Catalogue

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

A reconstruction of a performance at the Staatsoper, Berlin, May 1928 in which
HANS SACHS is sung by FRIEDRICH SCHORR, for many the greatest Sachs on record.
LIVE Opera House Recordings supplemented with contemporary studio recordings

BERTHOLD GOLDSCHMIDT (1903 - 1995)

Berthold Goldschmidt conducts Comedy of Errors Overture (Goldschmidt) Symphony No.96 in D major “Miracle” (Haydn)? Béatrice Cenci (Berthold Goldschmidt) excerpts as originally broadcast Recorded 1953 - 1955

THE HAROLD WAYNE COLLECTION Volume 34

Mario Sammarco & Domenico Viglione-Borghese.

THE HAROLD WAYNE COLLECTION Volume 35

Emma Baumann, Sophie Heymann, Lotte Schloss, Katharina Senger-Bettaque, Laura Hilgermann, Pelagie Greeff-Andriessen, Martha Leffler-Burckhard, Hedwig Francillo-Kaufmann, Selma Kurz, Ottilie Fellwock, Erica Wedekind, Lucie Weidt.

THE HAROLD WAYNE COLLECTION Volume 36

Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov. Early recordings 1900 to 1904

LEONID SOBINOV, tenor (1872-1934)

Complete published recordings 1910-1911

ARTURO TOSCANINI CONDUCTS THE NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Overtures and shorter pieces by Hérold, Ponchielli, Barber, Prokofiev,
Johann Strauss II, Bizet, Mendelssohn & Wolf-Ferrari
Recordings 1942 to 1946

OTTO KLEMPERER

A concert of rare recordings including
Symphony No.8 (Beethoven) 1927
and Brandenburg Concerto No.5 1946

THE 4-MINUTE CYLINDER Part 1

from Edison Amberol Cylinders 1910-1913

THE 4-MINUTE CYLINDER Part 2

from Edison Amberol Cylinders 1910-1913

THE HAROLD WAYNE COLLECTION Volume 37

Eugenia Burzio, Emma Carelli and Ester Mazzoleni

From rare Fonotipia recordings from 1906 to 1910

SOCIETA ITALIANA di FONOTIPIA - MILANO

Catalogue of Records, January 1907
In just two years of operations the Fonotipia company built up a roster of artists of unsurpassed excellence, from Arkel to Zenatello.
This catalogue, with its testimonials, including one from Jean de Reszke, and lavish illustrations and biographies of each artist, matched the quality of its records.
Art-Reproduction in two colours on Acid-Free Paper pp. 88 + Prelims ISBN 0952436132

ENRICO CARUSO

A new publication

Part I RECOLLECTIONS (Emil Ledner trans. Eliot Levin) There are very many books about Caruso. This is one of the four original sources.

Part II RETROSPECTIVE (Stanley Henig)  An essay on Caruso's significance in the history of operatic performance and an assessment of his recorded legacy.

In appendices Hillier Wise comments on Caruso's cartoons and Stanley Henig and Eliot Levin discuss the transfer of records to modern media.

A number of the illustrations have not appeared before.

pp. 118+prelims. on Acid-Free Paper 19 illustrations A5 size. ISBN 0952436140

SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN - THE MASQUE AT KENILWORTH

Music for Royal and National Occasions.

Recorded at St. Barnabas, Oxford 26/27 February 1999.

Issued in association with the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society.

THE HAROLD WAYNE COLLECTION Volume 38

Teresa Arkel - Salomea Kruszelnicka - Rosina Storchio

Three Great Sopranos from the early years of the 20th Century

THE HAROLD WAYNE COLLECTION Volume 39

From Verdi to Verismo, Illustrated with rare recordings of Alessandro Bonci - Alfredo Brondi - Giuseppe Pacini (xPh1) Edoardo Garbin (xxxPh290) - Emilio Perea - Giannina Russ - Alessandro Dolci - Riccardo Stracciari etc.

THE FOUR BROTHERS KUSEVITSKY – MOSHE, JACOB, SIMCHA & DAVID

Songs and Praises.
Includes recordings made in Warsaw in the 1930s and Russia in 1941

Sir GEORGE GROVE and The CRYSTAL PALACE

A musical autograph album of artists who appeared at the Crystal Palace, including live recordings made at the Handel Festival of 1926, and recollections of George Lloyd.

THE HAROLD WAYNE COLLECTION Volume 40

The French Opera Tradition
Illustrated with rare recordings of Affre, Aumonier, Belhomme, Bourdon, Cotreuil, Gilly, Francell, Laute-Brun, Raveau, Soulacroix and Vezzani.

IONISATION

For the student and collector interested in orchestral practice of the mid-20th century.
Furtwängler, Henry Wood, Toscanini (National Anthem, 1938), Sibelius, Elgar rehearsing, THEREMIN Concerto (Fuleihan) - Soloist: Clara Rockmore & IONISATION (1931) (Edgar Varèse) conducted by Nicolas Slonimsky, the work's dedicatee.

THE SYMPOSIUM OPERA COLLECTION VOLUMES 1 & 2

THE SYMPOSIUM OPERA COLLECTION VOLUMES 1 & 2

NIKOLAI NIKOLAYEVICH FIGNER, tenor (1857-1918)
MEDEA MEI-FIGNER, soprano (1859-1952)
Renée Efimovna RADINA-FIGNER, mezzo-soprano (1872-1944)

From very rare recordings 1902 to 1929

IONISATION II

Roussel conducts Roussel 1929
Bruckner - Scherzi from symphonies 0, 1, 2 & 3 c.1928
Lord Spleen (Mark Lothar)
Ferenc Fricsay conducts Egk
Toscanini coducts Vaughan-Williams
Nicholas Slonimsky conducts Charles Ives

FREDERICK THURSTON

for many the greatest clarinettist on record

Archive performances including:

Quintet (Fibich)-Dennis BRAIN, Marie WILSON, James WHITEHEAD, Lisa FUCHSOVA Clarinet

Concerto (Stanford)-Dennis BRAIN

Fantasy Sonata (Ireland) Dennis BRAIN with the composer at the piano

Heinrich August MARSCHNER

Trio in D major Op.135 played by the Rubbra Trio
Trio in F major Op.167 played by the Semino Trio

Archive recordings from acetate discs.
Lovely and rarely heard music beautifully played,
but sound sources are weak in places
and there is some radio interference in the first piece.

FONOTIPIA 1904-2004

A Centenary Celebration for a small company which issued many of the world's most historically and musically significant vocal records. Its first records were sold three years after the death of Verdi; its last issues included music from Puccini's last opera. From Anselmi to Zenatello plus Roger Miclos, Thibaud and Sardou.