It’s time for a special Albert Coates bonus this year. In autumn 1923, Coates recorded Beethoven’s 9th Symphony for the Gramophone Company. It was issued in May 1924 to mark the centenary of the work, so it appears here to mark the centenary of the recording being issued, and the bicentenary of the symphony, which […]
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Albert Coates conducts Beethoven’s 9th (1923)
Posted by Damians78s on May 7, 2024
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2024/05/07/albert-coates-conducts-beethovens-9th-1923/
Dobrindt conducts Strauss
To see in 2024 in the customary Viennese style, I’ve transferred an LP of music by Johann Strauss II: waltzes, polkas and a Die Fledermaus pot-pourri. Otto Dobrindt (1886-1963) recorded for both 78s and LPs, but his name is generally forgotten. In the UK several of his recordings were issued on various labels from the […]
Posted by Damians78s on January 1, 2024
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2024/01/01/dobrindt-conducts-strauss/
Albert Coates’s birthday
This year’s celebration of the anniversary of Albert Coates’s birth brings more Wagner, and some familiar Stravinsky. When the Gramophone company was recording its sets of excerpts from the Ring of the Nibelung (in English) in 1922 and 1923, Tudor Davies was the singer for Siegmund. He initially made 2 takes of Siegmund’s “Spring song”, […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2023
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2023/04/23/albert-coatess-birthday-2/
Franz André conducts Suppé overtures
It’s time for the customary Viennese fare to welcome in the New Year, and a return to the site for the Belgian conductor Franz André. His recording career was almost exclusively on Telefunken, and in the early 1950s several items were issued on Telefunken Füllschrift records – 78rpm with a variable groove pitch which meant […]
Posted by Damians78s on January 1, 2023
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2023/01/01/2690/
Albert Coates’s 140th birthday
As it’s the anniversary of Albert Coates’s birthday, I present my customary update. This year it’s Coates in his familiar Wagner, but a recording that has been elusive on reissues. Coates recorded Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung twice. On 25th January 1926 Coates conducted a substantial Wagner recording session at the Queen’s Hall with an […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2022
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2022/04/23/albert-coatess-140th-birthday/
Organ and Orchestra
After my annual Albert Coates post which included a couple of Handel organ concerto sides, I received some feedback prompting me to transfer some other 78rpm sides for organ and orchestra. The first has Sir Hamilton Harty conducting his own arrangement for organ and orchestra of movements from Handel’s Concerto in D major, HWV 335a […]
Posted by Damians78s on August 8, 2021
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2021/08/08/organ-and-orchestra/
Albert Coates’s birthday
Albert Coates’s birthday This year for the anniversary of Albert Coates’s birth I’ve selected several discs conducted by Coates (and a couple of related items not conducted by Coates.) To begin with, two of Coates’s less familiar recordings. In 1932 Coates two movements from Handel organ concertos, played by Herbert Dawson on the organ of […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2021
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2021/04/23/albert-coatess-birthday/
Prosit Neujahr!
