Catalogue

The GOLDEN AGE of OPERA in FRANCE - Volume II

In the years leading up to the first world war France was particularly rich in
domestic singers of highest calibre.
This volume, a sequel to Symposium CD 1331, is illustrated with recordings of
Paul PAYAN, Léonie TANÉSY, Elie IMBERT, Pauline AGUSSOL, Agustarello AFFRE,
Adolphe MARÉCHAL, Étienne GIBERT and Marcel JOURNET.

AMERICA’S SINGERS RECORDED - The First Generation

The United States has always attracted the finest European singers to its shores.
This album offers examples of America's own very fine singers, a number of whom have tended to be overlooked.
From Belle COLE, born 1845 to Minnie SALTZMANN-STEVENS born 1874

Sir GEORGE HENSCHEL (1850 1934)

Composer, Conductor, Pianist and Singer

A Recital of Lieder in which he accompanies himself.
A fine performance of Beethoven's First Symphony.
Songs and Arrangements by him.
(Inludes all the music he recorded, with one item published for the first time.)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 - 2006

The SYMPOSIUM OPERA COLLECTION Volume XVIII

TITTA RUFFO Two features of Titta Ruffo call our attention; his voice is one of the most spectacular and powerful on record, and, with Enrico Caruso, he was one of the very few artists successfully to bestride both the 19th century 'bel canto' operas and the new verismo school.

An ANTHOLOGY of SONG - Volume III

LEO SLEZAK was a leading tenor in Vienna for a third of a century;
he was also an exquisite singer of Lieder.
In this recital we hear music of Brahms, Grieg, Hahn, Liszt,
Loewe, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss & Wolf.

"Ein Vogel sang in Eschenbaum"

An ANTHOLOGY of SONG - Volume IV

The first two Lieder cycles ever recorded

JULIA CULP - Frauen-Liebe und Leben (Schumann) Recorded in Berlin, mid-1910

FRANZ NAVÁL - Die Schöne Müllerin (Schubert) Recorded in Berlin, late 1909

The GREAT TENORS Volume II

Heinrich KNOTE - Julius BOCHNÍCEK - Selmar CERINI - Julián BIEL - César VEZZANI
Léon CAMPAGNOLA - John O’SULLIVAN* - René LAPELLETRIE - Antonio PAOLI
Giuseppe BORGATTI - René MAISON - Petre MUNTEANU

* Four unpublished APGA records from test pressings

The Stars were Shining - Volume III

A further volume from broadcasts, featuring the voices of:
Marjorie LAWRENCE  * Marina KOSHETZ * Carol BRICE * Ferruccio TAGLIAVINI * Ezio PINZA
Pia TASSINARI * Richard CROOKS * John Charles THOMAS * Armand TOKATYAN

RARE RECORDS of FAMOUS TENORS Vol. III

A Further Fourteen Great Tenor Voices ICILIO CALLEJA - F. ORLANDIS - GIUSEPPE RADAELLI ENZO de MURO LOMANTO - KARL JÖRN - KARL ERB CAMILLE CASSET - CHARLES FRIANT - YURII TITOV THEODORE RITCH - IGNACE DYGAS - VIKTOR BRÉGY and KAREL ZAV?EL

The GREAT VIOLINISTS - Volume XXIV

ARNOLD ROSÉ (1863-1946) plays music by Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Ernst, Goldmark, Mendelssohn, Popper, de Sarasate, Svendsen, Simonetti and Wieniawsky,
and he is joined in the Bach "Double" Concerto by his daughter, ALMA ROSÉ (1906-1944).

LEONARD BERNSTEIN - Volume II

LEONARD BERNSTEIN : COMPOSER - CONDUCTOR - PIANIST

Sonata for Piano (1939-1940) (Copland) played by Leonard Bernstein
Concerto for piano and orchestra (Ravel) Leonard Bernstein, pianist and conductor
L’Histoire du Soldat (Stravinsky) conductor Leonard Bernstein
Seven Anniversaries (Bernstein) Nos.1-5 played by Leonard Bernstein

The GREAT VIOLINISTS – Volume XXV - EDDY BROWN (1894-1974)

Student of Leopold Auer, one of America's finest players

Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn) Recorded 1924
N.B. The work was issued with the 2nd movement played by EDITH LORAND
Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky) Recorded 1924
Sonata Virginianesque Op.7 (1928) (John Powell 1882-1963) Accompanied by the Composer Recorded 1939/1940

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1908-2008)

A LONDON SYMPHONY - FIRST RECORDINGS
The 1920 Version was recorded twice, albeit abbreviated, by the Columbia Graphophone Company, in 1923 and 1925.  Both, now very rare, recordings are included in this album. 
The London Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Sir Dan Godfrey

CREATOR RECORDS - Volume I

Scenes from operas by Puccini & Mascagni by artists who first performed them

Cesira Ferrani : Manon Lescaut & La Bohème            Emilio de Marchi : Tosca
Giovanni Zenatello : Madama Butterfly        Florence Easton : Gianni Schicchi
Maria Zamboni, Giuseppe Nessi & Emilio Venturini : Turandot
Gemma Bellincioni : Cavalleria Rusticana     Giuseppe Pacini : Guglielmo Ratcliff
Fernando De Lucia : L'Amico Fritz & Iris         Hipólito Lázaro : Il Piccolo Marat
Celestina Boninsegna & Ferruccio Corradetti : Le Maschere
From recordings originally made from 1903 to 1929                        TT 79' 33"

The GREAT TENORS Volume IV

Alfonso GARULLI (1858-1915)  &  Amedeo BASSI (1874-1949)

Alfonso Garulli sings music by Verdi, Wagner, Boito, Gounod &c., all written during his lifetime. Amedeo Bassi, a contemporary of Caruso with a similar repertoire, but a very different style.

MARINA

Música de Emilio ARRIETA y CORERA Letra de Francisco CAMPRODÓN
Delightful zarzuela opera performed by leading authentic Spanish cast, 1929
Mercedes CAPSIR - Hipólito LÁZARO - José MARDONES - Marcos REDONDO

HAYDN WOOD 1882-1959

Multi-talented violinist, composer of classical & light music, & conductor
Music by Haydn Wood conducted by Haydn Wood & performed by
Sidney Torch, Debroy Somers, John McCormack, Reginald Foort,
Warwick Braithwaite, Anne Ziegler & Webster Booth
Radio Interview
14 IV 54 Violin solo by Haydn Wood

JOHN O'SULLIVAN - A Biography

A New Biography of the Famous Irish Tenor
by François Nouvion
with a Chronology, a Discography & Copious Illustrations,
many hitherto unavailable.