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May 19, 2023
05/23
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Mary Lou Williams, piano + Ensembles
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Mary Lou Williams (Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; 08.05.1910 - 28.05.1981): American jazz pianist, arranger and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than 100 records (in 78, 45, LP versions). She wrote and arranged for Duke ellington and Benny Goodman , and she was friend, mentor and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie. 1 Lullaby of the leaves (Bernice Petkere) Mary Lou Williams and her...
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Asch, Williams Mary Lou
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May 17, 2023
05/23
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Lennie Tristano trio / Erroll Garner, piano
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V-Disc was a record label from 1943-1949 to provide records for US military personnel. From 1942-1944 the American federation of Musicians began a strike against the major American record companies because of disagreements over royalty payments. No union musician made commercial recordings for any commercial record company. An exception was made for the V-Disc records. 1 Lennie Tristano Trio: Lennie Tristano, piano; Leonard Gaskin, bass; Billy Bauer, guitar a I can't get...
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Tristano Lennie, Garner Erroll, V-Disc
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May 18, 2023
05/23
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Art Tatum, piano; Tiny Grimes, guitar; Slam Stewart, bass
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Art Tatum (Toledo, Ohio, 13.10.1909 - Los Angeles, 05.11.1956): Legendary American jazz pianist. Is seen by many as the best jazz pianist ever. Technically extraordinarily brilliant. He himself named Fats Waller as his inspiration. Started as a stride pianist (with a jumping left hand). He recorded for Brunswick (1933), Decca (1934-1941), Capitol (1949, 1952), and Norman Granz labels (1953-1956). In 1947 he can be seen in the movie The Fabulous Dorseys . The most famous anecdote...
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Tatum Art, Grimes Tiny, Stewart Slam, Melodisc, Asch, Brunswick
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108
May 13, 2023
05/23
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Paul Godwin Orch.; Paul Godwin Künstler Ensemble
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Paul Godwin (actual name Pinchas Goldfein) (Sosnowiec, Poland, 28.03.1902 - Driebergen, 09.12.1982). Studied with Stanislaw Barkewicz (1858-1929) in Warsaw, and with Hermann Kaplan in Vienna, where he had to flee because of his Jewishness. In Budapest he studied with Jenö Hubay and in Berlin with Willy Hess, where he was expelled from the conservatory because he played salon music in restaurants and with salon orchestras to support himself. He founded his own dance orchestra in 1922, one of...
Topics: 78rpm Dance orchestra, Polydor, Godwin Paul
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May 19, 2023
05/23
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Art Tatum, piano
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Art Tatum
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Capitol, Tatum Art
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May 17, 2023
05/23
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Dave Lambert, voc.; Buddy Stewart, voc.; Al Haig Quintet
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Dave Lambert (19.06.1917 - 03.10.1966): lyricist and singer. Experimented with the voice as an instrument in jazz music. First formed a duo with Buddy Stewart, and in the late 1950s with Jon Hendricks. Annie Ross also joined and this trio became very successful. 1962: Annie Ross left the trio. 1964: he formed a quartet: Lambert & Co. 1966: he died in a traffic accident. Buddy Stewart (real name Albert James Byrne) (1922 - 01.02.1950): American singer. Sang with the Thornhill Orchestra in...
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Jazz Selection, Lambert dave, Stewart Buddy, Haig Al
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107
May 11, 2023
05/23
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Gerry Mulligan Quartet (with Chet Baker)
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Gerry Mulligan (06.04.1927 - 20.01.1996), also known as Jeru : American saxophonist (particularly baritone sax), clarinetist, pianist, composer and arranger. Put the baritone saxophone on the map within jazz. Major role in the development of Cool Jazz, especially in a quartet without piano, with trumpeter Chet Baker, in the 1950s. Played with Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz and Astor Piazolla Now 2 beautiful Vogue 78rpm records by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet,...
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Mulligan Gerry, Baker Chet, Vogue
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166
Apr 26, 2023
04/23
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Charlie Parker Quartet/Quintet
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Charlie Parker (29.08.1920 - 12.03.1955): American alto saxophonist. Nickname: Bird. Extraordinary virtuoso player, one of the Bebop pioneers. 1 Bird's nest (Parker) 2 Cool blues (Parker) Charlie Parker, alto sax; Erroll Garner, piano; Red Callender, bass; Harold 'Doc' West, drums 78rpm 25 cm: Esquire 10-017 Matrix nrs.: D 1053-C / D-1054-D Recorded: 1947 02 19 3 Scrapple from the apple (Parker) 4 Don't blame me (Fields, Mc Hugh) Charlie parker, alto sax; Miles Davis, trumpet;...
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Esquire, Jazz Selection, Parker Charlie, Davis Miles, Garner Erroll, Roach Max, Potter...
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111
May 9, 2023
05/23
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Lester Young
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One of my Jazz heroes is Lester Young (27.08.1909 - 15.03.1959): American tenor saxophonist (and occasional clarinetist). Played in the orchestras of Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson and Andy Kirk, and also played a lot in smaller combos. recorded beautiful shots co-accompaniing Billie Holiday, who called him "Pres" (President), he called her "Lady Day". In 1944 he was enlisted, was imprisoned for a year for possession of marijuana and alcohol. After the war he was part of...
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Young Lester, Blue Star
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May 24, 2023
05/23
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Tom Morton Orch. & Original Indiana Five / Golden Gate Orch. (= California Ramblers)
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The Harmony Records record label was a sub-label of Columbia. In the 1920s and 1930s it was mainly used as a label for cheap 78t records. They continued with an improved acoustic recording process when other labels had already moved to electric recording. In the 1950s and 1960s the label was active as a cheap LP label, with a peak in the 1960s. Side 1: Tom Morton's Orch. featuring Original Indiana Five. I can't find much about Tom Morton. The Original Indiana Five, who didn't come from Indiana...
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Harmony, Tom Morton Orch. & Original Indiana Five, Golden Gate Orch.
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13
May 24, 2023
05/23
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California Ramblers; Bar Harbor Society Orch.
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Califdornia Ramblers : an American Jazz group that recorded hundreds of songs for many different record labels during the twenties. They used about a hundred aliases, f.i. The Golden Gate Orchestra; Varsity Eight; Stokers of Hades; Goofus Washboards. The Bar Harbor Society Orchestra was a Vocalion studio orchestra conducted by Ben Selvin. This song, Persianna, ends rather abruptly with a strange wobble of the clarinet, possibly because the recording engineer signaled that time had run out, so...