As usual, some Viennese light classics for the new year, as we start the 2020s. Eight works are given here with Hans Knappertsbusch conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on a 1957 German language DECCA LP. J Strauss I – Radetzky March – Hans Knappertsbusch, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra K Komzak – Badner Mad’ln – Hans Knappertsbusch, […]
Posted by Damians78s on January 1, 2020
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2020/01/01/prosit-neujahr/
Johann Strauss II on Classics Club
After the Kirkby-Lunn diversion last year, I’ve returned to Viennese fare to welcome 2019. It seems I’ve had a busy year, as I completely failed to upload anything during 2018. The two records presented here are from the Classics Club label. This venture, which began in the mid to late 1950s, initially used sources from […]
Posted by Damians78s on December 31, 2018
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2018/12/31/johann-strauss-ii-on-classics-club/
Albert Coates day
April 23rd is the anniversary of the birth of the wonderful Albert Coates. To celebrate, I’ve transferred a pair of his Wagner recordings. Wagner – Lohengrin – Act 3 Prelude – Symphony Orchestra, Albert Coates HMV D 1054 Matrix Cc 7083-II (4-0751) Recorded 27th October 1925, Studio B, Hayes Wagner – Tannhäuser – March – […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2017
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2017/04/23/albert-coates-day/
Landon Ronald’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
For Shakespeare’s birthday back in April, I made available the Scherzo from Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream music, in a 1911 recording conducted by Landon Ronald. To complement this, I’ve now transferred the Ronald’s early recordings of the Overture, Nocturne and Wedding March, together with his later electrically recorded version of the Nocturne. I’ve included the […]
Posted by Damians78s on June 5, 2016
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2016/06/05/landon-ronalds-midsummer-nights-dream/
400 years
Although I have had not had a great deal of time to work on recordings for this site recently, I could not let the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death pass unmarked. There are several spoken word Shakespeare recordings to be found on site and music based on his works (just enter Shakespeare in the search […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2016
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2016/04/23/400-years/
New Year’s Suppé from Basil Cameron, and Sir Henry Wood’s 1924 Enigma
For the traditional Viennese welcome to the New Year, here are three Suppé overtures, all performed by the Hastings Municipal Orchestra conducted by Basil Cameron. These Decca records from 1929 and 1930 are rather worn, and the sound is not therefore all I would hope for. Suppé – Light Cavalry – Overture – Hastings MO, […]
Posted by Damians78s on December 31, 2015
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2015/12/31/new-years-suppe-from-basil-cameron-and-sir-henry-woods-1924-enigma/
A Night at the Proms with Henry Wood
On Friday 17th July the BBC Proms began. It’s 120 years since the first Proms season, and for the first fifty seasons, Sir Henry Wood did the lion’s share of the conducting. Wood’s discography is large, and includes many works he performed at the proms. In 1934, Columbia made a compilation record of excerpts of […]
Posted by Damians78s on July 19, 2015
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2015/07/19/a-night-at-the-proms-with-henry-wood/
Waltzing in the New Year – Krips, Scotney and Bertin
Following the Christmas festivities, I like to ring in the new year with the Strausses. To that end, here are three of his most famous waltzes, one in purely orchestral form, one in both orchestral and vocal versions, and another only in its vocal form. The two singers had their Strauss waltzes backed by the […]
Posted by Damians78s on December 31, 2014
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2014/12/31/waltzing-in-the-new-year-krips-scotney-and-bertin/
Stanford Robinson’s Nutcracker and Bransby Williams’s Scrooge
With Christmas nearly here, it’s time for my customary festive posting. On the orchestral side of things, Stanford Robinson conducts the Nutcracker Suite, and then there’s a feast of Dickensian recordings from Bransby Williams. Then as a non-festive bonus, a monologue from Wilfrid Brambell, best known as Albert Steptoe in Steptoe and Son. He apparently […]
Posted by Damians78s on December 24, 2014
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2014/12/24/stanford-robinsons-nutcracker-and-bransby-williamss-scrooge/
Lorenzo Molajoli orchestrals, and opera in America
Over the past year or so I’ve produced several CD reissues for CRQ Editions. One of these was devoted to orchestral recordings conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli. The following set arrived too late for inclusion on the Molajoli CD. Verdi – Nabucco – Overture Bizet – Carmen – Prelude Act 1 Milan Symphony Orchestra, Lorenzo Molajoli […]
Posted by Damians78s on August 24, 2014
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2014/08/24/lorenzo-molajoli-orchestrals-and-opera-in-america/
Richard Strauss – 150th anniversary
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Richard Strauss. To mark this, I’ve transferred two acoustic recordings of great tone poems by Strauss. The first is Henry Wood’s heavily abridged 1916 account of Till Eulenspiegel, the first ever recording of the work. It’s cut down to just two sides, losing approximately half of […]
Posted by Damians78s on June 11, 2014
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2014/06/11/richard-strauss-150th-anniversary/
Strauss (and Ivanovici) for the New Year
As ever I like to ring in the New Year with a nod in the direction of a Viennese New Year’s Day Concert. France’s Garde Républicaine returns with two pieces with a Danube theme. Iosif Ivanovici – Flots du Danube (Valse) Johann Strauss II – Le Beau Danube Bleu Garde Républicaine Ivanovici – Flots du […]
Posted by Damians78s on December 31, 2013
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2013/12/31/strauss-and-ivanovici-for-the-new-year/