{"id":1881,"date":"2015-07-09T21:41:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T02:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2015-07-09T21:41:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T02:41:01","slug":"riccardo-stracciari-barcarolle-from-la-gioconda-1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"Riccardo Stracciari  &#8220;Barcarolle From La Gioconda&#8221;  1921"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Columbia79636.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1869\" src=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Columbia79636.jpg\" alt=\"Columbia79636\" width=\"572\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Columbia79636.jpg 572w, http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Columbia79636-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Barcarolle From<em> La Gioconda<\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\nRiccardo Stracciari, vocal<br \/>\nNovember 1, 1921 (Columbia 79636)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Riccardo-Stracciari-Bacarolle-From-La-Gioconda.mp3\">Bacarolle From La Gioconda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It has been awhile since I have featured any grand opera recordings.\u00a0\u00a0 To remedy that, here is Italian baritone\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riccardo_Stracciari\" target=\"_blank\">Riccardo Stracciari<\/a> performing the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barcarolle\" target=\"_blank\">barcarolle<\/a> from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amilcare_Ponchielli\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcare Ponchielli&#8217;s<\/a> 1876 opera\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Gioconda_%28opera%29\" target=\"_blank\">La Gioconda<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This recording is from a single sided record.\u00a0 While double sided discs became standard for most records in 1908, classical and operatic recordings continued to be issued on single sided discs into the early 1920s.\u00a0 Such records were marketed as a premium product &#8211; and they certainly were not cheap.\u00a0 Using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/cost-living-calculator\" target=\"_blank\">this handy cost of living calculator<\/a>, the $1 price tag on the record in 1921 would have been worth approximately $13.82 in today&#8217;s currency. And for that the buyer got exactly what I present here &#8211; a single two and a half minute recording.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Barcarolle From La Gioconda&#8221; Riccardo Stracciari, vocal November 1, 1921 (Columbia 79636) Bacarolle From La Gioconda &nbsp; It has been awhile since I have featured any grand opera recordings.\u00a0\u00a0 To remedy that, here is Italian baritone\u00a0Riccardo Stracciari performing the barcarolle &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1881\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,21,16,25,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6lko4-ul","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}