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, ACO, California Ramblers, Bar Harbor Society Orch.
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415
Aug 9, 2022
08/22
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Guarneri String Quartet
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If you look up the Guarneri String Quartet on Google, or in music encyclopaedias, you will only find information about the famous American quartet, founded in 1964 and disbanded in 2009. But there was an earlier Guarneri String Quartet , founded in 1925 and disbanded in 1934 (during a South American tour, where the second violinist Mauritz Stromfeld died of a brain tumour). A beautiful quartet that could measure up to the big names of its time, but remained somewhat in the shadows. Daniel...
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Topics: 78rpm, Polydor, Guarneri String Quartet, Karpolowsky Daniel, Stromfeld Mauritz, Kroyt Boris, Lutz...
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97
May 10, 2023
05/23
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Zarah Leander
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Zarah Leander (Karlstad, 15.03.1907 - Stockholm, 23.06.1981), real name Sara Stina Hedberg: Swedish singer and actress. Was very successful in the 1930s and 1940s, especially in Germany. 1936-1943: signed a contract with UFA Universum Film AG) in Berlin, then under Nazi state authority, and made 10 films. 1943: left for Sweden after her villa in Grunewald was bombed. Her years in Nazi Germany as a film actress for German films did not help her popularity in Sweden, because in their opinion...
Topics: 78rpm German, Leander Zarah, Parlophone
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13
May 25, 2023
05/23
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Fats Navarro, Leo Parker, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Rouse
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2 beautiful Be-bop 78rpm records on the Savoy label, all sides recorded in 1947. Theodore 'Fats' Navarro (24.09.1923 - 07.07.1950), American jazz trumpeter, one of the pioneers of Bebop. Heroin addiction, tuberculosis and obesity caused an early death at the age of 26. Leo Parker (18.04.1925 - 11.02.1962): American baritone saxophonist. Miles Davis (26.05.1926 - 28.09.1991): One of the most important jazz musicians ever. Trumpeter, bandleader, composer. In many different styles: Bebop,...
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Savoy, Navarro Fats, Parker Leo, Parker Charlie, Davis Miles, Gordon Dexter, Rouse...
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103
May 9, 2023
05/23
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Jack Dupree Trio
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William Thomas Dupree, better known as Champion Jack Dupree (New Orleans, July ca. 1908-1910 - Hanover, January 21, 1992): Blues pianist and singer. His father was from the Belgian Congo, his mother was half Cherokee, half African American. He was orphaned at the age of two and ended up in the same orphanage as Louis Armstrong. There he learned to play the piano. A traveling life followed, in which he worked as a cook as well as a pianist. In Detroit, famed heavyweight boxer Joe Louis...
Topics: 78rpm Blues, Dupree Champion Jack, Continental
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Apr 26, 2021
04/21
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Louise Kirkby Lunn, contralto
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Louise Kirkby Lunn (Manchester, 08-11-1873 - St. John's Wood, 17-02-1930): English alto, trained in Manchester (teacher: Greenwood) and from 1890-1893 at the Royal Music College London with Alberto Visetti. In Paris she studied with Jacques Bouhy. 1893: concert debut in London, thereafter affiliated with Harris Opera Theatre 1897-1899: Carl Rosa Company 1899: Marriage with William Pearson, gave up her career until 1901. 1901-1914 and from 1919-1922: Covent Garden, London. 1902-1903,...
Topics: Kirkby Lunn Louise, Contralto, HMV, 78rpm opera
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492
Sep 5, 2022
09/22
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Janine Weill, piano
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Janine Weill (Paris, 13.01.1903 - 1983): French pianist, studied piano with Marguerite Long and Alfred Cortot, and composition with Ducasse. She became famous with her Debussy cycles, in which she performed the complete piano oeuvre of Claude Debussy (Encyclopaedia of Music, Elsevier 1967). I have tried to find out more about her. A few fragments: On 15 April 1926, Janine Weill played the primal performance of the piano quintet op. 72 by Fernand le Borne (1862-1929) in Paris. In a letter dated...
Topics: 78rpm piano, Decca, Weill Janine, Debussy, Granados, Albéniz, Liszt, Chopin
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200
Sep 5, 2022
09/22
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Ernest Ansermet, cond.; Decca String Orch.
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Ernest Ansermet (Vevey, 11.11.1883 - Geneva, 20.02.1969): Swiss conductor. Became a mathematics teacher in Lausanne. Studied music in Lausanne, Paris and Geneva with Ernest Bloch and others. 1911: debut as conductor in Lausanne. 1912: conducted at the Casino of Montreux. 1915-1923: conducted Les Ballets Russes (Diaghilev). Advocate of contemporary music: Satie, Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, Honegger. He was a friend of Stravinsky. 1918-1968: Conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse...
Topics: 78rpm orchestra, Decca, Ansermet Ernest, Decca String Orch., Händel
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200
Apr 28, 2023
04/23
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Bessie Smith
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Bessie Smith (15.04.1894 - 26.09.1937): African-American blues singer, nickname "The Empress of the blues". She started in the company of Ma Rainey as a dancer. Around 1913 she started to form an act on her own. She made many popular records for Columbia in 1923-1931 and recorded 4 sides for Okeh in 1933. In november 1929 she made a two-reeler, and sang St. Louis blues, accompanied by the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, James P. Johnsonand a string section. A car crash killed her...
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Columbia, Parlophone, Smith Bessie
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891
Sep 30, 2021
09/21
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Yvonne Astruc, vi.; Nadia Boulanger, pi.; Darius Milhaud, comp.
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Yvonne Astruc (Asnières-sur-Seine, 27 April 1889 - Paris, 17 October 1980) was a French violinist and one of the leading figures in European violin pedagogy. She was the granddaughter of the journalist and theatre impresario Gabriel Astruc (1864-1938). She began studying the violin at the age of five and in 1906 entered the Paris Conservatory in the class of Narcisse-Augustin Lefort (1852-1933). She won the Premier Prix in 1909. She made his debut in Paris. She frequently played the composers...
Topics: Astruc Yvonne, Boulanger Nadia, Boulanger Lili, Milhaud Darius, Columbia, Decca, 78rpm
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May 25, 2023
05/23
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Mary Lou Williams & her Kansas City Seven; Mary Lou Williams & her Orch.
