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I am currently selling a series of great Richard Wagner and classic European 78 rpm orchestral recordings on all the great European labels:

The History Of Music In Sound

Great Spanish Soprano VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES tenor Richard LEWIS in arguably their rarest 78 rpm recordings, since the records were not sold as singles.

"History of music in sound. Vol. 5: Opera and church music, 1630-1750

Contributor
Abraham, Gerald, 1904-1988.
Westrup, J. A. (Jack Allan), 1904-1975.

The history of music in sound. Vol. 5: Opera and church music (1630-1750) edited by J. A. Westrup.
(55 p. front.) Program notes by Gerald Abraham for use with 78 rpm.

 Italian Opera
–Francesco Cavalli Duet: ""Musici Della Selva"" From ""Egisto""
Conductor – Arnold Goldsbrough
Orchestra – Goldsbrough Orchestra
Soprano Vocals – Victoria De Los Angeles
Tenor Vocals – Richard Lewis (3)
–Antonio Cesti Aria: ""E Dove T'Aggiri"" From ""Il Pomo D'Oro""
Conductor – Jack Allan Westrup
Soprano Vocals – Arda Mandikian
–Alessandro Stradella Scene From ""Floridoro""
Cello – Terence Weil
Conductor – Jack Allan Westrup
Harpsichord – Basil Lam
Soprano Vocals – Dorothy Bond, Margaret Ritchie
–Alessandro Scarlatti Quartet: ""Idolo Mio Ti Chiamo"" From ""Tito Sempronio Gracco""
Conductor – Jack Allan Westrup
Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Nancy Evans (3)
Soprano Vocals – Dorothy Bond, Margaret Ritchie
Tenor Vocals – Alexander Young
Italian Opera (contd.)
–Georg Friedrich Händel Aria And Recit.: ""V'Adoro, Pupille"" From ""Giulio Cesare""
Conductor – Arnold Goldsbrough
Soprano Vocals – Victoria De Los Angeles
Tenor Vocals – Richard Lewis (3)
–Pietro Logroscino Aria: ""Io Non Songo Bona Bona""
Conductor – Jack Allan Westrup
Contralto Vocals – Gladys Ripley
French Opera
–Jean-Baptiste Lully Scène Infernale From ""Alceste""
Bass Vocals – Lucien Lovano
Choir – Farm Street Singers
Conductor – Roger Désormière
Orchestra – The New London Orchestra
Soprano Vocals – Arda Mandikian
–Jean-Philippe Rameau Air: ""O Jour Affreux"" From ""Dardanus""
Conductor – Roger Désormière
Orchestra – The New London Orchestra
Soprano Vocals – Arda Mandikian
English Opera
–John Blow Scene From ""Venus And Adonis""
Cello – Terence Weil
Choir – Chorus From Mary Datchelor School
Conductor – Jack Allan Westrup
Harpsichord – Basil Lam
Soprano Vocals – Marion Studholme, Nancy Evans (3)

Ach! Nero ist nicht Nero mehr!, from Octavia / Keiser
Justus es, Domine, from Jonas / Carissimi
Excerpt from Le Quattro Stagioni / Marcello
Cor meum et caro mea, from Motet: Quam dilecta / Rameau
Miraculis in coelo fulget, from Motet: Est dies trophaei / A. Scarlatti
Hear, O Heavens / Pelham Humfrey
O clap your hands / Greene
Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich? / Schütz
Excerpt from Die Sieben Wörte / Schütz
Ich lasse dich nicht / Johann Christoph Bach
Kyrie from Mass in F ; Excerpt from St. John Passion, nos. 26/27 ; 28/31 / J.S. Bach
Du giebst mir Ruh, from Ich halte es dafür / Buxtehude
Cantata no.
50: Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft / Bach."

