is laid in the XII century Kingdom of Sicily, ruled by King Roger the 2nd, from a Norman line of kings. ............................. Ewa Bandrowska-Turska +••.••(...)), one of the most talented and versatile Polish soprano singers; she was a niece of the great Polish singer, Aleksander Bandrowski. First was taught by the singer Helena Zboińska-Ruszkowska who after six month lectures stated that Ewa should had already gone her own way. Her debut took place In 1919, soon she was performing in „Faustus" in the Warsaw Opera, being a soloist of the scene. Began to make her concerts outside Poland, in Germany, Austria and mainly France where she was invited by the group „jeunes musiciens polonais". Soon it turned out that Bandrowska-Turska had a special talent and predispositions for a modern and contemporary repertoire; started to sing songs by Maurice Ravel and Albert Roussel, having been accompanied by those composers. In Poland, she became one of the first interpreters of compositions made by Karol Szymanowski; from these times the present recording dates. She sang in Opéra Comique, Paris, Ostenda, Brussels, Nicea, various places in Italy, New York and Chicago. Her recitals were received with great enthusiasms in Soviet Russia, she became an important ambassador of Polish music and culture. She performed for the last time on the Warsaw Opera stage in 1960, died in 1979. The present record, from my collection, shows Bandrowska-Turska's vocal talent for the first time recorded in electrical system for the Polish Odeon in 1930: Aria of Roxana "King Roger" Symphony Orchester Conducted by Dr Weissmann 1930 Some audio traces of the steel needle once having been used, can be unfortunately heard.
Chopin Helena Zboińska Ada Sari Ewa Bandrowska Turska Wanda Wermińska Odeon Scala 1877 1900 1907 1919 1926 1927 1928 1948
Helena Zboińska-Ruszkowska - Nocturne (Chopin) Soprano in Polish with Harp and Cello, Odeon c. 1926/27 (German label; recorded in Poland?) NOTE: Helena Zboińska-Ruszkowska - (b.1877 in Lwów, Poland – d. 1948 in Cracow, Poland) Polish dramatic soprano, one of the huge names in the history of European opera. Having completed in 1900 her vocal education in censervatories of Warsaw, Vienna and Milan, Zboinska-Ruszkowska debuted in Warsaw’s Grand Theatre, where she stayed four next years. Then she was contracted in Vienna and in 1907-09 she performed in Milan in La Scala, partnered by the greatest European singers. She also cut many sides for the Fonotipia and HMV records (labeled as “Elena Ruscovska”) and made many international tours in Europe and in South America. In 1919 Zboińska-Ruszkowska arrived back in Warsaw where she sung in the Grand Theatre until 1928. In later years she gave only recitals and was preoccupied in teaching the new generation of great Polish sopranos, which included such later celebrities as Ada Sari, Ewa Bandrowska-Turska or Wanda Wermińska. This recording is a rare performance of a Chopin’s piano piece transcribed into a vocal score. Most likely, the side was recorded in Warsaw near the end of Zboińska-Ruszkowska’s stage career.
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