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Mary Lou Williams (Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; 08.05.1910 - 28.05.1981): American jazz pianist, arranger and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than 100 records (in 78, 45, LP versions). She wrote and arranged for Duke ellington and Benny Goodman , and she was friend, mentor and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie. 1 Baby dear (Bennie Moten, Thamon Hayes) 2 Harmony blues (Bennie...
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Williams Mary Lou, Brunswick, Decca
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91
May 10, 2023
05/23
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Bernie Peacock, tenor sax.
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Bernie Peacock (02.06.1921 - 06.12.1997): American jazz saxophonist. Bernie Peacock and his Orchestra: 1 Dog days 2 My blue heaven 78rpm 25 cm: Vogue V 3228 (original King Records) Matrix nr.: 8233-1 / 8234-1 Recorded; 1952
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Peacock Bernie, Vogue
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395
May 29, 2022
05/22
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George W. Byng, cond.
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The librettist W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) worked together on 14 comic operas between 1871 and 1896. The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , founded by Richard D'Oyly Carte (1844-1901) and continued by his son Rupert D'Oyly Carte (1876-1948) and then by Rupert's daughter Bridget D'Oyly Carte (1908-1985), performed Gilbert & Sullivan operas in the period c. 1870-1982. In the period 1988-2003, the Company was revived. From 1917 onwards, complete...
Topics: 78rpm opera, Gilbert & Sullivan, Byng George W., Walker Nellie, Thornton Edna, Dawson Peter,...
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464
May 25, 2022
05/22
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Grand Opera Company ( = Victor Opera Company)
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I have several 30 cm HMVs with Gems from respectively Carmen, I Pagliacci , La Traviata and Faust , sung by the Grand Opera Company . This company, if we look at the matrix numbers, is nothing else than the Victor Opera Company . These kinds of records, with the highlights of an opera pressed onto one (or two) record side(s), were very popular at the beginning of the last century. The cast: Olive Kline (07.07.1887 - 29.07.1976), soprano. Made more than 700 records for Victor in...
Topics: 78rpm opera, Grand Opera Company, Victor Opera company, HMV, Bizet, Leoncavallo, Gounod, Verdi
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Oct 28, 2022
10/22
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Evlyn Howard-Jones, piano
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Evlyn Howard-Jones (London, 01.07.1877 - London, 04.01.1951): English pianist, conductor and music teacher. He studied at the Royal college of Music, and became a pupil of Eugen d'Albert (in Germany). 1908: debut in Brahms piano concerto no. 2 c.b. Sir Henry Wood. 1914: he married violinist Grace Thynne (1873-1952) He played contemporary music. f.i. of Frederick Delius and Cyrill Scott, who dedicated compositions to him. 1920: he played with the London String Quartet a piano quintet from Cyrill...
Topics: 78rpm piano, Bach J.S., Columbia, Howard-Jones Evlyn
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May 25, 2023
05/23
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Columbia Orkest
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"De Groote Parade" (The big parade) is a silent American film from 1925 by director King Vidor (with John Gilbert and Renée Adorée), which was also released in the Netherlands in 1927. According to the label of the Columbia Orchestra's version, Max Tak is the composer of the paraphrase. Whether he is also the conductor is unknown. Max Tak (Amsterdam, 09.08.1891 - New York, 8.8.1967): Dutch musician, composer and journalist. Born in Amsterdam in a family of Jewish diamond workers....
Topics: 78rpm, Tak Max, Columbia, Columbia Orkest
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99
May 9, 2023
05/23
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Albert Préjean, voc.; Lewis Ruth Band c.b. Theo Mackeben
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Albert Préjean (Pantin, 27.10.1894 - Paris, 01.11.1979): French actor, mainly of films. He has made a total of 97 films. He was also a popular singer in the 1930s. This record contains the title song of the film Sous les toits de Paris by René Clair from 1930, in which Albert Préjean plays a leading role. The accompaniment is provided by the fantastic Lewis Ruth Band conducted by Theo Mackeben, who also played the accompaniment of the Threepenny Opera with Lotte Lenya from 1930. I love the...
Topics: 78rpm French, Préjean Albert, Mackeben Theo
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May 11, 2023
05/23
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Circolo Mandolinistico G. Verdi di Livorno
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Circolo Mandolinistico G. Verdi di Livorno: "Semiramide": Sinfonia (Rossini) 78rpm 30 cm: Columbia D 16418 Matrix nrs.: (W)BX 100 / 101 Recorded: 1927 04 12
Topics: 78rpm orchestra, Mandoline, Circolo Mandolinistico G. Verdi di Livorno, Columbia
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164
Jun 13, 2022
06/22
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Nap De Klijn, violin; Alice Heksch, piano
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Nap de Klijn (Amsterdam, 16.08.1909 - Hilversum, 23.08.1979), Dutch violinist. Had his first violin lessons from his uncle Jacob Hamel, afterwards from Sal Snijders (violinist Concertgebouw Orchestra). He graduated with honours from the Amsterdam Conservatory in 1934, and had violin lessons with Felice Togni and Hendrik Rijsbergen. 1950-194: He taught at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. After WW 2 he formed the internationally renowned Amsterdam Duo with his Austrian-born wife Alice...
Topics: 78rpm, Elite Special, De Klijn Nap, Heksch Alice, Mozart
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88
May 10, 2023
05/23
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Lew Davis, trb.; Arthur Young, pi.; George Elliott, guit.; R. Ball, bass; Max Bacon, drs.
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A nice jazz record by the English trombonist Lew Davis (1903-1986). This is the only record released under his own name. 1923-1930: Jack Hylton Orchestra 1932-1934: Ray Noble Orchestra 1934-1937: Bert Ambrose Orchestra 1 I Never Knew (Pitts, Egan, Marsh) 2 Swing Me Sweetly (Lew Davis) Lew Davis, trombone Arthur Young, piano George Elliott, guitar R. Ball, bass Max Bacon, drums 78rpm 25cm: Parlophone R 2152 Matrix nrs.: E7300-3 / E 7301-3 Recorded: London, 16 12 1935
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Davis Lew, Parlophone
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78
May 12, 2023
05/23
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Cremona Tanz Orch.
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Cremona is the name of the city where violin makers Guarneri and Stradivarius were born. The company Cremona in Halle an der Saale made musical instruments. High quality gramophones were produced from 1916-1917, the Resonanz Sprechmaschinen . The Cremona records are thought to be from 1924 and that the matrix numbers start at 7000 (see link above). But my record has die numbers lower than 7000, so the record may be from 1923, or else early 1924. I could not find any further information about...
