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UPLOAD! Historical CDs, together with my philosophy on uploadings
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Frank Forman
Dec 8, 2012, 5:35:19 PM12/8/12
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UPLOAD! Historical CDs, together with my philosophy on uploadings
The URL for OoP Historical CDs remains
http://www.filefactory.com/f/e506defe41134d59
Today marks the end of an era for me, as I have at last put up all the
historical CDs I intend to, cartainly in large batches.
I made conversions of
CDs 2009.2.28-2010.6.14 (471 days)
LPs 2010.8.14-2011.3.15
M-sets 2010.11.21-2012.5.12
Other Cassettes 2011.6.12-2012.2.1
with a few touchings up later.
I started uploading to FileFactory 2011.7.13
What you now get is the rest of my historical CDs. e-mail correspondence
made me change my mind, so you are not getting all that I promised. I have
removed the Biddulph CDs entirely.
Here are my considerations and reconsiderations: I am a music lover, esp.
of great historical recordings of classical instrumental music. I want to
share them with the world. But my correspondents made me think more about
the long-run effect of what I have been doing. One of them told me that a
multiple CD project by one of the small labels had to stop because the
discs so far in the series were heavily pirated, with a sharp drop in
sales for the label. Imagine what would happen if the discs were available
for free and not for whatever the pirates charge? As a result, the rest of
CD conversions in this project are not going to be made. It getting harder
and harder to find 78s at flea markets or even from dealers, this music
will go unheard.
I do not want to add to this. I have aimed at historical CDs (meaning the
performance is more than fifty years old) from defunct labels or from
deleted CDs on active labels. Thinking further, the active labels can
always put up their entire catalog as mp3 downloads. This is not as simple
as plunking in a CD into iTunes (free) or NCH's WavePad ($80). It also
involves redoing the metadata (go to Windows Explorer, right click on Name
in the fourth row). It will have to be put on the site, along with the
booklet. This should take no more than an hour, once you get the hang of
it, like I have. If an allegedly active label is not really doing much
(and we do get OLD), dilly-dallying means that the world is deprived of
the music. I shall bide my time.
But there is another irreversible situation: the days where flea markets
and Salvation Army stores had lots of 78s at low prices are gone. Consider
this: the new 40-CD EMI box of Cortot quite evidently used the Biddulph
issue of Cortot's Victor acoustics. And identifying them goes back to the
late, great Jim Cartwright, who diligently went through the Victor session
logs, together with his own collecting and sent out a Cortot listing. (I
have a copy.) Had he not done so, many of the alternate takes would have
remained unknown. Jim passed on a good while ago, as have collecting
greats like Don Hodgman. They were still active in the early years of CDs
and generously lent their records for restoration on CD. It is gratifying
how dillegently and generously collectors labored.
Collections of the 78s of these collectors are not being replaced, and we
are close to reaching the bottom of the barrel. Much remains, of course,
if the records can be found, but it is safe to say that what is to come is
small compared to what we now have.
What about the major labels. We all know that corporate bean counters give
little attention to classical music and that their holdings have been sold
and resold. Keeping track of these sales is difficult. What gives rise to
bean-counting culture? Time was when there was cultural authority. I
remember talking to friends during Summer jobs, and they remarked that I
like "good" music. Today, even to suggest that one kind of music is better
than another is greeted with disdain. Back then, the BBC carried Radio 3:
even though it lost money, it was important for the overall health of
music culture in Britain, that is, if it is permissible to even speak of
the health of a culture.
The underlying fact is "twilight of authority." I shan't give my theories
here, if only because I have not formulated them clearly. Anyway, I see no
great revival of interest in making fresh conversions of 78s by the major
labels. Even so, I hold out and am not going to send things like the
Klemperer Fidelio, even though it was recorded more than fifty years ago,
since that item will be available pretty much continuously as long as
there are any major classical labels left. I don't even forsee EMI
reissuing the Busch-Serkin material, which did come out on CD. I have sent
some it to FileFactory. I made judgment calls in many situations, sending
some, holding many more back. I do want the world to be able to listen to
some great music that Bill Lampe did not have on his cassettes but rather
CD reissues thereof.
Here are the small active labels and the number of albums I have:
Appian (3), Arbiter (3), Archipel (2), archiphon (4), Beulah (2), Biddulph
(74), CBC (1), Dutton (2), Glenn Gould Foundation (1), Malibran (2),
Marston (1), Melodram (1), Mercury (2), Music and Arts (38), Myto (1),
Naxos (29), Nimbus (1), Opus Kura (1), Parnassus (1), Preiser (1),
Pristine Audio (1), Q-Disc (1), Romophone (1), Symposium (10), Tahra (25),
Testament (4), VAIA-IPA (4). Total is 216 albums.
Two more things: I was told I was mistaken about Biddulph have finally
gone out of business. I knew it went under when Peter Biddulph was charged
with fraud and that it was revived. But I had thought it finally expired.
It limps along, with only eight ablums in its current catalog that were in
my collection. I pulled my files from FileFactory. The other thing is that
Allan Evans of Arbiter said he wanted to reissue his Pearl set of Etelka
Freund on Arbiter. Wishing the greatest success for Arbiter, I removed the
set from FileFactory, when I rezipped the other Pearls into files under
500MB. I was glad to remove the Freund (although a few of you had already
downloaded it: please let Mr. Evans know how much you appreciate it) and I
wish it sells well on Arbiter, along with many new issues. Collecting this
sadly neglected artist must have been difficult, and I am glad that there
remain collectors with such high dilligence. I have done so myself with
other artists, going to the Library of Congress to get discographies,
informing collectors like Don about recording he might not know the
existence of, and exercising my own skills as a discographic detective.
I must again thank my correspondents for making the issue of what harm my
own uploadings might do. There is no right answer or even a set of right
principles. I can only lay out my own reflections and hope that I have
made good judgment calls in most cases. At one extreme, I should just
deleted all these CDs, though keeping the 78s and LPs more than fifty
years old, and maybe even these. At the other extreme, I could have
uploaded all the CDs whose performance took place more than fifty years
ago, which is legal under European copyright law. That would give me an
additional 69 albums from the major labels, in addition to
the 216 from the small labels, or 285 in all. I have sent fewer than 285
in this, my last major batch, which comprises 266 albums.
This has been a terrific amount of work and computer frustration. Indexing
and discographic hunting took the most time. I've been spending 10 hour
days on weekends while still working and eight months of ten hour days
after retiring at the end of 2011. All told, this amounts to about four
years at the rate I worked (or at least showed up) by my calculations.
Maybe three years is more realistic, but it is certainly not less than
that. But don't tell anyone. A man who is a better discographer than I am
happily told me how much he got paid for a discography of a musician he
did not care about. I did not have the heart to ask him how much an hour
that amounted to! Such labors of love will continue (and we continue to
have our historical recordings) echoing the closing lines of Shakespeare's
best-known Sonnet (no. 18)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate;
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Meanwhile, here is the briefest listing of the CDs that have been already
sent and those that are new. But most, please enjoy the music!
