A Selection of 7" Recordings, including 28 'Berliners'
13¾inch/35cm FONOTIPIA recordings GARBIN - SAMMARCO - SCAREMBERG &c.
A Personal History of the Early Days of the Phonograph, the Silent and Sound Film, and Film Censorship. With fascinating vignettes of life in London in the first two decades of the 20th century; and an Introduction by Dr. Peter Martland 2nd Edition 1996 Symposium Book 1114 pp.81 ISBN 0 9524361 2 4
Operatic Arias by Handel, Donizetti, Moniuszko, Marchetti, Zelenski &c.
Le Jardin de Monet & Palinodes played by Katharina Wolpe Quartet No.3 played by the Delmé Quartet Arts Council Funded
Ben Davies - Peter Dawson - Dora Labette - Edward Lloyd - Henry Lytton - Walter Passmore - Sir Charles Santley - Richard Temple - Charles Workman - &c. recorded 1901 to 1924 WE REGRET THAT THIS ISSUE IS OUT OF STOCK
Songs & Arias by Flotow, Gounod, Halévy, Massenet, Messager &c.
LEON ESCALAÏS (6) - FÉLIA LITVINNE (11) - VICTOR MAUREL (9) from Fonotipia & Odeon recordings 1905-1908
performed by John Coates - JOSEPH HOLBROOKE - Doris Vane - Norman Walker
Manuel Quiroga in a recital of pieces by Bazzini, Hubay, Quiroga, de Sarasate, Tartini, Wieniawski &c.
Original 78s of Quiroga are keenly sought by the violin fraternity. Rightly.
EDITH MASON & MARY GARDEN
A truly magnificent voice, always musically used.
GIOVANNI ZENATELLO Fonotipia Recordings - Volume I: Verdi
Violin Concerto (Beethoven) & Violin Concerto K.219 (Mozart) and the Adagio from Violin Concerto in A major K.219 (Mozart) played by SZYMON GOLDBERG
Bartok No.2 - Berg - Shostakovich No.1 – Stevens
Released by arrangement with the BBC
And two of Busoni's finest pupils
Percy GRAINGER - Sonata in B minor Op.58 (Chopin)
Egon PETRI - Symphony (Alkan) Lovers of fine piano-playing cannot ignore this issue.
After Tausig died, D'Albert became Liszt's favourite pupil.
'Emperor' Concerto - 1st movement recorded 1930
and shorter pieces by D'Albert - Beethoven - Brahms - Chopin - Mozart – Schubert recorded 1912-1920
For many the most thrilling cantor on record Recordings 1902-c.1934
GIOVANNI ZENATELLO - Fonotipia Recordings Volume II: Verdi - Marchetti - Ponchielli
Arias and duets from operas by Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi &c. From G&T and Pre-Dog recordings 1902-1908
Music by Mozart and Schubert from 1936 Promenade Concert
Excerpts from Bax Cello Concerto live 1938
Rehearsal extracts, Bach & Bax - Albert Hall 1942
Levik - Sibiriakov - Davidov - Klementieff - Litvinne - Yershov - Tartakov - Labinsky - Kutznetsova - Kamionsky - Shevelev - Baklanoff - Kastorsky &c.
Issued to illustrate The Levik Memoirs (1155), but with notes to make it self-standing.
A favourite of James Joyce with an astonishingly powerful and virile tenor voice extending to an easy top D – Once heard, never forgotten.
A remarkable account of musical life in Russia from 1900 to 1930
Translated by Edward Morgan with a Foreword by The Earl of Harewood
A good read and an essential reference work
Symposium BOOK ISBN 0 9524361 1 6
Shin-Ichi SUZUKI - Franck Sonata
Georges ENESCO - Chausson Poème
Jacques THIBAUD Fauré Sonata
Zeno FRANCESCATTI - Ravel Tzigane
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