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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 […]

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by on June 5, 2016  •  Permalink
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Posted by Damians78s on June 5, 2016

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2016/06/05/landon-ronalds-midsummer-nights-dream/

Delius – Eugene Goossens, Geoffery Toye, John Barbirolli; Mozart’s Figaro Overture – Barbirolli; Beatrice Harrison & Harold Craxton – Delius’s Cello Sonata; Dame Ethel Smyth – overture to The Wreckers

I couldn’t let this Delius anniversary year pass without a selection of his recordings from 78s. These range from acoustics conducted by Eugene Goossens III through some early electricals with Geoffrey Toye up to post-war records by John Barbirolli. There’s one filler side from Barbirolli which is not by Delius. There’s also the early electrical […]

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by on July 29, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Damians78s on July 29, 2012

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2012/07/29/delius-eugene-goossens-geoffery-toye-john-barbirolli-mozarts-figaro-overture-barbirolli-beatrice-harrison-dame-ethel-smyth-overture/

Albert Ketelbey – Massenet’s Angelus and Luigini’s The Voice of the Bells; Hamilton Harty – Wagner’s Die Meistersinger Overture, overtures to Stanford’s Shamus O’Brien and Rossini’s Barber of Seville

Now we head back to the early 1920s for three English Columbia acoustic discs, featuring two of Columbia’s regular conductors: Albert W Ketelbey and Hamilton Harty. The reason for grouping these together is a little confusion in the catalogues as to who is conducting on one of the records. Massenet – Angelus from “Scenes Pittoresques” […]

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by on June 11, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Damians78s on June 11, 2012

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2012/06/11/albert-ketelbey-massenets-angelus-and-luiginis-the-voice-of-the-bells-hamilton-harty-wagners-die-meistersinger-overture-overtures-to-stanfords-shamus-o/

Carl Schuricht – Die Fledermaus overture; Franz André – Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers, Suppé’s Poet and Peasant overtures

To welcome in the New Year, I’ve transferred Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus overture in an early recording by Carl Schuricht, and as an extra, a pair of overtures by Suppé and Offenbach, conducted by Franz André. J. Strauss II – Die Fledermaus – Overture Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Carl Schuricht (credited on label as “New […]

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by on January 1, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Damians78s on January 1, 2012

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2012/01/01/carl-schuricht-die-fledermaus-overture-franz-andre-offenbachs-orphee-aux-enfers-suppes-poet-and-peasant-overtures/

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/