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MARIE GUTHEIL-SCHODER [s] 2415. 10” Blk. Wien G&T 44066

[851x-N2-2z]. DIE WEISSE DAME: Duett (Boieldieu). With FRANZ NAVAL [t]. Minor lbl. rubs. Clean surface. 2. $75.00.

2416. 10” Blk. Wien G&T 44067 [858x½-No-2z]. TALES OF HOFFMANN: Hörst Du es tönen mit süsser Melodie (Offenbach). With FRANZ NAVAL [t]. Lightest lbl. rubs. 2. $75.00.

CHARLES HACKETT [t]. Worces-ter, MA, 1887-New York City, 1942. Hackett studied with Arthur Hubbard in Boston and in 1912 with Vincenzo Lombardi in Florence. In 1914 he made his European debut in Genoa as Wilhelm Meister in Mignon, repeating the same role for his La Scala introduction, 1916. The Paris Opéra first heard him in 1918 in Donizetti’s Maria di Rohan. His Met debut was in 1919 as Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. From 1922-1935, Hackett appeared as a leading Chicago Opera artist, in 1926 creating there the leading tenor role in Cadman’s A Witch of Salem with soprano Eidé Norena. The same year he appeared at Covent Garden in Melba’s Farewell as Roméo to the soprano’s Juliette. This portion of the concert couldn’t be recorded, as Hackett was an exclusive Columbia artist, while Melba was contracted with the Gramophone Company. While his operatic appearances ended in 1939, Hackett remained active in concert and on the radio. His death, January 1, 1942, was after elective surgery.

1320. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 1911-D [W146337-3/W146339-1]. I LOOK INTO YOUR GARDEN (Wood) / THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE (Lockhart). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1325. 10” Purple EE Columbia 4034-M [W140895-7/W140934-4]. TOSCA: Recondita armonia (Puccini) / CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Siciliana (Mascagni). Side two harp acc. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2010. 10” Purple Viva-Tonal Columbia 4036-M [W140921-10/W140922-4]. FEDORA: Amor ti vieta (Giordano) / LAKMÉ: Dans la forêt (Delibes). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2250. 10” Purple Viva-Tonal Columbia 4040-M [W144856-3/W144857-3]. A BROWN BIRD SINGING (Wood) / DUNA (McGill). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1558. 10” Purple Viva-Tonal Columbia 4042-M [W144858-2/144865-2]. THE SUNSHINE OF YOUR SMILE (Ray-Cooke) / BELIEVE ME IF ALL THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS (Moore-Stevenson). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1605. 10” Purple Viva-Tonal Columbia 4043-M [W144866-4/W144873-3]. TOSCA: E lucevan le stelle (Puccini) / MARTHA: M’appari (Flotow). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3863. 12” Purple acous. Eng. Columbia 7366 [AX100/AX107]. LA BOHÈME: Che gelida manina (Puccini) / L’AFRICAINE: O Paradiso (Meyerbeer). Never iss. in U.S. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3116. 12” TC Columbia 49895 [take10]. ELISIR D’AMORE: Una furtiva lagrima (Donizetti). Excellent laminated pressing. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

3108. 12” TC Columbia 98040 [take 2]. LA GIOCONDA: Cielo e mar (Ponchielli). Excellent laminated pressing. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

3315. 12” Gold Flags acous. Columbia 68002-D [98094-3/98095-3]. LA FAVORITA: Spirto gentil (Donizetti) / MANON: Ah! fuyez, douce image (Massenet). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

MARIE GUTEIL-SCHODER

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2529. 12” Blue acous. Columbia 8928-M [49354-4/ 49611-1]. TRAVIATA: Parigi, o cara. With MARIA BARRIENTOS [s] / MARIA BARRIEN-TOS [s], RICCARDO STRACCIARI [b]. RIGO-LETTO: Tutte le feste al tempio (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2523. 12” Blue acous. Columbia 8929-M [49612-1/ 49616-2]. RIGOLETTO: E il sol dell’ anima (Verdi). With MARIA BARRIENTOS [s] / BARRIENTOS [s], RICCARDO STRACCIARI [b]. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Dunque io son (Ros-sini). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2554. 12” Purple acous. Columbia 9009-M [49622-3/ 49666-2]. LA TRAVIATA: Un dì, felice etera (Verdi). With MARIA BARRIENTOS [s] / LA FORZA DEL DESTINO: Solenne in quest’ ora (Verdi). With RICCARDO STRACCIARI [b]. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3305. 12” Purple acous. Columbia 9010-M [49734-1/ 49992-2]. AIDA: O terra addio. With ROSA PONSELLE [s] / PONSELLE [s], RICCARDO STRACCIARI [b]. IL TROVATORE: Mira, di acerbe lagrime (both Verdi). Lightest mks., cons. 2. $20.00.

3239. 12” Purple acous. Columbia 9020-M [98094-3/ 98095-3]. LA FAVORITA: Spirto gentil (Donizetti) / MANON: Ah, fuyez, douce image (Massenet). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2822. 12” Purple Viva-Tonal Columbia 9030-M [W98335-5/98336-6]. IN A PERSIAN GAR-DEN: Ah, Moon of My Delight (Liza Lehmann) / BELOVED, IT IS MORN (Alward-Hickey). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2746. 12” PW Blue Microphone Columbia 7183-M [WAX1710/W98539]. WHO IS SYL- VIA? / SERENADE (both Schubert). As new, as this grading indicates. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

3374. 12” Plain White Lbl. Columbia test 49954-3/49947-3. OPEN THE GATES OF THE TEMPLE (Crosby-Knapp) / CARMEN: Air de la fleur (Bizet). Side one unpublished. Only known copy. Side two take 7 was issued. 3. $150.00.

MINA HAGER [ms]. 1891-La Grange Pk., IL, 1981. Particularly associated with contemporary music, Mina Hager (Mrs. Fred Heidenson) made her New York recital debut in Aeolian Hall in New York, 1921. “Miss Hager not only kept to pitch like a beacon in a storm, but made all she did seem humanly interesting and artistically worthwhile,” noted the unidentified NY Times reviewer. Prior to this she had sung one season (1919-20) with the Chicago Opera, where she created for Chicago the Mistress of Novices in Puccini’s Suor Angelica. Among her forays into modern music were the New York premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with Stokowski conducting a Philadelphia Orchestra ensemble (1933) and a recital entirely of Charles Ives songs (1939) with pianist John Kirkpatrick. Her career appears to have continued through the 1940s. To supplement her income in the later 1920s, Miss Hager served as a staff artist for the Victor Company and appeared anonymously with such groups as the Victor Light Opera Company and the Trinity Choir. In later years she directed a music therapy group at the N.Y. Veterans Administration Hospital. Only three solo recordings exist of her singing: one disc for Musicraft (1937) and two records made by Columbia for the Chicago Gramophone Society (1927).

3281. 12” Chicago Gramophone Society 50019-P [W91733-2/W91734-2]. ON A SCREEN; THE ODALISQUE / WATER COLORS; HIGHWAYMEN; TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN. All from Watercolors (John Alden Carpenter). Piano acc. by the composer. 1927 Co-lumbia pressing. Lt. rubs, just about 2. $15.00.

REYNALDO HAHN [b] 1632. 10” PW Blue Columbia Master Works 4124-M [WL2400-I/WL2401-1]. LE RETOUR

DU MARIN / LE PAUVRE LABOUREUR (French Folk Songs harm. Tiersot). Self-accompanied. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2117. 10” Blk. PW Pathé PA 63 [E204262/E204266]. O MON BEL INCONNU: Chanson à deux voix. With ARLETTY [s] / GUY FERRANT [b]. O MON BEL INCONNU: Air des Chapeaux (Sasha Guitry-Reynaldo Hahn). Orch. dir. by Reynaldo Hahn. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

CHARLES HACKETT

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GEORGE HAMLIN [t] 1041. 10” Red ’12 Pats. Victor 64245. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Brindisi (Mascagni).

Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1866. 10” Red ’12 Pats. Victor 64248. IM KAHNE [IN THE BOAT] (Grieg). Minor lbl. scr. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

4133. 12” Red ’07 GP Victor 74111 [1st of 3 iss. takes]. WALKÜRE: Liebeslied (Wagner). Few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $12.00.

4132. 12” Red ’08 Pats “A” plate Victor 74143. THE PENITENT (Van de Water). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3598. 12” Red Pats. Victor 74200. O’ER WAITING HARP STRINGS OF THE MIND (Eddy-Root). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3842. 12” Red ’12 Pats. Victor 74201. TURN YE TO ME (Old Scottish Air). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3570. 12” Red Pats. “A” plate Victor 74250. THE CREATION: In Native Worth (Haydn). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

4118. 12” Red Pats. “B” plate Victor 74306. HIAWATHA’S WEDDING FEAST: Onaway Awake, Beloved (Coleridge-Taylor). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

4131. 12” Red Victor 74378. LOVE’S SORROW (Shelley). Cons. 2. $8.00.

KARL HAMMES [b] 1189. 10” Maroon PW HMV EG 3953 [OEA1884-II/OEA1886-I]. LIEBESHYMNUS /

SCHLECHTES WETTER (both R. Strauss). Piano acc. Bruno Seidler-Winkler. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

JOAN HAMMOND [s] 2920. 12” Red HMV DB 21098 [2EA14638-2/2EA14639-1]. AMICO FRITZ: Suzel, buon dì

[Cherry Duet] (Mascagni). In Italian. Two sides. With RUDOLF SCHOCK [t]. Beau-tiful performance, highly recommended. Fine copy, few lightest mks., cons. 2. $10.00.

3703. 12” Red HMV DB 21260 [2EA14646-2/ 2EA14647-2]. ANDREA CHÉNIER: Vicino a te (Giordano). Two sides. In Italian. With RUDOLF SCHOCK [t]. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

CHARLES HARRISON [t] 1430. 10” Brown Shellac Vocalion 14507

[10690/10709]. THERE IS NO DEATH (Geoffrey O’Hara) / JESUS OF NAZARETH (Hamblen). Small lbl. stkrs. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

ORVILLE HARROLD [t] 2272. 10” Red Vla 66017. LES SALTIMBANQUES:

C’est l’amour (Ganne). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2055. 10” Red Vla 668. LIFE (Oley Speaks) / GREAT AWAKENING (A. Walter Kramer). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3943. 12” Red Vla 74795. RIDE ON! RIDE ON IN MAJESTY! (Eville). Small lbl. stkr. Just about 1-2. $6.00.

3300. 12” Red Vla 6150. RIDE ON! RIDE ON IN MAJESTY! (Eville) / THE LIVING GOD! (Geoffrey O’Hara). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

NIELS HANSEN [t]. 1880-1969. Hansen originally studied to be an artist but turned to singing and trained with Valdemar Lincke in Copenhagen, who discovered that the young tenor held great potential. He further prepared at the Royal Danish Academy of Music from 1906 to 1908. His debut was in Copenhagen as Rodolfo in a 1909 production of La Boheme at the Danish Opera, starting a career as one its favorite tenors for 40 years. He went to Paris in 1911 and studied further, this time with with Jean de Reszke. - Wikopedia

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3818. 12” PW Blue elec. Odeon 210006 [XXXp110/XXXp111]. CARMEN: Blomsterarien (Bizet) / LA BOHÈME: Saa kold den lille Haand (Puccini). Orch. dir. Frieder Weissmann. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

ROLAND HAYES [t] 1396. 10” Red Shellac acous. Vocalion 21002. BY AN’ BY / GO DOWN MOSES (both

Burleigh). Piano acc. Lawrence Brown. Couple lt. mks. side two, cons. 2. $8.00. 1397. 10” Red Shellac acous. Vocalion 21003. SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT (Burleigh)

/ STEAL AWAY (Brown). Piano acc. Lawrence Brown. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

SIEGMUND HECKER [b]. Odessa, 1874- ? . His earliest traced engagements were in Troppau (now Opava), than 1901-02 Klagenfurt (Austria). In 1902-03 he was likely with the Vienna Hofoper, mentioned on the label of the 1902 recording below and in Kutsch-Riemens, and he was also a guest there in 1917 as Wol-fram in Tannhäuser. He also appeared in a number of other opera houses in such cities as Hamburg, Hannover and Nürnberg. In addition, he was a voice teacher, one of his pupils having been the synagogue cantor Leopold Alesander (Breslau, 1913-15). This source for this information (courtesy of Axel Weggen) quotes that Hecker was “also known as Saul Gold”. Hecker’s only recordings were 1902 Zonophones including duets with his wife, Anny Fallman.