Massive volume of 12x12" 78 rpm record w 55 page illustrated booklet and orig album

Condition:EXCELLENT  pristine possibly unplayed, Album close to new, faint scuffs on cover

Victoria de los Ángeles (in Catalan, Victòria dels Àngels) (1 November 1923 – 15 January 2005) was a Spanish Catalan operatic soprano and recitalist of the highest rank whose career began in the early 1940s and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. The Times obituary noted that she must be counted “among the finest singers of the second half of the 20th century”.[1] James Hinton Jnr for Opera magazine in 1954[2] praised her "meltingly lovely middle voice". Elizabeth Forbes, writing in The Independent on 17th January 2005, also noted that "It is impossible to imagine a more purely beautiful voice than that of Victoria de los Ángeles at the height of her career in the 1950s and early 1960s".[3]

Her voice could best be described as that of a flexible full lyric soprano with enough weight and volume to sing both lyric and dramatic roles. She also sang some roles more commonly associated with the mezzo-soprano repertoire. In her early years in particular she also sang a good deal of florid music. While she later made fewer appearances in opera, she continued to give recitals, focusing on mostly French and Spanish art songs, into the 1990s.

Life and careerBorn Victoria de los Ángeles López García into a humble family in Barcelona, she studied at the Barcelona Conservatory, graduating in just three years in 1941 at age 18. That year, she made her operatic debut as Mimì at the Liceu, but then resumed her musical studies.

In 1945, she returned to the Liceu to make her professional debut as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro (she had earlier performed Mimì in La bohème as a student). After winning first prize in the Geneva International Competition in 1947, she sang Salud in Falla's La vida breve with the BBC in London in 1948.

In 1949 she made her first appearance in the Paris Opéra as Marguérite. The following year, she made her debut in Salzburg and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Mimì, and in the United States with a recital at Carnegie Hall. In March 1951, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in New York as Marguérite, and she went on to sing with the company for ten years. In 1952 she became an instant favourite in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colón as Madama Butterfly. She returned to Buenos Aires many times until 1979. She also sang at La Scala in Milan from 1950 to 1956. In 1957 she sang at the Vienna State Opera.

After making her debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser in 1961, she devoted herself principally to a concert career. However, for the next twenty years, she continued to make occasional appearances in one of her favourite operatic roles, Bizet's Carmen. She was among the first Spanish-born operatic singers to record the complete opera; she recorded it in 1958, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham using the recitatives added by Ernest Guiraud after Bizet's death.

Though Carmen lay comfortably in her range, she nevertheless sang major soprano roles, best known of which were Donna Anna, Manon, Nedda, Desdemona, Cio-Cio-San, Mimi, Violetta and Mélisande. Like Montserrat Caballé, she was a true exponent of bel canto singing.

James Hinton for Opera magazine[4] described her work in the 1954 Met Barbiere di Sivilgia in terms which praised her characterisation of Rosina as achieved by a curious means: "...she — almost literally – does nothing at all that is in the conventional sense 'effective'. She is rapidly becoming one of those great rarities... a personality who makes everyone believe in her characterizations. Even in that there is a flaw, for she really offers no characterization. The personality is always the same... Yet the audience believes... that this is the way whichever character she happens to be dressed as must have been..."

De los Ángeles performed regularly in song recitals with pianists Gerald Moore and Geoffrey Parsons, occasionally appearing with other eminent singers, such as Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Her recitals of Spanish songs with the pianist Alicia de Larrocha were also legendary. She sang at the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992, aged 68.[5]

She made many widely acclaimed recordings, including those of La vida breve, La bohème, Pagliacci, and Madama Butterfly. The last three paired her with the outstanding tenor Jussi Björling. She was particularly appreciative of Björling's unique talent. In de los Ángeles' biography by Peter Roberts, de los Ángeles noted that "in despite of technical developments, none of the Jussi Björling recordings give you the true sound of his voice. It was a far, far more beautiful voice than you can hear on the recordings he left".[6]

On 15 January 2005, Victoria de los Ángeles died of heart failure in Barcelona at the age of 81. She had been hospitalised for a bronchial infection since 31 December. Those close to her said her voice was still beautiful to the end.

De los Ángeles married Enrique Magriñá in 1948 and had two sons, one of whom survived her.

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