Favourite singers on record pre 1939

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Richard Tauber, Elisabeth Schumann, Lotte Lenya....

The first two - yes, but I can never forget the third one as Rosa Klebb. Plus I find her voice bit on the fluttery side.

[gradus]

May I add Maria Nemeth to the illustrious names earlier in the thread. Once heard never forgotten.
Eva Turner and Alexander Kipnis too.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Some two-thirds of these are pre-1939: A four CD set from Decca Eloquence, 'From Melba to Sutherland - Australian Singers on Record.' 80 singers in all:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Melba-Sutherland-Australian-Singers-Record/dp/B01KHULBF0/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1474778631&sr=1-1&keywords=from+melba+to+sutherland

Nellie Melba, Frances Alda, Horace Stevens, Peter Dawson, Malcolm McEachern, John Brownlee, Florence Austral, Margherita Grandi, Marjorie Lawrence, Sylvia Fisher, Gladys Moncrieff, June Bronhill, Joan Hammond...

I spent a dozen years of my life on this project!

Googling this item, I came across a 1 hour programme on Australian BC - use the listen again Link (to the left of the CD image). 10 tracks (or excerpts of) were played (listed on the web page)

http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2016/09/17/4540249.htm

[gurnemanz]

May I add Maria Nemeth to the illustrious names earlier in the thread. Once heard never forgotten.
Eva Turner and Alexander Kipnis too.

I first came across Kipnis via the Wolf Society and Schubert Lieder LP boxes and now have quite a few recordings including Brahms (eg Vier ernste Gesänge).

I really enjoy Heinrich Schlusnus (despite complicated Nazi associations - he sang at Göring's wedding in 1935 but also sang Mahler and Mendelssohn). Im Abendrot

That Aussie set looks like an essential purchase.

[Lat-Literal]

Marian Anderson.