Frank
CDs (HISTORICAL) UPLOADED TO FILEFACTORY
ABENDROTH, HERMANN, conductor
Abendroth 1.zip
Arcchelino 108 (v 10) Sibelius 2 and Brahms 3
Arcchelino 128 (v 12) Humperdinck and Mussorsky
Arcchelino 149 (v 13) Bruckner 5
Arcchelino 185 (v 19) Dvorak and Schumann CCs
Arcchelino 71 (v 1) Brahms 3 TrO HVar
Arcchelino ARL 127 (v 11) Brahms 2 and 4
Arcchelino ARL 150 (v 14) Beethoven 9 Supraphon rec (THE BEST)
Abendroth 2.zip
Arcchelino ARL 162 (v 15) Brahms 1 and 3
Arcchelino ARL 164 (v.17) Beethoven VC and Schumann PC
Arcchelino ARL 64 (v 3) Tch VC (Schulz) and Sym. 4
Arcchelino ARL 74 (v 2) Beethoven 9 Eterna rec
Arcchelino ARL 86 (v 5) Haydn 88, 96, 97
Arcchelino ARL 92 (v 6) Brahms Requiem
Arcchelino ARL 93 (v 7) Gluck, Weber, Mend, Wag
Abendroth 3.zip
Arcchelino ARL A17 (v 22) Strauss Sohn
Beethoven 9 Eterna rec Arcchelino ARL 74 (Vol. 2)
Berlin Classics 0092271 BC (2) Mozart Sym. 33, 35, 38, 41+
Berlin Classics 0092772 BC Bruckner 4
Berlin Classics 0093462 BC Beethoven 4 and 6
Berlin Classics BC 2050 Bruckner 9
Berlin Classics BC 2051 Schubert 8 and 9 (on7)
Abendroth 4.zip
Berlin Classics BC 2052 Schumann PC (Wührer) and CC (Tortelier)
Berlin Classics BC 2053 Tchaikovsky 4 and Schumann 4
Berlin Classics BC 2054 Tchaikovsky 6
Melodram MEL 18020 Beethoven Vn Con (Oistrahk) +
Urania ULS 5156 CD Amirov, Firket and Popov
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BACKHAUS, WILHELM, piano
Backhaus 1.zip
andante AND 2995 (4) Backhaus
Dante HPC 039 Grieg Con. and Brahms Con. 2
Dante HPC 086 Beethoven Son. 8, 14, 26, 32 +
Ermitage ERM 105 Haydn Betnoven Chopin live
Backhaus 2.zip
foné 90F11 ROLLS
Fonit Cetra CDE 1005 Beethoven Sonatas live
legend LGD 121 Beethoven Con 4 -Cantelli live 1956
Magic Talent CD 48042 Brahms
Memoria CMJ 1 Mozart Salzburg Festival
Suite CDS 16008 Beethoven Con 5 -Kna + Son. 21
The Piano Library PL 338 Mozart Con. 26 & Grieg Con
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BUSCH, ADOLF, Violin
CBS MPK 47687 Beethoven Q 7, 13
EMI 63494 Beethoven VS 5,7 w, Serkin & Bach Partita 2
EMI 63494 Brahms Clarinet Qn & SQ 1
EMI 64495 Brahms VS 1,2 and Horn Trio (A. Brain)
EMI D 134499 Brahms PfQn and PQ 2
EMI D 134499 Brahms SQ 3 and PQ 1
Sony SMK 48088 Schubert PT 2 (2d rec.) & Busch Divertimento, Op. 30
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CHAMBER MUSIC
Chamber 1.zip
andante AND 2972 (4) Pro Arte
Czech Historical Recordings RCD 70023 Sevcik-Lhotsky Q Smetana 1, Dvorak
12 (on6)
EMI 63870 (2) Pro Arte Mozart PQ 1 (Schnabel), SQn
Chamber 2.zip
EMI 66422 (2) Lener Brahms Q and ClQn (Draper)
EMI SGR 8505+ (3) Great German and Austrian SQs
EMI SGR 8559-60 (2) Loewenguth Q 78s
Chamber 3.zip
Harmonia Mundi MAN 4934 Loewenguth Ducasse 2 in D 1953 rec. 5402
Novello Records NVLCD 903 Budapest Q (Old) Schubert 14, Dvorak 12 (on6)
Philips 438520 (3) Casals Beethoven Chamber Music
Chamber 4.zip
Rockport RR 5004+ (5) Lener Q
Rockport RR 5007 Galimir Q Ravel Milhaud 7 Berg Lyric
Chamber 5 (Ramor Bartok).zip
Tuxedo Music TUX CD 1087-9 (3) Ramor Bartok Quartets
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COATES, ALBERT, conductor
Coates 1.zip
Claremeont GSE 758054 Coates Tannhäuser +
Claremont GSE 785026 Coates Tristan and Isolde (+ Blech and Collingwood)
Claremont GSE 785055 Coates Eroica and Jupiter
Claremont GSE 785061 Coates A Russian Festival
Claremont GSE 785070-1 (2) Coates ac Meistersinger and Parsifal
Coates 2.zip
Grane 5001 (2) Coates ac Mastersingers of Nuremberg
Koch 37700 Albert Coates conducts Russian Favorites
Koch 37704 (2) Albert Coates Conducts Vol. 2
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CONDUCTORS, OTHER
Conductors, other 1.zip
DG 457710 Lehmann Brahms German Requiem
DG LRC 00152-3 (2) Markevitch Haydn The Creation 1958
EMI 74724 (part) Klemperer Brahms Violin Concerto -Oistrakh
EMI CDH 63044 Toscanini BBC Wagner and Debussy La Mer, or The Sea
EMI CDH 69783 Toscanini BBC Brahms 4 + TO
Gramophono AB 78859 Toscanini acoustics
Conductors, other 2.zip
Koch 37076 Strauss Mozart Sym. 39-41
Koch 37705 (2) Cortot as Conductor
LYS 080 Weingartner Berlioz Sym +
LYS 216 Strauss Beethoven 5 (on6) & 7
LYS 236-7 (2) Schalk, Franz complete
LYS 403 Oubrados, Fernand Mozartt
LYS 412 Oubrados, Femand Bach
Conductors, other 3.zip
LYS 419-24 (6) Kabasta almost complete
LYS 431 Beinum Bartok CO and Stravinsky Rite
Conductors, other 4.zip
LYS 546 Toscanini Mendelssohn live Sym. 3 & MSND
Private Op. 125 Sym 9 for Kettledrums Engelbretsen Masterworks Ch&O 691106
Sony MHK 63328 Walter Mahler 1 and Brahms Haydn V
Timpani 4C4024 (4) Wolff, Albert
Conductors, other 5.zip
Turnabout 30371 Klemperer Beethoven MIssa Solemnis (mono)
VAIA 1067 (2) Boult English Music
VAIA 1114 Walter Early Wagner Recordings
VAIA 1118 (2) Dr. Muck Wagner Recordings (1927-28)
Conductors, other 6.zip
Vox CDX2 5520 (part) Klemperer Bruckner 4
Vox CDX2 5521 (2) Klemperer Mahler 2 and LvE
Wing WCD 62 Friedrich Kark Op. 67 (1910) and Lenny 3 (1912)
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COPPOLA, PIERO, conductor
Coppola 1.zip
Koch 37702 Coppola Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Honegger
LYS 295-7 (3) Coppola Debussy
LYS 364-365 (2) Coppola Ravel
Coppola 2.zip
LYS 373 Coppola Roussel, Honegger, Schmitt, Rabaud, and Golestan
LYS 379 Coppola Franck, d'Indy, and Chabrier
LYS 502 Coppola Schumann 1 and 3
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FRIED, OSKAR, conductor
Koch 37146 Fried Liszt, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky
LYS 200 Fried Tchaikovsky
LYS 279 Fried Beethoven 9
LYS 280 Fried Danse macabre and Fantastic Symphony
Unknown Jap. LP Fried Bruckner 7 acoustic (no booklet)
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GOULD, GLENN, piano
Bis CD 323-4 (2) Glenn Gould in Stockholm 1958
Mastersound DFCD 024 The Young GG
Memoria CMG 1 (stereo) Salzburg
Nuova Era 2273 Prokofiev Son 7, Shos PQn exc 1962
Nuova Era 2310 Strauss Schoenberg Krenek Ravel
Nuova Era 6306 Gould and Mitropolous
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KEMPFF, WILHELM, piano
Kempff 1.zip
Dante HPC 019+ (v 1-5) Kempff on 78s
Kempff 2.zip
Dante HPC 019+ (v 6-10) Kempff on 78s
DG 447976 Mozart 20 & CR + Beethoven 3 van Kempen 78s
