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Jimmie Lunceford (06.06.1902 - 12.07.1947): American multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. Played saxophone, clarinet, flute, guitar and trombone. Studied music with Paul Whiteman's father. Started as a professional bandleader in 1927. A contract at the Cotton Club (Harlem, N.Y.) from 1934 (as successor to Cab Calloway) led to much success. He recorded for Victor (1930), Decca (from 1930), Vocalion (from 1938) and again for Decca. 1937: extensive tour through Europe. 1940: his arranger...
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James Price Johnson (01.02.1894 - 17.11.1955): American pianist and composer. The composer of the famous Charleston, which appeared in the Broadway show Runnin' wild (1923). He formed a bridge between ragtime and jazz, and was a master of the "Harlem stride piano" style, with the jumping left hand. He was a great example for Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and Art Tatum. Fats Waller had lessons from him. James P. Johnson has played hundreds of piano rolls under his own...
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Count Basie (21.08.1904 - 26.04.1984): American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader and composer. 1929-1935: Bennie Moten's Band in Kansas City. He played there until Moten's death in 1935. 1935: Formed the Count Basie Orchestra, which he led into the 1980s. His band included such greats as Lester Young (ten.sax), Buck Clayton (trp), Freddy Green (git.) and Jo Jones (drs). Famous vocalists were Billie Holiday, Helen Humes, Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Turner. An LP with (according to Musidisc)...
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Jelly Roll Morton (20.10.1890 - 10.07.1941): real name Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe. American pianist, bandleader and composer. Started in New Orleans at the age of 14 as a pianist in a brothel. His song Jelly Roll blues (1915) was the first published jazz composition. King Porter stomp , Wolverine blues , Black bottom stom p are some of his other compositions. From 1926 onwards, he had great success with his band, Jelly Roll Morton & his Red Hot Peppers , which included such greats as Johnny...
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Lester Young
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Duke Ellington
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Duke Ellington
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Duke Ellington (29.04.1899 - 24.05.1975): American pianist, composer and bandleader. He formed his own band in 1923 and led it with great success until his death. It featured great musicians: Johnny Hodges; Rex Stewart, Ray Nance, Harry Carney, Lawrence Brown, Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton and Sonny Greer (to name a few). Ben Webster also played for a period with Duke Ellington (1940-1043). Duke Ellington: Live recording at the "Cotton Club" N.Y.C., Vol. 2 Musidisc JA 5169 Total...
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Duke Ellington (29.04.1899 - 24.05.1975): American pianist, composer and bandleader. He formed his own band in 1923 and led it with great success until his death. It featured great musicians: Johnny Hodges; Rex Stewart, Ray Nance, Harry Carney, Lawrence Brown, Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton and Sonny Greer (to name a few). Ben Webster also played for a period with Duke Ellington (1940-1043). Duke Ellington: Live recording at the Cotton Club vol. 1 1938 Musidisc JA 5168 Total time: 37:57
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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 about...
Topics: Tatum Art, LP jazz 78rpm, Jazz, Musidisc, Barksdale Everett, Stewart Slam, Pemberton Bill
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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 about...
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Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (New York, 21.05.1904 - Kansas City, 15.12.1943): Son of a reverend. He was a great pianist, organist, composer and entertainer/singer. Master of the Stride Piano style (with the jumping left hand), which he learned from James P. Johnson (1894-1955), who composed the famous Charleston. His first piano solos were recorded in 1922 when he was 18. Fats Waller also recorded beautiful piano rolls in the 1920s. Fats Waller was a professional pianist from...
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Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (New York, 21.05.1904 - Kansas City, 15.12.1943): Son of a reverend. He was a great pianist, organist, composer and entertainer/singer. Master of the Stride Piano style (with the jumping left hand), which he learned from James P. Johnson (1894-1955), who composed the famous Charleston. His first piano solos were recorded in 1922 when he was 18. Fats Waller also recorded beautiful piano rolls in the 1920s. Look here for a Fats Waller rollography. Fats...
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Duke Ellington: V-discs Cicala BLJ 8018
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Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas (Muskogee, Oklahoma, 21.10.1912 - Amsterdam, 24.08.1972): American tenor saxophonist. He played in the orchestra of Count Basie (1941-1943), Duke Ellington, and with artists such as Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. 1946: went to Europe with Don Redman's orchestra and stayed there, first settling in Paris, and from 1947-1948 in Barcelona. In the early 1950s Don Byas moved to Amsterdam, married Johanna...
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Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas (Muskogee, Oklahoma, 21.10.1912 - Amsterdam, 24.08.1972): American tenor saxophonist. He played in the orchestra of Count Basie (1941-1943), Duke Ellington, and with artists such as Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. 1946: went to Europe with Don Redman's orchestra and stayed there, first settling in Paris, and from 1947-1948 in Barcelona. In the early 1950s Don Byas moved to Amsterdam, married Johanna...
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Cortot, Thibaud, Casals - Pearl GEMM 175 Brahms: Concert voor viool en cello in a op.102 30:48 01 allegro 15:17 02 andante 6:56 03 vivace non troppo 8:38 Jacques Thibaud, violin; Pablo Casals, cello Casals Orchestra of Barcelona c.b. Alfred Cortot HMV DB 1311-1314 Matrix nrs.: CJ 2156-2163 Recorded Barcelona, 10+11 - 05 - 1929 04 Beethoven: 7 variations on a theme of "Die Zauberflöte" 10:08...
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A collection of LP's with transfers of 78rpm records, piano rolls, cylinders.
