Feodor Chaliapin - 50th Anniversary Album - 64 sides - Gramophone/HMV 1902-1936

Glinka:  "A Life for the Tsar" / "Ruslan & Ludmilla"   Side One/Bands 1-2-4    Side One/Band 3
Dargomijsky:  "Rusalka"   Side One/Bands 5-6    Rubinstein:  "The Demon"  Side One/Bands 7-8  
Mussorgsky:  "Boris Gudonov"  Side Two/Band 1    Side Two/Bands 2-5    Side Two/Bands 3-4     Side Three/Band 1
Borodin:  "Prince Igor"   Side Three/Bands 2-3-4    Rimsky-Korsakov:  "Sadko"  Side Three/Band 5
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Rossini / Bellini    Side Four/Bands 1-2-3     Meyerbeer / Donizetti / Verdi    Side Four/Bands 4-5-6    
Verdi / Boito    Side Four/Bands 7-8
Gounod / Delibes    Side Five/Bands 1-2-4-5     Gounod / Flegier / Massenet    Side Five/Bands 3-6-7    
Marseillaise / Glazunov    Side Five/Band 8 + Side Seven/Band 3
Beethoven / Mussorgsky    Side Six/Bands 1-6     Schubert / Koenemann / Sokolov    Side Six/Band 2 + Side Seven/Bands 4-5
Tchaikovsky / Glinka    Side Six/Band 3 + Side Seven/Band 1-2      Glinka / Rubinstein    Side Six/Bands 4-8    
Mussorgsky / Rubinstein / Stenka Razin    Side Six/Bands 5-7 + Side Seven/Band 9
Unaccompanied Folksongs    Side Seven/Bands 6-8 + Side Eight/Band 1    Brigands / Red Sun / Nevstruev    Side Seven/Band 7 + Side Eight/Bands 2-3     Wedel / Strokin / Gretchaninov / Archangelsky    Side Eight/Bands 5-6-7-8
Telephone Sketch    Side Eight/Band 9
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HMV  EX 7 61065 1  (1988: 4LP's DMM - bought 1989)   Transfers by Keith Hardwick  (much editing required......)     Full details are in the album notes, below >>>

Busch Quartet play... Schubert, String Quartets D.112, D.810, D.887 & Piano Trio D.929 (Rudolf Serkin) - HMV 1935-1938

Franz Schubert:
String Quartet in B flat major, D.112     
I: Allegro non troppo ~ II: Andante sostenuto ~ III: Menuetto (Allegretto) ~ IV: Presto
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String Quartet in D minor, D.810  "Death and the Maiden"   
I: Allegro ~ II: Andante con moto ~ III: Scherzo (Allegro molto) & Trio ~ IV: Presto
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String Quartet in G major, D.887   
I: Allegro molto moderato ~ II: Andante un poco moto ~ III: Scherzo (Allegro vivace) & Trio (Allegretto) ~ IV: Allegro assai
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Piano Trio in E flat major, D.929   
I: Allegro ~ II: Andante con moto ~ III: Scherzo (Allegro molto) & Trio ~ IV: Allegro moderato
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Rudolf Serkin, piano   -  The Busch Quartet    (Adolf Busch,  Gosta Andreasson,  Karl Doktor,  Hermann Busch)            
Busch/Serkin - Schubert "Fantasia" D.934 >>>     The Busch Quartet - Beethoven. The Late String Quartets, etc >>>
EMI World Records  SHB 53 (3LP set: 1978)  Transfers by Anthony Griffith . Rec: 25 Nov.1938 / 16 Oct.1936 / 22+30 Nov.1938 / 23 Oct.1935.  Box cover/notes & recording data / 1979 HiFi News review >>> 

