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This operetta was my first theater experience with Offenbach when I was a teenager... My aunt was friends with the conductor and he organized one of the two boxes for a performance for us. The whole evening was an experience that I still remember very fondly! And I still lobe this operetta, its story and the music! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you for sharing this great overture and magnificent performance! 🙏🍀

Beautiful voice 😊

This is something special for lovers of Art Song. Unfortunately for me, I do find singing in German quite difficult, however well done! I adore Flagstad singing in Norwegian or English, and strangely her German is much softer than normal German German, and so often comes out sounding quite like Norwegian anyway! I do prefer the music of Greig to Brahms, side by side, though the Norwegian never composed a great symphony, and having heard it, I do wonder of his request that it be preserved but suppressed from publication or performance was not actually a good idea! Brahms was ruthless is destroying the music he wrote that he considered sub par. Dear VS: You have managed another superb transfer! Best wishes from George

I used to have a 1920s Barbirolli recording of this on a Barbirolli Society LP. I am not sure it was this one though. The label named the orchestra as the Barbirolli Chamber Orchestra. That does not matter. I loved that record, and it got worn out from use! Barbirolli was always a highly sensitive musician who leads the music as if he really cares about it. That is not to rule out the muscularity that is very much part of Haydn's musical make up, and to my mind this is a splendid blend of the muscular and tender. That is all Haydn really needs to shine, and so often these days mannered and outré readings of the music tend to fail. Haydn's music is wonderfully crafted and brilliant in both form and structure, and does not require any special pleading or perfume to move the listener. Indeed, an over fussy approach actually can almost fatally undermine the thrust and energy inherent in the music and disrupt its formal logic. As music making this is exemplary in my view. There is another recording of this from Edwin Fischer also with a smaller orchestra than the average Brahms sized symphony orchestra, and it would be extremely hard for me to choose between this and Fischer's recording. Of recordings made with larger forces I have a strong preference for Klemperer's astonishing performance with the Philharmonia Orchestra. It does major more on muscularity and seriousness than joi die vivre, but the music can be taken differently and still shine through. What it cannot take is being micro-managed. Thank you and best wishes from George

An early Barbirolli sounding fresh & very good indeed. Thank you very much, VS.

earliest recording of this???? thank you for posting!!!!

Coming here from the 28 years later Trailer.

VS, you've done a grand job with these & I've enjoyed them greatly. I'm no vocal expert but here are some thoughts in tribute to this singer's artistry, because we really are in the presence of something very special. Elena Gerhardt has for some time been one of my favourite singers. Her voice was probably just about ideal for lieder: I'd say she had everything one could reasonably wish for, from great power to the most subtle emotional shading. She had superb judgement about how to deploy her tonal variety, & extraordinary control while still sounding remarkably natural. We hear flexibility, precise timing & the ability to inhabit the song fully, with intensity & drama. None better than Gerald Moore at the piano to accompany her. He understood that an accompanist is a storyteller & he was fully an equal in musicianship while being able to exercise fine musical discretion. This is a recording to cherish. Thank you so much!

Thanks for all these beautiful uploads! Anna Case had a great voice!

The only section of this I am familiar with is what is used as the Coda. "The Can Can." The whole thing is very well done. And I never expected to have the chance to listen to the Can Can played by Leo Blech! For its very early date, this [Western Electric] HMV recording is strangely more successful than their efforts in the coming years at least in Berlin. No doubt the naturally wide dynamic range with so much quiet playing would have been difficult to play well with the gramophones of the era, and I do wonder if that is why HMV's Berlin recordings actually get less good for a while, so making them easier to replay on acoustic machines. That is only speculation, of course. Best wishes from George

The best pianist ever born!

The quality of this performance leaps out after just a few notes. Excellent, thanks!

Thank you for this upload! I really love, that so many people still have a passion for this music and for the great conductors of the past. Have a nice day wherever you are! Many greetings from Germany.

Very lovely, charming… delightful… 🔔🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎶🔔 Thanks for sharing! 🙏🍀

What a delight! 😊 Thanks VS!

As always, many thanks for posting. When I listen to a record (and I have a couple of his 78s) I like to have a story in mind, especially if I'm playing the record for someone else. Now, I'll always think of Alexander Prince learning to play while in bed with a broken leg.

What a nice recording!!

Happy Memories for me...I played this relentlessly in the Front Room of my Grandmother in the Fifties...and I even have a Very Clean copy today!...Thank You!

Remarkably good sound for its time. Thanks for sharing.