Topics: 78rpm Dance orchestra, Cremona, Cremona Tanz Orch.
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584
Oct 3, 2022
10/22
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Sir Richard Terry, Dolmetsch family, St. George's Singers
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Percy Scholes: The Columbia History of Music through ear and eye Period 1: To the opening of the seventeenth century The musical examples from English, Flemish, and Italian masters specially recorded under the direction of Sir Richard Terry, Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch and Rev. Dr. E.H. Fellowes Percy Scholes (24.07.1877 - 31.07.1958): English musician, journalist, writer. 1930: in collaboration with Columbia Records in The Columbia History of Music through ear and eye: 5 volumes, each containing a...
Topics: 78rpm, Early music, Columbia, Terry Richard, Dolmetsch family, St. George's Singers, Scholes Percy
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325
Jun 24, 2022
06/22
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Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius, soprano; Anthon Van der Horst, organ; Michiel Noordewier Jr,, flute
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Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius (Deurne, 01.09.1868 - Hilversum, 06.04.1949): 1886-1890: studied piano at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Jean-Baptiste de Pauw, and singing with Johannes Messchaert. 1888: debut From 1893 she had an international career, especially as oratorio singer. From 1900-1930 she sang the Matthäus Passion with Willem Mengelberg, except for a 3 year period (due to the birth of her youngest son). Her youngest son, Michiel Noordewier Jr. (1903-1930), was a flutist and...
Topics: 78rpm opera, Columbia, Soprano, Noordewier-Reddingius Aaltje, Noordewier Michiel Jr., Van der Horst...
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472
Jul 6, 2022
07/22
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Quintette Instrumental de Paris
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René le Roy (Maisons-Lafitte, 04.03.1898 - Paris, 03.01.1985): French flutist and teacher. First received flute lessons from his father. 1916-1918: Conservatory of Paris, lessons with Adolphe Hennebains, Leopold Lafleurance and Philippe Gaubert. Premier Prix obtained in 1918. 1919: succeeded Philippe Gaubert as flautist at the Société des instruments à vent de Paris. 1922: founded the Quintette Instrumental de Paris (flute, harp, string trio). A number of composers wrote works for this...
Topics: 78rpm, HMV, d'Indy Vincent, Scarlatti Domenico, le Roy René, Jamet Pierre, Bas René, Ginot...
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171
Oct 27, 2022
10/22
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Sam Swaap, violin
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Sam Swaap (Amsterdam, 15.10.1888 - Den Haag, 08.11.1971): Dutch violinist and conductor. Studied at the Amsterdam conservatory and from 1904-1907 with Carl Flesch (1873-1944), the famous violin pedagogue who had pupils such as Szymon Goldberg, Ida Haendel, Josef Hassid, Jo Juda, Isolde Menges, Ginette Neveu, Ricardo Odnoposoff, Joachim Röntgen, Max Rostal, Henryk Szeryng, Henri Temianka and Josef Wolfsthal. 1900-1913: violinist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra 1913-1915: concertmaster in Abo...
Topics: 78rpm violin, HMV, Violin, Swaap Sam
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404
Sep 27, 2021
09/21
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Hirt Trio
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Hirt Trio: Franz-Joseph Hirt, piano Alphonse Brun, violin Lorenz Lehr, cello Franz-Joseph Hirt (Lucerne, 07.02.1899 - Bern, 20.05.1985), Swiss pianist, studied with his mother, Josephine Hirt-Kopp, who was a pupil of Clara Schumann. He continued his studies in Basel with H. Huber and E. Levy, then with Egon Petri and Alfred Cortot. Followed the Felix Weingartner conducting course. In 1919, he became a teacher at the Conservatory in Bern, where he led a master class from 1930. Amongst...
Topics: Hirt Trio, Hirt Franz-Joseph, Brun Alphonse, Lehr Lorenz, Polydor, Brahms, Mozart, 78rpm
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252
Jul 8, 2022
07/22
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Siegfried Ochs, cond.; Ursula van Diemen, soprano; Orch. Staatsoper Berlin; Ph. Chor Berlin
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Siegfried Ochs (Frankfurt am Main, 19.04.1858 - Berlin, 06.02.1929): German composer and choir conductor. First studied medicine and chemistry and later devoted himself to music - studied at the Königliche Hochschule für Musik, Berlin. In 1882 he founded the Siegfried Ochs'schen Gesangverein , in 1888 renamed in Philharmonisch Chor Berlin . He conducted this choir until 1920. Ursula van Diemen (Schwerin, 30.11.1896 - 1988): German soprano (her father was Dutch, her mother German). Studied...
Topics: 78rpm orchestra, HMV, Electrola, Bach J.S., Händel, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Ochs Siegfried, Van...
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420
May 13, 2018
05/18
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Sigrid Onégin, contralto
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Sigrid Onégin (Stockholm, 01.06.1889 - Magliaso, 16.06.1943): Swedish-born alto singer, full name Elisabeth Elfriede Sigrid Hoffmann. Had a German father and a French mother. Studied with Louise Resz (Frankfurt), Eugen Robert Weiss (Munich) and Cavaliere de Ranieri (Milan). She was also taught by Lilli Lehmann (1848-1929) and Margarethe Siems (1879-1952). She was also taught by her accompanist Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck (1870-1919), a German composer and pianist who also accompanied Clara...
Topics: Onégin Sigrid, 78rpm opera, Meyerbeer, Victor
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740
Sep 20, 2021
09/21
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Leo Blech, cond.
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Leo Blech (Aachen, 21.04.1871 - Berlin, 25.08.1958): German opera composer and conductor of Jewish origin. Studied piano with Ernst Rudorff and composition with Woldemar Bargiel at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. Later took private lessons with Engelbert Humperdinck. 1893-1896: conductor Stadttheater Aachen 1899-1906: Neues Deutsches Theater, Prague 1906-1937: Königliches Schauspielhaus = later: Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin 1937-1941: in exile in Riga, because of the Nazis....
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Topics: 78rpm orchestra, Blech Leo, Orch. Staatsoper Berlin, Polydor, Mozart, Weber, Thomas, Bellini
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426
Oct 6, 2022
10/22
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Harold Samuel, piano; Clarence Raybould, cond.; Léner SQ; Haydn Draper, clar.; Dorothy Stanton, sop.; Harold Williams. bar.