4430. 10” Blk. German Zonophone X-1656. STÄNDCHEN DES DON JUAN (Tschaikowsky). Reference listings give this in error as by Mozart, from Don Giovanni.. Bright lbl. Nice copy. Few MGTs, 2-3. $200.00.

FANNY HELDY [s] 1461. 10” Red PW Disque Gram. DA 940

[BTR3345-I/ BTR-3351-I]. THAÏS: Duo de la source (Massenet). Two sides. Side two with MARCEL JOURNET [bs]. Excellent later ‘30s laminated pressing. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2804. 12” Red PW French Disque Gram. DB 1410 [CTR3368-II/CF2994-II]. MANON: Duo de Saint-Sulpice (Massenet). Two sides. With FERNAND ANSSEAU [t]. Minor lbl. stain side two, few lt. rubs. 2. $10.00.

EDITH HELENA [s]. Brooklyn, 1876-Mount Kisco, NY, 1956. Born Edith Helen Seymour, Helena originally sang as Helen Jenynge (I guess pronounced Jenning, her married name at that time) and recorded for Berliner in 1898 under that name. It was originally thought that “Jenynge” was some sort of Berliner misspelling, but she appears in at least one New York Times article in 1898 under this name as well as in local concert programmes. She subsequently sang as Edith Helena. In the early 1900s she appeared in Europe, apparently in concert, and recorded there for Beka. Upon returning to the U.S., she appeared in variety and vaudeville programs. One, at the Paradise Roof Gardens in Manhattan, 1903 included Miss Helena as well as “Aga” (the mysterious floating woman), Agnes Mahr (“the eccentric danseuse”), Riccabona’s horses (doing “tricks”) and Gilette’s dogs (performing “amusing, clownish stunts”). Such was show biz at the time. Helena had a few Victor recording sessions, the first in 1903, and one for Edison cylinders, concluding her commercial recording career in 1921 with an Edison Diamond-Disc. She appeared in opera, most notably with the Century Opera Company in English language productions of various works, including the heroines in Madama Butterfly and Rigoletto. In later years, Helena worked from her home as a seamstress, but in the 1950s she had a great success as a singer on the TV show, Life Begins at Eighty.

1654. 10” Blk. ’07 GP Victor 2388 [B-71]. MELBA WALTZ SONG [SE SARAN ROSE] (Arditi). Recorded April, 1903. Piano acc. Nice copy. Cons. 2. $25.00.

1136. 10” Blk. Victor 16162. COMIN’ THRO’ THE RYE (Scottish Air) / HENRY BURR [t]. BONNIE DOON (Burns). I heard Miss Helena sing this “live” when I was a teenager and she sounded just as vibrant and charming then (at least to my ears at the time) as she does on this 1908 recording. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1154. 10” Blk. ’12 Pats. Victor 16192. MANON LESCAUT: Laughing Song (Auber) / ELSIE BAKER [c]. My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice (Saint-Saëns). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

SIEGMUND HECKER

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3864. 12” Blk. Pats. Victor 35214. LUCIA: Mad Scene (Donizetti) / IL TROVATORE: Tacea la notte placida (Verdi). In English. Flute. obb. side one Clement Barone. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3728. 12” Blk. Pats. Victor 35214. Same as preceding listing (item #3864) Few lt. rubs, cons. 2. $10.00.

FRIEDA HEMPEL [s] 9039. 11” SS Odeon LX99901 [XB5179].

CARMEN: Einen Kuß meiner Mutter (Bizet). With HERMANN JADLOW-KER [t]. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

9022. 11” SS Odeon LX99904 [XB5182-2]. TRAVIATA: Un di felice (Verdi). In German. With HERMANN JADLOW-KER [t]. Lovely copy, cons. 2. $15.00.

9114. 11’ Brown Odeon 50248/50313 [XB.2271/XB.2272-2]. TRAVIATA: Ah, fors’ è lui / TRAVIATA: Sempre libera (Verdi). In German. With orch. Cons. 2. $15.00.

1023. 10” Red Victor 87235. UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Volta la terrea (Verdi). As new (as are most discs with this grading). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3140. 12” Pink Schallplatte Gram. 033164 (76025) [718m]. TALES OF HOFFMANN: Les oiseaux dans la charmille (Offenbach). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2806. 12” Pink Mon. Gramophone 053327 [1173s]. LA BOHÈME: Mi chiamano Mimì (Puccini). In Italian. IMs. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2754. 12” Red ’12 Pats. Vla 88410 [2246c]. LA VILLANELLE (dell’ Acqua). In French. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2480. 12” Red “A” plate Victor 88470. I PURITANI: Vien diletto (Bellini). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3275. 12” White lbl. Vla 88470. Same as preceding listing (item #2480). Few slightest rubs, cons. 2. $10.00.

3735. 12” Grey acous. Polydor 85316 [328½av/342av]. LA CAPINERA (Benedict) / NORMA: Casta diva (Bellini). In Italian. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

PERCY HEMUS [b]. Auckland, NZ, 1878- New York City, 1943. Raised in Topeka, Kansas, Hemus sold peanuts and lemonade at the Crawford Opera house in Topeka as a youth and also sang in the Topeka Episcopal Cathedral’s boy choir. At the age of 21 he was engaged as a soloist in New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral. He subsequently sang as an assisting artist to Schumann-Heink, Blauvelt and Homer and toured as a soloist with Sousa’s Band. He was later heard on the radio as a singer and appeared as an actor. His wife was pianist Gladys Craven.

4175. 10” Blk. GP ’07 Victor 5348. THE SAILOR’S PRAYER (Mattei). 2. $8.00.

Cantor MORDECHAY HERSHMAN [t] 1085. 10” Purple elec. RCA Victor 25-5072. TIKANTO SHABOS [Hershman). Two sides.

Original issued as Red Victor 4012. Excellent late pressing. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3889. 12” Blk. acous. Victor 68671. AL CHET [JUDGEMENT ON THE DAY OF ATONE-MENT] (arr. Nathaniel Shilkret) / A GESANG FUN’M BERDITCHEVER REBBE [THE BERDICHEVER RABBI’S SONG (arr. A. E. Binder). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

MARGARETHE HEYNE-FRANKE [s]. Dresden, 1892-1980. Her debut was in Nuremberg as Zerbinetta in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, 1918. From 1921-24 she was a leading coloratura at Stuttgart and then a member of the Dresden State Opera. She also appeared at the Berlin State Opera, Mannheim and with the Kroll Opera. While she was a coloratura specialist, she also sang such roles as Aida and Venus in Tannhäuser. In addition she was a noted concert and oratorio artist and appeared as a soloist with such conductors as Richard Strauss, Hans Pfitzner, Firtz Busch and Hermann Abendroth. Her few records date from the 1925-1930 period.

2665. 12” PW Green elec. Grammophon 27198 [973BI/974BI]. PAGLIACCI: Vogellied (Leoncavallo) / MIGNON: Kennst du das Land (Thomas). Just about 1-2. $25.00.

FRIEDA HEMPEL in the 1940s

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FLORENCE HINKLE [s]. Philadelphia, 1885-1933. Hinkle developed a remarkable career as a concert, oratorio and church singer. She was recorded by Victor in 1906 (one record issued) and then by Edison in 1908-1909. As her career progressed, she was again hired by Victor in 1911 but this time on its more expensive blue and purple labels. She appeared in oratorio in most of the major U.S. choral festivals. In 1916 she married her vocal teacher, Herbert Witherspoon. One notable musical achievement that same year was as soprano soloist in the American premiere of Mahler’s 8th Symphony with Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. For an Aeolian Hall recital in 1920, New York Times critic Richard Aldrich wrote of her, “Miss Hinkle is one of the best known of local singers, with a voice and a style of great beauty, a deeply musical feeling and an unfailing technical skill that brings her attentions to full realization. The voice, singularly pure and equable in quality throughout its range, is not one that lends itself naturally to variety of color or a wide range of emotional effects; yet the singer’s skill is such that it is made to produce all its possibilities in this direction.”

2350. 12” Purple ’12 Pats. “A” plate Victor 60079. FROM THE LAND OF THE SKY BLUE WATER (Cadman). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1832. 10” Purple “B” plate Victor 60128. A BIRTHDAY (Christina Rossetti-R. Huntingdon Woodman). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3350. 12” Purple Victor 70085. LOUISE: Depuis le jour (Charpentier). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

ALLEN C. HINKLEY [bs] 1778. 10” Blk. Angel Pre-Dog Gram. 3-2940/3-42991 [3963r/3967r]. BECAUSE I LOVE

YOU (Bowers) / WILLI BIRRENKOVEN [t]. HEIMLICHE AUFFORDERUNG (R. Strauss). Piano acc. One LSS (i.e. harmless) side two, otherwise just about 1-2. $40.00.

JOSEPH HISLOP [t] 2895. 10” (pressed on 12”) White lbl. vinyl elec. HMV DA 1084 [BE2076-III/BE2077-II].

MANON LESCAUT: Tra voi belle / MANON LESCAUT: Guardate, pazzo son (Puccini). In Swedish. Two single-sided pressings. Obviously great sound. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

2951. 10” (pressed on 12” White lbl. SS vinyl elec. HMV DA 1083 [BE 2078-II]. MANON LESCAUT: Ah, Manon, mi tradisce (Puccini). In Swedish. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2950. 12” White lbl. vinyl elec. HMV DB 1394 [CE2079-II/CE2080-I]. MANON LESCAUT: Tu, tu, amore tu? (Puccini). In Swedish. With GRETA SÖDERMAN [s]. Two single-sided pressings. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

LOUISE HOMER [c] 4177. 10” Red Monarch 81036 [B-624]. SING ME A SONG OF A LAD THAT IS GONE

(Sydney Homer). 3. $35.00. 1582. 10” Red GP ’07 Vr 87501. SAMSON ET DALILA: Vengeance at Last! (Saint-Saëns).

With EMILIO DE GOGORZA [b]. Homer and De Gogorza and Homer sang their roles individually in various musical festivals and occasionally together, such as at the Worcester Festival in 1904, where a reviewer mentioned the “perfect unity” of their duets. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2116. 10” PW Red (gold print) Vr 1422. SAMSON ET DALILA: Mon coeur (Saint-Saëns)/ TROVATORE: Stride la vampa! (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3456. 12” White lbl. Vla blk. vinyl Vla 85014 [C-621]. SAMSON ET DALILA: Mon coeur (Saint-Saëns). Great pressing from orig. 1903 master. Piano acc. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3690. 12” White lbl. (shellac) Vla. 85015 [C-623]. ORFEO ED EURIDICE: Away with Mourning (Gluck). Later ‘30s pressing from orig. 1903 master. Piano acc. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

3840. 12” Red Pats. Vla 88088 [take 3]. THE LOST CHORD (Sullivan). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2609. 12” Red Vla 88204. DIE LORELEI (Liszt). Among her most effective records. IMs. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3603. 12” Red Victor 88576. NORMA: Mira o Norma (Bellini). With ALMA GLUCK [s]. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2695. 12” Red “A” plate ’12 Pats. Vla 89071. DER ENGEL (Rubinstein). With ALMA GLUCK [s]. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

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2713. 12” White lbl. vinyl Vla 88414 [C-6039-4]. BABYLON (Watson). Rare. Very short catalogue life. Only form of issue. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3925. 12” Red Victor 88575. MY HEART EVER FAITHFUL (Bach). Small lbl. stkr. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

4121. 12” Red GP ’07 Victor 89009. MARTHA: Mesta ognor (Flotow). With BESSIE ABOTT [s]. Cons. 2. $12.00.

