Victor de Sabata / Berlin Philharmonic - Richard Strauss. Tod und Verklärung ~ Wagner. Tristan und Isolde ~ Verdi. Aida - DGG 1939

Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, op.24    (18+31 March & 6,11-12 April 1939)

Giuseppe Verdi: "Aïda" - Act I Prelude    (11-12 April 1939)

Richard Wagner: "Tristan und Isolde"
Act I Prelude -&- Act III 'Isolde's Liebestod'    (7-8+11-12 April 1939)

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Berliner Philharmoniker  conducted by  Victor de Sabata

Deutsche Grammophon  88002   1969 UK pressing/1968 DGG matrices: February. Recorded: Zentraltheater, Berlin.    Sleeve-note >>> 

The Decca & HMV Beethoven Symphony 3/6 etc are hereabouts  https://musicparlourhistorical.blogspot.com/search/label/Sabata%20-Victor%20de

R.Strauss - 1.5 Izotope declick + re-eq. Loud sections inserted with no auto-declick + an overall re-eq. Brahms/Kodaly/Wagner/Verdi- 1.4 declick + re-eq (equivalent to any JVC X-1 upper treble droop). Pioneer CD-RW. Volume 2 took days to edit.

Victor de Sabata / Berlin Philharmonic - Brahms. Symphony 4 -&- Kodaly. Dances of Galanta - DGG 1939

Johannes Brahms:  Symphony no.4 in E minor, op.98     (11,13-14+17 March 1939)

I: Allegro non troppo  ~  II: Andante moderato  ~  III: Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto - Tempo I ~ IV: Allegro energico e passionato - Più allegro

Zoltán Kodály: Dances of Galánta    (7-8+11-12 April 1939)

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Berliner Philharmoniker  conducted by  Victor de Sabata

Deutsche Grammophon  88001   1969 UK pressing/1968 DGG matrices: April/March.  Recorded: Zentraltheater, Berlin.   Sleeve-note >>>

Jascha Horenstein conducts... Bruckner. Symphony 7 - Berlin Philharmonic - Polydor 1928

Anton Bruckner:
Symphony no.7 in E major    
I:  Allegro moderato  ~  II:  Adagio  
III:  Scherzo ~ Trio  ~  IV:  Finale
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Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Jascha Horenstein  
Unicorn  UNI 111  1975 PYE pressing/matrices: -1 / -1   Recorded 1928    
Slight de-click (1.4) +4dB Treble/rolled-off @ 10kHz. Mvts 3+4 amplified by 1.2dB..  There's an Obert-Thorn 78 transfer (more heavily noise-reduced/murkier): oddly, the  mp3 mvt.1 sample  hits '0dB' @ c.9.30mins - 2.4dB more than the LP - relative to this transfers 0dB crescendo @ 17.28min.  However, this LP transfer has noticeably retained some 78 surface-noise compared to 'Mr Pristine's'....        Sleeve-note >>>

Sir Thomas Beecham / Berlin Philharmonic - Mozart. Die Zauberflote - HMV 1938

Sarastro........................................... Wilhelm Strienz,  Bass

Tamino................................................ Helge Roswaenge,  Tenor

Speaker  /  Second Armed Man..................... Walter Grossman,  Bass

Second Priest............................................. Ernst Fabbry, Tenor

Queen of the Night......................................... Erna Berger, Soprano

Pamina (her daughter)....................................... Tiana Lemnitz, Soprano

First Lady.......................................................... Hilde Scheppan, Soprano

Second Lady.......................................................... Elfride Marherr,   Soprano 

Third Lady  /  Third Boy.............................................. Rut Berglund, Contralto

Papageno................................................................... Gerhard Husch, Baritone

An Old Woman, Papagena  / First Boy................................... Irma Beilke, Soprano

Monostatos, a Moor  /   First Armed Man................................... Heinrich Tessmer, Tenor

Second Boy........................................................................... Carla Spletter,  Soprano     

The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra  &  Favres Soloisten Vereinigung  conducted by  Sir Thomas Beecham, Bart.    

EMI World Records  SH 158-160.   Circa 1970 LP transfers /c.1980 pressings. Matrices: 2XEA 630-35 -3G /-4 /-4G /-3G /-3G /-4G  

Recorded: Beethovensaal, Berlin - 8-10, 12/13, 15 November 1937 (except 'O zittre nicht' : 2 March 1938 - Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra - Bruno Seidler-Winkler).

Published April 1938 as HMV  DB.3465-83  (Matrices: 2RA 2416-39 & 2RA 2447-59).  First LP issue: 1955 - as HMV ALP 1273-5.  1955 transfer from metalwork by Anthony Griffith.
Overture, Act One  /  Act Two    3 files zip FLAC  Mega Download    1938 HMV Libretto frontispiece >>>  Re-edited: April 2023