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From:  velluti@c...
Date:  Thu Jan 24, 2002  9:48 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Alessandro Moreschi/Arno Raunig

Sorry to comment yet again; Moreschi did not sing arias, but church pieces, and
ones of no great distinction.
Farinelli he was not, but he is all we have left of a once great tradition. He
was limited, too, by the size of the discs
available for recording; single-sided, heavy shellac and variable pitch, and
barely 4 minutes available on these
early G & T recordings'

Yes: there are Arno Raunig recordings; I have them; if you look at my web site
there is a link to the Male Soprano
Page, where you can find out about him and others of his type.
Regards,


Elsa,
Historian: church and operatic castrati,
http://www.cix.co.uk/~velluti (updated 2002)



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