Elena Gerhardt sings... Schubert ~ Schumann ~ Brahms ~ Wolf - HMV 1926-1939

Hugo Wolf:    (HMV Hugo Wolf Society - volume one)
Side One: (a)  Begegnung / Lied vom Winde / Auf einer Wanderung / Rat einer Alten / In dem Schatten meiner Locken
Side One: (b)  Heimweh / Die ihr schwebet um diese Palmen / Ach, des Knaben Augen / Nun wand're Maria  / Gesang Weylas
Side Two: (a)  Herr, was traght der Boden hier / Auch kleine Dinge / Das verlassene Magdelein / Das Standchen
Side Two: (b)  Wenn du zu den Blumen gehst / Und steht ihr fruh / Ihr jungen Leute - Du denkst eniem Fadchen / Nein, junger Herr
Franz Schubert:  Suleika II / Ellens Gesang II**   
Robert Schumann:  Zum Schluss - Fruhlingsnacht / Wer machte dich krank - Alte Laute   
Johannes Brahms:  (a)  Vor dem Fenster* / Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer / Feinsliebchen - Erlaube mir / Wie komm ich denn - Mein Madel hat einem Rosenmund    (b) ** Der Gang zum Liebchen - Therese / Der Tod, das ist die kuhle Nacht
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Elena Gerhardt, Mezzo-Soprano - accompanied by:  Conrad Valentyn Bos  - except *Paula Hegner / Gerald Moore**  
HMV  RLS 759 (Wolf -7LP) - RLS 766 (Schubert -8LP) - RLS 1547003 (Schumann/Brahms -8LP)   Transfers by Keith Hardwick (much waveform repair/editing by me, as usual..)  
1907+1911 Gerhardt + Arthur Nikisch recordings >>>   "The Times" Hugo Wolf Society 1932 + 1928 Schubert  reviews >>>

Adolf Busch & Rudolf Serkin play... Beethoven. Sonatas 3, 5, 7 / Schubert. Fantasia / Brahms. Sonatas 1, 2 - HMV 1931-1933

Ludwig van Beethoven:  Violin Sonatas
No.3 in E flat major, op.12/3     I: Allegro con spirito ~ II: Adagio con molt'espressione ~ III: Rondo - Allegro molto
No.5 in F major, op.24    I: Allegro ~ II: Adagio molto espressivo ~ III: Scherzo & Trio ~ IV: Rondo (Allegro ma non troppo)  
No.7 in C minor, op.30/2     I: Allegro con brio ~ II: Adagio cantabile ~ III: Scherzo (Allegro) & Trio ~ IV: Finale (Allegro)
Recorded: 5 May 1931 - HMV  DB.1519/20  (2B824-7)   /  17 May 1933 - DB.1970-2  (2B6702-7)   /  22 September 1932 - DB.1973-5  (2B3888-93)
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Franz Schubert:  Fantasia in C major, D.934  Andante molto  - Allegretto - Andantino - Allegro - Allegretto - Presto
Recorded: 6 May 1931 - HMV  DB.1521-3 (2B834-8)   FLAC  Mega Download
Johannes Brahms:  Violin Sonatas   
No.1 in G major, op.78    I: Vivace ma non troppo ~ II: Adagio ~ III: Allegro molto moderato
No.2 in A major, op.100     I: Allegro amabile ~ II: Andante tranquillo ~ III: Allegretto grazioso - quasi andante  
Recorded: 5? May 1931 - DB.1527-9  (2B817-22)   /  20 September 1932 - DB.1805/6 (2B3872-5)  
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HMV  EX 137 290306 3 (1985 DMM: 5LP)  /  EMI World Records  SHB 53 (1978: 3LP)  /  SHB 61 (1980: 7LP)  Transfers by: Keith Hardwick (1985/1980) + Anthony Griffith (1978)
Files extensively edited.  Beethoven 3/7 have 'gritty' 78 surfaces (but very clear sound) - so only the most obtrusive defects have been removed.    

Lotte Lehmann - "Die Lyriken der Gesangskunst" - Grammophon/Odeon/HMV 1916-1935

Volume One: Side 1 - 106 Le Nozze di Figaro / 189 Die Zauberflote / 143 Der Freischutz / 084/085 Oberon / 103/104 Fidelio
Volume One: Side 2 - 190 Die Lustigen Weber von Windsor / 205 Manon / 185 Mignon / 151 Schmerzen / 152 Traume / 243 Die Walkure, Act 2 / 177 Tristan & Isolde
Volume One: Side 3 - 169 Tannhauser / 067 Lohengrin / 193 Othello / 102/149 Tosca / 200 M.Butterfly / 081 Turandot / 063 Die tote Stadt
Volume One: Side 4  - 111 Ariadne auf Naxos / 210 Arabella /  217 Der Rosenkavelier / 206 Die toten Augen / 107 Das Wunder der Heliane
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Volume Two: Side 1   - 207 Le Nozze di Figaro / 064/065 Der Freischutz / 169 Tannhauser / 005 Lohengrin / 009/066 Die Meistersinger
Volume Two: Side 2 - 177 Die Walkure / 176/184 Mignon / 175 Faust / 204 Tales of Hoffmann / 085 Andrea Chenier / 086 Jocelyn / 063 Die tote Stadt / 187 Die Fledermaus 
Volume Two: Side 3 - 056 Manon / 202 Werther / 052 Manon Lescaut / 150 La Boheme / 101 Tosca / 192 Madame Butterfly / 082 Turandot / 068 Der Rosenkavelier