3867. 12” PW Silver Victor IRCC 103 [C-491/C-3934]. LE PROPHÈTE: A toi qui m’aban-donnes (Meyerbeer) / ADRIANA LECOUVREUR: Acerba voluttà (Cilèa). From orig. 1903/1907 Victor matrices. Side one piano accompanied (and an exciting performance). Label autographed by Homer. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

3293. 12” PW Silver Victor IRCC 153 [C-622/C-9911]. ORFEO: Away with Mourning and Crying / ALCESTE: Fatal Divinita (Gluck). From orig. 1903/1911 Victor matrices. Side one piano acc. Label autographed by Homer. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

3461. 12” White lbl. vinyl Vla mat. C-2238-8. DON CARLOS: O don fatale (Verdi). Unpublished. Recorded 2 May 1923. No doubt not issued as this aria was beyond her comfortable capability at the time. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

GUSTAVE HUBERDEAU [bs] 1313. 10” Maroon Actuelle 025068 [N67180-

1/N67181-1]. LES DEUX GRENA-DIERS (Schumann) / ÉLÉGIE (Masse-net). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

GIUSEPPINA HUGUET [s] 4253. 7” Blk. Barcelona Disque Gramophone

53138 [7219-F]. I VESPRI SICILIANI: Bolero (Verdi). In Italian. Effortless, brilliant coloratura work at closing. Lt. noise on piano intro. LGTs. Gen. 3-4. $20.00.

1219. 10” Blk. Barcelona G&T 53271 [7221-F]. I PURITANI: Son vergin vezzosa (Bellini). Sparkling performance. Harmless inherent pressing depression, 2-3. $25.00.

2334. 10” Blk. Barcelona G&T 54018 [7257-F]. MINGON: Duo del 3u Acto (Thomas). With PERELLO DE SEGUROLA [bs]. Piano acc. Small lbl. stkr. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

2011. 10” Blk. ’08 Pats. Victor 62376 [7217-F/9315u]. JUANITA, LA PERLÁ DE ARAGÓN (Yradier) / Sta. ESCALONA [s], Señor MORENO [b]. MARINA: Dúo de tiple y baritone (Arrieta). From orig. 1903/1906 G&T matrices. Few lightest mks., excellent copy. Cons. 2. $15.00.

1815. 10” Blk. Victor 62090 [10647b]. 7021L]. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX: O luce di quest’ anima (Donizetti) / EMMA TRENTINI [s], CARLO CAFFO [t]. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX: A consolarmi affrettati (Donizetti). Small lbl. stkr. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2527. 12” Red Vla 8057. SONNAMBULA: D’un pensiero (Bellini). With ARISTODEMO GIORGINI[t] / MARIA GALVANY [s], FERNANDO DE LUCIA [t]. SONNAMBULA: Prendi, l’anel ti donno (Bellini). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

FELICIE HÜNI-MIHACSEK [s] 2002. 10” Blk. PW Polydor 62648 [306bd/1579bk]. MARTHA: Letzte Rose (Flotow) / PEER

GYNT: Solveighs Lied (Grieg). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

GERHARD HÜSCH [b]. Hannover, 1901-1984. Beginning his career as an actor, Hüsch studied voice with Hans Emge and made his operatic debut in 1923. After seasons at Osnabrück, Bremen and Cologne, he joined the Berlin State Opera, where he remained through 1944. He also appeared as a guest at La Scala, Covent Garden, as well as in Vienna, Hamburg, Dresden and Munich. His debut as a recitalist was in Berlin, 1932, and he soon became recognized as one of the major lieder interpreters of the period. Frieder Weissmann, who conducted most of his

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sessions for Parlophon/Odeon through 1932, recalled Hüsch succinctly to me as a “wonderful singer, horrible Nazi”. It was this that prevented Hüsch from establishing a career in the United States following World War II.

1215. 10” Red Scroll “Z”-type Shellac Victor 4365 [ORA904-II/ORA905-II]. DER PAGE SPRACH / PHILANTHROPISCH; PALMSTROM (all Paul Graener). Piano acc. Hans Udo Müller. Short catalogue life. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1663. 10” PW Red Plum Electrola EG 3018 [OD1998-2/OD2000-2]. KLAGE / ES FÄLLT EIN STERN HERUNTER (both Pfitzner). Orch. dir. Hans Udo Müller. Fine performances. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2233. 10” PW Australian Parlophone A3892 [133532/133533]. THE POET SPEAKS / SALOMO (Both Hermann). Quiet laminated pressing. Lbl. stkr. Cons. 2. $12.00.

3258. 12” PW Red (gold print) Victor 12090 [2RA633-I/2RA634-I]. DANK SEI DIR, HERR (Händel, arr. S. Ochs) / JULIUS CAESAR: Es blaut die Nacht (Händel). Orch. dir. Hans Udo Müller. This was deleted by Victor when it was realized that the text had been “Nazified” to delete reference to Israel. It was then replaced by all-star version featuring Lashanska, Serkin and Casals with Israel reinstated. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3883. 12” Plum Swiss HMV FKX 131 [2RA870-2/2RA871-1]. LA TRAVIATA: Querschnitt [Highlights] (Verdi). Two sides. With MARGHERITA PERRAS [s], WALTER LUDWIG [t]. Berlin Staatsoper Orch. und Chor dir. Bruno Seidler-Winkler. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

ROBERT HUTT [t] 1127. 10” Blk. acous. Polydor 62363 [19248½L/19249L]. BREIT ÜBER MEIN HAUPT /

MORGEN (both Richard Strauss). Accompanied by the composer (although he is not given label credit on this pressing). Just about l-2. $40.00.

GIOVANNI INGHILLERI [b] 2978. 12” Brown Late VdP S10591 [OEA13122-

1/OEA13123-1]. IL TABARRO: Nulla! Silenzio! / IL TABARRO: Perchè non m’ami più? (Puccini). Side two with EMMA TEGANI [s]. Label side one signed by Inghilleri. Excellent late pressing. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

CONSTANTIN ISACHENCO [t]. 1882-1959. “Isachenko’s voice, a lyric tenor of a basically beautiful and soft timbre, was under complete control. The mix-ing and falsetto were very important in his ideally clear intonation and provided many of the highlights of his consistently musical phrasing. A natural musician, Isachenko had beautiful enunciation. Although his voice sounded light and small, he was able to cut through a fairly heavy orchestra sound.”

-quoted from The Levik Memoirs (pub. Symposium) trans. Edward Morgan.

1962. 10” Green St. Petersburg Zonophone X-62742/X-62743 [7438L/7439L]. I GO TO YOU (Meyer-Helmund) / STARRY NIGHT (Yasaneva). Piano acc. Excellent copy. Cons. 2. $75.00.

MARIA IVOGÜN [s] 1706. 10” Red PW Electrola DA 4402 [OD-913-2/OD914-1]. O DU ILABS AENGELLI;

Z’LAUTERBACH HAB’ I … / GS�TZLI; MARIA AUF DEM BERGE (Folkslieder arr. Rob. Gmund). Piano acc. Excellent copy. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2511. 12” Purple German Brunswick A66510 [U.S. 30105]. LIEBESFREUD (Kreisler) / O SCHÖNER MAI (Strauss). Beautiful pressing. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3560. 12” Purple (U.S.) Brunswick 30105. Same as preceding listing (item #2511) except U.S. pressing. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3749. 12” Red acous. Grammophon 85312 [1851as/1855as]. FLEDERMAUS: Mein Herr Marquis (Strauss) / HUGUENOTS: Pagen-Arie (Meyerbeer). Excellent late ‘20s lam. pressing. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $15.00.

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2919. 12” Red PW Electrola DB 4405 [2D391-5/2D392-4]. ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Rezi-tativ und Arie der Zerbinetta (Strauss). Orch. dir. Leo Blech. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

HERMANN JADLOWKER [t] 9039. 11” Odeon LX99901 [XB5179]. CAR-

MEN: Einen Kuß meiner Mutter (Bizet). With FRIEDA HEMPEL [s]. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

9022. 11” Odeon LX99904 [XB.5182-2]. TRAVIATA: Un di felice (Verdi). In German. With FRIEDA HEMPEL [s]. Lovely copy, cons. 2. $15.00.

2054. 10” Blue Opera Disc 70547 (2-52856) [13199½r]. DON CAR-LO: Aria di Don Carlo (Verdi). In Italian. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1490. 10” Red acous. Schall. Grammophon 70634 [985ar/986ar]. HEIMAT / WIEGEN-LIED (both Gretchani-noff). Piano acc. Tiny harmless bump. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

2040. 10” Red acous. Schall. Grammophon 70699 [983ar/14075r]. DON JUAN’S SERENADE (Tschaikowsky) / GUARDA CHE BIANCA LUNA (Campana). Side two with JOSEPH SCHWARZ [b]. Side one in Ger-man, side two in Italian. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

3736. 12” Red SS Dog Mon. Gram. 032310 [1340s]. FAUST: Salut! Demeure (Gounod). IMs. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3245. 12” Red SS Dog Mon. Gram. 052426 [1356s]. AFRICAINE: O ridente suol (Meyerbeer). In Italian. Lightest NR on lbl. Surface just about 1-2. $15.00.

3622. 12” Red Polydor 72538 [966m/967m]. DON GIOVANNI: Tränen von Freund getrock-net / DON GIOVANNI: Bande der Freundschaft (Mozart). Just about 1-2. $40.00.

2802. 12” Red Schall. Grammophon 72702 [390as/1247m]. MANON LESCAUT: Wo lebte wohl ein Wesen (Puccini) / QUEEN OF SHEBA: Magische Töne (Goldmark). Excellent copy, few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $40.00.

3529. 12” Red Schall. Grammophon 72761 [384as/391as]. PARIS ED HELENA: O del mio dolce ardor (Gluck) / LA JUIVE: Recha, als Gott dich einst (Halévy). Side one in Italian. Side two in German. Just about 1-2. $40.00.

3243. 12” White HMV VB 54 [Ho253al/1179s]. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Ecco ridente (Rossini) / FRA DIAVOLO: Meine Freunde sind hier (Auber). Two remarkable readings. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

4110 12” Red Pats. “A” plate Vla 88359. LE DONNE CURIOSE: Il corn el contento (Wolf-Ferrari). With GERALDINE FARRAR [s]. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

4054. 12” Red Pats. “A” plate Vla 88359. Same as preceding listing (item #4110). Nice bright copy, lt. superficial rubs, 2. $7.00.

FREDERICK JAGEL [t] Brooklyn, NY, 1897-San Francisco, CA, 1982. Jagel’s musical studies began at the age of four with his father, a church organist. In 1913 he embarked on a part-time job as clerk in a wholesale warehouse and quit high school during his senior year to take a position with the Mutual Life Insurance Company in order to pay for voice lessons with Vincenzo Portanova. Overseas study, beginning in 1923, was made possible by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Eiseman, arts enthusiasts who had heard him as soloist in a Christian Science Church in Far Rockaway, NY. Prior to this, Jagel had appeared in the New York Rialto, Capitol, Strand and

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Rivoli Theaters in vaudeville shows between films. In 1922 he made his operatic debut as Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia with the Puccini Grand Opera Company at Proctor’s Theater, Newark, NJ, singing at the time under the name Alfredo Fornesi. Upon arriving in Milano, Jagel began studies with Castaldi Tassoni and made his Italian debut in Livorno as Rodolfo. He was given the name Federico Iaghelli for his Italian career. Gatti-Casazza heard him in Italy during this period and hired for the Met where, in 1927, he made his debut as Rhadames, receiving nine final curtain calls. He remained with the Met for twenty-eight seasons, retiring in 1950 after having sung 35 roles, ranging from Florestan and Des Grieux to Peter Grimes (which he created for New York). In 1951 he appeared with the NY Philharmonic as the Drum-Major in Wozzeck. After his retirement, before settling in San Francisco in 1970, Jagel taught in New York and served as Chairman of the New England Conservatory of Music voice department. Among his pupils was bass Justino Diaz.

