Florence Foster Jenkins – The Glory (???) of the Human Voice

Contents:

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte: The Magic Flute – La Flute enchantee “Der Hölle Rache” (The Queen Of The Night Aria)

Florence Foster Jenkins (soprano), Cosme McMoon (piano)

Liadov: The Musical Snuff-Box

Florence Foster Jenkins (soprano), Cosme McMoon (piano)

McMoon: Like a bird

Florence Foster Jenkins (soprano), Cosme McMoon (piano)

Delibes: Lakme: “Où va la jeune Hindoue?”

Florence Foster Jenkins (soprano), Cosme McMoon (piano)

McMoon: Serenata Mexicana

Florence Foster Jenkins (soprano), Cosme McMoon (piano)

David, Félicien: La perle du Brésil: “Charmant oiseau”

Florence Foster Jenkins (soprano), Cosme McMoon (piano)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Count Pavlovich: Biassy

Florence Foster Jenkins (soprano), Cosme McMoon (piano)

Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus:”Adele’s Laughing Song”

Florence Foster Jenkins (soprano), Cosme McMoon (piano)

Gounod: A Faust Travesty

Valentine’s Aria (Ere I Leave My Native Land)

Jewel Song (O Heavenly Jewels)

Jenny Williams (soprano), Thomas Burns (baritone)

Salut, demeure chaste et pure (Emotions Strange)

Final Trio (sung as a duet) (My Heart is Overcome With Terror)

Chick Crumpacker Interviews Cosme McMoon /Chick Crumpacker (speaker), Cosme McMoon (speaker)

The (in)famous Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy New York socialite who fancied herself a coloratura soprano. In making five 78s between 1941-44, she blithely thrust aside rehearsals, the niceties of volume and pitch and considerations of acoustics. Time wrote of “Mrs. Jenkins’ night queenly swoops and hoots, her wild wallowings in descending trill, her repeated staccato notes like a cuckoo in its cups.” RCA reissued them on LP in 1959, and Sony Classical ORIGINALS makes them available again on CD, and in a new transfer.

The (in)famous Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy New York socialite who fancied herself a coloratura soprano. In making five 78s between 1941-44, she blithely thrust aside rehearsals, the niceties of volume and pitch and considerations of acoustics. Time wrote of “Mrs. Jenkins’ night queenly swoops and hoots, her wild wallowings in descending trill, her repeated staccato notes like a cuckoo in its cups.” RCA reissued them on LP in 1959, and Sony Classical ORIGINALS makes them available again on CD, and in a new transfer.