Radio Recordings 1945-1956 Koch 31029
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MENGELBERG, WILLEM, conductor
Mengelberg 1.zip
Archive Documents
Mengelberg 2.zip
Audiophile Classics APL 101541 Dutch Comporsers
LYS 077 Schubert 8 studio and 9 live
LYS 099 Brahms Requiem
Mengelberg 3.zip
Seven Seas KICC 2060 Beethoven and Bruch Con (Bustabo)
Teldec 243724 Brahms 4 Strauss DJ
Teldec 243726 Tchaikovsky Con
Teldec 76441 Strauss Heldenleben, Don Juan
Teldec 93673 Tchaikovsky 6 and 1812
Teldec 95515 Beethoven 5 (Old No
Mengelberg 4 (Wendel).zip
Wendel, Hubert, his private label (vol 8, 10-1)
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MISCELLANEOUS
Miscellaneous 1.zip
andante AND 1978 (3) Ravel Orchestral Works
Avid AMSC 587 Casals Elgar Cello Concerto
BMG 61616 Casals Victors 1925-8
BSO Classics 171002 Dr. Muck acoustics
BSO Classics 171002 Koussevitzky First Electricals 1928
DG 447442 Krebs Verdi Requiem
Miscellaneous 2.zip
DG 457756 Krebs Bartok Cantata Profana
Eklipse EKR 51 Ponselle in Concert 1936-1952, Rosa
EMI 63040 (2) Schumann Schubert Lieder
EMI 63499 Supervia Opera Arias
Miscellaneous 3.zip
EMI 66206 & 66210 (6) Bruckner EMI 78s
EMI 67009 Segovia, The Legendary
Miscellaneous 4.zip
Erato 45443 (2) Krebs St. John Passion
Koch 37703 (2) Handel A Collector's Messiah
LYS 619-21 (3) Krebs, Lehmann St. Matthew Passion
Miscellaneous 5.zip
Magic Talent CD 40830 Pablo Casals plays
Magic Talent CD 48021 Brains Mozart Div. 17 and Brahms Horn trio
Opal CD 9844 Elwes VW On Wenlock Edge +
Philips 462084 and 102 (2) Heynis Portrait
Philips 464631 Heynis Bach and Handel Sacred Arias
Miscellaneous 6.zip
Philips 468310 Heynis Bach Can. 170 and 169+
Phonographe PH 5039-40 (2) Kipnis Great Voices
Rivo Alto CRA 8294 Heynis Vivaldi incl. Stabat Mater
Timpani 4C4017 (4) Franck 1923-42 Recordings
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MRAVINSKY, EVGENY, conductor
BMG BVCX 8020-3 Early Mravinsky 1.zip
BMG BVCX 8024-7 Early Mravinsky 2.zip
BMG BVCX 8020-7 (8) Mravinsky Early Recordings.pdf
Mravinsky 3.zip
BMG-Mel 29459 v13 Mravinsky (1959)
BMG-Mel 29459 v15 Mravinsky (1954)
BMG-Mel 29549 v17 Mravinsky (1947)
BMG-Mel 29549 v19 Mravinsky (1949)
BMG-Melodiya BOCC 3 Mravinsky Shos 5 (1938)
Praga PR 7254018 Mravinsky Shos 11 1959-2-2
Mravinsky 4.zip
Russian Disc RD CD 10905 (2) Mravinsky Tch 5, Brahms 3 w rehearsals, Mous
Dawn
Russian Disc RD CD 10907 Mravinsky Brahms 4 more 1961-5-14
Russian Disc RD CD 11157 Mravinsky Shostakovich Symphony 11 1957-11-3
Russian Disc RD CD 15003 Mravinsky Tchaikovsky Ser, CapI, FdR
Urania US 5162 Mravinsky Shos 12 1961-10-1 Premiere +
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PEARL RECORDINGS
PEARL 1.zip
PEARL 1a.zip
Pearl BVA I,II (6) The Recorded Violin
Pearl GEM 0046 Backhaus Schubert Schumann Bach
PEARL 1b.zip
Pearl GEM 0125 Beethoven & Brahms Schnabel & Fournier
Pearl GEM 0207 Primrose The Early Recordings (tr
Pearl GEM 0224 Brahms Concerto and 15 Hung
Pearl GEMM CD 9019 Landowska Musique Ancienne
Pearl GEMM CD 9026 Schnabel Szigeti recital
Pearl GEMM CD 9077 Feuermann Parlophones
PEARL 2 (revised).zip
PEARL 2a.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9080 Coppola Berloz Damnation of Faust Harty
Pearl GEMM CD 9109 Paderewski, vol
Pearl GEMM CD 9124 Harpsichord, Great Virtuosi of the, Vol I
Pearl GEMM CD 9154 Mengelberg The Rarest Recordings
Pearl GEMM CD 9163 Sapellnikoff, Vassily Tchaikovsky Con 1 +
Pearl GEMM CD 9242 Woodhouse, Violet Gordon
PEARL 2b.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9330+ (4) Kreisler Beethoven Vn Son (no booklet)
Pearl GEMM CD 9341 Huberman Bach and Mozart
Pearl GEMM CD 9349 Dvorak - Bruch - Boccherini Casals
PEARL 3.zip
PEARL 3a.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9373 (3) Toscanini NYPhil
Pearl GEMM CD 9379 and 9445 (2) Elisabeth Schumann
Pearl GEMM CD 9396 Cortot Liszt
Pearl GEMM CD 9399 Schnabel Plays Bach 2PC2 and Brahms PC 2 Sir Adrian
Pearl GEMM CD 9442 Feuermann Eng Columbias 1
PEARL 3b.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9443 Feuermann Eng Columbias 2
Pearl GEMM CD 9446 Feuermann Eng Columbias 3
Pearl GEMM CD 9460 Prihoda 1922-39
Pearl GEMM CD 9466 Kulenkampff Mend and Brahms Con
Pearl GEMM CD 9474 Mengelberg NYPSO electrics
Pearl GEMM CD 9485 Harty Berlioz
PEARL 4.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9488 Stokowski Fantasia, A
PEARL 4a.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9489 Landowska Plays Bach
Pearl GEMM CD 9498 Vecsey The Electric Recordings
Pearl GEMM CD 9911 Lamond Liszt's Last Pupil Liszt
Pearl GEMM CD 9955 (5) Elgar acoustics
PEARL 4b.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9957 Grainger Bach and Schumann
Pearl GEMM CD 9974 and GEM 0080 (2) De Greef Plays Saint Saëns, Grieg +
(no booklet)
PEARL 5.zip
PEARL 5a.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9018 & 9070 (6) Mengelberg Columbia Recordings
PEARL 5b.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9044 (2) Stokowski Shostakovich Symphonies 1, 5, 7 +
Pearl GEMM CDS 9063 (3) Beethoven Con
PEARL 6.zip
PEARL 6a.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9137 (7) COATES + The 1927-32 HMV 'Potted' Ring
PEARL 6b.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9141 (2) Complete Schubert Recordings Busch
PEARL 7.zip
PEARL 7a.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9148-50 (6) Viola, The Recorded
PEARL 7b.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9263 (3) Bach BBC and OS Busch
Pearl GEMM CDS 9271-2 (4) Schnabel Plays Schubert
PEARL 8.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9900 (2) Bach Mass in b Elisabeth Schumann, Coates
Pearl GEMM CDS 9900 Elisabeth Schumann Bach
Pearl GEMM CDS 9922 (3) NY Phil at 150
Pearl GEMM CDS 9929 (2) Mahler early recordings
PEARL 8a.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9981-6 (6) Cello, The Recorded
PEARL 8b.zip
Pearl GEMS 0006 (2) Schnabel Mozart (studios)
Pearl GEMS 0024 (2) Wagner Conductors on Record
Pearl GEMS 0102 (2) British Acoustics Backhaus
Pearl GEMS 074 (3) Beethoven 1 3 4 5 6 8 + Mengelberg Telefunken
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PIANO, other [Note two Kempff items.]