I really enjoyed this record. I often think lighter music has potentially the same appeal for me as the fully high-brow music of Beethoven or others from that time. I suspect that the music does not necessarily relate to happier times so much as slower times, when people had time to relax more than seems possible these days. For most people work was tough, for long hours and little pay, but people would cut loose from the daily grind, and still find pleasure in the theatre or revue. City and town dwellers would be close enough to walk to the theatre, or catch a tram. Nowadays, nobody can do much without driving or having to run a vehicle as work and home seem planned as much further apart over the coming decades. And people actually socialised rather than being on the internet with mobile phones. This is not real socialising, and people are the less happy because of it ... Best wishes from George

The quality on the bells is astonishing, and brass always records better than string in the acoustic process, but this a very fine recording for 1910. The music making itself is lovely. Naturally flexible, and not constrained by the inevitably cramped space of a recording studio. Thanks and best wishes from George

Hey thats more than majestic 😮 Is there any other recording of that performance?

Hey! Nice ear-and-eye opener, the playing is enthusiastic and bracing. The late record collector Harry Anderson put it to me in a characteristically elliptical way way - " (Grainger) didn't have much use for non-white people" - but that didn't keep him from recording Nathaniel Dett's "Juba Dance". Reminds me of Wagner, who had Hermann Levi conduct Parsifal. When push came to shove, getting his music performed well was more important than his anti-Semitism.

Bullseye! Staggering quartet playing in a less known late quartet by Haydn. Worth every second of the time to listen ... Thank you. I used to have quite a few Budapest Quartet records on LPs, and this shows they were great in their early days as well. I had no idea that they were pioneers of recording this music. Thank you and best wishes from George

Music to help anyone to be in a good humour! Thanks VS. 👍😊

The greatest and most challenged British monarch. He worked closely with and movies like The Kings Speech only cover half the story. Disability: It is indeed bleak but never gave in. I assume Churchill drew inspiration from him.

Hmeknitsky's fine technique is fully equal to the challenges of this complex music. It didn't draw me in for a long time but I persisted & became interested in the shades of Scriabin in the quieter passages & the final movement reminiscent of Prokofiev. Thank you.

Eu tenho esse disco. Era do meu falecido pai. Ele amava música.❤

My new favorite una voce recording !!!

An excellent quality transfer from the original 78 disc. Maclean's musicianship and skill were superb.

For all you Anglo Scots

Accomplished quartet playing the music of a prolific composer who was unfortunately overshadowed by Mozart in his lifetime

I believe this is the recording that made Shinichi Suzuki to start self-teaching himself to play the violin.

Great inspirational song 😊

This fascinating early electrical recording is of an arrangement Strauss did of his music for the comic opera for a silent film version of the story.

I like this a lot-best string quartet I ever heard.

At his time Hofmann's fame was such that once Wladimir Horowitz being in the same room as Hofmann's personal piano humbly asked if he might simply touch it.

Thank you so much for these wonderful, wonderful videos, and I've always been wondering, how do you make these great videos?

Certainly deserving of their perennial stellar reputation. Thanks for sharing.

Wow, incredible playing, admirable in every respect. Thank you!

First time hearing this and I particularly appreciate the photographs. Like many others, I suspect, my introduction to Violet Loraine came with her 1916 recording, with George Robey, of "If You Were The Only Girl In The World", and the song "Let The Great Big World Keep Turning" from the follow-up show. Many thanks for posting.

Pop music has changed a lot in a century. I suppose it makes a me a grump to say so, but this lady has more talent than ten boy bands put together! I know it is a lollypop, but is genuinely entertaining. Best wishes from George.

Pleasing piece of fun! Lovely. Best wishes from George

Ha ha😂

Thanks for this good-natured jollity. 😊

Wonderful 🙂

Another gem, just discovered. Oh dear! I am sure I have missed too many gems of yours from this and earlier times before I discovered your work! This was only about the third concert overture I ever played in at a performance now about thirty five years ago. I became very fond of it as music and this is exemplary as a performance and recording. Bullseye! Best wishes from George

No wonder Elgar was an enthusiast of Goossens, when he recorded the Froissart Overture in 1933 with the LPO and Goossens as the First Oboe! Just found this, and am delighted by it. Hard to have imagined the elegance possible on this treacherous instrument, playing the part of a cello! I did not know that Goossens was one of Evelyn Rothwell [Lady Barbirolli]'s teachers. I am sad that she seems to have disappeared from the collective musical memory. I adored her playing as well. I have an album [on CD] of her playing about six or seven Oboe Concertos, and surprisingly it makes a great listen as a whole. Best wishes from George

This is jolly jig, and the actual performance is top-flight. The most amazing thing is the extra-ordinary quality you have drawn out this old record.I doubt if anyone at the time time heard more than a fraction of what you extracted from the groove. The recording team would never have known quite what a good job they had done in the first place! Best wishes from George

Second!