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Percy Scholes: The Columbia History of Music through ear and eye Period 3: From Bach's sons to Beethoven The musical examples specially recorded by Harold Samuel, the Lener String Quartet, Haydn Draper, Isobel Baillie, Dorothy Stanton, Harold Williams, and the Symphony Orchestra conducted by Clarence Raybould Percy Scholes (24.07.1877 - 31.07.1958): English musician, journalist, writer. 1930: in collaboration with Columbia Records in The Columbia History of Music through ear and eye: 5...
Topics: 78rpm, Columbia, Scholes Percy, History of Music, Samuel Harold, Raybould Clarence, Baillie Isobel,...
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209
Jun 9, 2022
06/22
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Sidney Bechet Circle 7
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Sidney Bechet (New Orleans 14.05.1897 - Garches [France] 14.05.1959): American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer. The first jazz saxophonist who became famous on the soprano saxophone, which he had bought in London during a tour in Europe. He made his first recordings in 1923. Settled in France, where he died of lung cancer in 1959. Sidney Bechet's Circle Seven: Sidney Bechet, soprano sax Edmond Hall, clarinet Wilber de Paris, trombone Albert Snaer, trumpet James P....
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Bechet Sidney, Cupol, Johnson James P.
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Apr 22, 2023
04/23
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Florence Austral, soprano; Percy B. Kahn, piano
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Florence Austral (Richmond, Victoria, 26.04.1892 - Mayfield, Newcastle, 15.05.1968): Australian dramatic soprano. Born Florence Mary Wilson - she adopted her stage name Austral in 1921 in honor of her native country. Studied with Elise Wiedermann and in New York with Gabrielle Sibella. 1922: British bass Robert Radford enabled her to make her Covent Garden debut (Walküre, as Brünnhilde). 1923: sang with Nellie Melba, who spoke highly of her. 1925: married Australian flautist John Amadio and...
Topics: 78rpm opera, Austral Florence, soprano, Kahn Percy B., HMV
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Apr 15, 2022
04/22
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Eugenia Bronskaya, sop.; Bettina Freeman, msop.; Florencio Constantino, ten.; Ramon Blanchart, bar.; José Mardones, bass
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Eugenia Bronskaya (St. Petersburg, 20.01.1882 - Leningrad, 12.12.1953). Russian soprano. Studied with her mother (Mme E. de Hacké) and with Teresa Arkel (Milan). 1901: debut in Tiflis Opera 1901-1903: Opera Kiev 1905-1907: Private Opera Zimin, Moskou Guest roles in Italy and France. 1909-1911: North America 1911-1927: Prima-donna at the Court Opera, St. Petersburg; after the Revolution she sang at a smaller theatre in Leningrad. 1923-1950: Professor at the Leningrad Conservatory. Eugenia...
Topics: 78rpm, Bronskaya Eugenia, Freeman Bettina, Constantino Florencio, Blanchart Ramon, Mardones José,...
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Sep 8, 2022
09/22
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Ernest Ansermet, cond.; O.S.R.; O.S.C.C.
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Ernest Ansermet (Vevey, 11.11.1883 - Geneva, 20.02.1969): Swiss conductor. Became a mathematics teacher in Lausanne. Studied music in Lausanne, Paris and Geneva with Ernest Bloch and others. 1911: debut as conductor in Lausanne. 1912: conducted at the Casino of Montreux. 1915-1923: conducted Les Ballets Russes (Diaghilev). Advocate of contemporary music: Satie, Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, Honegger. He was a friend of Stravinsky. 1918-1968: Conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse...
Topics: 78rpm orchestra, Decca, Ravel, Ansermet Ernest, O.S.R., O.S.C.C.
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Jul 9, 2022
07/22
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Marcelle Meyer, piano
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Marcelle Meyer (Lille, 22.05.1897 - Paris, 17.11.1958): French pianist. Studied with her sister, and at the Conservatory of Paris with Alfred Cortot and Marguerite Long. She awarded the Premier Prix at age 16. Further studies with Ricardo Viñes and Claude Debussy. She had a life-long interest in modern music from composers like Erik Satie, componists from the Groupe des Six, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Manuel de Falla and Paul Hindemith. She also championed the playing...
Topics: 78rpm, Discophiles Français, Scarlatti Domenico, Piano, Meyer Marcelle
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May 18, 2018
05/18
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Peter van Anrooy, cond.; Residentie Orkest
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Peter van Anrooy (Zaltbommel, 13.10.1879 - The Hague, 31.12.1954), conductor and composer. 1890-1899: Studied violin with Simon van Adelberg and composition with Johan Wagenaar at the Toonkunst Music School Utrecht. Went to Moscow to study conducting with Willem Kes and composition with Sergei Taneyev. Was subsequently violinist in Glasgow (with Kes as conductor). 1902-1903: violinist Tonhalle Orchester Zurich 1905-1911: conductor Groninger Orkest Vereeniging 1911-1917: conductor Arnhemse...
Topics: 78rpm orchestra, Van Anrooy Peter, Grieg, HMV, Residentie Orkest
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May 12, 2023
05/23
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Hans Knappertsbusch, cond.; Mitgl. Staatskapelle Berlin
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Hans Knappertsbusch (Elberfeld, 12.03.1888 - Munich, 25.10.1965): German conductor. Studied philosophy in Bonn and conducting at the Cologne Conservatory with Fritz Steinbach (1855-1916), the teacher of Fritz Busch, Karl Elmendorff, Albert van Raalte and Erwin Schulhoff, among others. Some highlights from his conducting career: 1913-1918: Elberfeld 1918-1919: Leipzig 1919-1922: Dessau 1922-1935; 1945: Bavarian State Orchestra. In 1935 he was forced to leave the field by Hitler. "Kna"...
Topics: 78rpm orchestra, Odeon, Knappertsbusch Hans, Staatskapelle Berlin
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Mar 31, 2021
03/21
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Stokowski Leopold, Philadelphia Orch.
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Leopold Stokowski (London, 18.04.1882 - Nether Wallop, Hampshire, 13.09.1977): English conductor, with a Polish father and an Irish mother. Some highlights: 1909-1912: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 1912-1938: Philadelphia Orchestra 1940-1942: Founded the All-American Youth Orchestra and toured North and South America with it 1945-1946: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles 1946-1949: Guest conducting with New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra 1949-1951: co-conductor together with Mitropoulos of the...
