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George W Byng conducts the Ballet Music from Gounod’s Faust

I received an email recently asking if I knew where George W Byng’s recording of the Ballet Music from Gounod’s Faust might be found. Some six years ago, before I had this website I did a transfer of the recording, so the time seemed apt to revisit it for a new transfer. Listening again, I […]

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by on October 6, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Damians78s on October 6, 2013

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2013/10/06/george-w-byng-conducts-the-ballet-music-from-gounods-faust/

Ted Andrews and his Canadian Singing Sisters – Come to the fair and What can the matter be; National Symphony Orchestra (with George W Byng?) – Barber of Seville overture

While other projects are ongoing, I want to try and get a few small items onto this site with some regularity. So there are just two items for ths latest update. Ted Andrews was stepfather to Dame Julie Andrews, and accompanied her on some of her early 78s. This disc was privately recorded at the […]

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by on October 31, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Damians78s on October 31, 2010

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2010/10/31/ted-andrews-and-his-canadian-singing-sisters-come-to-the-fair-and-what-can-the-matter-be-national-symphony-orchestra-with-george-w-byng-barber-of-seville-overture/

Lilian Stiles Allen; Hamilton Harty and Henry Wood – Schubert; winners of Columbia’s Schubert competition; Lilac Time

The first selection of recordings this time is of the soprano Lilian Stiles-Allen. She was widely respected in her day, though her performances were confined to the concert platform and broadcasting as she was “not suited to the operatic stage.” She was one of the original sixteen soloists in Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music, and […]

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by on June 7, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Damians78s on June 7, 2010

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2010/06/07/lilian-stiles-allen-hamilton-harty-and-henry-wood-schubert-winners-of-columbias-schubert-competition-lilac-time/

Dan Godfrey – Mozart’s Jupiter (new transfer); Hamilton Harty – Mozart Divertimento No.17; Jean Witold – Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Pauline Aubert – Rondo alla turca; Robert Veyron-Lacroix – Piano Concertos K107 (after JC Bach), with Roland Douatte; Lener Quartet – Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Don Giovanni excerpts in English – Tudor Davies, Peter Dawson, Eleanor Jones-Hudson

The focus this time is on Mozart, with a new transfer of Dan Godfrey’s recording of Symphony No.41 “Jupiter” K551, and a selection of orchestral and keyboard items, including Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, from the 1950s as presented on a French “Mode disques” LP from some time later. For a different take on Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, […]

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by on April 12, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Damians78s on April 12, 2010

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2010/04/12/dan-godfrey-mozarts-jupiter-new-transfer-hamilton-harty-mozart-divertimento-no-17-jean-witold-eine-kleine-nachtmusik-pauline-aubert-rondo-alla-turca-robert-veyron-lacroix-pian/

Luella Melius

Luella Melius is a far from well known singer. “Luella Melius, soprano, born 21st August 1892, Appleton, Wisconsin. Date of death unknown. Her actual name was Mrs. W. Fulton Melhuish. She began her training in Chicago as a child, and then studied under Jean de Reszke in Paris. She debuted at the Vienna Volksoper under […]

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by on November 23, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by Damians78s on November 23, 2008

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2008/11/23/luella-melius/