1317. 10” Red PW (gold print) Victor 1979. THE HOUSE ON A HILL (Ernest Charles) / MY PARTING GIFT (Elinor Remick Warren). Piano acc. Edwin McArthur. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

ALBERT GREGOROVICH JANPOLSKI [b]. Russia, 1875 - ? . Janpolski emigrated to the U.S. in 1893, settling in New York City. His career included work as a New York church soloist (West End Collegiate Church, 1904). He was active as a concert and oratorio artist, particularly in the New England and New York area. In 1928, Janpolski was advertised in New York as a resident at the Hotel Windermere and director of the Uptown Glee Club. The last notice traced of him was in 1930 as director of the New York Stock Exchange Glee Club.

3129. 12” Blk. Victor 68271. ÜBER DEN STERNEN IST RUH’ (Abt) / BABYLON (Dvo�ák). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

HERBERT JANSSEN [b] 1093. 10” PW Red (gold print) Victor1930 [OEA.4966/OEA.4973]. TRAUM DURCH DIE

DÄMMERUNG / DER NACHT (both R. Strauss). Piano acc. Gerald Moore. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2971. 12” White lbl. blk. vinyl HMV, mat. 2EA4976. AUF DEM KIRCHHOFE (Brahms). Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

4039. 12” White lbl. blk. vinyl HMV, mat. 2EA7127. DIE ALLMACHT (Schubert). Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

4282. 12” White lbl. blk. vinyl HMV, mat. 2EA7118. DIE STADT (Schubert). Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

MAIKKI JARNEFELT [s] 1485. 10” PW Plum HMV X.3113 [BE1554-II/BE1555-I]. KESÄILTA / KUN ENSI KERRAN

(both Selim Palmgren). Acc. by the composer. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

MARIA JÁVOR [s]. Near Budapest, 1889-Honolulu, 1976. Her debut was in Budapest as Gilda in Rigoletto, 1913. The following year she wed tenor Alexander Varnay, their daughter, Astrid Varnay (born in Stockholm), to later become a celebrated singer. During her career Jávor toured extensively in opera and concert and appeared in Buenos Aires, 1923, as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, which, according to one source, was the belated Argentinian premiere of that venerable work. After the death of her first husband in 1923, Jávor married another tenor, Fortunato de Angeles (who made a few recordings in the U.S. for Columbia), and appeared with him on occasion, including Leonora to his Manrico in a performance of Il Trovatore at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1937. This also featured as Ines daughter Astrid (under an assumed name), just beginning her career. Jávor later taught in New York.

2446. 12” Blue acous. Vox *02031 [418A/418½A]. LAKMÉ: Glöckchen-Aria [Bell Song] (Delibes) / BRAVOUR VARIATIONEN ÜBER EIN THEMA VON MOZART (Adam). Cons. 2. $35.00.

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS [s] 3163. 12” Melotone (unnumbered). FLEDERMAUS: Adele’s Laughing Song (Strauss) /

BIASSY (Pushkin-Bach). Piano acc. Cosme McMoon. Lbl. side two detached and replaced with scotch tape. Otherwise just about 1-2. $10.00.

HELEN JEPSON [s] 2461. 12” Red Scroll “Z”-type shellac Victor 14183. CAPONSACCHI: This very vivid morn /

CAPONSACCHI: Lullaby (Richard Hageman). Creator in the Met. Op. American premiere, 1937. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2578. 12” Red Scroll “Z”-type shellac Victor 14183. Same as preceding listing. Label inscribed and signed in black ink by Jepson. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

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2576. 12” Red PW (gold print) Victor 14184. TOSCA: Vissi d’arte (Puccini) / TRAVI-ATA: Ah, fors’ è lui … Sempre libera (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

ALFRED JERGER [bs] 1459. 10” Blk. acous. Nordisk Polyphon

B2000/B2001 [947ar/951ar]. MAGIC FLUTE: O Isis und Osiris / MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: Dort vergiss leises Fleh’n (both Mozart). As mint, as the grading indicates. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1460. 10” Blk. acous. Nordisk Polyphon B2014/B2015 [946ar/950ar]. MAGIC FLUTE: In diesen heil’gen Hallen (Mo-zart) / BALLO IN MASCHERA: Für dein glück (Verdi). One small mk. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

MARIA JERITZA [s] 1102. 10” Red Orth. Vla 1234. THE LOVE

CALL: My Little Nest of Heavenly Blue (Spaeth-Lehár) / TWILIGHT (Morris Hamilton). In English. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2243. 10” Red Orth. Vla 1301. I KNOW A LOVELY GARDEN (d’Hardelot) / THE CUCKOO (Liz a Lehmann). In English. Piano acc. side two Wilfred Pelletier. IMs. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1236. 10” Red Scroll. “Z” Shellac Victor 1346. TOSCA: Vissi d’arte (Puccini) / CAVALLE-RIA RUSTICANA: Voi lo sapete (Mascagni). White ink writing in inner margin side one, otherwise as new. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1588. 10” Blk. PW (gold print) Victor 26567. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: Liebestod (Wagner). Two sides. Excellent pressing. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

1532. 10” Blk. Harmona 14001 [518/519]. O TANNENBAUM / STILLE NACHT (Gruber) Orch. dir. Max Schönherr. Recorded 1951. Small PB side two. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2809. 12” Red EE Vla 6577. TRÄUME / FLYING DUTCHMAN: Senta’s Ballad (both Wag-ner). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2597. 12” Red PW (gold print) Victor 6588. DER FREISCHÜTZ: Agatha’s Prayer (v. Weber). Two sides. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2505. 12” Red PW (gold print) Victor 6604. HÉRODIADE: Il es doux (Massenet) / JEANNE D’ARC: Adieu, forêts (Tschaikowsky). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3152. 12” Red Scroll “Z” type shellac Victor 6694. LOHENGRIN: Elsas Traum / TANN-HÄUSER: Elisabeths Gebet (both Wagner). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2543. 12” Red PW (gold print) Victor 6704. ERLKÖNIG / GRETCHEN AM SPINNRADE (both Schubert). Piano acc. Wilfred Pelletier. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2938. 12” Red Scroll “Z”-type shellac Victor 8091. CARMEN: Habanera / CARMEN: Chan-son Bohême (Bizet). Side two with MERLE ALCOCK [c]. Both sides with Met Orchestra and Chorus dir. Giulio Setti. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

IRENE JESSNER [s] 3073. 12” Red PW (gold print) Victor 17256. DIE TOTE STADT: Marietta’s Lied (Korngold)/

ANDREA CHÉNIER: La mamma morta (Giordano). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

CLARA JOANNA [s]. Trieste, 1875- ? . She studied with Alberto Leoni and likely made her operatic debut at the Politeama Reinach in Parma in Marchetti’s Ruy Blas. Most of her career was in provincial Italian companies, singing major roles such as Gioconda, Wally, Aida and Santuzza. Her career continued until at least 1911, her last traced performance having been at the Cesna Teatro Comunale as Velia in La Debacle by A. Masucci, a totally forgotten work and composer today.

1906. 10” Blue Victor 45002 [10553b/10555b]. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Turridu mi tolse l’onore / CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Ad essi io non perdono (Mascagni). Both with RENZO MINOLFI [b]. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

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RAOUL JOBIN [t] 1393. 10” Red Canadian Victor 10-1180. CA, BERGERS ASSEMBLONS-NOUS / LES

ANGES DANS NOS CAMPAGNES (both harm. by Ernest Gagnon). With Les Disiples de Massenet (Chorus). Not issued in the U.S. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

EDWARD JOHNSON [t] 1543. 10” Red Vla 689. FEDORA: Amor ti vieta (Giordano) / FANCIULLA DEL WEST:

Ch’ella mi creda (Puccini). Just about 1-2. $8.00. 1851. 10” Red EE Vla 1087. I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS (Kahn-Jones) / DEAR ONE

(Burke). Just about 1-2. $8.00. 1794. 10” Red Orth. Vla 4088. SUNRISE AND YOU (Penn) / LASSIE O’ MINE (Walt). Just

about 1-2. $10.00. 2308. 10” Red Canadian elec. Victor 24005. O CANADA (Lavallée) / THE MAPLE LEAF

FOREVER (Muir). With Male Quartet [Justin Lawrie, Charles Hart, Jackson Kinsey, Frank Croxton]. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2621. 12” Red PW (gold print) Victor 9293. CARMEN: Air de la fleur (Bizet) / LOUISE: Depuis longtemps j’habitais cette chambre (Charpentier). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2753. 12” TC Columbia A5630 [74741-2/74742-2].; PARSIFAL: Il Santo Gral / PARSIFAL: Soltanto un arma val (Wagner). Early Johnson (1914). Good pressing. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3278. 12” Mauve acous. HMV AGSB 63 [C-23460/1056-2aj]. FANCIULLA DEL WEST: Una parola sola / BERNARDO DE MURO [t]. FANCIULLA DEL WEST: Sono Ramerrez (Puccini). Side one first and only edition. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

JEANNE JOMELLI [s]. Amsterdam, 1879-San Francisco, 1932. Born in Holland and of French descent, Jomelli studied singing first with Johan Messchaert in Amsterdam and also supposedly in Paris with Marchesi and dramatic art with Sarah Bernhardt. Her American debut was at the Met in 1905 as Elisabeth in Tannhauser. Other roles included Elvira in Don Giovanni (with Sembrich and Nordica), Inès in La Favorite, Marguerite in Faust, Helmwige in Die Walküre and Lisa in La Sonnambula. She subsequently appeared with Hammerstein’s Manhattan Opera and in England in Hammerstein’s production of de Walden’s The Children of the Don. In Paris, she was requested by Saint-Saëns to create his opera Déjanire at the Paris Opéra. However, her fee was “much larger than is usually paid to a singer in the French Opera House and another well-known French soprano will have to be displaced.” That soprano was Félia Litvinne, who apparently held her ground and ended up appearing at the Paris premiere. Jomelli was noted as a concert singer and had a large and varied repertoire, particularly of French and English songs. For several years, Jomelli resided in Portland, Oregon, and in 1915 gave an open air concert for the community assisted by the Municipal Park Band. The attendance was over 30,000, quite amazing to consider for those years before electronic amplification. Said “The Oregonian” reviewer, “Her voice reached the very limits of the crowd and soared away up into the big fir trees. It was like the warbling of a forest bird rather than the singing of a concert artist.” Her first husband was Nicholas Hemance, a New York tapestry importer, whom she wed in France. They divorced in 1914 as, reported Jomelli, “We are mutually anxious to be rid of each other.” She married again in 1917 and settled in San Francisco with her new husband, W. O. Backus, having retired as a singer but working as a teacher. Her only issued records were for Kalliope (issued as “Victory Record”, “Stella Gramophone Record”, as well as perhaps other labels), recorded around 1912. Earlier, late 1908 she had been selected by Herman Klein to record for U.S. Columbia a series of what he termed as “Exercise Records” based on Manuel Garcia’s Hints on Singing. Klein had worked with Jomelli on English diction and to extend her repertoire. He described her as having “a pure soprano voice of singularly clear, steady, musical quality, and that she was “an accomplished vocalist” and “an artist of uncommon intelligence.”

1731. 10” Dk. Blue British Victory (Kalliope) B32 [1289/1290]. THE CUCKOO (Lisa Leh-mann) / LAUGHING STREAMLET (Charles Gilbert Spross). Looks as though it had a busy life without the protection of a sleeve., i.e. heavily rubbed, LGTs. 5-6. Despite its looks, it plays satisfactorily (slight edginess but no blasting, no scratches or digs). $8.00.