Topics: music, vinyl, Duo-Art, Welte-Mignon, classical, vocal, opera, 78rpm
Léonce Escalaïs (Cuxac d'Aude, 08.08.1859 - Cuxac d'Aude, 08.11.1941) (other sources mention as date of death 25.08.1940 or 08.11.1940): French heroic tenor. Studied at the Conservatory of Toulouse and afterwards at the Conservatory of Paris, with Crosti and Obin. 1882: debut in Théâtre du Chateau, Paris, in Sardanapale (Jean-Baptiste Duvernois) 1883-1892: Opéra Paris. He left after a conflict with the management. Between 1892-1908, he worked more in Italy than in France. From 1885:...
Topics: Escalais Léonce, Tenor, Court Opera Classics, LP 78rpm
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Welte-Mignon, Beethoven, Schubert, Scharwenka Franz Xaver, Hofmann Josef, Reisenauer...
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Welte-Mignon, Telefunken, Chopin, D'Albert Eugen, Busoni Ferruccio.Bloomfield-Zeisler...
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Telefunken, Welte-Mignon, Lamond Frederic, Busoni Ferruccio, D'Albert Eugen, Stavenhagen...
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Telefunken, Welte-Mignon, 1905, Strauss Richard, Saint-Saëns, D'Albert, Leoncavallo,...
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: Welte-Mignon, LP 78rpm, Grieg, Strauss Richard, Mahler, Reger, Debussy, De Falla, Granados,...
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: Gershwin George, Duo-Art, LP 78rpm, Everest
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Duo-Art, Everest, Fischer Edwin, Brahms
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Duo-Art, Everest, Bauer Harold, Beethoven
Almost every major pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano roles. Especially when the technical development had progressed so far that dynamics, pedal use, etc. could be recorded on the roll, recording rollers became more interesting than recording 78rpm records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course more beautiful than the tinny sound of early piano recordings. There is a beautiful site about the history of the reproduction...
Topics: Paderewski Ignace Jan, Chopin, Everest, LP 78rpm, Duo-Art
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Duo-Art, Paderewski Ignace Jan, Liszt, Everest
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Duo-Art, Everest, Hofmann Josef
Almost every major pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano roles. Especially when the technical development had progressed so far that dynamics, pedal use, etc. could be recorded on the roll, recording rollers became more interesting than recording 78rpm records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course more beautiful than the tinny sound of early piano recordings. There is a beautiful site about the history of the reproducing...
Topics: Ravel Maurice, Everest, Duo-Art, LP 78rpm
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Duo-Art, Hofmann Josef, Paderewski Ignace Jan, Liszt, Everest
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Hofmann Josef, Chopin, Everest, Duo-Art
Almost every major pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano roles. Especially when the technical development had progressed so far that dynamics, pedal use, etc. could be recorded on the roll, recording rollers became more interesting than recording 78rpm records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course more beautiful than the tinny sound of early piano recordings. There is a beautiful site about the history of the reproducing...
Topics: Paderewski Ignace Jan, Duo-Art, Everest, LP 78rpm
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: Prokofiev Sergei, Everest, Duo-Art, LP 78rpm
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Duo-Art, Everest, Chopin, Friedman Ignaz
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducting piano . And in...
Topics: Godowsky Leopold, Duo-Art, Everest, LP 78rpm
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Hofmann Josef, Duo-Art, Everest, Beethoven
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Friedheim Arthur, Liszt, Everest, Duo-Art
Almost every important pianist and composer from the beginning of the last century recorded piano rolls. Particularly when developments were such that dynamics, pedal operation, etc. could also be recorded on the roll, recording rolls became more interesting than recording 78t. records for a mechanical horn: the sound quality of a real piano was of course nicer than the tinny sound of the early piano recordings. There is a wonderful site on the history of the reproducing piano . And in...
Topics: Duo-Art, Grainger Percy, Piano roll, LP 78rpm
Percy Grainger (Melbourne, 08.07.1882 - White Plains, N.Y., 20.02.1961): Australian pianist and composer. First received piano lessons from Louis Pabst. 1894: debut in Melbourne 1895-1901: Hoch-Conservatory in Frankfurt, with James Kwast. He took private lessons from Karl Klimsch, an amateur composer with a great interest in folk music. Grainger was part of the "Frankfurt Group" together with fellow students Balfour Gardiner, Norman O'Neill, Roger Quilter and Cyrill Scott. ...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Pearl, Grainger Percy, Piano
Eugene Ormandy (real name Jenö Ormándy-Blau) (Budapest, 18.11.1899 - Philadelphia, 12.03.1985): Hungarian conductor and violinist, son of a Jewish dentist. Went to the conservatory at age 5, had violin lessons from Jenö Hubay, received his diploma at age 13. 1920: graduated in philosophy. 1921: Emigrated to America. 1923-1929: made 16 recordings as a violinist. 1931-1936: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra 1936-1980: Philadelphia Orchestra He recorded records for the following labels: ...
Topics: Ormandy Eugene, LP 78rpm, Sayão Bidu, Nadell Rosalind, Debussy, Ravel, Columbia, 1947
Claudia Muzio (Pavia, 07.02.1889 - Rome, 24.05.1936): Italian soprano. Daughter of an assistant opera director of Covent Garden, Manhattan Opera and The Metropolitan respectively. Her mother was a chorister at the Metropolitan. She went to school in London. From the age of 16, she took singing lessons with the mezzo-soprano Annetta Casaloni (Turin), who had created the role of Maddalena in Rigoletto in 1851. This was followed by lessons with Elettra Callery-Viviani (Milan). 1910: Debut in Manon...