Piano 1.zip
A Classical Record ACR 39 Ney
Bayer DaCapo BR 200035 Ney w, Hoelsher Beethoven CS 3-5
BMG-DG-Philips 456994 (2) Yudina Diabelli and Eroica Var
BMG-Melodiya 25176 Yudina Strav Berg Kren only
Dante HPC 040 Dohnanyi Mozart Con 17 and Bee Son 17 +
Dante HPC 121 Yudina Mozart Con. 21 & 23
Dante HPC 122 Yudina Beethoven Con 4 & Ch Fan
Dante HPC 123 Yudina Schubert Sonata 21 Br Handel Var
Piano 2.zip
DG 447996 Kempff deleted bonus disc to Beethoven Sonata cycle mono
Dis PCCD 20011 Cortot in Japan and unpub. Kreisleriana
Doremi 7901-5 (5) Gianoli Mozart Sonatas
Piano 3.zip
Koch 31029 Kempff Radio Recordings 1945-1956
Koch 37137 (2) Samuel, Harold, The Art of
MGM E 538 (10 inch LP) Sylvia Marlowe
Opal CD 9860 Samaroff, Olga, An American Virtuoso
Piano 4.zip
Sony S3K 89698 930 (3) Cortot The Master Classes
Vive IMV 039 Couperin Historic rec. 1947-77
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ROSBAUD, HANS, conductor
Rosbaud 1.zip
Ca d'Oro CAD 1001-7 (7) Rosbaud Mozart Aix-en-Provence
Rosbaud 2.zip
Encore EC 5024 (Candian cass) Rosbaud Mahler 1 Dresden State Orch (no
booklet)
INA IMV 008 Rosbaud w. TS Randall at Aix-en-Provence
Iron Needle IN 1401 Rosbaud The Unknown Recordings
Originals SH 844 Rosbaud Beethoven 7 and 8
Stradivarius STR 10022 Rosbaud Ravel, Hindemith, Castiglioni, Schoenberg
Rosbaud 3.zip
Unknown RIT5010 Rosbaud Schubert 9 (on7) (no boolket)
Urania URN 22170 Rosbaud Mahler 4 & Brahms ARhap
Vox CDX2 5518 (2) Rosbaud Bruckner 7
Vox CDX2 5518 (2) Rosbaud Mahler Song of the Earth
Vox CDX2 5520 (2) Rosbaud Mahler 7
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RYBAR, PETER, violin
Doron DRC 4003 Goldmark And Suk
Doron DRC 4005 Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsy Concerti
Doron DRC 4007-8 (2) Brahms, Busoni, Mozart -Haskil
Doron DRC 4009 Schumann and Sibelius VCs
Telos TLS 023 Martinu live
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SCHERCHEN, HERMANN, conductor
Scherchen 1.zip
Arkadia CDGI 7521 Berg
Ermitage ERM 126 Beethoven 5 (Old No. 6) (rehearsal and concert)
Harmonia Mundi HMA 1955179 Mahler 5 French National Radio 651120
IMG 75956 (2) Great Conductors of the 20th Century
Scherchen 2.zip
MCA D2-9802 (2) Beethoven 3 (st), 1, 6 (on5) (st)
MCA D2-9816 (2) Mozart Requiem (stereo) Haydn 7 Last
MCA D2-9821 (2) Bach Mass in b (stereo 1959)
MCA D2-9831 (2) Bach BBC
Scherchen 3.zip
MCA D2-9832 (2) Liszt HRs and 4 Symphonic Poems
MCA D2-9833 (2) Mahler 2 and 1
MCA MCD 80097 Bizet Chabrier Ravel
Memories HR 4160 Bach Magnificat and Actus tragicus
Notes PGP 11022 Mahler 7 VSO 1960 live
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SCHNABEL, ARTUR, piano, BEETHOVEN (most studios)
Schnabel Beethoven Dante HPC 107-120 (14) Booklet
Schnabel Beethoven Dante HPC 107-120 (1-7).zip
Schnabel Beethoven Dante HPC 107-120 (8-14).zip
Dante HPC 107-120 (14) Schnabel Beethoven most studios.pdf
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SPALDING, ALBERT, violin
A Classical Record ACR 42 Franck and Brahms 2 (no booklet)
Diiscografico Italiano IDIS 6355 Chausson Poème -Mitropolous live Insituto
MRF S 01-2 (2) Centennial Historic Recordings
MRF S 01-2 (2) Spalding Centennial Historic Recordings .pdf
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SZIGETI, JOSEPH, violin
AS 416 Szigeti Moz VC 3 w. Rehearsals -Walter
CBS SMK 52535 Szigeti ML 4015 Szigeti BrVC (ormandy) and ML 4720 Br PT3
CBS SMK 52536 Szigeti ML 4012 Beethoven VC Walter NYP and ML 4870A VS 5
CBS SMK 52537 Szigeti Busoni ML 5224 VC and VS2
CBS SMK 52538 Szigeti Schubert ML 4133B Sonatina 1, 4642A Rondo B, 4338A
Fant
CBS SMK 52569 Szigeti ML 4338B Corelli + ML 4870B Bee VS6
EMI 64652 Szigeti, Beecham Moz 4, Mend, Prok 1
LYS 084 Szigeti Bee VC Walter 'British', Romance live Szell, Berlioz R&C
studio
Sony SMK 58982 (no booklet)
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THIBAUD, JACQUES, violin
EMI 63032 Franck, Faure 1, and Debussy w. al-Cortot
EMI LEXC 1019 & 1021 (2) Early Days Of Jacques Thibaud
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VIOLIN, other
Violin 1.zip
A Classical Record ACR 37 (2) Bustabo Legacy
A Classical Record ACR DHR 7753 Martzy 1960 recital Montreal
LYS 097 Kulenkampf Dvorak and Tchaikovsky Con
LYS 398 Geyer,The Art of Stefi
Violin 2.zip
Masters of the Violin CDO 2014 (2) Enescu Bach S&P
Russian Revelation RV 10071 Kogan Russian Music for Vn & Pf
Talents of Russia RCD 16223 Barinova, Galina Barinova Bach and Tartini
The URL for OoP Historical CDs remains
http://www.filefactory.com/f/e506defe41134d59
Today marks the end of an era for me, as I have at last put up all the
historical CDs I intend to, cartainly in large batches.
I made conversions of
CDs 2009.2.28-2010.6.14 (471 days)
LPs 2010.8.14-2011.3.15
M-sets 2010.11.21-2012.5.12
Other Cassettes 2011.6.12-2012.2.1
with a few touchings up later.
I started uploading to FileFactory 2011.7.13
What you now get is the rest of my historical CDs. e-mail correspondence
made me change my mind, so you are not getting all that I promised. I have
removed the Biddulph CDs entirely.
Here are my considerations and reconsiderations: I am a music lover, esp.
of great historical recordings of classical instrumental music. I want to
share them with the world. But my correspondents made me think more about
the long-run effect of what I have been doing. One of them told me that a
multiple CD project by one of the small labels had to stop because the
discs so far in the series were heavily pirated, with a sharp drop in
sales for the label. Imagine what would happen if the discs were available
for free and not for whatever the pirates charge? As a result, the rest of
CD conversions in this project are not going to be made. It getting harder
and harder to find 78s at flea markets or even from dealers, this music
will go unheard.
I do not want to add to this. I have aimed at historical CDs (meaning the
performance is more than fifty years old) from defunct labels or from
deleted CDs on active labels. Thinking further, the active labels can
always put up their entire catalog as mp3 downloads. This is not as simple
as plunking in a CD into iTunes (free) or NCH's WavePad ($80). It also
involves redoing the metadata (go to Windows Explorer, right click on Name
in the fourth row). It will have to be put on the site, along with the
booklet. This should take no more than an hour, once you get the hang of
it, like I have. If an allegedly active label is not really doing much
(and we do get OLD), dilly-dallying means that the world is deprived of
the music. I shall bide my time.
