All posts for the month December, 2025

Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes (1911)

Waltzes for the New Year, as is traditional. Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier premiered in Dresden on 26 January 1911 and was an immediate success. Before the end of the year, the three leading sopranos from the premiere (Margarethe Siems, Minnie Nast and Eva Plaschke-von der Osten) had recorded excerpts for both Odeon and The Gramophone […]

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Posted by Damians78s on December 31, 2025

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Herbert Cave sings songs by Stephen Adams

Herbert Cave was born around 1890 in Birmingham, and recorded for Edison Bell’s Winner label, and briefly for the Gramophone company. In 1919 he recorded two religious songs by Stephen Adams (the pseudonym of composer Michael Maybrick.) They were “The Holy City” which focuses on Easter, and “The Star of Bethlehem” which has a Christmas […]

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Posted by Damians78s on December 23, 2025

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2025/12/23/herbert-cave-sings-songs-by-stephen-adams/