Madame ADELINA PATTI - 28 discs - Gramophone & Typewriter 1905/6

Voi Che Sapete ('Le Nozze Di Figaro', Act II) ... Pur Dicesti ... Home Sweet Home ... Old Folks At Home ...  
Batti, Batti O Bel Masetto ('Don Giovanni', Act I) ... Air Des Bijoux ('Faust', Act III) ... Air Des Bijoux    

Il Bacio ... Kathleen Mavourneen ... The Last Rose Of Summer ... Ave Maria ... La Serenata ... Robin Adair ...
Home Sweet Home    

Si Vous N'Avez Rien A Me Dire ... Comin' Thro' The Rye ... The Last Rose Of Summer ... The Banks Of Allan Water ...   
On Parting ... 'Twas Within A Mile ... A New Year Message To Her Husband

Kathleen Mavourneen ... La Serenata ... 'Twas Within A Mile ... Casta Diva ('Norma' Act I) ...   
Connais-Tu Le Pays? ('Mignon', Act I) ... Ah Non Creda Mirati ('La Sonnambula', Act III) ... La Calasera

Adelina Patti, Soprano - piano accompanied by Landon Ronald -December 1905 & (SIDE 4) Alfredo Barili -June 1906.

HMV RLS 713  2LP/1973. Initially bought @ "Orchesography" (London) circa 1975/6 - vivid transfers / No re-eq or auto de-click.

...vast mounts of intrusive Sharp clicks manually removed + various edits - thus leaving some sides pretty click-free.

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A few notes on Patti recordings can be accessed from: https://web.archive.org/web/20100411232301/http://www.historicmasters.org/?page_id=125

Sir Thomas Beecham conducts... Handel. Messiah (highlights) - Columbia 1927

G.F.Handel:  "Messiah" - 1 hour highlights.
Part One:  Comfort ye ... Ev'ry valley   /   Thus saith the Lord ... But who may abide   /   For unto us a Child is born   /   Then shall the eyes ... He shall feed His flock.
Part Two:  He was despised   /   The rebuke ... Behold and see ... He was cut off ... But thou didst not leave   /   How beautiful are the feet   /   Why do the nations ... Let us break their bonds   /   Hallelujah Chorus
Part Three:  I know that my Redeemer liveth   /   Behold! ... The trumpet shall sound
Dora Labette, Muriel Brunskill, Hubert Eisdell, Harold Williams - BBC Chorus & Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Thomas Beecham 
Part One: Then shall the eyes ... He shall feed His flock  
Clara Butt  with  Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Landon Ronald    (03176, matrix 4084f. Recorded 1910)  - wonderful!
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HMV  HLM 7053  (1977)  +  HLM 7145  Transfers by Bryan Crimp   Sleeve-note / EMG review >>>

Yehudi Menuhin plays... J.S.Bach, Mozart, Wieniawski, Paganini, Chausson, Mendelssohn, Bruch - HMV 1931-1938

J.S.Bach: Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor, BWV.1041      I: Allegro (non tanto) ~ II: Andante ~ III: Allegro assai    
J.S.Bach: Double Concerto, BWV.1043   (with Georges Enescu, violin) **      I: Vivace ~ II: Largo ma non tanto ~ III: Allegro   
W.A.Mozart: Violin Concerto no.3 in G major, K.216     I: Allegro ~ II: Adagio ~ III: Rondo (Allegro)   Cadenzas: Franko   
Paris Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Georges Enescu  &  Pierre Monteux **  
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Wieniawski: Legende, op.17      Colonne Concerts Orchestra  conducted by  Georges Enescu
Paganini: Violin concerto no.1 in D major, op.6      I: Allegro maestoso  (Cadenza: Saueret) ~ II: Adagio espressivo - Rondo (Allegro spiritoso)    
Chausson: Poeme, op.25 **      Paris Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Pierre Monteux  &  Georges Enescu ** 
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Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op.84    I: Allegro molto appasionato ~ II: Andante ~ III: Allegretto non troppo - Allegro molto vivace    Colonne Concerts Orchestra  conducted by  Georges Enescu
Bruch: Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor, op.26    I: Allegro moderato ~ II: Adagio ~ III: Finale (Allegro energico)    London Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Landon Ronald  
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HMV  RLS 718  (3LP set: 1976)   Transfers by Anthony Griffith    (mucho editing by me...yet again)    Recording data / notes >>>