But there is another irreversible situation: the days where flea markets
and Salvation Army stores had lots of 78s at low prices are gone. Consider
this: the new 40-CD EMI box of Cortot quite evidently used the Biddulph
issue of Cortot's Victor acoustics. And identifying them goes back to the
late, great Jim Cartwright, who diligently went through the Victor session
logs, together with his own collecting and sent out a Cortot listing. (I
have a copy.) Had he not done so, many of the alternate takes would have
remained unknown. Jim passed on a good while ago, as have collecting
greats like Don Hodgman. They were still active in the early years of CDs
and generously lent their records for restoration on CD. It is gratifying
how dillegently and generously collectors labored.
Collections of the 78s of these collectors are not being replaced, and we
are close to reaching the bottom of the barrel. Much remains, of course,
if the records can be found, but it is safe to say that what is to come is
small compared to what we now have.
What about the major labels. We all know that corporate bean counters give
little attention to classical music and that their holdings have been sold
and resold. Keeping track of these sales is difficult. What gives rise to
bean-counting culture? Time was when there was cultural authority. I
remember talking to friends during Summer jobs, and they remarked that I
like "good" music. Today, even to suggest that one kind of music is better
than another is greeted with disdain. Back then, the BBC carried Radio 3:
even though it lost money, it was important for the overall health of
music culture in Britain, that is, if it is permissible to even speak of
the health of a culture.
The underlying fact is "twilight of authority." I shan't give my theories
here, if only because I have not formulated them clearly. Anyway, I see no
great revival of interest in making fresh conversions of 78s by the major
labels. Even so, I hold out and am not going to send things like the
Klemperer Fidelio, even though it was recorded more than fifty years ago,
since that item will be available pretty much continuously as long as
there are any major classical labels left. I don't even forsee EMI
reissuing the Busch-Serkin material, which did come out on CD. I have sent
some it to FileFactory. I made judgment calls in many situations, sending
some, holding many more back. I do want the world to be able to listen to
some great music that Bill Lampe did not have on his cassettes but rather
CD reissues thereof.
Here are the small active labels and the number of albums I have:
Appian (3), Arbiter (3), Archipel (2), archiphon (4), Beulah (2), Biddulph
(74), CBC (1), Dutton (2), Glenn Gould Foundation (1), Malibran (2),
Marston (1), Melodram (1), Mercury (2), Music and Arts (38), Myto (1),
Naxos (29), Nimbus (1), Opus Kura (1), Parnassus (1), Preiser (1),
Pristine Audio (1), Q-Disc (1), Romophone (1), Symposium (10), Tahra (25),
Testament (4), VAIA-IPA (4). Total is 216 albums.
Two more things: I was told I was mistaken about Biddulph have finally
gone out of business. I knew it went under when Peter Biddulph was charged
with fraud and that it was revived. But I had thought it finally expired.
It limps along, with only eight ablums in its current catalog that were in
my collection. I pulled my files from FileFactory. The other thing is that
Allan Evans of Arbiter said he wanted to reissue his Pearl set of Etelka
Freund on Arbiter. Wishing the greatest success for Arbiter, I removed the
set from FileFactory, when I rezipped the other Pearls into files under
500MB. I was glad to remove the Freund (although a few of you had already
downloaded it: please let Mr. Evans know how much you appreciate it) and I
wish it sells well on Arbiter, along with many new issues. Collecting this
sadly neglected artist must have been difficult, and I am glad that there
remain collectors with such high dilligence. I have done so myself with
other artists, going to the Library of Congress to get discographies,
informing collectors like Don about recording he might not know the
existence of, and exercising my own skills as a discographic detective.
I must again thank my correspondents for making the issue of what harm my
own uploadings might do. There is no right answer or even a set of right
principles. I can only lay out my own reflections and hope that I have
made good judgment calls in most cases. At one extreme, I should just
deleted all these CDs, though keeping the 78s and LPs more than fifty
years old, and maybe even these. At the other extreme, I could have
uploaded all the CDs whose performance took place more than fifty years
ago, which is legal under European copyright law. That would give me an
additional 69 albums from the major labels, in addition to
the 216 from the small labels, or 285 in all. I have sent fewer than 285
in this, my last major batch, which comprises 266 albums.
This has been a terrific amount of work and computer frustration. Indexing
and discographic hunting took the most time. I've been spending 10 hour
days on weekends while still working and eight months of ten hour days
after retiring at the end of 2011. All told, this amounts to about four
years at the rate I worked (or at least showed up) by my calculations.
Maybe three years is more realistic, but it is certainly not less than
that. But don't tell anyone. A man who is a better discographer than I am
happily told me how much he got paid for a discography of a musician he
did not care about. I did not have the heart to ask him how much an hour
that amounted to! Such labors of love will continue (and we continue to
have our historical recordings) echoing the closing lines of Shakespeare's
best-known Sonnet (no. 18)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate;
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Meanwhile, here is the briefest listing of the CDs that have been already
sent and those that are new. But most, please enjoy the music!
Frank
CDs (HISTORICAL) UPLOADED TO FILEFACTORY
ABENDROTH, HERMANN, conductor
Abendroth 1.zip
Arcchelino 108 (v 10) Sibelius 2 and Brahms 3
Arcchelino 128 (v 12) Humperdinck and Mussorsky
Arcchelino 149 (v 13) Bruckner 5
Arcchelino 185 (v 19) Dvorak and Schumann CCs
Arcchelino 71 (v 1) Brahms 3 TrO HVar
Arcchelino ARL 127 (v 11) Brahms 2 and 4
Arcchelino ARL 150 (v 14) Beethoven 9 Supraphon rec (THE BEST)
Abendroth 2.zip
Arcchelino ARL 162 (v 15) Brahms 1 and 3
Arcchelino ARL 164 (v.17) Beethoven VC and Schumann PC
Arcchelino ARL 64 (v 3) Tch VC (Schulz) and Sym. 4
Arcchelino ARL 74 (v 2) Beethoven 9 Eterna rec
Arcchelino ARL 86 (v 5) Haydn 88, 96, 97
Arcchelino ARL 92 (v 6) Brahms Requiem
Arcchelino ARL 93 (v 7) Gluck, Weber, Mend, Wag
Abendroth 3.zip
Arcchelino ARL A17 (v 22) Strauss Sohn
Beethoven 9 Eterna rec Arcchelino ARL 74 (Vol. 2)
Berlin Classics 0092271 BC (2) Mozart Sym. 33, 35, 38, 41+
Berlin Classics 0092772 BC Bruckner 4
Berlin Classics 0093462 BC Beethoven 4 and 6
