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A very competent tenor with a pleasant mezza voce. Thank you.

I always enjoy Rossini! This is lovely. As noted on the Ay, ay, ay disc, this is Italianate in the very best way! Thank you and best wishes from George

You are finding some real treasures among these Milan Columbia records. This is some most thoughtful and thought provoking singing. Italianate in the best way. Best wishes from George

Magnificent!! This performance has it all - easy charm combined with really taut, skilled ensemble playing. It's a delight in every note. Thank you, VS for a superb transfer! 😀

Tuneful, dramatic music, played with panache. Very good, thanks VS!

Thank you for uploading. Wonderful!

Che meraviglia

Straordinario

An excellent transfer! He was a great pianist and a true musician. I also like his Schumann.

Goodness me! This is great. Never heard this better done! Best wishes from George PS: I am surprised this did not break the groove as recorded!

Not exactly my favourite sort of music, but when sung like this, I can see the point! What glorious singing, and playing. Wonderful record! Best wishes from George

1926 was the year ...first Turandot on stage. 1937 the first Turandot recorded for vinyl. Calaf was Merli Turandot Gina Cigna Liù Magda Olivero

Wow a new name for me - thanks for this!

Thank you very much for uploading these! I have wanted to hear it since finding a broken copy in a friend's collection and I've never seen another. Paxtons are always worth looking at and for years I just saw them as another library label.

Do you have the Siciliana (O Lola) with Merli please? Thank you.

Another unknown Bantock piece for me. The out of the way treasures of the recording industry shows us that there was a lot of accessible new music at a time when tuneful and energetic music seems to have lived side by side with much more difficult music such as the atonalists and serialists. For reasons beyond me the more difficult music was at the time was preferred by music critics, but even that has largely faded for the repertoire by now. The value in these rarities is that it shows us things that we otherwise would never have guessed the existence of! Best wishes from George

Gracias por este maravilloso recuerdo!!!

I just wanted to thank you for all of these recordings you share. Much appreciated!

We need some organists like Edwin Lemare. So bored with stuffy, academic organ recitals.

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In Dame Nellie Melba you‘ll find the precious blend of an appealing voice and the culture and finesse of excellent singing… always a treasure, nowadays an absolute rarity… ⭐️🌹⭐️ Thank you for sharing this magnificent recording! 🙏🍀

Another excellent student of Madame Mathilde Marchesi. The Whole musical world must be thankful for Madame Marchesi that she dedicated her whole life to art of song.

Wonderful! I was a little concerned he was going to play it safe, but gladly that wasn’t the case. Really enjoyed hearing him get furiouser and furiouser

If I had not heard this, I would not quite believe it was possible! Amazing. Best wishes from George

More music that is new to me. Granville Bantock is known to me through reading about Elgar. The knew and admired each other. A fascinating glance back at what is music so rarely heard today. I am not sure that it quite deserves its obscurity! Thanks and best wishes from George

Great. THX!

Wonderful !

Still my favourite rendition of this lovely aria--and I've heard a few. Both trills are especially beautiful.

Almost miraculously good sound for a 1904 recording. Thanks, as always.

Can't go wrong with Caro Nome and a fine singer such as Dame Nellie Melba !

He is so adorable and one of my favorite actors, it is so cool to hear him speak as a child.

Thank you so greatly for a splendid transcription of this beautiful recording by Bori. In this post, I find that the quality of the orchestral accompaniment is reproduced with such clarity that it is actually pleasant to listen to ... unlike most of the "orchestras" recording in the acoustic period. As for Bori's singing : what a delight.

Thank you for this excellent reproduction of this famous early recording of Melba. I perceive that it is more "transparent" than most of the many transcriptions I have listened to over many years and has given me much pleasure.

