1903–1930 · Gramophone, La Voix de son Maître
The Divine Sarah, at speed, on wax
Bernhardt recorded for the Gramophone Company in Paris in 1903, at fifty-eight, already the most famous performer alive. The results startle a modern listener: the tempo is ferocious, the phrasing sung rather than spoken, the vowels held like notes. This is the declamatory tradition of the Conservatoire, the manner Sarah learned in the 1860s and never abandoned, and these discs are the primary evidence that it existed at all. Around her sit the tragedians who inherited it — Segond-Weber in Racine, and Sacha Guitry, who did something quite different with the same equipment.
8 broadcasts · 5 seasons held · Paris
1 January
1903
Gramophone, La Voix de son Maître
1 min
Sarah Bernhardt — Racine, Phèdre. Recorded 1903, His Master's Voice. Disc digitised by the Great 78 Project;
1 January
1903
Gramophone, La Voix de son Maître
2 min
Sarah Bernhardt — Rostand, La Samaritaine. Recorded 1903, His Master's Voice. Disc digitised by the Great 78 Project;
1 January
1916
Gramophone, La Voix de son Maître
3 min
Sarah Bernhardt — Louis Payen. Recorded 1916, Historical. Disc digitised by the Great 78 Project;
1 January
1926
Gramophone, La Voix de son Maître
2 min
Sacha Guitry — Guitry and Hahn, Mozart. Recorded 1926, Disque "Gramophone". Disc digitised by the Great 78 Project;
1 January
1929
Gramophone, La Voix de son Maître
3 min
Mme Segond-Weber — Racine, Athalie. Recorded 1929, La Voix de Son Maitre. Disc digitised by the Great 78 Project;
1 January
1929
Gramophone, La Voix de son Maître
4 min
Mme Segond-Weber and Berthe Bovy — Racine, Athalie. Recorded 1929, La Voix de Son Maitre. Disc digitised by the Great 78 Project;
1 January
1930
Gramophone, La Voix de son Maître
4 min
George de Warfaz — Alfred de Musset. Recorded 1930, Linguaphone. Disc digitised by the Great 78 Project;
1 January
1930
Gramophone, La Voix de son Maître
3 min
George de Warfaz — La Fontaine. Recorded 1930, Linguaphone. Disc digitised by the Great 78 Project;