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1732. 10” Dk. Blue British Victory (Kalliope) B34 [1330/1331]. LES PRÉSENTS (Chami-nade) / ROMANCE (Debussy). Few LSSs, rubs, LGTs, 4-5. $10.00.

2132. 10” Blk. Stella B34 [1330/1331]. Same as preceding item (#1932) but different label. Couple superficial scrs., gen. 4 but no apparent graying. $12.00.

ELEANOR JONES [-HUDSON] [s]. Merthyr Tydfil, So. Wales, 1874-1945. Jones-Hudson was the subject of a biography and discography in recent Record Collector Magazine issues, Vol. 57, Nos. 1 and 2.

1158. 10” Blk. GP’ 07 Victor 52005 [3023e]. LO, HERE THE GENTLE LARK (Bishop). Few lt. rubs, 2. $10.00.

PARRY JONES [t] 1217. 10” PW Blue Columbia 318-M [CA14652-1/CA14654-1]. SLEEP / THE FOX (both

Peter Warlock). Piano acc. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

ARTHUR JORDAN [t] 2122. 10” Blk. acous. English Columbia 2996 [69681/69682]. THE IMMORTAL HOUR:

Faery Song (Rutland Boughton) / KING ARTHUR: Fairest Isle (Purcell). Piano acc. Hamilton Harty. Creator performance (1914) side one. Excellent late lam. pressing. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

KARL JÖRN [t] 3059. 12” Blk. Schall. Gram. 042442/042443 [1217s/1216s]. DIE BEIDEN GRENADIERE

(Schumann) / JUNG-DIETERICH (Georg Henschel). Piano acc. Nice copy. Cons. 2. $15.00.

3638. 12” Green/Blk. Dog Mon. Gram. 044079/044080 [816v/817v]. LES HUGUENOTS: Zur Rettung Aller bin ich erkoren (Meyerbeer). Two sides. With EMMY DESTINN [s]. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

3386. 12” Blue Victor 55071 [25½al/26al]. DIE KÖNIGSKINDER: Bin ein lustiger Jägers-mann / DIE KÖNIGSKINDER: Willst du mein Maienbuhle sein (Humperdinck). With LOLA ARTÔT DE PADILLA [s]. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

MARCEL JOURNET [bs]. Grasse, 1867-Vittel, 1933. A February 5, 1910 issue of Musical America indicated the importance of Journet to the Victor Company by describing his travel from Paris to Camden just to make records, “the most unique trip ever made by any singer.” Despite it being the height of the Paris Opéra season, he was granted a special leave by the directors “to come to America to fill an engagement with the Victor company for the sole purpose of making records of concerted arias [sic] in conjunction with Caruso, Geraldine Farrar and other famous artists. While the basso was in the U.S., Victor availed itself of the opportunity to remake all [sic] of the old records of Journet’s solos.” A few years later he made a similar trip, but this time special arrangements were made for performances with the Chicago Opera to make Journet’s trip even more lucrative.

2118. 10” Blk. Notes Columbia A533 [3109-2/1724-1]. ERNANI: Infelice / SALVATORE SCIARRETTI [t]. RIGOLETTO: La donna è mobile (both Verdi). Cons. 2. $15.00.

1555. 10” Blk. Notes Columbia A545 [3135-1/3127-1]. LAKMÉ: Stances (Delibes) / FRANCISCO NUIBO [t]. MARTHA: Romance (Flotow). Cons. 2. $15.00.

1120. 10” Red ’12 Pats. Victor 64013 [B-2310-2]. LOHENGRIN: Königs Gebet (Wagner). Second of three issued takes. The only form of issue. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

1925. 10” Red ’08 Pats. Victor 64035 [B-3162-2]. BOHÈME: Vecchia zimarra (Puccini). Second of three issued takes. The only form of issue. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

1796. 10” White Lbl. Blk. Vinyl Vla mat. B-19126-1. PRIÈRE (Godard). Unpublished (rec. 24 Jan. 1917). Just about 1-2. $25.00.

1861. 10” Red ’12 Pats. Victor 64119. FAUST: Invocation (Gounod). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2379. 10” Red ’08 Pats. Victor 64128. MEFISTOFELE: Ave Signor (Boïto). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2142. 10” Red “A” plate Victor 64582. REQUIEM: Pie Jesu (Fauré). Written as a soprano solo, perhaps here uniquely sung by a bass. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2057. 10” Red Vr 64586. MARCHE LORRAINE (Ganne). Small lbl. stkr. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2044. 10” Red Vla 64587. CLÉOPÂTRE: Air de la Lettre (Massenet). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1804. 10” Red Vinyl White lbl. (plain) Victor 64649 [B-19113-2]. CREDO D’AMOUR (Trémisot). Assigned catalogue number but not issued. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

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1165. 10” Red Orth Vla 1135. BOHÈME: Vecchia zimarra (Puccini) / MARTHA: Canzone del porter (Flotow). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1951. 10” Red PW Victor 1274. LOHENGRIN: Königs Gebet (Wagner) / TANNHÄUSER: O tu bell’ astro (both Wagner). Beautiful “as new” pressing. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1113. 10” Red Orth. “Z” shellac Victor 1285. DON GIOVANNI: Madamina! (Mozart). Two sides. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

4233. 10” Red acous. SR Disque Gram. DA 477 [BS386-II/BS387-I]. DIE WALKÜRE: Les adieux de Wotan (Wagner). Two sides. Lt. lbl. fade. Cons. 2. $12.00.

1461. 10” Red PW Disque Gram. DA 940 [BTR3345-I/ BTR-3351-I]. THAÏS: Duo de la source (Massenet). Two sides. With FANNY HELDY [s]. Excellent later ‘30s laminated pressing. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1779. 10” Red PW Disque Gram. DA 1229 [OG838-II/OG839-II]. MEISTERSINGER: Monologue du Hans Sachs (Wagner). Two sides. In French. Orch. dir. Piero Coppola. Excellent pressing. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1797. 10” Red PW Disque Gram. DA 1329 [OPG743-I/OPG744-I]. O SALUTARIS (Luce) / CEUX QUI PIEUSEMENT SONT MORTS POUR LA PATRIE (Letorey). Scarce. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3664. 12” Blk. Disque Gram. 032157/032161 [01053v/01099v]. LES SAPINS (Pierre Dupont) / PRIÈRE (Godard). Rare, particularly in such clean shape. Few minor lbl. mks. Surfaces just about 1-2. $20.00.

2793. 12” Blk. SR acous. French Gram. W145 [01064v/01066v]. WALKÜRE: Les Adieux de Wotan (Wagner). In French. Fine heavy raised rim pressing. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3754. 12” White lbl. Vla 85114. CARMEN: Je suis Escamillo (Bizet). With CHARLES DALMORÈS [t]. Excellent pressing (as is the case with almost all white label special pressings), few lightest mks. Cons. 2. $12.00.

3441. 12” Red ’08 Pats. Victor 74009 [C-2311]. LAKMÉ: Lakmé, ton doux regard (Delibes). One very tiny bump. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3682. 12” White lbl. Vla 74009 [C-2311]. Same as previous listing (item #3441). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2500. 12” Red ’08 Pats. Victor 74195. PHILÉMON ET BAUCIS: Couplets de Vulcain (Gounod). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2803. 12” White lbl. vinyl Vla 74207 [C-8563]. JOLIE FILLE DE PERTH: Quand la flame (Bizet). This is an unpublished record. Despite 74207 appearing in the matrix, that number was actually used for Herbert Witherspoon’s issued Vespri Siciliani aria. An issued recording of the Perth aria appears as the next catalogue number, 74208, but sung by Charles Gilibert. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

2733. 12” Red ’12 Pats. Victor 74266. MAGIC FLUTE: Air du Grand Prêtre (Mozart). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3645. 12” Red ’12 Pats. “A” plate Victor 74272. LE SOIR (Gounod). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2477. 12” Red “B” Plate ’12 Pats. Victor 74276. GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG: Hier sitz’ ich (Wagner). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

4264. 12” Red Pats. “B” plate Vvictor 74277. LA REINE DE SABA: Sous les pieds (Gounod). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2851. 12” Red ’12 Pats. “A” plate Vla 76020. ROBERT LE DIABLE: Du rendevous (Meyerbeer). With EDMOND CLÉMENT [t]. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3632. 12” White lbl. Vla 88500 [C-4285-2]. I PURITANI: Suoni la tromba (Bellini). With MARIO ANCONA [b]. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2486. 12” Red ’12 Pats. Vla 89036. MARTHA: Solo, profugo (Flotow). With ENRICO CARUSO [t]. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3378. 12” White lbl. Vla 95201 [take 1]. MEISTERSINGER: Quintet (Wagner). With JOHANNA GADSKI [s], MARIE MATTFELD [c], ELLISON VAN HOOSE [t], ALBERT REISS [t]. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3208. 12” Red Pats. “A” plate Victor 95209. MARTHA: Presto, presto (Flotow). With FRANCES ALDA [s], JOSEPHINE JACOBY [c], ENRICO CARUSO [t]. Small lbl. stkr. Few lightest rubs. Cons. 2. $7.00.

4117. 12” Red ’12 Pats. Vla 95211. LOMBARDI: Qual voluttà (Verdi). With ENRICO CARUSO [t], MARCEL JOURNET [bs]. Text label on verso. Excellent, bright pressing. Few very faint rubs, cons. 2.

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4445. 12” White lbl. acous. blk. vinyl Vla mat. C-19118-1. AUX MORTS POUR LA PATRIE (André Messager). Recorded. 23 Jan. 1917. Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

3187. 12” Red Orth. Vla 7289. LA PROCESSION (Franck) / STABAT MATER: Pro peccatis (Rossini). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2902. 12” Red Orth. Vla 8185 [CS4270-II/CS4271-I]. FAUST: Mais ce Dieu que peut-il pour moi? [Conclusion Act I] (Gounod). Two sides. With FERNAND ANSSEAU [t]. As new. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3936. 12” Mauve HMV AGSB 19 [C-4253/C-4254]. CARMEN: Je suis Escamillo (Bizet) / FAUST: Vision céleste (Gounod). Both with CHARLES DALMORÈS [t]. From orig. 1907 Victor matrices. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

EMMA JUCH [s] 4116. 12” Red GP ’06 Victor 74015 [C-1294]. SERENATA (Tosti). Piano acc. Lt. superficial

rubs, 3 or better. $15.00.

JENNY JUNGBAUER [s]. Vienna, 1892 - ? . Jungbauer was active in Mannheim, Hamburg, Berlin and the Vienna Volksoper. Her career in Germany likely ended in 1933. The season of 1934-35 she toured Belgium with an operetta company headed by tenor Eduard Lichtenstein. A very strange letter exists in the collection of Gregor Benko from an apparently American concert manager (William Neill? Last name difficult to decipher) to Jungbauer in 1939. He acknowledges having received Jungbauer’s letters and “filthy postcards” addressed to him care of one Miss Zoe Lynex. He further states, “If I do not receive your money which you owe … I shall cancel all the contracts for next season. Furthermore – you will have to guarantee to keep your filthy mouth shut about my mother, who is a finer woman than any of your whole Viennese women put together”. He further labels her as being a “gutter snipe” and an “uneducated sex-mad woman”. This was obviously one unhappy manager! Jungbauer is known to have sung in recital in the U.S., one performance having been in Buffalo, NY, in March, 1939. Whatever caused the problem between Jungbaur and Mr. Neill likely brought Jungbauer’s U.S. career to a close. Nothing seems to be known of her subsequently. It has been suggested that she perished in a concen-tration camp.

1913, 10 Blk. acous. Polydor 62479 [3379ar/3381ar]. DER TRAUM (Rubinstein) / DER NUSSBAUM (Schumann). Very slight PB should be absolutely harmless, otherwise just about 1-2. $20.00.