Berlin Classics BC 2050 Bruckner 9
Berlin Classics BC 2051 Schubert 8 and 9 (on7)
Abendroth 4.zip
Berlin Classics BC 2052 Schumann PC (Wührer) and CC (Tortelier)
Berlin Classics BC 2053 Tchaikovsky 4 and Schumann 4
Berlin Classics BC 2054 Tchaikovsky 6
Melodram MEL 18020 Beethoven Vn Con (Oistrahk) +
Urania ULS 5156 CD Amirov, Firket and Popov
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BACKHAUS, WILHELM, piano
Backhaus 1.zip
andante AND 2995 (4) Backhaus
Dante HPC 039 Grieg Con. and Brahms Con. 2
Dante HPC 086 Beethoven Son. 8, 14, 26, 32 +
Ermitage ERM 105 Haydn Betnoven Chopin live
Backhaus 2.zip
foné 90F11 ROLLS
Fonit Cetra CDE 1005 Beethoven Sonatas live
legend LGD 121 Beethoven Con 4 -Cantelli live 1956
Magic Talent CD 48042 Brahms
Memoria CMJ 1 Mozart Salzburg Festival
Suite CDS 16008 Beethoven Con 5 -Kna + Son. 21
The Piano Library PL 338 Mozart Con. 26 & Grieg Con
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BUSCH, ADOLF, Violin
CBS MPK 47687 Beethoven Q 7, 13
EMI 63494 Beethoven VS 5,7 w, Serkin & Bach Partita 2
EMI 63494 Brahms Clarinet Qn & SQ 1
EMI 64495 Brahms VS 1,2 and Horn Trio (A. Brain)
EMI D 134499 Brahms PfQn and PQ 2
EMI D 134499 Brahms SQ 3 and PQ 1
Sony SMK 48088 Schubert PT 2 (2d rec.) & Busch Divertimento, Op. 30
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CHAMBER MUSIC
Chamber 1.zip
andante AND 2972 (4) Pro Arte
Czech Historical Recordings RCD 70023 Sevcik-Lhotsky Q Smetana 1, Dvorak
12 (on6)
EMI 63870 (2) Pro Arte Mozart PQ 1 (Schnabel), SQn
Chamber 2.zip
EMI 66422 (2) Lener Brahms Q and ClQn (Draper)
EMI SGR 8505+ (3) Great German and Austrian SQs
EMI SGR 8559-60 (2) Loewenguth Q 78s
Chamber 3.zip
Harmonia Mundi MAN 4934 Loewenguth Ducasse 2 in D 1953 rec. 5402
Novello Records NVLCD 903 Budapest Q (Old) Schubert 14, Dvorak 12 (on6)
Philips 438520 (3) Casals Beethoven Chamber Music
Chamber 4.zip
Rockport RR 5004+ (5) Lener Q
Rockport RR 5007 Galimir Q Ravel Milhaud 7 Berg Lyric
Chamber 5 (Ramor Bartok).zip
Tuxedo Music TUX CD 1087-9 (3) Ramor Bartok Quartets
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COATES, ALBERT, conductor
Coates 1.zip
Claremeont GSE 758054 Coates Tannhäuser +
Claremont GSE 785026 Coates Tristan and Isolde (+ Blech and Collingwood)
Claremont GSE 785055 Coates Eroica and Jupiter
Claremont GSE 785061 Coates A Russian Festival
Claremont GSE 785070-1 (2) Coates ac Meistersinger and Parsifal
Coates 2.zip
Grane 5001 (2) Coates ac Mastersingers of Nuremberg
Koch 37700 Albert Coates conducts Russian Favorites
Koch 37704 (2) Albert Coates Conducts Vol. 2
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CONDUCTORS, OTHER
Conductors, other 1.zip
DG 457710 Lehmann Brahms German Requiem
DG LRC 00152-3 (2) Markevitch Haydn The Creation 1958
EMI 74724 (part) Klemperer Brahms Violin Concerto -Oistrakh
EMI CDH 63044 Toscanini BBC Wagner and Debussy La Mer, or The Sea
EMI CDH 69783 Toscanini BBC Brahms 4 + TO
Gramophono AB 78859 Toscanini acoustics
Conductors, other 2.zip
Koch 37076 Strauss Mozart Sym. 39-41
Koch 37705 (2) Cortot as Conductor
LYS 080 Weingartner Berlioz Sym +
LYS 216 Strauss Beethoven 5 (on6) & 7
LYS 236-7 (2) Schalk, Franz complete
LYS 403 Oubrados, Fernand Mozartt
LYS 412 Oubrados, Femand Bach
Conductors, other 3.zip
LYS 419-24 (6) Kabasta almost complete
LYS 431 Beinum Bartok CO and Stravinsky Rite
Conductors, other 4.zip
LYS 546 Toscanini Mendelssohn live Sym. 3 & MSND
Private Op. 125 Sym 9 for Kettledrums Engelbretsen Masterworks Ch&O 691106
Sony MHK 63328 Walter Mahler 1 and Brahms Haydn V
Timpani 4C4024 (4) Wolff, Albert
Conductors, other 5.zip
Turnabout 30371 Klemperer Beethoven MIssa Solemnis (mono)
VAIA 1067 (2) Boult English Music
VAIA 1114 Walter Early Wagner Recordings
VAIA 1118 (2) Dr. Muck Wagner Recordings (1927-28)
Conductors, other 6.zip
Vox CDX2 5520 (part) Klemperer Bruckner 4
Vox CDX2 5521 (2) Klemperer Mahler 2 and LvE
Wing WCD 62 Friedrich Kark Op. 67 (1910) and Lenny 3 (1912)
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COPPOLA, PIERO, conductor
Coppola 1.zip
Koch 37702 Coppola Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Honegger
LYS 295-7 (3) Coppola Debussy
LYS 364-365 (2) Coppola Ravel
Coppola 2.zip
LYS 373 Coppola Roussel, Honegger, Schmitt, Rabaud, and Golestan
LYS 379 Coppola Franck, d'Indy, and Chabrier
LYS 502 Coppola Schumann 1 and 3
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FRIED, OSKAR, conductor
Koch 37146 Fried Liszt, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky
LYS 200 Fried Tchaikovsky
LYS 279 Fried Beethoven 9
LYS 280 Fried Danse macabre and Fantastic Symphony
Unknown Jap. LP Fried Bruckner 7 acoustic (no booklet)
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GOULD, GLENN, piano
Bis CD 323-4 (2) Glenn Gould in Stockholm 1958
Mastersound DFCD 024 The Young GG
Memoria CMG 1 (stereo) Salzburg
Nuova Era 2273 Prokofiev Son 7, Shos PQn exc 1962
Nuova Era 2310 Strauss Schoenberg Krenek Ravel
Nuova Era 6306 Gould and Mitropolous
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KEMPFF, WILHELM, piano
Kempff 1.zip
Dante HPC 019+ (v 1-5) Kempff on 78s
Kempff 2.zip
Dante HPC 019+ (v 6-10) Kempff on 78s
DG 447976 Mozart 20 & CR + Beethoven 3 van Kempen 78s
Radio Recordings 1945-1956 Koch 31029
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MENGELBERG, WILLEM, conductor
Mengelberg 1.zip
Archive Documents
Mengelberg 2.zip
Audiophile Classics APL 101541 Dutch Comporsers
LYS 077 Schubert 8 studio and 9 live
LYS 099 Brahms Requiem
Mengelberg 3.zip
Seven Seas KICC 2060 Beethoven and Bruch Con (Bustabo)
Teldec 243724 Brahms 4 Strauss DJ
Teldec 243726 Tchaikovsky Con
Teldec 76441 Strauss Heldenleben, Don Juan
Teldec 93673 Tchaikovsky 6 and 1812
Teldec 95515 Beethoven 5 (Old No
Mengelberg 4 (Wendel).zip
Wendel, Hubert, his private label (vol 8, 10-1)
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MISCELLANEOUS
Miscellaneous 1.zip
andante AND 1978 (3) Ravel Orchestral Works
Avid AMSC 587 Casals Elgar Cello Concerto
BMG 61616 Casals Victors 1925-8
BSO Classics 171002 Dr. Muck acoustics
BSO Classics 171002 Koussevitzky First Electricals 1928
DG 447442 Krebs Verdi Requiem
Miscellaneous 2.zip
DG 457756 Krebs Bartok Cantata Profana
Eklipse EKR 51 Ponselle in Concert 1936-1952, Rosa
EMI 63040 (2) Schumann Schubert Lieder
EMI 63499 Supervia Opera Arias
Miscellaneous 3.zip
EMI 66206 & 66210 (6) Bruckner EMI 78s
EMI 67009 Segovia, The Legendary
Miscellaneous 4.zip
Erato 45443 (2) Krebs St. John Passion
Koch 37703 (2) Handel A Collector's Messiah
LYS 619-21 (3) Krebs, Lehmann St. Matthew Passion
Miscellaneous 5.zip
Magic Talent CD 40830 Pablo Casals plays
Magic Talent CD 48021 Brains Mozart Div. 17 and Brahms Horn trio
Opal CD 9844 Elwes VW On Wenlock Edge +
Philips 462084 and 102 (2) Heynis Portrait
Philips 464631 Heynis Bach and Handel Sacred Arias
Miscellaneous 6.zip
Philips 468310 Heynis Bach Can. 170 and 169+
Phonographe PH 5039-40 (2) Kipnis Great Voices
Rivo Alto CRA 8294 Heynis Vivaldi incl. Stabat Mater