Topics: Muzio Claudia, Soprano, Scala, LP 78rpm
Dennis Brain (07.05.1921 - 01.09.1957): son of horn player Aubrey Brain (1893-1955). Unfortunately, Dennis died young, at the age of 36, due to a car accident (he loved driving fast). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for piano and winds in E flat KV 452 22:47 1 largo - allegro moderato 10:00 2 larghetto 7:03 3 rondo (allegretto) 5:44 Colin Horsley, piano; Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble Recorded juni 1953 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ...
Topics: Brain Dennis, Horn, Dacapo, Moore Gerald, Matthews Denis, LP 78rpm
Hugh the Drover is a ballad opera written by Ralph Vaughan Williams, on a libretto by Harold Child. It was premiered in 1924. Shortly afterwards, this abridged version was recorded (in 1924 or 1925). This is not an LP of mine, but I have a recording of it. Unfortunately, I don't have a good scan of the sleeve text. I was unable to find any information about the original 78rpm recordings on the internet. There is little known about alto Nellie Walker but she can be heard on many records,...
Topics: Vaughan Williams, Sargent Malcolm, Davies Tudor, Lewis Mary, Dawson Peter, LP 78rpm, Pearl, Walker...
Giuseppe de Luca (Rome, 25.12.1876 - New York, 26.08.1950): Italian baritone, son of a blacksmith. Educated at the conservatory in Rome, studied with Venceslao Persechini (teacher of Mattia Battistini and Titta Ruffo) and Antonio Cotogni. 1897: debut in Piacenza, in Faust (Gounod) 1902-1910: La Scala, Milan 1904: created the role of Sharpless in Madame Butterfly (Puccini) at La Scala 1907: sang in Covent Garden, London 1915-1935, 1939-1940: Metropolitan Opera 1918: created the title role in...
Topics: De Luca Giuseppe, Baritone, RCA, LP 78rpm
Nr Artists Title Label Matrix Date Time 01 Maria Barrientos, sop.; Manuel de Falla, pi. De Falla: 7 cancions populares Españolas Columbia D 11701, PFX 1 WLX 308-310; 1368; 1415 1928 03 31; 1930 06 03+05 17:08 02 Miguel Fleta, ten.; Emilio Sagi-Barba, bar.; Matilda Revenga. Sop. Arrieta – “Marina”: No sabes tú que yo tenia HMV DB 1170 CJ1234-2T1 1928 02 15 8:32 03 Antonio Cortis, ten. Vives – “Doña Francisquita”: Mujer fatal Victor 1118 BVE33403-2 1925 09 04 4:07 04 Maria...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Barrientos Maria, Everest/Scala, Spani Hina, Schipa Tito, Fleta Miguel, Sagi-Barba...
Luisa Tetrazzini (Florence, 28.06.1871 - Milan, 28.04.1940). Italian coloratura soprano, studied first with her eldest sister Eva Tetrazzini (1862-1938), who had an international career, then with Professor Ceccherini. 1890: debut in Florence, as a substitute due to illness of the primadonna. Afterwards she performed in provincial theatres in Italy and in South America, especially in Buenos Aires. 1896: return to Europe, sang in Russia, Spain, Germany, Poland, America (San Francisco, 1905)...
Topics: LP 78rpm, Tetrazzini Luisa, Soprano, Ember
Gustav Holst: 1 Two songs without words op.22 (1906) 7:14 1 Country song 2 Marching song London Symphony Orchestra c.b. Gustav Holst 1: Columbia L 1649 AX 572 Recorded 01.09.1924 2: Columbia L 1543 AX 303 Recorded 14.02.1924 2 Beni Mora , oriëntal suite in e op.29 no.1 (1910) 13:54 1 First dance 2 Second dance 3 In the Street of Ouled Naïls London Symphony Orchestra c.b. Gustav...
Topics: Holst Gustav, Pearl, Columbia, 1924, LP 78rpm
1 Frank Bridge: The sea (1910-1911) 16:58 1 seascape 2 sea foam 3 moonlight 4 the storm London Symphony Orchestra c.b. Frank Bridge Columbia L 1500-1 AX 114-7 Recorded 26-07-1923 2 Rutland Boughton: "The immortal hour" (1912) 7:13 1 the love duet 2 faery chorus London Symphony Orchestra c.b. Rutland Boughton Columbia 935 AX 24/5 Recorded 29-05-1923 3 Julius...
Topics: Opal, Bridge Frank, Boughton Rutland, Harrison Julius, Harty Hamilton, LP 78rpm
Rosa Ponselle (22.01.1897 - 25.05.1981), real name Rosa Ponzillo. American soprano. Her parents were immigrants from Caiazzo, Italy. 1915-1918: Sang together with her sister Carmela (1887-1977) at the Keith Vaudeville Circuit. Via the singing teacher William Thorne and auditions with the baritone Victor Maurel and tenor Enrico Caruso, an audition was arranged with the manager of the Metropolitan, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, who engaged her for the 1918-1919 season. The cover text beautifully...
Topics: Ponselle Rosa, Pearl, Soprano, LP 78rpm
André d'Arkor (Tilleur, 23.02.1901 - Brussels, 19.12.1971): Belgian tenor. Trained in Liege and Brussels. 1924: debut in Liege as Gérald (Lakmé, Delibes). Also sang for three seasons at the Royal Opera in Ghent. 1930-1945: Monnaie Theatre, Brussels; also guest roles in Ghent and Liège, and tours of the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Switzerland. 1929: opera of Lyon 1931: great success at the Opéra-Comique, Paris 1945-1965: director of the Opéra Royal in...