3963. 10” Blk. acous. Polydor 62479 [3379ar/3381ar]. Same as preceding listing. Hair ULC side two just into grooves (harmless), otherwise just about 1-2. $15.00.

HEDWIG JUNGKURTH [s]. Darmstadt, 1900 - ? . She made her debut in Stuttgart, 1921, and appeared with the Berlin Opera 1925-30 in coloratura and soubrette roles. In 1931 she toured in the U.S. with Gadski’s German Opera Company and in 1933 and 1935 starred in two German films. She was often heard on the German radio in the 1930s as well.

4417. 12” Blk. acous. Polydor 66155 [2027as/2167as]. FAUST: Blümlein traut (Gounod) / DER FREISCHÜTZ: Einst träumte meiner sel’gen Base (v. Weber). Just about 1-2. $35.00.

SABINE KALTER [c] 3101. 12” Gold acous. Odeon O-9019 [XXB68660/XXB6861]. AIDA: Duett Amneris und

Rhadames 4 Akt (Verdi). Two sides. With RICHARD TAUBER [t]. Lt. rubs, 2. $15.00.

4167. 12” Blk & Gold Odeon O-9013 [XXB6841-II/XXB6862-I]. / IL TROVATORE: Wenn du mich liebst (Verdi). With RICHARD TAUBER [t] / TAUBER [t]. EUGEN ONEGIN: Arie di Lenski [with recit.] (Tschaikowsky). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

ELISABETH KANDT [s]. 1894?-Frankfurt, 1960. Her early experience was at the Düssel-dorf and Frankfurt Opera Houses. In January, 1926, Kandt made her Met debut as Ännchen in

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Der Freischütz. Said The Musical Courier, “The occasion marked the debut of Elizabeth Kandt, who sang the impossibly good young person, Annchen, and almost succeeded in making her human. Miss Kandt has a voice of much beauty and decided warmth, sings well and acts with charm. She made a distinctly good impression and was heartily applauded.” The following year Kandt created the role of Liù in Turandot for Frankfurt and also made her debut at the Teatro Liceo in Barcelona. In later years she taught in Frankfurt.

1534. 10” Plum PW Electrola EG 834 [BLR3898-II/BLR3899-II]. BOHÈME: Quando m’en vo / GIANNI SCHICCHI: O mio babbino caro (both Puccini). In German. Few lt. mks., cons. 2. $12.00.

GERTRUDE KAPPEL [s] 3747. 12” Blk. acous. Polydor 66100, 66101 [599az/600az, 601az/602az]. GÖTTERDÄM-

MERUNG: Brunnhildes Schlussgesang (Wagner). Three sides / LA FORZA DEL DESTINO: Pace, pace mio Dio (Verdi). In German/Italian. First rate copies, as we see from the grading. Just about 1-2. $50.00.

THEO KARLE [t] 1403. 10” Blk. Victor 18061. HER HEART (Voorhis) / CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Siciliana

(Mascagni). Side two with Francis J. Lapitino [harp]. Small lbl. stkrs. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

AMELIA KAROLA [s]. Naples 1875-Viareggio 1925. Karola’s studies were at the Conservatory of Naples, her debut taking place in 1893. The following year she had already arrived at La Scala, creating the role of Iguamota in the premiere of Franchetti’s Cristoforo Colombo. From there on she had great success, particularly in the verismo repertoire.

2396. 11” Fonotipia 62294/62295 [XPh3048/XPh3054]. OCCHI TURCHINI (Denza) / FIORE DI SIEPE (De Falco). Piano acc. Pressing No. 26. Rare. Few lightest mks. side one, cons. 2. Side two just about 1-2. $60.00.

2397. 11” Fonotipia 62529/62530 [XPh4291/XPh4294]. MANON: L’Ora o Tirsi (Puccini) / IRIS: S’era mai-ata (Mascagni). Piano acc. Angelo Bettinelli. Ex-cellent singing. Another rarity. Cons. 2. $50.00.

GIUSEPPE KASCHMANN [b] 3353. 12” Red Milano G&T 052031 [Con696]. DON CAR-

LOS: Carlo che è solo il nostro amore (Verdi). Piano acc. Needs a small (1.5 or smaller) stylus as do all of his records. 3-4. $250.00.

4299. 12” Red Milano G&T 052032 [Con697]. ERNANI: O dei verd’ anni miei (Verdi). Piano acc. Bright label. One PB should be harmless. Exceptionally clean copy. 2. $500.00.

VLADIMIR I. KASTORSKY [bs] 1963. 10” Blk. St. Petersburg G&T 3-22549 [4960L]. O CHILD, BENEATH THY WINDOW

(Tschaikowsky). Bright lbl. One small ND. Couple lt. mks., cons. 2. $40.00. 1097. 10” vinyl White HMV 3-22549/3-22554 [4960L/4992L]. O CHILD, BENEATH THY

WINDOW / PIQUE DAME: Darling maidens (both Tschaikowsky). Pressing problems (wrinkles) with rim area. Grooved surface just about 1-2. $20.00.

2834. 12” acous. Red Vox *03375 [1302A/1303A]. PRINCE IGOR: Song of Prince Galitzky (Borodin) / ICH BEREUE, ONKEL (Dargomyzhsky); DIE MÜCKE (Aronsky); DIE PITERSKAJA ENTLANG (Composer?). In Russian. Just about 1-2. $300.00.

BARBARA KEMP [s] 3144. 12” Odeon acous. 76766/76767 [XXB6432/XXB6433]. IL TROVATORE: Es glänzte

schon das Sternenheer / IL TROVATORE: In deines Kerkers tiefte Nacht (Verdi). IMs. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3620. 12” Brown Odeon acous. 80704/80705 [XXB6691/XXB6692]. AIDA: Ich she dich wider, meine Aida / AIDA: Zur Ferne entfliehn (Verdi). With JOSEF MANN [t]. Nice pressing. Few lightest mks. Cons. 2. $15.00.

AMELIA KAROLA

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MARGARET KENNEDY [c] 3559. 12” Blk. PW Eng. Columbia 9922 [WAX4781/WAX4859]. SONGS OF THE HEBRI-

DES (arr. M. Kennedy-Fraser). Two sides (four songs). Piano acc. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

ADELE KERN [s] 2734. 12” Yellow Deut. Gram. 27310 [693½be/694be]. ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Rezitativ

und Arie der Zerbinetta (Strauss). Two sides. Orch. dir. Alois Melichar. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

GRACE KERNS [s]. Norfolk, VA, 1866-Williamsburg, VA, 1936. A concert soprano active in the ‘teens and early 1920s. Her last name was sometimes spelled Kearns.

1417. 10” Red Shellac Vocalion 14495 [9374/10180]. ROSES SOFTLY BLOOMING (Ball) / CLAIRE LILLIAN PETELER [s]. ONLY A YEAR AGO (Albers). Small lbl. stkrs. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

JAN KIEPURA [t] 4273. 12” Blue PoW Columbia 71412-D [xhco396/xco32336]. PRAYER FOR POLAND

(Chopin) / ON YOUR LIPS OF CORAL (Marczewski). Piano accs. Wolfgang Rebner/Otto Herz. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

AGNES KIMBALL [s]. Princeton, IL, 1881-Toledo, OH, 1918. At the age of 17, Agnes (born Agnes Grigsby) married Charles F. Kimball, an office clerk. A daughter was born the next year. She then decided to pursue a musical career and studied with Franz Bellinger, gaining a position as a church singer in Pittsburgh. Mr. Kimball secured employment there as a clerk-auditor with the Andrew Carnegie Corporation, but soon Agnes decided to go it on her own, leaving Mr. Kimball in Pittsburgh and daughter Eloise with a sister in Indianapolis while she moved to New York City, there becoming soloist with three important religious organizations. She also gained a successful reputation in the concert and oratorio fields. In addition, she appeared as a featured artist on tour with Victor Herbert’s Orchestra and was a recording personality for Victor, Columbia, Edison, Rex and Indestructible. Mr. Kimball, living on his own for several years, secured an uncontested divorce from Agnes in 1913. Her career continued another year, and she then married a wealthy businessman from Toledo, Edward T. Affleck, Jr. At that point she appeared to have had enough of the life of a touring singer as she shortly after disappeared from the stage. Her retirement lasted only a short period. She became ill during Chrismas week of 1917 and died the following January 5th, possibly from the flu, at the age of 36.

1226. 10” Purple Pats. Victor 60070. TOSCA: Vissi d’arte (Puccini). In English. Scarce. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $15.00.

2108. 10” Purple ’12 Pats. Victor 60099. SPRING SONG [FRÜHLINGSLIED], Op. 10, No. 2 (Weill). Lt. rubbing, 3. $15.00.

3845. 12” Purple “A” plate Pats. 70064. ELIJAH: Hear Ye Israel (Mendelssohn). Lovely copy, few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $15.00.

ROXY KING [s]. Alliance, OH, 1878 - ? . When she was 12 years old, King and her family emigrated to Brazil. Four years later she made her debut in Rio de Janiero in the leading role in Alberto Nepomucemo’s opera, Artemus. As a result of her marked success she was sent to the Stern Conservatory in Berlin where she studied with Selma Nicklass-Kempner. Her German debut took place at the Theater des Westerns in Berlin, 1901, in Smetana’s Dalibor. She was then called to the Royal Opera where she was one of two American sopranos on the roster, the other Geraldine Farrar. King’s repertoire included Santuzza, Rachel in La Juive, Senta, Valentine in Les Huguenots, Fedora, and Selika in l’Africaine, having sung the last over 60 times. She made seven sides for G&T around 1905 and nine for Victor, all exceptionally rare. The latter group was issued only in South America. In 1908 she married a gentleman named Shaw and gave up her career. She was still living in Brazil in 1958. Items below are pressed from the original parts.

3197. 12” Blk. Vinyl RCA Victor 74112. LO SCHIAVO: O Ciel de Parahyba (Gomez). Just about 1-2. $75.00.

ROXY KING as Aida

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3443. 12” Blk. Vinyl Plain lbl. Vinyl Victor 74125. MAMMA DICE (Gomes). Just about 1-2. $75.00.

2472. 12” Blk. Vinyl RCA Victor 74170. IL GUARANY: C’era una volta (Gomez). Just about 1-2. $75.00.

ALEXANDER KIPNIS [bs] 2261. 10” Blk. PW Electrola EW 90 [BLR6303-II/BLR6209-I]. FAUST: Ständchen des

Mephistopheles / FAUST: Rondo von Goldenen Kalb (Gounod). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2221. 10” Blk. PW Electrola EW 91 [BLR6301-II/BLR6304-II]. MARTHA: Porterlied (Flotow) / DER FREISCHÜTZ: Trinklied des Caspar (v. Weber). Small lbl. stkr., few lt. mks., cons. 2. $12.00.

1676. 10” Red PW (gold print) Victor 2135. LITTLE JACK HORNER [WITH APOLOGIES TO HÄNDEL] (Diack) / AH! WILLOW (Old English, arr. H. Lane Wilson). Piano acc. Ernst Victor Wolff. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2769. 12” Blue PW Microphone Columbia 67433-D [W978407-4/W98452-1]. AUFEN-THALT / AM MEER (both Schubert). Piano acc. Frank Bibb. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2768. 12” Blue Viva-Tonal Columbia 67434-D [W98404-2/W98406-1]. DER WANDERER / DER DOPPELGÄNGER (both Schubert). Piano acc. Frank Bibb. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2772. 12” Blue Viva-Tonal Columbia 67435-D [W98405-2/W98453-2]. DER WEGWEI-SER / DER LINDENBAUM (both Schubert). Piano acc. Frank Bibb. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

3617. 12” Blue PW Columbia Master Works 7224-M [W98683-1/W98673-2]. ARIODANTE: Al sen ti stringo e parto / BERENICE: Si, tra I ceppi (both Händel). Piano acc. Arthur Bergh. Excellent pressing. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3524. 12” PW Blk. Czech ES 217 [CwR410-I/CwR1435-I]. MEISTERSINGER: Verachtet mir die Meister nicht (Wagner) / LEO BLECH dir. BERLIN STAATSOPER ORCH. & CHORUS: FRA DIAVOLO: Tanzet dem Frühling (Auber). IMs. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $20.00.

