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Marcella Sembrich
Victor Recordings (1904-08). No texts. Romophone 81026 (2)
In the decades 1890-1910, which witnessed the beginnings of the recording industry, some sopranos, such as Nellie Melba, took naturally to the new medium. Others, such as Lillian Nordica, Olive Fremstad and Marcella Sembrich, evident ly found it an ordeal to go before the recording horn.
Sembrich was already past her prime when she came to the newfangled medium, but she gave it her best effort, starting earlier than most, with the record label Bettini in the 1890s, then participating in the first...