Thank you. A beautiful recording from a hundred and twenty years ago. The older these records get, the more significant they become in my view. Best wishes from George

This is a favourite overture for me, despite is rarity these days. I think its unfashionable status is a real loss. I have a rare recording not issued at the time from 1960 with the Philharmonia and Klemperer, and they recorded only a "Take One" right at the end of session at Kelmperer's suggestion [though oddly the parts were already on the music stands - methinks Klemperer wanted to record something EMI did not want, and he was capable of such japes]. It is towering rendition with stunning un-rehearsed playing from the orchestra. Just like the sort of thing you might hear as a live concert opening overture. The horns roar like bull calves at the end and every thing except the opening dotted chords comes off superbly! EMI did not see fit to do any further efforts at getting it ready for a releasable recording so it stay in the the archives for over fifty years, before Testament rightly brought it out warts and all. But this performances [slightly slower than Klemperer's electric quick reading] is a well polished "bullseye!" And you know I reserve that for very few newly discovered recordings. The BBC mine seems to be worth mining! I suspect the BBC were recording in Munich given the variety of conductors [and one may surmise, different recording sessions]. One ask why as the various German radio stations of the time were also making recordings of the first quality. Still a bit of a mystery! Thanks and best wishes from George

amazing- thank you

Wunderful performance in best quality sound. Thanks very much.

Fantastic and rare record, many thanks dear John!

Brilliant, heard this wonderful song on desert Island discs and loved it.😂😊

I am very fond of this little overture, here given a properly spritely rendering! It still strikes as a curiosity as to why the BBC would be recording the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Were these discs recorded in Germany I wonder? Thanks and best wishes from George

thanks Vintage

100 years ago this week, Sembrich joined the faculty of the Curtis school of music, one of the premier schools of its kind in the world. I have often why she appears so infrequently on RUclips and other places of the kind. Many thanks to the poster!

An interesting piece for a military band to tackle. They seem at ease with it though. Little side note about Haydn Wood. The last recording of Elgar's lifetime of his own music was a little piece called Mina [the name of one of his Cairn Terriers] and the score was given to Fred Gaisberg only a few weeks before the composer died. Gaisberg immediately set up a recording of this little piece with J Ainsley Murray conducting the small orchestra, and Elgar was presented with a rush pressing. By then time was short. A year later Haydn Wood conducted the Light Symphony Orchestra on a fine record that was published, and which incorporated the the expressive markings Elgar suggested on listening to Murray's rush recording. It is a lovely little piece and Wood got to wistful nostalgic heart of the little piece of music in a most sympathetic way. These Elgar miniatures can be so elusive. Like trying to catch a butterfly without hurting it. Wood let it fly without trying to catch it for sure. I just listened to it after many years as a result of this upload. Sorry for the off-topic. Best wishes from George Here is a video of a cine film of Elgar with his Cairns and Spaniel and beautifully we get Richard Hickox conducting "Mina" I love dogs and see these little rascals being ruined with love by a great man is something beautiful I think. ruclips.net/video/5w-HTlke8mg/видео.html

Haydn always come up the the goods! I have never come across this before, and it seems an oddity for the BBC to make a recording of the Munich Orchestra. That is a curiosity in itself. Thank you for bringing what must a rather rare recording to life again. It bet it gets more listens here than it may have had in the last seven decades! Best wishes from George

She is so talented! Marvelous!❤

greta stuff- great work vintage

Came here to find what the song "John Peel" referenced in the book The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle was, stayed because goodness that's a really fine singing voice!

This is magically great. Coates certainly knew the styles, but this is not mere pastiche. It transcends that limitation. Basically it is music of its time that fully manages the trick of evoking the eras of the previous times and its own time ... Those who were sniffy [snobbish] about Coates' music were those who never wrote anything still worth remembering! Critics included!! I listened to the first three quarters this morning before work, and now return from the start. The playing and recording are exemplary, and of course Coates knew what he was doing on the podium. A more perfect performance would be hard to imagine. Recorded in the last few days of WW II, this sounds like it is based on EMI's rather than Decca's system, but is remarkably free and giving a proper sense of space. Indeed probably about as close to the state of the art of actual recording at the time, and dear VS, your transfer is simply lets us hear the whole wonderful thing! Probably appeals to me more than non Anglophone listeners, but that is okay Thank you sincerely for one of the most out of the way recordings I have listened to in a while, and best wishes from George

Les jeux d'eau de Ravel sans Ravel...

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