Topics: D'Arkor André, Tenor, Columbia, LP 78rpm
Léon Campagnola (Marseille, 08.02.1875 - Marseille, 11.01.1955): French tenor, studied in Marseille (as a baritone) and Paris (retrained to tenor, with Manoury). 1903: debut in Versailles (as Vincent in Mireille, Gounod), 1904-1905: sang in Belgian theatres: Mons, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels 1906: Grand Théâtre, Geneva (as Danielo, La reine Fiammette, Leroux) Sang in French theatres: Toulouse, Tours, Nîmes, Toulon 1910: debuted at the Grand Opéra, Paris as Gérald (Lakmé, Delibes) Guest...
Topics: Campagnola Léon, Club 99, Tenor, LP 78rpm
Amelita Galli-Curci (Milan, 18.11.1882 - La Jolla, California, 26.11.1963): (maiden name: Amelita Galli) Italian coloratura soprano, studied piano at the conservatory of Milan and was offered a job as a piano teacher at the age of 16. Her grandmother and the opera composer Pietro Mascagni encouraged her to study singing. She is virtually self-taught in singing. 1906: Debut in Trani (Gilda, in Rigoletto). Major tours followed through Europe, Russia (1914) and South America, where she performed...
Topics: Galli-Curci Amelita, Soprano, Ember, LP 78rpm
Belcantodisc was an American label with historical recordings from the Golden Period of opera, with emphasis on the bel canto style. A somewhat sloppy record, with some language errors on the cover, and little information about the recordings. For example, on the second track, there is a singer who does participate but is not listed. Furthermore, there are no labels, matrix numbers and recording dates mentioned, unfortunately, so that was some work to get all the information, as far as...
Topics: Belcanto, Baklanoff George, Alda Frances, Albani Carlo, Del Campo Sofia, Destinn Emmy, Jeritza...
Geraldine Farrar (Melrose, Mass., 28.02.1882 - Ridgefield, Connecticut, 11.03.1967): American soprano and film actress. Studied in Boston, performed at age 14. Studied with Emma Thursby in New York and Paris, and with Francesco Graziani in Berlin. 1901-1903: Sang at the Hofoper Berlin, had lessons with Lilli Lehmann and probably a relationship with Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany. 1903-1906: Opera Monte-Carlo 1906-1922: Metropolitan Opera New York, sang 29 roles in almost 500...
Topics: Farrar Geraldine, Soprano, Everest Scala, LP 78rpm
Charles Rousselière (Saint-Nazaire d'Aude, 17.01.1875 - Joue-les-Tours, 11.05.1950): French tenor. First worked as a blacksmith. Trained at the Paris Conservatory, initially sang in the Café-Concert. 1900: debut as Samson (Samson et Dalila), at the Opéra, Paris. Initially he sang also outside of France: Metropolitan, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Milan, Madrid. Later sang mainly in Paris and Monte Carlo. 1906-1907: Metropolitan New York 1909: Scala, Milan 1907, 1910, 1913: Teatro Colón, Buenos...
Topics: Rousselière Charles, Tenor, Club 99, LP 78rpm
In 1921 The Musicians' Benevolent Fund was created as a memorial to the singer Gervase Elwes. This album is an anthology of music by friends of the Musician's Benevolent Fund. The recordings are made in the period 1917-1974. Music Makers, an anthology of music by friends of the Musician's Benevolent Fund 01 Elgar - Pomp and circumstance march no.4 in G BBC S.O. c.b. Sir Edward Elgar . HMV DB 1936 2B.4177 1933 02 Bruch: Kol Nidrei op.47 Guilhermina Suggia, cello +...
Topics: Elgar, Bliss, Suggia Guilhermina, Elwes Gervase, Paderewski I.J., McCormack John, Menuhin Yehudi,...
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Sacred songs - Vocal gems part 1: The Holy City Nearer my God to Thee Abide with me part 2: The better land The Lord is my light The lost chord Isobel Baillie, soprano Clara Serena, alto Francis Russell, tenor Norman Allin, bass 78rpm 30 cm: Columbia DX 296 Matrix nrs.: WAX 6163 / WAX 6164-1 Recorded: 07.07.1931 Sacred songs - Selection no.2 Part 1: There is a green hill Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod) O for the wings of a dove (Mendelssohn) Part 2: As pants the hart (Händel) Ave Maria...
Topics: Baillie Isobel, Nash Heddle, Allin Norman, Stewart Catherine, 78rpm, Columbia, 1931, 1932, Serena...
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Celebrity Quartette: Isobel Baillie, soprano Gladys Ripley, alto John McHugh, tenor Harold Williams, baritone 1 Lullay my liking (Gustav Holst) 2 Hark, the herald angels sing (Felix Mendelssohn) Celebrity Quartette Herbert Dawson: organ (2) 78rpm 25 cm: Columbia DB 2464 Matrix nrs.: CA 20907-2 / 20910-1 Recorded: 1948
Topics: Celebrity Quartette, Baillie Isobel, Ripley Gladys, McHugh John, Williams Harold, Dawson Herbert,...
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Henry Purcell - "Dido and Aeneas" This is the second complete recording of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas , made by a fine cast conducted by Constant Lambert, in July 1945 for HMV. The first recording was made in 1935 for Decca conducted by Clarence Raybould, with Nancy Evans as Dido. Constant Lambert (London, 23.08.1905 - London, 21.08.1951): English composer, conductor and writer. Educated at the Royal College of Music, whose teachers included Ralph Vaughan Williams (composition),...
