Catalogue

THE GREAT VIOLINISTS Volume XXI

The two greatest Spanish violinists

PABLO de SARASATE (1844-1908) - the complete recordings, 1904
JOAN MANÉN (1883-1971) - Parlophon recordings of 1913

The Symposium Opera Collection Volume 15

LEO SLEZAK was born in 1873, the same year as Caruso. He was called to Vienna by Mahler and he remained there for a third of a century, beloved as a great artist and genial character.

THE GREAT VIOLINISTS Volume XXII

René BENEDETTI & Harry SOLLOWAY
Two top rank violinists about both of whom reliable information is hard to find.
Nevertheless, hearing is believing; exciting playing.

The GOLDEN AGE of OPERA in FRANCE

A look at the years leading up to the first world war, a time when France was rich in domestic singers of highest calibre. Illustrated with recordings of Alice Verlet, Eugène de Creus, Berthe Augez de Montalant, Jean Vallier, Paul Guillamat, Hector Dufranne, Léon Beyle and Lucette Korsoff

PETRE MUNTEANU (1919-1988)

A Recital by the distinguished Romanian tenor.
Music by Handel, A. Scarlatti, Bellini, Schubert, Wolf, Debussy & Bartok
Encores include Granadinas and O del mio amato ben
From Recordings in the Artist's own Collection

KARIN BRANZELL, contralto, & MACK HARRELL, baritone

For lovers of great singing, songs and Lieder sung by two outstanding artists.

From two early and very rare Remington LPs, c.1953. A great CD.

The Symposium Opera Collection Volume 16

Francesco NAVARINI, bass (1855?-1923) and Eugenio GIRALDONI, baritone (1871-1924)

Rare recodings of two outstanding singers from the early Fonotipia catalogue

ARNOLD BAX - First Orchestral Recordings & A Talk by Bax

Including Fanfare for a Cheerful Occasion, Mater ora filium, Tintagel, Oliver Twist,

Malta G.C., Fanfares for the Royal Wedding (1947) and a Talk by Arnold Bax.

GUSTAV MAHLER - First recordings 1921-1949

Heinrich REHKEMPER's Kindertotenlieder, conducted by Jascha HORENSTEIN in 1928
is still accounted the finest recorded performance.
Also: Sarah Jane CAHIER, Heinrich SCHLUSNUS, Charles KULLMAN, Emmi LEISNER,
Karin BRANZELL, Greta STÜCKGOLD and Eugenia ZARESKA

CHRISTOPHER BUNTING plays four of Bach's Cello Suites

Christopher Bunting studied with Maurice Eisenberg and with Pablo Casals.  He gave world premieres of concertos by Finzi, Rawsthorne and Routh, and also many other British first performances.  He was also a composer.  Throughout his career Bach's suites were central to his repertoire.  From private recordings of the '60s. "Incontestably one of the world's best half-dozen cellists" - The Guardian

ELISABETH SCHUMANN sings Lieder

ELISABETH SCHUMANN IN RECITAL So far as can be traced, six of these songs have never otherwise been available by this artist.  With notes by Joy Puritz, the artist's granddaughter. From Concerts of 1950/1951,

MUSIC IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC

An evocation of Berlin's 1929 Summer Festival at which
Wilhelm Furtwängler, Erich Kleiber, Otto Klemperer, Arturo Toscanini and Bruno Walter conducted.  With works typical of their programmes.
Included are Klemperer's exceedingly rare 1924 recording of the Adagio from Bruckner's 8th Symphony and Kleiber's 1930 recording of Schönberg's astonishing transcription of Bach's Prelude & Fugue (St. Anne Fugue) in Eb major.

VIENNA - THE MAHLER YEARS

From 1897 to1907 Mahler was Director of Vienna's Imperial Opera. In a penetrating essay Prof. Stanley Henig discusses how he raised the house to levels of artistic excellence which have never been surpassed, and how he left, exhausted by the work involved, by opposition to his aims and by operahouse intrigue. A recital of artists who sang under Mahler in those years.