Topics: 78rpm, Stokowski Leopold, Scriabin, HMV
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Oct 2, 2021
10/21
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Fernand Oubradous, bassoon; Edvard Fendler, cond.
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Edvard Fendler (Leipzig, 1902 - 1987), studied at the Stern Conservatory, Berlin, with Brecher as his conducting teacher. Debut as a conductor in 1927, conducted in Germany, France and the Netherlands. 1930-1933: Symphonie-Kammer-Orchester, Berlin 1942-1944: Ciudad Trujillo S.O., Dominican Republic 1945-1947: United States, and after 1949 1948-1949: San José, Costa Rica 1952: Mobile S.O., Alabama He recorded for the labels HMV, L'Oiseau-Lyre, Vox and Boîte à Musique. His preference was to...
Topics: Devienne, 78rpm orchestra, Fendler Edvard, Oubradous Fernand, L'Oiseau-Lyre, Mozart
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Aug 28, 2019
08/19
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Gustave Bret, cond.; Fanny Malnory-Maresillac, sop.; Louis Morturier, bar.
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Gabriel Fauré (Pamiers, 12.05.1845 - Paris, 04.11.1924) composed his Requiem for choir and orchestra in d op. 48 between 1877 (Pie Jesu) and 1887-1890. It became his best-known longer composition. We hear a performance by the French conductor, composer, organist and critic Gustave Bret (30.08.1875 - 17.04.1969). He studied with Charles-Marie Widor and Vincent d'Indy, and was an organist at the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris. He was the first to perform all organ compositions by...
Topics: Fauré, Morturier Louis, Malnory-Marseillac Fanny, Bret Gustave, Cellier Alexandre, 78rpm...
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Jun 9, 2022
06/22
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Paul Whiteman Orch.
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Paul Whiteman (28.03.1890 - 29.12.1967): American bandleader, composer, violinist. He started out as a classical violinist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He led his first dance orchestra in 1918 in San Francisco, went to New York with the band in 1920, recorded Whispering / The Japanese sandman and became the most popular dance orchestra of the 1920s. Fantastic jazz musicians played in the band: Bix Beiderbecke, Frank Trumbauer, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang; vocalists like Bing...
Topics: 78rpm Jazz, Whiteman Paul, HMV
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Sep 28, 2021
09/21
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Roth String Quartet
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Die Kunst der Fuge by Johann Sebastian Bach is a collection of 14 fugues and 4 canons, composed between 1742 and 1750 and published in incomplete form after his death. Bach did not specify the instruments for which Die Kunst der Fuge was intended, but it is most likely for the harpsichord. It is very nice that the first recording was made with a... string quartet, in an arrangement by Roy Harris and Mary Norton. A possible ending to the last fugue was composed and played by Sir Donald Tovey...
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Topics: 78rpm chamber, Roth SQ, Bach J.S., Columbia
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Oct 4, 2022
10/22
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Rudolph & Arnold Dolmetsch, Bach Cantata Club, Kennedy Scott, Dorothy Owens, Leon Goossens
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Percy Scholes: The Columbia History of Music through ear and eye Period 2: From the beginning of the opera and oratorio to the death of Bach and Händel The musical examples from Italian, English, and German masters specially recorded under the direction of Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch and Mr. Kennedy Scott Percy Scholes (24.07.1877 - 31.07.1958): English musician, journalist, writer. 1930: in collaboration with Columbia Records in The Columbia History of Music through ear and eye: 5 volumes, each...
Topics: 78rpm, Columbia, Scholes Percy, Dolmetsch Arnold, Dolmetsch Rudolph, Bach Cantata Club, Scott...
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Dec 6, 2021
12/21
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Loewenguth Quartet
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Loewenguth Quartet : created in 1929 by Alfred Loewenguth (15.06.1911 - 11.11.1983): French violinist. The string quartet was active until the 70s. The line-up: Alfred Loewenguth, 1st violin Maurice Fuéri, 2nd violin Roger Roche, viola Pierre Basseux, cello. Beethoven: String quartet no. 16 in F op. 135 (1826) 1 allegretto 2 vivace (scherzo) 3 lento assai e cantante tranquillo 4 grave ma non troppo tratto - allegro ("Der schwer gefaßte Entschluß") 78rpm 30 cm: HMV...
Topics: 78rpm, Loewenguth Quartet, Beethoven, HMV, Loewenguth Alfred, Fuéri Maurice, Roche Roger, Basseux...
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May 17, 2022
05/22
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Yvonne Brothier, sop.; Charles Panzéra, bar.; Willy Tubiana, bar.-bass; Piero Coppola, cond.
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Yvonne Brothier (Saint-Julien-L'Ars, 06.06.1889 - Paris, 22.01.1967): French soprano. Studied at the Conservatoire Paris with Paul Vidal, Albert Wolff and Marguerite Long. 1914: sang in Brussels 1916: debut at the Opéra-Comique, where she sang for almost 20 years. Since 1931 she also sang at the Grand Opéra, Paris. 1939: she retiredand devoted herself to teaching. She made many records for Disque Gramophone (French HMV) in the period 1919-1934. Charles Panzéra (Geneva, 16.02.1896 - Paris,...
Topics: 78rpm opera, Disque Gramophone, Debussy, Brothier Yvonne, Panzéra Charles, Tubiana Willy, Coppola...
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Sep 9, 2022
09/22
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Ernest Ansermet, cond.; London Ph.O.
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Ernest Ansermet (Vevey, 11.11.1883 - Geneva, 20.02.1969): Swiss conductor. Became a mathematics teacher in Lausanne. Studied music in Lausanne, Paris and Geneva with Ernest Bloch and others. 1911: debut as conductor in Lausanne. 1912: conducted at the Casino of Montreux. 1915-1923: conducted Les Ballets Russes (Diaghilev). Advocate of contemporary music: Satie, Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, Honegger. He was a friend of Stravinsky. 1918-1968: Conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse...
Topics: 78rpm orchestra, Decca, Ansermet Ernest, Stravinsky Igor, London Ph.O.
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Jun 10, 2020
06/20
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Orkest Max Tak
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Max Tak (Amsterdam, 09.08.1891 - New York, 8.8.1967): Dutch musician, composer and journalist. Born in Amsterdam in a family of Jewish diamond workers. Had violin lessons from William Klein, Sylvain Noach and Johan C. Herbschleb, first violinist with the Concertgebouw orchestra. In 1908 Tak was allowed to play for Willem Mengelberg and was accepted as a student of the second violins for f25, - per month. he also took violin lessons at the conservatory with Alexander Schmuller and composition...