Volume Two: Side 4 - 105 Der Rosenkavelier / 208/209 Arabella / Lieder: 124 Morgen / 181 Die Mainacht / 117 Der Nussbaum
/ 194 Die Lotusblume / 094 Der Tod und das Madchen / 091 An die Musik
Schubert Lieder: 095 Sie mir gegrusst / 096 Auf dem Wasser zu singen / 100 Geheimes  (HMV  RLS 766)   
Wagner: Lohengrin: 171 Euch luften / Die Walkure, Act 2: 242/243 Raste nun hier / 245/246 Zauberfest...  (HMV  RLS 7711  &  EX29 01313)
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EMI Electrola 'Dacapo'  1C 147-29 116/117  &  1C-30 704/05    EMI Germany LP's: c.1975 & (my purchase) 1977   
Chock-full of dazzling gems...(2 folders = 4'30")  Volume 2 has generally noisier transfers and much editing/waveform repair was required.
Current Discography @ http://lottelehmannleague.org  - as numbered above + sleeve-backs included in all folders / Sleeve-backs >>>  

Elena Gerhardt -&- Arthur Nikisch. German Lieder & Songs - G&T 1907 & HMV 1911

Berlin 1907....  
WOLF: Verborgenheit  /  Der Freund  /  BRAHMS: Der Schmied  / Nachtigall  

BUNGERT: Ich hab ein kleines Lied erdacht  /  R.STRAUSS: Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten - RUBINSTEIN: Neue Liebe  /  
WOLF: Heimweih  / Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen?

London 1911...  
R.STRAUSS: Standchen / Wiegenlied  /  SCHUBERT: An die Musik  /  Wohin?  /  Du bist die Ruh
BRAHMS: Sapphische Ode  /  Wiegenlied  /  Verbebliches Standchen  /  SCHUMANN: Ich grolle nicht  /  Mondnacht  
WAGNER: Schmerzen  /  BRAHMS: O liebliche Wangen                                                
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Elena Gerhardt,  Mezzo-Soprano  - accompanied by  Arthur Nikisch, pianoforte            
HMV  HLM 1436031    Issued/bought: 1983.   78 Transfers by Keith Hardwick  (easily 1000 edits/waveform repairs by me..).

Tracks transferred/re-arranged in approx recording-order (as above..).   Sleeve-note (with recording-details) + song-texts >>>   
see also... 1926-1939 recordings (includes Wolf lieder): http://musicparlourhistorical.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/elena-gerhardt-sings-schubert-schumann.html  

Bruno Walter / New York Philharmonic - Schubert. Symphony 9 -&- Dvorak. Symphony 8 - CBS 1946/7

Franz Schubert:  Symphony no.9 in C major - "The Great"
I:  Andante - Allegro ma non troppo  ~  II:  Andante con moto  ~ III:  Scherzo (Allegro vivace)  ~  IV:  Allegro vivace     
Philips  GBL 5609   1962 UK reissue/matrices: G03588L 1L -3 / 2L -2.   Recorded: 22 April 1946 - Carnegie Hall, New York.
The US tape dubbing is rather lacking in frequency-range. Very slightly re-edited July 2012 with + ~2dB upper treble enhancement.
Antonin Dvorak: Symphony no.8 (4) in G major, op.88     
I:  Allegro con brio  ~  II:  Adagio  ~  III:  Allegretto grazioso   ~  IV:  Allegro ma non troppo    
EMI / Columbia  33CX 1036   Original 1953 LP.  EMI matrices: XLP 443 -6N / XLP 444 -5N    Recorded: 28 Nov.1947 - Carnegie Hall, New York.
July 2010 files extensively re-edited July 2012. Now single file. Side 2 amplified by +2.4 dB so as to match Side 1.
The sound is somewhat 'crumbly'  due to the original CBS discs-to-tape transfer.. see:  IDIS 6509 - MusicWeb 2007
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New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Bruno Walter      Schubert Sleeve/sleeve-note >>>