Topics: Lambert Constant, 78rpm, HMV, Purcell, Baillie Isobel, Hammond Joan, Noble Dennis, Ripley Gladys,...
Dame Isobel Baillie (Hawick, 09.03.1895 - Manchester, 24.09.1983) was a Scottish soprano, particularly popular in oratorio, and to a lesser extent in opera and song. She studied in Manchester with Jean Sadler-Fogg, a pupil of Blanche Marchesi, and later in Milan with Gugliema Somma. 1923: successful debut in London conducted by Hamilton Harty. .1933: major North American tour 1937: sang in London under Toscanini in Ein Deutsches Requiem (Brahms) and Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Guest role in...
Topics: Baillie Isobel, Columbia, Soprano, LP 78rpm
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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, alto, HMV, 78rpm
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Robert Kajanus (Helsinki, 02.12.1856 - Helsinki, 06.07.1933): Finnish conductor, composer and teacher. 1882-1932: conductor and founder of the Helsinki Orchestral Society (now: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra). 1897-1926: director of music at the University of Helsinki. He was a friend of Sibelius and did much to promote his music. Kajanus was also the first to record symphonies 1 and 2 (Columbia, 1930) and symphonies 3 and 5 (HMV, 1932). He also recorded Belshazzar's Feast op.51, Pohjola's...
Topics: Kajanus Robert, Sibelius, 78rpm, Columbia, 1930
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Serge Koussevitzky (Vyshny Volochyok, 26.07.1874 - Boston 04.06.1951): conductor, composer and double bass player. Educated in Moscow, studied double bass and music theory with Rambusek.1894-1905: became double bassist in the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra 1905: studied in Berlin with Arthur Nikisch 1908: Debut in Berlin - he had hired the Berliner Philharmoniker himself. 1909: founded his own orchestra in Moscow and founded a publishing house: "Éditions Russes de Musique" with a.o....
Topics: Koussevitzky Serge, Sibelius, HMV, 1933, 78rpm
Leonid Sobinoff (Yaroslavl, 07.06.1872 - Riga, 14.10.1934): Russian lyric tenor. 1894: graduated from Moscow University as Master of Law, but decided to devote himself to the art of singing. Trained by Dodonoff and Alexandra Santagano-Gortschakova in Moscow. 1897: debut in Moscow with great success. Then sang with great success in St. Petersburg (Eugen Onegin, as Lensky). He became one of the most famous singers in Tzarist Russia. Guest roles in Milan (period 1904-1911), Monte Carlo (1906),...
Topics: Sobinoff Leonid, Court Opera Classics, tenor, LP 78rpm
Barbara Kemp (Kochem an der Mosel, 12.12.1881 - Berlin, 17.04.1959): German soprano. 1902-1905: Studied at the conservatory of Strasbourg. 1903: Debut as a priestess in Aïda (Verdi) in Strasbourg. 1906-1908: Stadttheater Rostock 1909-1913: Opernhaus Breslau 1913: Marriage with Dr. Mickley (physician) 1913-1932: Hofoper Berlin / Staatsoper Berlin Number of performances in Bayreuth: 1914: as Senta in "Fliegende Holländer" (Death Star) 1924-1927: as Kundry in "Parsifal"....
Topics: Kemp Barbara, soprano, Lebendiche Vergangenheit, LP 78rpm
Rosa Ponselle (22.01.1897 - 25.05.1981), real name Rosa Ponzillo. American soprano. Her parents were immigrants from Caiazzo, Italy. 1915-1918: Sang together with her sister Carmela (1887-1977) at the Keith Vaudeville Circuit. Through the singing teacher William Thorne and auditions with the baritone Victor Maurel and tenor Enrico Caruso, an audition was arranged with the manager of the Metropolitan, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, who fixed her for the 1918-1919 season. 1918-1937: sang at the...
Topics: Ponselle Rosa, RCA-Vicor, soprano, LP 78rpm
Nr Artist Title Cyl nr Date Time 01 Florencio Constantino, ten. Verdi - "Otello": 4 Niun mi tema 28140 1910 4:12 02 Carlo Albani, ten. Meyerbeer - "L 'Africana": 4 O Paradiso 28127 1910 3:59 03 Leo Slezak, ten. Meyerbeer - "Huguenots": 1 Bianca al par B 150 1910? 4:25 04 Alessandro Bonci, ten. Verdi - "Luise Miller": 2 Quando le sere al placido 29005 1913 09 05 3:34 05 Mario Laurenti, bar. Verdi - "Forza del destino": 3 Urna fatale 25059 1922...
Topics: Cylinder, Edison Amberola, Odyssey, Constantino Florencio, Albani Carlo, Slezak Leo, Bonci...
Maurice Renaud (Bordeaux, circa 24.07.1861 - Paris, 16.10.1933): French baritone, real name Maurice Arnold Croneau. He studied for a year at the Paris Conservatory, then at the Brussels Conservatory with Joseph Cornelis and Henri Warnots. 1883-1890; 1908-1914: Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels 1890-1891: Opéra-Comique 1891-1914: Grand Opéra Paris 1893: Tour through North America (a.o. New Orleans, Boston, Chicago) 1897-1903: performed regularly in Covent Garden 1906-1910: Manhattan Opera...