Topics: Strauss Richard, Tak Max, Pathé, Strauss Richard, 78rpm
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Nov 2, 2022
11/22
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Isolde Menges, violin; Eileen Beattie, piano
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Isolde Menges (16.05.1893 - 13.01.1976): English violinist. Her father was a German; her parents both played the violin and ran a music school. She was a pupil of both Leopold Auer and Carl Flesch. She gave many concerts, as a soloist, and with her Menges Quartet (founded in 1931) and her Menges Quintet. She also taught at the Royal College of Music in London from 1931. The composer and conductor Herbert Menges (1902-1972) was her younger brother. She was the first violinist to record Bach's...
Topics: 78rpm violin, Menges Isolde, Violin, Beattie Eileen, HMV
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May 11, 2023
05/23
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Deauville Dance Band
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The english Dominion Records existed from october 1928 untill april 1930. The first records to be released were American recordings from the Cameo and Perfect labels. The record numbering began at A 1 and continued to at least A 267 in april 1930. So this record with number A 163 will probably be recorded in 1929. Jay Wilbur (Bournemouth, 1898 - Cape Town, 1968), real name Wilbur Blinco. He was recording director for the Dominion label, then recording director for Crystalate Gramophone...
Topics: 78rpm Dance band, Dominion, Deauville Dance Band
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May 30, 2022
05/22
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John Harrison, tenor (+ orch.)
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John Harrison (27.021868 - 19.03.1929): English tenor. Because of his good selling records he was sometimes called "The English Caruso" but that is too much honour I am afraid. John made records from December 1902 to 1920. In 1906 he participated in a complete recording of The Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan). The record with John in the role of Nanki-Poo with the song A wand'ring minstrel I was very successful. the two records are very worn, so the sound is not optimal. John...
Topics: 78rpm opera, G&T, Gramophone, Harrison John, Tenor, Händel, Gilbert & Sullivan
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May 27, 2022
05/22
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Giuseppina Huguet, sop.; Carlo Sabajno, cond.
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Giuseppina Huguet (real name Josefina Huguet) (Barcelona, 22.09.1871 - Barcelona, 1951). Educated at the conservatory of Barcelona (Francisco Bonet). 1889: debut in Barcelona ( Lakmé ). 1895: went to Italy, had great success at the great Italian operas (Scala, Milan; Teatro Constanzi, Rome). 1898: major North American tour. Guest roles in London, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona. After retiring from the concert stage, she was active as a singing teacher in Barcelona. She made 159 recordings for...
Topics: 78rpm opera, Gramophone, G&T, Bizet, Thomas, Gounod, Donizetti, Huguet Giuseppina, Sabajno...
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May 10, 2022
05/22
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Pierre d'Assy, bass (+ orch.)
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Pierre d'Assy (Liège, 1867 - Lyon, 1910, another source mentions 1870-1910) was one of the leading basses of the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. He was married to the Belgian soprano Jane Paquot (1878 or 1880 - 1952). According to the label, he was also connected with the Opéra, Paris. We hear him here on a Pre-dog, so that means the recording was made between 1907-1909. The label is badly damaged; a steel needle has carved quite a few circles on the paper there. Both arias are sung in...
Topics: 78rpm opera, Gramophone, d'Assy Pierre, Bass, Mozart, Meyerbeer, Predog
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Jul 7, 2022
07/22
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Royal Choral Society; Royal Albert Hall Orch.; H.L.Balfour, Malcolm Sargent, Albert Coates, E.C. Bairstow, cond.
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In 1925 the microphone was used in recording studios. Hence the name "electric recordings" (= with microphone) instead of the acoustic process, in which one played/sang in a horn and the mechanical vibrations were recorded on a wax plate. And what does one do when new possibilities like these present themselves? Exactly: push the boundaries! Give massive performances with choir and orchestra and record them live. And in England His Master's Voice in particular was active in this....
Topics: 78rpm choir, Choir, Royal Choral Society, HMV, Händel, Bach J.S., Mendelssohn, Coates Albert,...
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May 20, 2022
05/22
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Clara Butt, contralto
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Clara Butt (01.02.1872 - 23.01.1936): English contralto. Studied at the Royal College of Music, then in Paris with Jacques Bouhy (1848-1929), teacher of Louise Homer and Louise Kirkby-Lunn. Then studied in Berlin with the soprano Etelka Gerster (1855-1920). Debut in London December 1892 with Sullivan's cantata The Golden Legend . Great career in England as oratorio and lieder singer. She had three sisters who also became singers. She was an imposing appearance, 1:88 metres tall. Elgar...
Topics: 78rpm opera, HMV, Butt Clara, Contralto, Donizetti, Händel, Liddle, Elgar, Loughborough, Sullivan
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Oct 21, 2022
10/22
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Hamilton Harty, Myra Hess, Dorothea Helmrich, Victoria Anderson, Viola Morris, Mark Raphael
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Percy Scholes: The Columbia History of Music through ear and eye Period 4: Music as romance and as national expression The musical examples specially recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra c.b. Sir Hamilton Harty; Myra Hess; Sir Hamilton Harty; Mark Raphael; Dorothea Helmrich; Victoria Anderson and Viola Morris Percy Scholes (24.07.1877 - 31.07.1958): English musician, journalist, writer. 1930: in collaboration with Columbia Records in The Columbia History of Music through ear and...
Topics: 78rpm, Hess Myra, Scholes Percy, Raphael Mark, Helmrich Dorothea, Anderson Victoria, Morris Viola,...
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Nov 7, 2022
11/22
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Francis Koene, violin; Maurice van IJzer, piano
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Francis Koene (Batavia, 11.03.1899 - Amsterdam, 29.01.1935), born in the Dutch East Indies. His mother was Javanese, his father Dutch. He was one of three child prodigies in the family, who also performed as a trio in Java. In the Netherlands, he went to the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and then took lessons from Louis Zimmermann, the concertmaster of the Concertgebouw. 1920: played at the Concertgebouw, participated in the Mahler Festival. 1921: 2nd concertmaster of the Utrecht Symphony...
Topics: 78rpm violin, Columbia, Koene Francis, van IJzer Maurice, Milhaud, Beethoven, Kreisler
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Oct 28, 2022
10/22
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Sir Thomas Beecham, cond.; London Ph.O.
