{"product_id":"various-the-art-of-oda-slobodskaya-slobodskaya-newton","title":"The Art of Oda Slobodskaya (2 CDs)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/ABOUT_THIS_RECORDING_W._WORLD_2_e41329ea-b9a9-4e85-9c74-e4ca06232094_480x480.png?v=1597936917\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn in 1888, the Russian soprano, Oda Slobodskaya, won a scholarship for secondary education but, having completed her schooling, to her displeasure, found herself working with her parents in a second hand clothes shop. Despite having no formal musical training, she travelled, at the age of eighteen, from her hometown of Vilno (then part of the Russian Empire) some 300 miles to St. Petersburg, to audition. She was successful. During the Russian revolution she was ordered to join other singers on obligatory tours to factories and farms to entertain the workers. At the invitation of Diaghilev, she starred in the premiere of Stravinsky’s opera\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMavra.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe impresario Rabinoff organised for her to tour America as star soloist with The Ukranian Chorus and while there she made a successful solo debut at Carnegie Hall in New York. But, as a displaced Russian living abroad when appreciation of the Russian repertoire was minimal, Slobodskaya had difficulty finding a good manager. It was at this point that her career took a most unexpected turn. She was persuaded that as a stop-gap measure to earn some much-needed cash she might utilise her talents in the Variety Theatre rather than the opera house, and so under the assumed name of Odali Careno she made her variety debut in Baltimore in 1928. Dressed in a stunning eau-de-nile gown, she was a sensation, singing a mixture of familiar opera arias, ballads and popular songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlobodskaya’s recordings are few and far between. A handful of Medtner songs with the composer at the piano were recorded in 19?? for HMV.  In 1938 she recorded eight sides of Russian songs for a limited edition set of four 78s issued by the Rimington van Wyck record shop in Leicester Square. Slobodskaya had been heard on the radio by Mr. Frederick T. Smith, owner of RvW, and he was so overwhelmed by her voice that he paid for the records to be recorded by Decca. They were issued in May 1942 in a limited edition of 2000 in an attractive brown and gold album. Decca recorded her again in 1945 and 1946, and then in 1961.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe recordings are of cult status, much sought after by collectors of great vocal treasures, and this is their first issue on Decca CD. Andrew Dalton has compiled the collection and provided the liner notes, and the booklet is illustrated with all the album jackets as well as illustrations from program booklets, making this a real collector’s item!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_1_4b3088c9-df3c-47ba-bf41-5b7e5d1a8144_480x480.png?v=1597936873\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 1\u003cbr\u003eThe Rymington van Wyck Recordings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 S. TANEYEV: Nocturne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 TCHAIKOVSKY: Was I not a blade of grass?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eS. TANEYEV\u003cbr\u003e3 Dreams\u003cbr\u003e4 My Heart is Beating\u003cbr\u003e5 In the Silence of the Night\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 TCHEREPNIN: I would have kissed you\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRACHMANINOV\u003cbr\u003e7 Lilacs\u003cbr\u003e8 How pleasant it is here!\u003cbr\u003e9 CUI: The Statue at Tsarskoye Sel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY\u003cbr\u003e10 To Forget So Soon\u003cbr\u003e11 If only I had known\u003cbr\u003e12 The golden cornfields\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Decca recordings\u003cbr\u003e13-15 Three Folksongs (from the collection of RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, arr. IPPOLITOV-IVANOV)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGRETCHANINOV:\u003cbr\u003e16 Lullaby\u003cbr\u003e17 The Dreary Steppe\u003cbr\u003e18 Like an angel\u003cbr\u003e19 My country\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBORODIN\u003cbr\u003e20 From my tears sprang flowers\u003cbr\u003e21 The Sea Princess\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e22 BALAKIREV: Hebrew Melody\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 2\u003cbr\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY\u003cbr\u003e1 Evgney Onegin: Tatyana’s Letter Scene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLondon Symphony Orchestra\u003cbr\u003eAnatole Fistoulari\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 Child Song\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRACHMANINOV\u003cbr\u003e3 To the children\u003cbr\u003e4 The Little Island\u003cbr\u003e5 The Soldier’s Wife\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 PROKOFIEV: Dunyushka, Op. 104\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBLANTER\u003cbr\u003e7 In the forest of the frontline\u003cbr\u003e8 Katyusha\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9-11 STRAVINSKY: Three Tales for Children\u003cbr\u003e12-18 KABALEVSKY: Seven Nursery Rhymes\u003cbr\u003e19-24 SHOSTAKOVICH: Six Spanish Songs, Op. 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIvor Newton,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epiano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOda Slobodskaya,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esoprano\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DECCA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32337290461271,"sku":"028948035243","price":6.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/products\/00028948035243-cover.jpg?v=1600875405","url":"https:\/\/classicselectworld.com\/de-de\/products\/various-the-art-of-oda-slobodskaya-slobodskaya-newton","provider":"ClassicSelect World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}