2561. 12” PW Blk. Czech ES 748 [2D298-I/2D309-II]. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Die Verleumdung (Rossini) / SIMON BOCCANEGRA: Il lacerato spirito (Verdi). Side one in German, side two in Italian. IMs. Fine pressing. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3475. 12” PW Red Electrola EJ 689 [2D298-I/2D309-II]. Same as preceding listing. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3806. 12” PW Red Scroll Victor “Z” shellac 8684 [CLR6262-II/2D309-II]. MAGIC FLUTE: In diesen heilgen Hallen (Mozart) / SIMON BOCCANEGRA: Il lacerato spirito (Verdi). In German/Italian. Orch. dir. Erich Orthmann. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

4086. 12” Red late RCA Victor 12-8595. THE HARVEST OF SORROW, Op. 4, No. 5 (Rach-maninoff) / OVER THE STEPPE, Op. 5, No. 1 (Gretchaninoff). Piano acc. Celius Dougherty. Nice pressing. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

LOUISE KIRBY LUNN [c] 4250. 7” London Berliner 3238 [4223nb]. ONE SPRING MORNING (Nevins). Very clean

appearance. 2. $200.00. 2787. 12” Red SS HMV 03259 [Ac5535f]. O LOVELY NIGHT (Landon Ronald). With W. H.

SQUIRE [cellist] and piano. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

WALTER KIRCHHOFF [t] 4419. 12” Green acous. Polydor 15849 [789m/790m]. DAS RHEINGOLD: Immer ist

Undank Loges Lohn (Wagner). Two sides. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

ALEXANDER KIRCHNER [t]. Vienna, 1880-Vienna, 1948. Born Alexander Schramek, he studied with Adolf Robinson and Amelia Maernia. His debut was with the Vienna Opera, 1909, as des Grieux in Manon. Remaining at Vienna until 1911, he then sang a season with the Stockholm Opera. His longest tenure was from 1913-1935 as a member of the Berlin Opera. Here he created Bacchus in the revised version of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. As a guest artist, Kirchner was heard at Covent Garden and also in Paris, Vienna, Netherlands, Switzerland and at Bayreuth. Basically a lyric tenor through most of his career with a voice noted for its appealing timbre, he appeared as Otello in his farewell performance.

3547. 12” Blue acous. Stradivari 162 [10671/10674]. MAGIC FLUTE: Bildnisarie (Mo- zart) / MANON: Flieh, o flieh (Massenet). Cons. 2. $15.00.

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DOROTHY KIRSTEN [s] 1259. 10” Red RCA Victor 10-1156. EV’RYTIME WE SAY GOODBYE / ONLY ANOTHER

BOY AND GIRL (both Cole Porter) [from Seven Lively Arts]. Kirsten was among the few operatic singers equally at home in pop music. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3162. 12” late Red RCA Victor 12-0999. LA RONDINE: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Pucci-ni)/ MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Un bel di (Puccini). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2645. 12” late Red RCA Victor 12-1092. LOUISE: Depuis le jour (Charpentier) / MANON: Obéissons, quand leur voix appelle (Massenet). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

ALEXANDER KISSELBURGH [b] 1387. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 171-M

[W146593-3/W146594-2]. WHEN DULL CARE (Leveridge) / SOME RIVAL HAS STOLEN MY TRUE LOVE AWAY (arr. Broadwood). Piano acc. Harry R. Spier. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1388. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Blue Shellac Columbia 2041-D [W149148-5/W149152-2]. BY A LONELY FOREST PATHWAY (Griffes) / MORRO ROCK (Seaver). Piano acc. Arthur Bergh. Pasted over cat. number 189-M on second side. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1389. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 2141-D [W149168-2/W149471-2]. EARLY ONE MORNING (Traditional) / FLOW THOU REGAL PURPLE STREAM (Arnold). Piano acc. Arthur Bergh. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2036. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 2226-D [W149420-2/W149472-2]. DER HIDALGO (Schumann) / VERGORGENHEIT (Wolf). Piano acc. Arthur Bergh. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2161. 10” Blue Shellac PW Columbia 195-M. Same as previous listing (item #2036) but slightly later pressing. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

THEODORE [TOBIA] KITTAY [t]. Bjiala Czerkoff in Kiza, Poland, 1889- ? . Active in the 1915- 1922 period, Kittay was also referred to in publicity in the early 1920s as Kittay-Vito. By the age of sixteen he was successful as a Cantor and was able to pay his way to the Warsaw Conservatory. Later he studied at the Conservatory in Kiev and finally the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where his harmony professor was Alexandre Glazounov. In the meantime, his family had emigrated to Philadelphia, where his father hoped to establish a successful dry goods business. Things did not work out, and he pled with his son, Tobia, to come to the U.S. to help support the family. This the obedient son did and was provided board in New York City by friends of the family, but no work. Running into a violinist he knew from St. Petersburg playing at the St. Regis Hotel, he arranged to sing outside the St. Regis (“Salut, demeure” from Faust ). He was heard by newspaper man Joseph McNevins, who was impressed. McNevins, in turn, brought the “ragged youth” to the attention of Mrs. Edward N. Breitung, a guest at the St. Regis Hotel. An audition was arranged, the result being that Mrs. Breitung offered to defray the expense of supporting Kittay’s family and provide for his musical tuition. The following day he was taken to the Metropolitan Opera (nice to have friends in the right places), and he sang for an audience including baritone Pasquale Amato and Met manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza. All agreed that he had much potential. Amato offered to teach him, and a second hearing was given two months later. It was determined that he was worth musically educating further, and Mrs. Breitung and Otto Kahn were among those who made the funds available. His debut took place as the Duke in Rigoletto with the Josiah Zuro Opera Company on the Bowery in New York in April of 1915. According to another article he studied three summers in Italy with Amato and reappeared in the U.S. with the Boston Opera and soprano Tamaki Miura in Mascagni’s Iris. Further engagements included the Bracale Opera on tour in Cuba and the La Scala Grand Opera Company (a touring group on the U.S. West Coast). He apparently also appeared in Italy (one source indicates the Rome Costanzi), Monte Carlo, Spain, Portugal and France in 1920 and was photographed there in company with Puccini and Miura. He subsequently toured with Tamaki Miura’s company. Both sang in South America, 1921, in Walter Mocchi’s 1921 summer season. What happened to him after 1921 seems a mystery. -contemporary clippings

1910. 10” Multi-Color vertical Lyric 7115 [ ? / ? ]. LA GIOCONDA: Cielo e mar (Ponchielli) / TOSCA: Recondita armonia (Puccini). Gen. 2-3. $12.00.

ALEXANDER KISSELBURGH

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HERMINE KITTEL [c] 2680. 12” White lbl. vinyl Vla 74168 [0986v]. CARMEN: Final Scene (Bizet). In German.

With LEO SLEZAK [t]. Rare! Just about 1-2. $25.00.

OLIVE KLINE [s]. Amsterdam, NY,1889 (or 1890)-Pelham, NY, 1976. Studying originally as a pianist, Kline’s career as a soprano gradually evolved. She began as a church singer in New York City and was offered a chance to make a Victor test record. This led to a Victor contract and concert work, both as a featured recitalist and oratorio singer on her own and as assisting artist with many of the major stars of the day. In 1975, I prepared a broadcast of her records for a series I produced that decade over New York’s WNYC-FM and, in hearing the program, Miss Kline replied with a very kind letter (in part): “I was enchanted listening to my own voice recorded when I was so young and full of life. Now I am an old lady in my 80s and it seems unbelieveable that I had such a beautiful voice.”

4221. 10” Blk. acous. Victor 17868. CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE MORNING; GOOD NIGHT AND A CHRISTMAS PRAYER (M. B. Foster) / ELSIE BAKER [c]. CHRISTMAS EVE (Foster); O BIENHEUREUSE NUIT (Normandie Carol). Small lbl. stkr. side two. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

4222. 10” Blk. acous. Victor 17869. MERRY CHRISTMAS; SLEIGHING SONG (both Riley-Gaynor) / ELSIE BAKER [c]. AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE (Riley-Gaynor); LITTLE CHRISTMAS SHOES [Terhune). Small lbl. stkr. Few lt. rubs, cons. 2. $8.00.

1979. 10” Blue acous. Victor 45257. AN OLD SACRED LULLABY (Liddle). With LAMBERT MURPHY [t] / MERLE ALCOCK [c]. THE COMIMG OF THE KING: The Virgin’s Lullaby (Dudley Buck). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2516. 12” Late elec. VdP DB 1096. DON QUICHOTTE: La morte di Don Quichotte (Masse-net). Two sides. With FEODOR CHALIAPIN [bs]. Excellent pressing. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

MARGARETE KLOSE [c] 3103. 12” PW Plum HMV EH 993 [2RA1475-1/2RA1476-1]. CARO MIO BEN (Giordani) /

XERXES: Rezitativ und Arie (Händel). With Choir and Orchestra dir. Bruno Seidler-Winkler. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

K. L. KNIJNIKOFF [b] 2369. 10” Red Scroll “Z”-type shellac Victor 4119. THE DEMON: I am the one to whom

you listen / THE DEMON: Do not cry, my child (Rubinstein). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

PAUL KNÜPFER [bs] 2069. 10” Blk. Dog Con. Gram. 4-42555/4-42556 [13486r/13487r]. PARSIFAL: Nun achte

wohl! / PARSIFAL: Vom Bade kehrt der König heim! (Wagner). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1933. 10” Blk. Schall. gram. 62275 (4-42612/4-42613) [18907Lb/18908Lb]. ICH TRAGE MEINE MINNE / HEIMLICHE AUFFORDERUNG (both R. Strauss). Piano acc. Lightest lbl. strain, just about 1-2. $10.00.

1707. 10” Blk. Schall. Gram. 62293 (4-42623/4-42644) [18911Lb/18912Lb]. GREISEN-GESANG (Schubert). Two sides. Piano acc. Bruns Seidler-Winkler. Small lbl. stkr. Few lt. mks., cons. 2. $8.00.

MILIZA KORJUS [s] 2642. 12” Red Scroll “Z” type shellac Victor 11921 [2RA284-I/2D2002-II]. TALES OF

HOFFMANN: Olympia’s Aria (Offenbach) /MAGIC FLUTE: Der Hölle Rache (Mozart). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

OLIVE KLINE sampling the soup

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2572. 12” PW Red (gold print) Victor 12021 [2RA1034-I/2RA1062-I]. CZAR’S BRIDE: Arie der Martha (Rimsky-Korsakov) / LE COQ D’OR: Hymne an die Sonne (both Rimsky-Korsakov). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2571. 12” PW Red (gold print) Victor 12036 [2RA1063-II/2RA1064-I]. LIEBE KLEINE NACHTIGALL (Moszkowski) / DIE MÄDCHEN VON CADIZ (Delibes). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2574. 12” PW Red (gold print) Victor 12136 [2RA1011-II/2RA1012-II]. LAKMÉ: O Dourga bionda / LAKMÉ: Bell Song (Delibes). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2570. 12” PW Red (gold print) Victor 12588 [2RA338-II/2RA339-I]. PARLA / IL BACIO (both Arditi). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2924. 12” Plum PW Electrola EH 867 [2D2113-1/2D2114-2]. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Frag’ ich mein beklommnes Herz (Rossini) / RIGOLETTO: Teurer Name (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3798. 12” Plum PW Electrola EH 956 [2RA1002-1/2RA1003-3]. LUCIA: Mad Scene (Donizetti). In Italian. With chorus and orch. dir. Bruno Seidler-Winkler. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

LUCETTE KORSOFF [s] 1016. 10” Blk. Victor 62750 [6732½h/5828h]. VALSE DES ROSES (Métra) / LÉON

BEYLE [t], HECTOR DUFRANNE [b]. CARMEN: Je suis Escamillo (Bizet). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2655. 12” Blk. Dog Gram. Mon. 034018/034017 [5070i/5085i]. IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Dunque io son (Rossini). With DANIEL VIGNEAU [b]. In French / LÉON BEYLE [t], HECTOR DUFRANNE [b]. LA REINE DE CHYPRE: Triste exile (Halévy). Cons. 2. $15.00.