Topics: Renaud Maurice, Rubini, baritone, LP 78rpm
Elena Klimentievna Katulskaya (Odessa, 21.05.1888 - Moscow, 22.11.1966): lyric soprano. Trained in St. Petersburg by I.P. Pryanishnikov (1847-1921), and from 1907 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory by Natalia Iretzkaya. 1909-1913: Mariensky-Theatre St. Petersburg 1913-1946: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow She sang in a large part of Russia: Vilno, Tsaritsin, Samara, Odessa, Kiev, Kazan, Nizhni Novgorod and Kislovodsk. An invitation to sing in the Teatro d'Alvara in Milan did not materialise. Since...
Topics: Katulskaya Elena, soprano, Rubini, Shevelev Nicolai, Sibiriakov Lev, Vitting Eugene, LP 78rpm
Amelita Galli-Curci (Milan, 18.11.1882 - La Jolla, California, 26.11.1963): (maiden name: Amelita Galli) Italian coloratura soprano, studied piano at the conservatory of Milan and was offered a job as a piano teacher at the age of 16. Her grandmother and the opera composer Pietro Mascagni encouraged her to study singing. She is virtually self-taught in singing. 1906: Debut in Trani (Gilda, in Rigoletto). Major tours followed through Europe, Russia (1914) and South America, where she performed...
Topics: Galli-Curci Amelita, soprano, RCA-Victor, LP 78rpm
Fernand Ansseau (Boussu-Bois, near Mons, 06.03.1890 - Brussels, 01.05.1972): Belgian tenor. His father was organist in the village church. At the age of 17 he went to the Brussels Conservatory (studied with Désiré Demest), initially trained as a baritone, but soon switched to tenor. He also studied for three years with the Belgian tenor Ernest van Dijck. 1913-1918: Dijon. Made his debut as Jean in Hérodiade (Massenet). In this period he sang roles in Faust (Gounod), Louise (Charpentier),...
Topics: Ansseau Fernand, tenor, Lebendiche Vergangenheit, LP 78rpm
Henri Albers (Johan Hendrik Albers) (Amsterdam, 01.02.1866 - Paris, 12.09.1926), Dutch baritone. Educated at the Amsterdam Conservatory. 1889-1891: Hollandsche Opera Gezelschap (De Groot) 1891-1893; 1910; 1912: Antwerp 1893: audition by Jules Massenet, who advised him to continue his studies. Took lessons from Jean-Baptiste Fauré (Paris). Sang in Antwerp, Bordeaux, London and Monte Carlo. 1898-1899: Metropolitan Opera 1901-1906: sang regularly at the Monnaie Theatre, Brussels 1899-1924:...
Topics: Albers Henri, baritone, Rubini, LP 78rpm
Francesco d'Andrade (Lisbon, 11.01.1856 - Berlin, 08.02.1921): Portuguese baritone. His elder brother was tenor, António d'Andrade. 1879: debut in Lisbon. Took lessons in Milan with Corrado Miraglia (1821-1881) and after his death with Sebastiano Ronconi. 1881: Opera debut in San Remo as Amonasro (Aida). Afterwards he sang in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Russia. 1888: sang together with his brother António in the world premiere of the opera Donna Bianca (Alfredo Keil) 1886-1891: Royal Italian...
Topics: Rococo, D'Andrade Francesco, Van Rooy Anton, Santley Charles, LP 78rpm
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Nazzareno de Angelis (L'Aquila, 17.11.1881 - Rome, 14.12.1962): Italian bass. As a boy he sang in the Sistine Chapel. Trained by Dr. Faberi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. 1903: debut in Linda di Chamounix (Donizetti) as Prefect.Afterwards sang in other theatres in Italy. 1905: tour through the Netherlands 1907: debut in La Scala, Milan, conducted by Arturo Toscanini Had a worldwide career of 36 years in which he gave about 1500 performances. 1910-1911: Chicago Grand Opera...
Topics: 78rpm, De Angelis Nazzareno, bass, Columbia, 1928, 1929, Verdi, Rossini, Cheni Elena, Mannarini...
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Nazzareno de Angelis (L'Aquila, 17.11.1881 - Rome, 14.12.1962): Italian bass. Sang in choirs, including the Sistine Chapel (Vatican). 1903: debut in L'Aquila 1907: debut at La Scala, Milan, under the direction of Arturo Toscanini Had a worldwide career of 36 years in which he performed about 1500 times: 1909-1910 Manhattan Opera House New York 1910-1911 and 1929-1925 Opera of Chicago 1910-1925 and 1928-1938 Opera of Rome His most famous role was Mefistofele (Boito), which he sang ca. 500 x...
Topics: 78rpm, Fonotipia, De Angelis Nazzareno, 1907, 1909, bass
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Erna Spoorenberg (Djokjakarta, 11.04.1925 - Vught, 18.03.2004): Dutch soprano, born in Java (Indonesia). In 1929 the family came to the Netherlands. She studied violin (with Julius Röntgen) and voice in Hilversum with Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius (1868-1949) and in Amsterdam with Berthe Seroen (1882-1957). 1947: debut on the radio with Exsultate jubilate by Mozart. 1949-1955: Wiener Staatsoper. 1958- : Nederlandse Opera Guest roles in Germany, Austria, Scandinavian countries, Russia and...
Topics: 78rpm, Mozart, Spoorenberg Erna, De Nobel Felix, Philips
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Regina Pacini (born Regina Isabel Luisa Pacini Quintero; Lisbon, 06.01.1871 - Buenos Aires, 18.09.1965): lyric soprano. Her father was the Italian baritone Pietro Andrea Giorgi-Pacini, director of the Teatro San Carlos in Lisbon and composer of about 90 operas, her Spanish mother was Felisa Quintero. Regina was a pupil of Valani (Lisbon) and of Mathilde Marchesi (Paris). 1888: debut at Teatro San Carlos in La Sonnambula (Bellini) with the Queen present. 1888-1904: sang with great success at...