SIGRID ARNOLDSON (1861-1943)

This distinguished Swedish soprano, a pupil of Mathilde Marchesi, sang at the Opéra Comique, the Imperial Opera, Moscow, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera and on the operatic stages of Amsterdam, Bâle, Monte Carlo, Prague etc

For the critics she was the successor to JENNY LIND. Complete Known Recordings

PUPILS OF LISZT

JOSÉ VIANNA da MOTTA (1868-1948) and ARTHUR FRIEDHEIM (1859-1932) were amongst Liszt's last major pupils.  Modern technology enables their playing to be assessed much more readily than has hitherto been possible, especially in the case of Friedheim.  In this album the Complete Recordings of da Motta and the Complete Columbia Recordings of Friedheim.

FRANZ SCHALK (1863-1931) and the Vienna Philharmonic & Berlin State Opera Orchestras

Chosen by Mahler as his deputy in Vienna.
Entrusted by Strauss with premières of his operas.
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No.3 & Symphony No.8
Schubert: 'Unfinished' Symphony.
Electric recordings, 1928.

CARL MUCK (1859-1940) and Orchestra of the Staatsoper, Berlin play Wagner

Carl Muck, born after Nikisch and beforeToscanini, is perhaps the first "modern" conductor on record, and the recorded sound, from 1927 and 1929, is also remarkably modern.
The force and clarity of his conducting will come as a surprise.
A programme of Wagner Overtures and the Siegfried Idyll
Bar code: 7 60411 345021

The GREAT VIOLINISTS Volume XXIII

A meticulously prepared compilation of records of FRANZ ONDRICEK (2), JULES BOUCHERIT (7), JACQUES (6 Fonotipias, 1 Pathé) and JOSEPH (JOSKA) SZIGETI (1908-1913) (6)

MAJOR VOCAL RARITIES

Ivan YERSHOV - Columbia Records, St. Petersberg ?1903 (3)
Francisco D'ANDRADE - Lyrophon Records, Berlin 1908 (5)
Luise PERARD-PETZL - DGG Records, Berlin 1913 (4)
Francis MACLENNAN - 'Pre-Dog', Records Hamburg 1908 (4)
Roxy KING - G & T, Berlin 1905 (5)
Feodor CHALIAPIN - Unissued 'Pre-Dog', Records Milan 1907 (3)

ÉDOUARD COLONNE (1838 - 1910)

By a generation the first significant conductor recorded.
A concert of shorter pieces by Mozart - Beethoven - Schubert - Weber - Berlioz - Chopin - Wagner - Gounod - Brahms - Saint-Saëns - Delibes - Bizet - Massenet - Widor - B.Godard
Complete Recordings 1906

Sir DONALD TOVEY

Symphony in D (Tovey)
The Reid Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by the Composer
Broadcast from Edinburgh, 25 February 1937

THREE PIANO CONCERTOS

Three Great Virtuosi play Three Great Concerti
SIMON BARERE - Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat major (Liszt)
REGINALD PAUL - Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor (Saint-Saëns)
JESÚS MATIÁ SANROMÁ - Piano Concerto in A minor (Paderewski)

PASSAMEZZO

PASSAMEZZO is a dynamic ensemble dedicated to the performance of Early Music in an Accessible, Educational and Historically Informed context.

Elizabethan and Jacobean music for the Court, the Country, the Playhouse and the Streets.

An ANTHOLOGY of SONG - Volume I

RARE and UNPUBLISHED recordings of Lieder
Therese SCHNABEL-BEHR (5 recordings from 1904)
Anton van ROOY (4) - Anton SISTERMANS (3)
Felix SENIUS (3) - Petre MUNTEANU (3)
Kirsten FLAGSTAD (5 from broadcast c.1946)

An ANTHOLOGY of SONG - Volume II

RARE and UNPUBLISHED recordings of Lieder sung by:
Friedrich BRODERSEN - Walter WIDDOP - Mme. CHARLES CAHIER (Sarah Jane Walker)
Kirsten FLAGSTAD-HALL (2 Odeon Records c.1913)
Diane van DEMMELEN - Ivar ANDRESEN
Pol PLANÇON (4 highly rare G & Ts Paris 1903)
Madleine GREY - Frieda HEMPEL (Berlin 1935)