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Sir Thomas Beecham (29.04.1879 - 08.03.1961): English conductor and impresario. Had composition lessons but was essentially self-taught, and was therefore sometimes regarded as "amateur" by his colleagues. Debut as a conductor in 1899. Founded the New Symphony Orchestra (later the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra) in 1906 and the Beecham Symphony Orchestra in 1909, a young orchestra including Albert Sammons, Lionel Tertis and Eric Coates. Thanks to his father's capital, he was able to...
Topics: 78rpm orchestra, Columbia, Mozart, Beecham Sir Thomas, London Ph.O.
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Jan 23, 2022
01/22
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Willem van Otterloo, cond.; Residentie Orkest
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Willem van Otterloo (Winterswijk, 27.12.1907 - Melbourne, 27.07.1978): Dutch conductor and composer. Father of conductor-composer Rogier van Otterloo (1941-1988) and grandfather of saxophonist Thijs van Otterloo (1973). 1932: cellist at the Utrechts Stedelijk Orkest (USO). 1937: first conductor of the USO (initially alongside Carl Schuricht). After the war, he was banned from conducting for a year because the USO had played for the German propaganda station Europasender. In 1946, he...
Topics: 78rpm orchestra, Van Otterloo Willem, Residentie Orkest, Andriessen Hendrik, Philips
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May 18, 2018
05/18
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Busch Adolf, vi.; Serkin Rudolf, pi.
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Adolf Busch (Siegen, 08.08.1891 - Guilford, Vermont, 09.06.1952): German, after 1935 Swiss violinist, conductor and composer. Brother of conductor Fritz Busch, cellist Hermann Busch, pianist Heinrich Busch and actor Willi Busch. Educated at the conservatory in Cologne, had violin lessons from Willy Hess (1859-1939) and Bram Elderling (1865-1943), and composition lessons from Fritz Steinbach (1855-1916) Additionally had composition lessons from Hugo Grüters (1851-1928), whose daughter Frida he...
Topics: 78rpm, Busch Adolf, Serkin Rudolf, HMV, Victor, Brahms
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Sep 11, 2022
09/22
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Myra Hess, piano; Jelly d'Aranyi, violin; Gaspar Cassadó, cello
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Myra Hess (London, 25.02.1890 - London, 25.11.1965): English pianist. Studied with Tobias Matthay (1858-1945), who taught a.o. Arnold Bax, Harriet Cohen, Clifford Curzon, Moura Lympany and Irene Scharrer. Made her debut in 1907. Both concert pianist and active in chamber music ensembles. Formed a piano duo with Irene Scharrer. Her piano arrangement Jesu, joy of man's desiring became world famous. During World war 2 she organised 1698 lunchtime concerts, starting a few weeks after the start of...
Topics: 78rpm chamber, Columbia, Hess Myra, d'Arányi Jelly, Cassado Gaspar, Brahms
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May 28, 2022
05/22
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Elsie Houston, mezzo-soprano; Pablo Miquel, piano
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Elsie Houston (Rio de Janeiro, 22.04.1902 - New York, 20.02.1943): Brazilian singer, descendant of confederados , refugees from the American Civil War. Her father was a dentist. She was classically trained by taking lessons for almost a year from Lilli Lehmann (who also taught Geraldine Farrar and Olive Fremstadt) and then from the French soprano Ninon Vallin. She knew many Brazilian artists (such as Heitor Villa-Lobos, but also painters and writers), lived alternately in France, Brazil and...
Topics: 78rpm opera, RCA-Victor, Houston Elsie, Brazil, Mezzo-soprano, Miquel Pablo
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Sep 6, 2022
09/22
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Ernest Ansermet, cond.; O.S.R.
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Ernest Ansermet (Vevey, 11.11.1883 - Geneva, 20.02.1969): Swiss conductor. Became a mathematics teacher in Lausanne. Studied music in Lausanne, Paris and Geneva with Ernest Bloch and others. 1911: debut as conductor in Lausanne. 1912: conducted at the Casino of Montreux. 1915-1923: conducted Les Ballets Russes (Diaghilev). Advocate of contemporary music: Satie, Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, Honegger. He was a friend of Stravinsky. 1918-1968: Conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse...
Topics: 78rpm orchestra, Decca, Stravinsky, Ansermet Ernest, O.S.R.
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Nov 30, 2021
11/21
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Johann Strauss III Orch.
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Johann Strauss III (Vienna, 16.02.1866 - Berlin, 09.01.1939), full nephew of the famous Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), son of Eduard Strauss (1835-1916), nephew of Josef Strauss (1827-1870). Johann Strauss I (1804-1849), the father of the three brothers Johann II, Eduard and Josef, was the first of the family to start a successful dance orchestra in Vienna (in 1825). Johann Strauss II, against the wishes of Johann I, had also gone into music, and much rivalry arose between father and son....
Topics: 78rpm, Strauss Johann III, Strauss Johann II, Columbia
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Sep 8, 2022
09/22
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Ernest Ansermet, cond.; London Ph.O.
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Ernest Ansermet (Vevey, 11.11.1883 - Geneva, 20.02.1969): Swiss conductor. Became a mathematics teacher in Lausanne. Studied music in Lausanne, Paris and Geneva with Ernest Bloch and others. 1911: debut as conductor in Lausanne. 1912: conducted at the Casino of Montreux. 1915-1923: conducted Les Ballets Russes (Diaghilev). Advocate of contemporary music: Satie, Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, Honegger. He was a friend of Stravinsky. 1918-1968: Conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse...
Topics: 78rpm orchestra, Decca, Stravinsky Igor, Ansermet Ernest, London Ph.O.
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Sep 29, 2021
09/21
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Max Fiedler, cond.; Orch. Staatsoper Berlin
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Max Fiedler (1859-1939) studied piano with his father and made his debut as a 10-year-old with Mozart's piano concerto KV 488. He continued his studies with the organist Gustav Albrecht, who was a pupil of Mendelssohn. In 1877, he continued his studies at the Leipzig Conservatory with Carl Reinecke. He graduated in 1882, together with his friend and colleague Karl Muck. He was friends with Julius Spengel, a friend of Brahms. Brahms himself once asked him to stand in for him and play his 2nd...
Topics: 78rpm orchestra, Fiedler Max, Brahms, Polydor, Buxbaum Quartett
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