Topics: 78rpm, Fonotipia, Pacini Regina, soprano, 1905, 1906
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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, 1932
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Ray Lev (Rostov-on-Don, 08.05.1912 - New York City, 20.05.1968): American pianist and piano teacher of Russian birth (her father was a cantor, her mother a concert singer). The family went to America in 1913. She studied with Waiter Ruel Cowles (New Haven, Connecticut) and Gaston Déthier (New York). Debut in England age 17. 1930-1933: studied with Tobias Matthay. Debut in United States in 1934, after that she toured succesfully in Europe, United States and Canada. After World War II she was...
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Lise Landouzy (Soprano) (Le Cateau 1861 - Aix-les-Bains 1943): French soprano. Her real name was Elise Besville. In 1889 she debuted at the Opéra-Comique in Paris as Rosina in ’Il Barbiere di Siviglia ’. Since then she had in this opera house big success. 30.05.1890 she appeared there in the premiere of Messager’s ’ La Basoche ’. 15.04.1891 she sang in the premiere of Emile Pessard's comic opera Les folies amoureuses 20.02.1901 she sang at the Opéra-Comique the role of the...
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The "Musical Masterpiece Society" label, a European part of the American "Concert Hall" label, was very popular in Europe in the 1950s and early 1960s. The “Gramohuis” was opened in Amsterdam (Herengracht 536), which a year later moved to Paulus Potterstraat 12, also in Amsterdam. Branches were also opened in Rotterdam (Westblaak 26), The Hague (Torenstraat 136) and Utrecht (Zadelstraat 17) where one could become a member of the “Gramoclub” and buy the Musical...
Topics: MMS, LP 25cm, Ackermann Otto, Goehr Walter, Balsam Artur, Schreiner Alexander
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A jubilee album on the occasion of the 100th Musical Masterpiece Society [Muzikale Meesterwerken Serie] release in the Netherlands. The history of this label, affiliated with the American Concert Hall label, founded by David and Sam Josefowitz, can be found here . 1 J.S. Bach: Toccata and fuga in d Alexander Schreiner, organ Salt Lake City, U.S.A. 2 Vivaldi: Concert for 2 trumpets in C RV 537 allegro - grave - allegro Fred Hausdörfer and Harry Sevenstern, trumpet ...
Topics: LP 25cm, MMS, Ackermann Otto, Goehr Walter, Schreiner Alexander, Johannesen Grant, Goldsand Robert
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Georges Bizet - "Les pêcheurs de perles" (1863) abridged David Josefowitz and his brother Samuel founded the Concert Hall Society mail order company in America and later the Musical Masterpiece Society in Europe, which was a great success in many countries. Read here an extensive story about the history of these record clubs, where subscribers could buy LPs at a reduced rate. Musical Masterpiece Society also had an opera series: The Opera Society . Depending on the...
Topics: LP 25cm, Opera Society, Bizet, Leibowitz René, Dobbs Mattiwilda, Seri Enzo, Borthayre Jean, Mans...
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Paul Hupperts (Gulpen, 25.01.1919 - Bosch en Duin, 16.03.1999): Dutch conductor. Educated in Utrecht, with Hendrik Andriessen and Wouter Paap as teachers. 1945-1947: conductor of the male choir Maastreechter Staar 1947-1949: Maastricht Municipal Orchestra 1949-1978: Utrechts Symfonie Orkest, as successor of Willem van Otterloo. He also gave conducting lessons. Frank Pelleg (Prague, 24.09.1910 - Haifa, 20.09.1968): actual name Pollak. Czech harpsichordist, pianist, composer, conductor and...
Topics: LP 25cm, MMS, Schubert, Hupperts Paul, Pelleg Frank, Dahinden Clemens
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Ricardo Odnoposoff (Buenos Aires, 24.02.1914 - Vienna, 26.10.2004): Jewish-Argentine violinist, later Austrian-American. Son of Russian emigrants. Student of Carl Flesch (violin) and Paul Hindemith (composition) at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. 1937: Second (David Oistrach first) at the Eugène Ysaÿe Competition (the current Queen Elisabeth Competition) in Brussels. He was concertmaster of the Wiener Staatsoper Orchester and of the Wiener Philharmoniker, and taught at the Vienna...
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Carl Bamberger (Vienna, 21.02.1902 - New York, 18.07.1987): Conductor and music educator. Studied music history and philosophy at the Vienna Conservatory; from 1920-1924 music theory and piano with Heinrich Schenker and cello with Friedrich Buxbaum. Thereafter mainly guest conductor in Asia, Russia and Egypt. 1937: emigrated to America. 1938-1975: taught composition and orchestral conducting at Mannes College in New York. 1957-1974: performed as guest conductor of the Südfunk...
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Grant Johannesen (Salt Lake City, 30.07.1921 - Berlin, 27.03.2005): American pianist. Studied with Robert Casadesus, Egon Petri, Roger Sessions and Nadia Boulanger. Then intensive tours. 1974-1985: director of the Cleveland Institute of Music. Otto Ackermann (Bucharest, 18.10.1909 - Wabern, 19.03.1960): Romanian conductor. Educated at conservatories of Bucharest and Berlin. 1927-1932: Düsseldorf Opera House 1932-1935: Deutsche Theater in Brno 1935-1947: Stadttheater Bern; assumed Swiss...
