Rose Bampton
Rose Bampton was an American soprano and mezzo-soprano, one of the important Metropolitan Opera singers of the mid-twentieth century.
In the Pristine catalogue she appears in Beethoven, Verdi and Schoenberg, including Toscanini’s Fidelio, Gurrelieder under Stokowski and Beethoven Ninth performances.
Bampton’s singing combined strength, range and dramatic steadiness, allowing her to move between mezzo and sopran...
SCHOENBERG Gurrelieder
DUBENSKY The Raven
HINDEMITH Kammermusik No. 2
Live recordings, 1932
Total duration: 2hr 21:50
Paul Althouse Waldemar
Jeanette Vreeland Tove
Rose Bampton Die Waldtaube
Abrasha Robofsky Bauer
Robert Betts Klaus-Narr
Benjamin de Loache Sprecher, Speaker
Princeton Glee Club, Fortnightly Club, Mendelssohn Club
Eunice Norton, piano
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Leopold Stokowski
DEBUSSY Le Martyr de San Sébastien (excerpts)
DEBUSSY Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune
DEBUSSY Nocturnes
DEBUSSY Images: 2. Ibèria
DEBUSSY La Damoiselle Elue
DEBUSSY La Mer
Recorded Sunday 19th April 1936
Total Duration: 1hr 50:43
Bidú Sayão, soprano
Rose Bampton, contralto
Women's Chorus of the Schola Cantorum
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
Broadcast performance, 1944
Total duration: 1hr 51:08
Rose Bampton Leonora
Chorus directed by Peter Wilhousky
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini, conductor
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
Recorded 1936
Total duration: 66:48
Rosa Tentoni, soprano
Rose Bampton, mezzo
Charles Kullman, tenor
Ezio Pinza, bass
Schola Cantorum of New York
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