Timpani 4C4017 (4) Franck 1923-42 Recordings
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MRAVINSKY, EVGENY, conductor
BMG BVCX 8020-3 Early Mravinsky 1.zip
BMG BVCX 8024-7 Early Mravinsky 2.zip
BMG BVCX 8020-7 (8) Mravinsky Early Recordings.pdf
Mravinsky 3.zip
BMG-Mel 29459 v13 Mravinsky (1959)
BMG-Mel 29459 v15 Mravinsky (1954)
BMG-Mel 29549 v17 Mravinsky (1947)
BMG-Mel 29549 v19 Mravinsky (1949)
BMG-Melodiya BOCC 3 Mravinsky Shos 5 (1938)
Praga PR 7254018 Mravinsky Shos 11 1959-2-2
Mravinsky 4.zip
Russian Disc RD CD 10905 (2) Mravinsky Tch 5, Brahms 3 w rehearsals, Mous
Dawn
Russian Disc RD CD 10907 Mravinsky Brahms 4 more 1961-5-14
Russian Disc RD CD 11157 Mravinsky Shostakovich Symphony 11 1957-11-3
Russian Disc RD CD 15003 Mravinsky Tchaikovsky Ser, CapI, FdR
Urania US 5162 Mravinsky Shos 12 1961-10-1 Premiere +
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PEARL RECORDINGS
PEARL 1.zip
PEARL 1a.zip
Pearl BVA I,II (6) The Recorded Violin
Pearl GEM 0046 Backhaus Schubert Schumann Bach
PEARL 1b.zip
Pearl GEM 0125 Beethoven & Brahms Schnabel & Fournier
Pearl GEM 0207 Primrose The Early Recordings (tr
Pearl GEM 0224 Brahms Concerto and 15 Hung
Pearl GEMM CD 9019 Landowska Musique Ancienne
Pearl GEMM CD 9026 Schnabel Szigeti recital
Pearl GEMM CD 9077 Feuermann Parlophones
PEARL 2 (revised).zip
PEARL 2a.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9080 Coppola Berloz Damnation of Faust Harty
Pearl GEMM CD 9109 Paderewski, vol
Pearl GEMM CD 9124 Harpsichord, Great Virtuosi of the, Vol I
Pearl GEMM CD 9154 Mengelberg The Rarest Recordings
Pearl GEMM CD 9163 Sapellnikoff, Vassily Tchaikovsky Con 1 +
Pearl GEMM CD 9242 Woodhouse, Violet Gordon
PEARL 2b.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9330+ (4) Kreisler Beethoven Vn Son (no booklet)
Pearl GEMM CD 9341 Huberman Bach and Mozart
Pearl GEMM CD 9349 Dvorak - Bruch - Boccherini Casals
PEARL 3.zip
PEARL 3a.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9373 (3) Toscanini NYPhil
Pearl GEMM CD 9379 and 9445 (2) Elisabeth Schumann
Pearl GEMM CD 9396 Cortot Liszt
Pearl GEMM CD 9399 Schnabel Plays Bach 2PC2 and Brahms PC 2 Sir Adrian
Pearl GEMM CD 9442 Feuermann Eng Columbias 1
PEARL 3b.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9443 Feuermann Eng Columbias 2
Pearl GEMM CD 9446 Feuermann Eng Columbias 3
Pearl GEMM CD 9460 Prihoda 1922-39
Pearl GEMM CD 9466 Kulenkampff Mend and Brahms Con
Pearl GEMM CD 9474 Mengelberg NYPSO electrics
Pearl GEMM CD 9485 Harty Berlioz
PEARL 4.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9488 Stokowski Fantasia, A
PEARL 4a.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9489 Landowska Plays Bach
Pearl GEMM CD 9498 Vecsey The Electric Recordings
Pearl GEMM CD 9911 Lamond Liszt's Last Pupil Liszt
Pearl GEMM CD 9955 (5) Elgar acoustics
PEARL 4b.zip
Pearl GEMM CD 9957 Grainger Bach and Schumann
Pearl GEMM CD 9974 and GEM 0080 (2) De Greef Plays Saint Saëns, Grieg +
(no booklet)
PEARL 5.zip
PEARL 5a.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9018 & 9070 (6) Mengelberg Columbia Recordings
PEARL 5b.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9044 (2) Stokowski Shostakovich Symphonies 1, 5, 7 +
Pearl GEMM CDS 9063 (3) Beethoven Con
PEARL 6.zip
PEARL 6a.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9137 (7) COATES + The 1927-32 HMV 'Potted' Ring
PEARL 6b.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9141 (2) Complete Schubert Recordings Busch
PEARL 7.zip
PEARL 7a.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9148-50 (6) Viola, The Recorded
PEARL 7b.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9263 (3) Bach BBC and OS Busch
Pearl GEMM CDS 9271-2 (4) Schnabel Plays Schubert
PEARL 8.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9900 (2) Bach Mass in b Elisabeth Schumann, Coates
Pearl GEMM CDS 9900 Elisabeth Schumann Bach
Pearl GEMM CDS 9922 (3) NY Phil at 150
Pearl GEMM CDS 9929 (2) Mahler early recordings
PEARL 8a.zip
Pearl GEMM CDS 9981-6 (6) Cello, The Recorded
PEARL 8b.zip
Pearl GEMS 0006 (2) Schnabel Mozart (studios)
Pearl GEMS 0024 (2) Wagner Conductors on Record
Pearl GEMS 0102 (2) British Acoustics Backhaus
Pearl GEMS 074 (3) Beethoven 1 3 4 5 6 8 + Mengelberg Telefunken
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PIANO, other [Note two Kempff items.]
Piano 1.zip
A Classical Record ACR 39 Ney
Bayer DaCapo BR 200035 Ney w, Hoelsher Beethoven CS 3-5
BMG-DG-Philips 456994 (2) Yudina Diabelli and Eroica Var
BMG-Melodiya 25176 Yudina Strav Berg Kren only
Dante HPC 040 Dohnanyi Mozart Con 17 and Bee Son 17 +
Dante HPC 121 Yudina Mozart Con. 21 & 23
Dante HPC 122 Yudina Beethoven Con 4 & Ch Fan
Dante HPC 123 Yudina Schubert Sonata 21 Br Handel Var
Piano 2.zip
DG 447996 Kempff deleted bonus disc to Beethoven Sonata cycle mono
Dis PCCD 20011 Cortot in Japan and unpub. Kreisleriana
Doremi 7901-5 (5) Gianoli Mozart Sonatas
Piano 3.zip
Koch 31029 Kempff Radio Recordings 1945-1956
Koch 37137 (2) Samuel, Harold, The Art of
MGM E 538 (10 inch LP) Sylvia Marlowe
Opal CD 9860 Samaroff, Olga, An American Virtuoso
Piano 4.zip
Sony S3K 89698 930 (3) Cortot The Master Classes
Vive IMV 039 Couperin Historic rec. 1947-77
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ROSBAUD, HANS, conductor
Rosbaud 1.zip
Ca d'Oro CAD 1001-7 (7) Rosbaud Mozart Aix-en-Provence
Rosbaud 2.zip
Encore EC 5024 (Candian cass) Rosbaud Mahler 1 Dresden State Orch (no
booklet)
INA IMV 008 Rosbaud w. TS Randall at Aix-en-Provence
Iron Needle IN 1401 Rosbaud The Unknown Recordings
Originals SH 844 Rosbaud Beethoven 7 and 8
Stradivarius STR 10022 Rosbaud Ravel, Hindemith, Castiglioni, Schoenberg
Rosbaud 3.zip
Unknown RIT5010 Rosbaud Schubert 9 (on7) (no boolket)
Urania URN 22170 Rosbaud Mahler 4 & Brahms ARhap
Vox CDX2 5518 (2) Rosbaud Bruckner 7
Vox CDX2 5518 (2) Rosbaud Mahler Song of the Earth
Vox CDX2 5520 (2) Rosbaud Mahler 7
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RYBAR, PETER, violin
Doron DRC 4003 Goldmark And Suk
Doron DRC 4005 Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsy Concerti
Doron DRC 4007-8 (2) Brahms, Busoni, Mozart -Haskil
Doron DRC 4009 Schumann and Sibelius VCs
Telos TLS 023 Martinu live
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SCHERCHEN, HERMANN, conductor
Scherchen 1.zip
Arkadia CDGI 7521 Berg
Ermitage ERM 126 Beethoven 5 (Old No. 6) (rehearsal and concert)
Harmonia Mundi HMA 1955179 Mahler 5 French National Radio 651120
IMG 75956 (2) Great Conductors of the 20th Century
Scherchen 2.zip
MCA D2-9802 (2) Beethoven 3 (st), 1, 6 (on5) (st)
MCA D2-9816 (2) Mozart Requiem (stereo) Haydn 7 Last
MCA D2-9821 (2) Bach Mass in b (stereo 1959)
MCA D2-9831 (2) Bach BBC
Scherchen 3.zip
MCA D2-9832 (2) Liszt HRs and 4 Symphonic Poems
MCA D2-9833 (2) Mahler 2 and 1
MCA MCD 80097 Bizet Chabrier Ravel
Memories HR 4160 Bach Magnificat and Actus tragicus
Notes PGP 11022 Mahler 7 VSO 1960 live
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SCHNABEL, ARTUR, piano, BEETHOVEN (most studios)