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The Utrecht Symphony Orchestra existed from 1894 until 1985, when it was cut back by CDA minister Elco Brinkman and merged with two other orchestras to form... the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (which is therefore not the same as the "Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra" of the MMS records). Until 1946, the name of the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra was the Utrecht Stedelijk Orkest (Utrecht City Orchestra). Ignaz Neumark (Pock, 17.07.1888 - The Hague, 02.02.1959): Polish conductor,...
Topics: LP 25cm, MMS, Strauss R., Liszt, Neumark Ignaz, Hupperts Paul
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Walter Goehr (Berlin, 28.02.1903 - Sheffield, 04.12.1960): German conductor and composer, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. Conducted at the Berlin radio from 1925-1932. A radio opera of his, Malpopita, became popular in 1931. He was fired in 1932 for being Jewish. Emigrated to England in 1933, initially used as professional name George Walter. 1933-1939: director of the Columbia Gramophone Company 1943-1960: conductor of choir and orchestra of London's Morley College 1945-1948: conductor of...
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Walter Goehr (Berlin, 28.02.1903 - Sheffield, 04.12.1960): German conductor and composer, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. Conducted at the Berlin radio from 1925-1932. A radio opera of his, Malpopita, became popular in 1931. He was fired in 1932 for being Jewish. Emigrated to England in 1933, initially used as professional name George Walter. 1933-1939: director of the Columbia Gramophone Company 1943-1960: conductor of choir and orchestra of London's Morley College 1945-1948: conductor of...
Topics: LP 25cm, MMS, Goehr Walter, Bach J.S., Rybar Peter, Graf Peter Lukas, Pelleg Frank, Klemm Konrad
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Paul Tortelier (Paris, 21.03.1914 - 18.12.1990): French cellist and composer. Went to the conservatory in Paris at age 12 and studied cello with Louis Feuillard and then Gerard Hekking. Graduated with a Premier Prix for cello at age 16. Then studied harmony with Jean Gallon. Debut in 1931 with the Orchestre Lamoureux (cello concerto Lalo). Some highlights: 1935-1937: Monte-Carlo Philh. Orch. as first cellist 1937-1940: Boston Symph. Orch. (Sergei Koussevitzky) as first cellist 1938: start solo...
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Ricardo Odnoposoff (Buenos Aires, 24.02.1914 - Vienna, 26.10.2004): Son of Russian emigrants, Jewish-Argentine violinist, later Austrian-American. Student of Carl Flesch (violin) and Paul Hindemith (composition) at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. 1937: came second behind David Oistrach at the Eugène Ysaÿe Competition (the current Queen Elisabeth Competition) in Brussels. He was concertmaster of the Wiener Staatsoper Orchester and of the Wiener Philharmoniker, and taught at the...
Topics: LP 25cm, MMS, Odnoposoff Ricardo, Bamberger Carl, Brahms
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Leo Nadelmann (Bienne, 16.01.1913 - Zurich, 14.12.1998): Swiss pianist, composer, writer and teacher. 1927 debut as a concert pianist. Studied with Artur Schnabel (Berlin, 1931-1933), Rudolf Serkin (Berlin), Alexander Brailowsky (Ouchy) and Raoul Koczalsky (Zurich). Solo career from 1932, in Europe and North and South America. Played repertoire for solo piano, chamber music and concert repertoire. His piano career ended abruptly in 1960 due to an incurable paralysis of his left ring...
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Walt(h)er Reinhart (Winterthur, 24.05.1886 - Eglisau, 10.12.1975): studied violin at the Hoch Conservatory (Frankfurt), composition and orchestration at the Königliche Hochschule (Berlin) with Max Bruch, Arthur Nikisch and Siegfried Ochs. 1911: conductor in Goerlitz 1914-1918: conductor Frankfurter Lehrerverein 1924: founded the Reinhart Choir (in Zurich) 1927: became conductor of the Winterthur Mixed Choir, which he had re-founded. He recorded very few records, this one is from the early...
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Victor Desarzens (Château-d'Oex, 27.10.1908 - Villette, 13.02.1986), Swiss conductor and violinist. Studied at the conservatory of Lausanne, diploma 1925. Studied violin with José Porta, and with Georges Enesco (Paris). Became first violinist in l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, but left to form a string quartet with which he gave many concerts. He also worked as a solo violinist. In 1941 he founded the Orchestre de Chambre Lausanne (OCL), of which he was permanent conductor from 1953...
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Anton Heiller (Vienna, 15.09.1923 - Vienna, 25.03.1979): Austrian organist, composer, teacher and conductor. Clemens Dahinden (Altdorf, 01.07.1912 - Winterthur, 1989): Violinist and conductor, trained in Zurich. Also a pupil of Carl Flesch. Started 1934 as 2nd violinist in the symphony orchestra of Winterthur. From 1939 played 2nd violin in the Winterthur String Quartet with Peter Rybar, 1st violin; Oskar Kromer, viola and Antonio Tusa, cello. 1950-1978: Second...
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Walter Goehr (Berlin, 28.02.1903 - Sheffield, 04.12.1960): German conductor and composer, student of Arnold Schönberg. Conducted at the Berlin radio from 1925-1932. A radio opera of his, Malpopita, became popular in 1931. He was fired in 1932 for being Jewish. Emigrated to England in 1933, initially used as professional name George Walter. 1933-1939: director of the Columbia Gramophone Company 1943-1960: conductor of choir and orchestra of London's Morley College 1945-1948: conductor...
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