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The man was elegantly poised, capturing the essence of grace and strength

Delightful artistry. Thanks! 😊

Wonderful pianism from one of the greats. Thank you!

Fantastic flutiness! 😊

Amazing sound from 1909!

Lovely!

Love you Caruso 2024 😊

Weissmann brings excellent details out of the players in this marvelous performance.

Nice!!

Great commentary. Thank you. Do you know if there is a way to find out the personnel of the orchestra in this recording?

I really enjoyed this. Like quick-silver! These Weissmann performances Arte a splendid seem to mine, and the recordings are amazing for the time. Thanks and best wishes from George

An excellent orchestra for this music! The musicians play deftly & are fully responsive en masse. Very good, thanks.

Thank you~~~^^

The most beautiful rendition of this piece. He's originally from Java, he knows the beauty of the forest and gardens. So good. I'm glad that my teacher was a pupil of his. Greatest unknown pianist.

Deft, lightly articulate playing. Wonderful. Quick-silver flexibility, and all from the music, not imposed. Such a delight to have the chance to listen to this. This is the Berlin State Opera Orchestra really showing us just how fine they were with a great musician on the podium. A bullseye in my view. Best wishes from George

Curious music, in style, but they performers manage admirably. One does wonder who the audience was for this considering the times. It is hardly comforting music, though it does have a certain beauty to it. Thanks for this. It must be extremely rare. Best wishes from George

first recording???? good interpretion!!!!

I have to say that I am not on the wavelength of the music, but the recording is stunning. I wonder what system was used? Certainly not HMV's Blumlen's system, which would have been much more polite. Perhaps German Siemens? This is occupied Paris after all. In 1947 Siemens was used by DG for their pioneering series of Bach organ recordings with Helmut Walcha, Even today they sound fresh and modern as a recordiings, The performances relain timeless, as they were so clear and unadorned. Bit his is something else. Brutalist music, and to be contrasted with Piere Duvachellle's Haydn that you uploaded, recorded two yews later also in Paris where the desperation and strength of character is audible. A very weird and strangely disorienting performance, if I may say so. But instructive of Pasisien life if 1942. Sorry for a seriously a not positive post. Certainly is it worth hearing some brutalist music well recorded. Thanks and best wishes from Geioge.

I’m trying to understand why these old recordings are so different and beautiful (more romantic?)compared with new recordings of the same piece . The slightly change of the beat and the tempo in a certain phrase? Holding a note 1/10 of a second longer than written in the score? A minuscular gliss up or down for some notes? A different vibrato? Anyhow very interesting!

Amazing and quite prickly music! But the players get it! In 1925, The National Gramophonic Society invited Elgar to record his Introduction and Allegro for String Orchestra and String Quartet, but Elgar was exclusively contracted to HMV. The recording was made by John Barbirolli, and Elgar wrote a long, slightly tongue in cheek review for Compton Mackenzie of the records when they arrived with Elgar. Barbirolli remade the work for HMV in I believe 1928, and you have transferred this superb recording not so long ago. These historic recordings show us things that no number of words could adequately explain. Thanks and best wishes from George.

wonderful. the greatest of all contraltos.

gorgeous

None better IMHO 👌👌

Very nice, with Barbirolli on cello 😮

Fascinating music, very convincingly performed. Thank you!

As I did not know 'Jack' about this composer, thank you for supplying just the lantern I needed to have his work revealed to me.

I appreciate how the musicians convey this quicksilver & rather mysterious work with collective skill. Thanks VS.

Interesting document which showed how fragile strings could sound before the introduction of steel strings.

Masterpiece, Rating: 7/10 for 1910 record is ok

Magnificent voice 👌👌

I like their choice of repertoire and polyphony.

Totally amazing. Makes me think about the greatness of Glorious John in a different light. A bit like I would not expect those two sides you uploaded of Beecham excelling in Stravinsky [1916 on Columbia]. Not obviously part of the repertoire these two were famous for, but instructive of their understanding of Style! Thanks be for the gramophone to show us all these years later that our great musicians were much wider read than their later excellent performances might suggest. Best wishes from George

Just look who the cellist is!

Fascinating early recording of this repertoire and of course interesting to hear Barbi on cello. Is there a reason you didn't list the violist?

I like it. Thanks.

magnificent and majestic. the finest contralto ever. a beautiful piece as well. just beautiful. thanks for posting.

Took a minute to synch with Hall's 'calm but clear' approach; once I did I thought it a good rendering.