Schnabel Beethoven Dante HPC 107-120 (14) Booklet
Schnabel Beethoven Dante HPC 107-120 (1-7).zip
Schnabel Beethoven Dante HPC 107-120 (8-14).zip
Dante HPC 107-120 (14) Schnabel Beethoven most studios.pdf
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SPALDING, ALBERT, violin
A Classical Record ACR 42 Franck and Brahms 2 (no booklet)
Diiscografico Italiano IDIS 6355 Chausson Poème -Mitropolous live Insituto
MRF S 01-2 (2) Centennial Historic Recordings
MRF S 01-2 (2) Spalding Centennial Historic Recordings .pdf
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SZIGETI, JOSEPH, violin
AS 416 Szigeti Moz VC 3 w. Rehearsals -Walter
CBS SMK 52535 Szigeti ML 4015 Szigeti BrVC (ormandy) and ML 4720 Br PT3
CBS SMK 52536 Szigeti ML 4012 Beethoven VC Walter NYP and ML 4870A VS 5
CBS SMK 52537 Szigeti Busoni ML 5224 VC and VS2
CBS SMK 52538 Szigeti Schubert ML 4133B Sonatina 1, 4642A Rondo B, 4338A
Fant
CBS SMK 52569 Szigeti ML 4338B Corelli + ML 4870B Bee VS6
EMI 64652 Szigeti, Beecham Moz 4, Mend, Prok 1
LYS 084 Szigeti Bee VC Walter 'British', Romance live Szell, Berlioz R&C
studio
Sony SMK 58982 (no booklet)
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THIBAUD, JACQUES, violin
EMI 63032 Franck, Faure 1, and Debussy w. al-Cortot
EMI LEXC 1019 & 1021 (2) Early Days Of Jacques Thibaud
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VIOLIN, other
Violin 1.zip
A Classical Record ACR 37 (2) Bustabo Legacy
A Classical Record ACR DHR 7753 Martzy 1960 recital Montreal
LYS 097 Kulenkampf Dvorak and Tchaikovsky Con
LYS 398 Geyer,The Art of Stefi
Violin 2.zip
Masters of the Violin CDO 2014 (2) Enescu Bach S&P
Russian Revelation RV 10071 Kogan Russian Music for Vn & Pf
Talents of Russia RCD 16223 Barinova, Galina Barinova Bach and Tartini
aidanp...@gmail.com
Dec 22, 2015, 7:03:07 AM12/22/15
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On Saturday, 8 December 2012 22:35:19 UTC, Frank Forman wrote:
Many thanks for doing this - have downloaded most of the archive and now sorting it out to start listening.
I have quite a good collection of singers on Pearl, Nimbus, Romophone/Naxos etc. Might get round to uploading the Pearls one day.
Aidan Kelly
Many thanks for doing this - have downloaded most of the archive and now sorting it out to start listening.
I have quite a good collection of singers on Pearl, Nimbus, Romophone/Naxos etc. Might get round to uploading the Pearls one day.
Aidan Kelly
Mark Obert-Thorn
Dec 22, 2015, 9:35:15 AM12/22/15
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Just to follow up with a couple points from Frank's posting:
1) Jim Cartwright, the discographer of Cortot, Muck, Stokowski and others, is still alive and well in Austin, Texas. I visited him at his house last year and saw his incredible collection of gramophones and 78s of all genres. He has lent out records to me from his collection for reissues I've done.
2) I know that Frank's post is from three years ago, but I did want to mention that Warner has reissued all of the Busch/Serkin EMI recordings on a 16-CD boxed set that came out a few months ago. They have gone back and re-done some of the transfers, and the ones I've listened to so far sound quite good indeed. Also, Sony has brought out new transfers of 78s by Stravinsky and Monteux for the big boxes devoted to them. The days of the major labels not doing any new transfers are not quite as past as what Frank thought in 2012.
3) I continue to re-do transfers I previously did for Pearl and Biddulph, now reissuing them on Pristine in improved sound. For these, I draw on some of the same original 78s that Don Hodgman, among others, lent me years ago, sometimes now in the hands of other collectors. I'd hate to think that free downloads of my out-of-print 20- to 25-year-old reissues, done with the limited technology of the time, might prevent people from getting my new, better-sounding restorations.
Mark Obert-Thorn
1) Jim Cartwright, the discographer of Cortot, Muck, Stokowski and others, is still alive and well in Austin, Texas. I visited him at his house last year and saw his incredible collection of gramophones and 78s of all genres. He has lent out records to me from his collection for reissues I've done.
2) I know that Frank's post is from three years ago, but I did want to mention that Warner has reissued all of the Busch/Serkin EMI recordings on a 16-CD boxed set that came out a few months ago. They have gone back and re-done some of the transfers, and the ones I've listened to so far sound quite good indeed. Also, Sony has brought out new transfers of 78s by Stravinsky and Monteux for the big boxes devoted to them. The days of the major labels not doing any new transfers are not quite as past as what Frank thought in 2012.
3) I continue to re-do transfers I previously did for Pearl and Biddulph, now reissuing them on Pristine in improved sound. For these, I draw on some of the same original 78s that Don Hodgman, among others, lent me years ago, sometimes now in the hands of other collectors. I'd hate to think that free downloads of my out-of-print 20- to 25-year-old reissues, done with the limited technology of the time, might prevent people from getting my new, better-sounding restorations.
Mark Obert-Thorn
aidanp...@gmail.com
Dec 22, 2015, 12:19:30 PM12/22/15
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On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 14:35:15 UTC, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
Recently I have been collecting second hand Pearl CDs as a very cheap way of acquiring good versions of historical vocal.
However, I do take your point and I will check out Pristine from now on.
regards
Aidan Kelly
Recently I have been collecting second hand Pearl CDs as a very cheap way of acquiring good versions of historical vocal.
However, I do take your point and I will check out Pristine from now on.
regards
Aidan Kelly
Mort
Dec 23, 2015, 11:22:49 AM12/23/15
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Unfortunately, recordings follow the pattern of coins, namely that the
bad drive away the good. When did you last see a U.S. coin made of gold
or silver? (Gresham's law.)
Mort Linder
Frank Berger
Dec 23, 2015, 12:37:41 PM12/23/15
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overvalued money out of circulation (people will hoard the
latter). The comparison with recordings is silly. It's not
the bad driving out the good. It's free stuff (possibly
illegal) hurting the market for improvements. Would you say
the existence of used books hurts the market for new books?
(You would be wrong to think so.)
aidanp...@gmail.com
Dec 24, 2015, 12:29:50 PM12/24/15
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I remember when the 1970s editions of the Penguin Guide were highly restricted by the then limited availablility of recordings. Today, it seems that there are so many recordings available and more historical recordings are still being discovered.
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