"An American meteor in the sky of the Metropolitan. A child's face, golden hair, blue eyes, a swaying and attractive body, and above all, the halo of a heavenly smile: this is Gilda, the Kansas City nightingale who made her debut alongside De Luca and the author of these pages on the stage of the Metropolitan, during the interregnum between the farewell of Galli-Curci and the arrival of Lily Pons. Her voice was more lyrical than light, she sang in a state of primordial innocence; while on that magical night the telegraph installed in the stage box transmitted the news of the sensational debut, act by act, to all the confines of the immense Confederacy. After Nevada and Sembrich, America wanted to have its idol, its coloratura soprano, the most beautiful voice in the world, as it had the richest man, the most victorious fighter, the most fragrant oranges in the world. The audience seemed to be going crazy, and the companions of the little goddess, pink and plump, were nothing but unconscious ghosts in the presence of that image of beauty and that incomparable vocal candor. Fame and wealth soon came together in that prodigy of melody, in which one did not know what to admire more: the ingenuousness of the song or the inexperienced daring of the fleshy and strong-willed voice. Because in that little girl's body there was a will that was barely contained, fed by a restless and distressing presentiment: the doubt of duration. Marion believed in "chance" and in the instructive maxim "time is money." She was in a hurry and afraid at the same time. And she wanted to hurry in order to accumulate performances and money. In two years, she reached satiety, as much by wearing out her delicate glottis as by ruining her own physique. Soon the nightingale returned to the forest, far from the clamour of the intriguing, absorbing crowds and the whirlwind of mad journeys. A dazzling, lightning-fast meteor had passed over the American sky. Now it seems that not even the memory of the exquisite singing larva has remained there, as if it had never lived on this planet" - Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, the tenor of her Rigoletto debut.

Sheer delight to my ears… ✨✨✨ Thanks for sharing! 🙏🍀

One of the finest orchestras of all time, still carrying the tradition of Mendelssohn at that time. I have a clarinet that might have been played on that record. Thinking that this music is now twice as old than when it was recorded here… the most dramatic changes between Weber‘s orchestra and this were the introduction of steel strings, valve horns and Boehm flutes (though they probably still play Schwedler flutes here). Since this recording all modern orchestras have adopted reckless vibrato and pompous Wagnerian phrasing.

Breathtaking playing, not least the alto solo-also the switch to two piccoli in the end. And yet their artistic goal appears to be the imitation of a shoddy barrel organ. Another startling archaeological find, thank you!

Thank you for great music.

Delicious! This is very subtle playing. The tiny fluctuations of tempo and the perfectly judged miniature accents to sharpen the rhythm are an object lesson in stylishness for today's artists in music. Thanks for such a gem being revitalised. Best wishes from George

Great music😅😅😅😅😅

I've always enjoyed this piece, was maddened not to find it contained in the score of DON CESAR when I located it in the University library. Only years later did I realize it's an arrangement of an orchestral entr'acte, with suitably Spanish flavored French lyrics added to the melodic line. Melba sings it with great dash, though her staccatti are not exactly pinpoint. There's no way of knowing what she sounded like in in the early 1890s when she made her first big splash, but I've always suspected that though she sang parts calling for coloratura technique, she was essentially a lyric who developed enough heft in the voice in later years to excel as Desdemona. It's hard to know what audiences expected to hear in those years, but surely AIDA and SEMIRAMIDE taxed her to the limit. Never mind her one SIEGFRIED Bruennhilde! But at her best, in congenial repertoire, there is something bewitching about her tone, even on acoustic recordings. The 1926 duets with Brownlee, recorded electrically, are tantalizing. There seems to be a shimmer of overtones even in her 65th year. The voice must have been startling in her 30's!!

How touching !!! Thanks~❤❤❤

great great great- thanks vintage

I never knew of this recording. Furtwangler also recorded this symphony for German HMV [Electrola] the same year and also with the BPO. I shall have to give this a couple of serious listenings and then write something hopefully cogent. For the time being I do think the recording as "recording" is rather fine, and certainly the orchestra sounds in good form. But with this symphony that must be a starting point given the number of really first class effort there are ... Dear VS, Your spoil me with transfers like this, even in the centre of the mainstream repertoire! Thanks and best wishes till tomorrow. George

She was my great great great aunt. I have her piano and a number of her other possessions (including the original copy of the image you used in the thumbnail.) Please let me know if you would like me to share any of the photos or other items :)

Geraldine could sing,and lovely too