NINA KOSHETZ [s] 1694. 10” Purple acous. Brunswick 10137

[8720/8722]. NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART/ AT THE BALL (both Tschaikow-sky). Piano acc. Nicolai Stember. Side two with unidentified cellist. As new. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

1722. 10” Purple acous. Brunswick 10137. Same as preceding listing (item #1694). Lt. rubbing. 2. $20.00.

2256. 10” Purple acous. Brunswick 10138 [8798/8801]. HUMORESQUE (Mous-sorgsky) / EASTERN ROMANCE [THE ROSE AND THE NIGHTINGALE] (Rimsky-Korsakov). Just about 1-2. $35.00.

1846. 10” Purple acous. Brunswick 10139 [8633/8638]. OVER THE STEPPE (Gretchaninoff) / TO THE SUN (Koshetz). Piano acc. Nicolai Stemler. Very small lbl. scrape near center side one, few lightest rubs. Cons. 2. $25.00.

1465. 10” Purple acous. Brunswick 10140 [8906/8909]. WINDS ARE BLOWING / OI’ MAMO (Ukrainian Folk Songs). Piano acc. Boris Lang. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

2379. 10” Gold acous. Brunswick 15029 [8720/8722]. NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART/ AT THE BALL (both Tschaikowsky). Piano acc. Nicolai Stember. Side two with unidentified cellist. Small lbl. stkr. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

1845. 10” Gold acous. Brunswick 15031 [8798/8801]. HUMORESQUE (Moussorgsky) / EASTERN ROMANCE [THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE] (Rimsky-Korsakov). Just about 1-2. $30.00.

1687. 10” PW Red (gold print) Victor 4040. ESTRELLITA / SERENATA MEXICANA (both Ponce). Desert island disc! Excellent pressing. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

2184. 10” White lbl. Vinyl Vla 4040-A. ESTRELLITA (Ponce). Wonderful pressing. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3365. 12” Purple acous. Brunswick 30106 [X8956/X8959]. FAIR AT SOROTCHINSKY: Reverie and Dance (Moussorgsky) / PIQUE DAME: Lisa’s Air (Tschaikowky). Lt. rubs, 2. $25.00.

A youthful NINA KOSHETZ

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3417. 12” Red Orth. Vla 7111 [takes 3/3]. DOBRINYA NIKITICH: The flowers were growing / BERCEUSE; SNOW DROP (all Alexandre Grethaninov). Piano acc. by the composer. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3056. 12” White lbl. Orth. vinyl Vla matrix CVE-51164-2. DOBRINYA NIKITICH: The flowers were growing (Gretchaninov). Piano acc. by the composer. Unpublished take. Issued version was take 1 (Victor 7111). Just about 1-2. $35.00.

2525. 12” Red Orth. Vla 9208. EILI, EILI / KADDISH (Trad. Hebraic Prayers). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3269. 12” White lbl. vinyl SS Victors 9233 [CVE-43726-2/43727-3]. PRINCE IGOR: Arioso of Jaroslavna (Borodin) / SADKO: Berceuse (Rimsky-Korsakov). Two single-sided pressings. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

3302. 12” Red PW (gold print) Victor 9233. Same as preceding pressings (item #3269) but shellac pressing. Excellent quality shellac. Few lightest rubs. Cons. 2. $15.00.

3917. 12” Red PW “Z” Shellac Scroll Victor 9233. Same as the preceding two listings (#3269 and #3302). Superb pressing. Lt. rubs, 2. $15.00.

3913. 12” White lbl. vinyl SS Orth. Vla 9675-B. ÉTUDE IN E MAJOR (Félia Litvinne-Chopin). Piano acc. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

3229. 12” Yellow PW Schirmer 5512 [2107/2109]. VALSE (Arensky-Koshetz) / NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART; AT THE BALL (both Tschaikowsky). Side one acc. Celius Dougherty. Side two self-accompanied. PW Columbia pressing. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

NELLIE KOUNS [s] and SARA KOUNS [s]. The “Mirror Voiced Sopranos”, the Kouns sisters, were popular in vaudeville and on the concert stage from the late ‘teens through the early ‘thirties. In 1925, they were on the opening program of the Brooklyn Albee Theater, referred to by the press as “the most beautiful theater in the world”. Sarah (Mrs. Sherman Culver Amsden, who died in Delray Beach, FL, 1958) and Nellie (Mrs. E. H. McHugh, a Manhattan resident in 1951) were educated in Miss Weaver’s School in Munich and studied voice in Germany prior to W. W. I. Upon their return to the U.S. they began their sister per-formances. Their father had been general manager of the Santa Fé Railroad.

1427. 10” Brown Shellac Vocalion 20005 [81??]. MIGHTY LAK’ A ROSE (Nevin). Tiny lbl. stkr. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

1431. 10” Blk. Shellac Blue Aeolian-Vo-calion 24000 [ ? /5304]. SING, SMILE, SLUMBER (Gounod) / NELLIE KOUNS [s]. JUST A-WEARYIN’ FOR YOU (Jacobs-Bond). Small lbl. stkrs. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1413. 10” Blk. Shellac Blue Aeolian-Vocalion 24005. PRETTY LITTLE CINDERELLA (Vincent) / SARA KOUNS [s]. OUT OF A CLEAR SKY (Santrella). Small lbl. stkrs. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

ERNST KRAUS [t] 4414. 10” Blk. Polydor 61849 (3-44133/3-44134) [17835L/18524L]. SIEGFRIED: Sieg-

fried und die Waldvogel (Wagner). Two sides. With KÄTE HERWIG [s]. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3370. 12” Blk. No-Dog Gramophone 65251 (044218/044219) [281½al/282al]. SIEG-FRIED: Siegfried und Mime (Wagner). Two sides. With JULIUS LIEBAN [t]. Few tiny lbl. mks., just about 1-2. $10.00.

ERLING KROGH [t]. Oslo, 1886-1968. He made his debut as a concert singer in 1915 and then studied with, among others, Peter Cornelius in Copenhagen. During the later ‘teens and first half of the 1920s, Krogh was noted for his operetta and opera work in Norway. Later he toured internationally as a concert singer, including performances in Berlin, Barcelona and in two U.S. tours (1927 and 1937). He eventually taught in Oslo. Between December 27th, 1927 and January 3rd, 1928, he recorded 24 selections (and a number of re-takes of these) for Victor and Okeh. Those issued are quite scarce. There are also Scandinavian HMV recordings.

SARA [left] and NELLIE KOUNS

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1802. 10” Red Orth. Vla 4032. PAASKEMORGEN [EASTER MORNING] / KIRKEN DEN ER ET GAMMELT HUS [THE CHURCH IS AN OLD HOUSE] (composers?). In Norwegian. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1801. 10” Red Orth. Vla 4032. Same as preceding listing. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $7.00.

SALOMEA KRUSZELNICKA [s]. Poland, 1873-Lwów, 1952. Kruszelnicka’s parents were Ukrainian. She began as an amateur and choral singer and first sang as a soloist, 1892, in Händel's Messiah. This was followed by a period of study in Milan with Fausta Crespi, and she then appeared in Cremona for the 1895-96 season, singing in Manon Lescaut (Puccini) and Les Huguenots. Following several seasons in Russia, she returned to Italy in 1902 (as Krusceniski) and for a number of years had an extremely important career there, creating Madama Butterfly (in the revised version of the opera) in Brescia, 1904, and appearing as both Salome (1907) and Elektra (1909) in the respective La Scala premieres of these Strauss operas. Her repertoire included many Italian roles, such as Aida, Tosca, and Adriana Lecouvreur, as well as a full range of Wagner heroines (including Brünnhilde). She was also noted for her physical beauty.

2366. 10” Blk. Monarch 61078 [407z]. TOSCA: Vissi d’arte (Puccini). Excellent copy, 2. $125.00.

1670. 10” Green Viva-Tonal Columbia 27133-F [W18889-2/W18899-2]. OI, DE TY IDESZ / OI, LETILY BILI HUSY [Ukrainian Folk Songs). As mint. Just about 1-2. $75.00.

1530. 10” Green Viva-Tonal Columbia 27133-F. Same as preceding listing (item #1670). Title translations penned on lbls. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $60.00.

RICHARD KUBLA [t]. Ostrava, 1890-1964. A noted Czech tenor, Kubla studied voice in Prague, previously preparing for a career in law. He then entered the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts, from which he was graduated in 1914. The same year he made his debut as Rodolfo with the Vienna Volksoper, appearing there at various periods through 1938. He was also heard at the Prague Deutsches Theater and the Vienna State Opera, among other companies. His repertoire totaled some 130 roles in both opera and operetta. As an operatic singer, his roles included principal parts in operas of Wagner, Puccini, and the leading Czech composers.

1787. 10” PW Plum Czech HMV AM 797 [Bk2152-I/BK2153-I]. DALIBOR: Kdy� Zdenek muj / DALIBOR: Slyšels to, príteli (Smetana). Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $15.00.

CHARLES KULLMAN [t] 1213. 10” PW Blue Columbia Master Works 4153-M [WR427-2/WR562-2]. ROSENKA-

VALIER: Di rigori armato (Strauss)` / VITTORIA, VITTORIA (Carissimi). Side one perhaps the greatest recorded example of this excerpt. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3627. 12” PW Blue Columbia 9099-M [CAX7552/CAX7553]. PRINCE IGOR: Daylight slowly fades (Borodin) / EUGEN ONEGIN: Lensky’s Aria (Tschaikowky). In German. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

MARIA KURENKO [s] 2377. 10” Blue Viva-Tonal Columbia 2042-M [W142102-7/W142145-1]. THE LASS WITH

THE DELICATE AIR (Arne) / ‘TIS THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER (Moore). Side one piano acc. Robin Hood Bowers. Side two with orch. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1595. 10” Blue Viva-Tonal Columbia 2048-M [W142144-3.W142188-4]. MIREILLE: O légère hirondelle (Gounod) / MON GENTIL PIERROT [SÉRÉNADE FRANÇAISE] (Leoncavallo). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1332. 10” Blue Viva-Tonal Columbia 2062-M [W144173-2/W143750-6]. TRAVIATA: Addio del passato (Verdi) / ÉLÉGIE (Massenet). Side two with OSSIP GISKIN [cellist]. Piano acc. Arthur Bergh. Neither artist credited on lbl. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3531. 12” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 50082-D [W98495-2/W98506-1]. LA BOHÈME: Mi chiamano Mimì / MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Un bel di (both Puccini). Few lt. mks., just about 1-2. $10.00.

3779. 12” Blue Viva-Tonal Columbia 7127-M [W98254-7/W98257-2]. IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Una voce poco fa (Rossini) / I VESPRI SICILIANI: Bolero (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

SELMA KURZ [s] 2388. 10” Blk. German Zonophone X-1670. HUGUENOTS: Pagenarie (Meyerbeer). With

“orch.” dir. Franz Ziegler. 4, but some greying will sound in various spots through-out. $60.00.

2383. 10” Blk. German Zonophone X-1671. DER VOGEL IM WALDE (Taubert). Piano acc. Prof. Emil Weeber. Small scr. in matrix. Greying sounding during intro. and otherwise lightly here and there. Otherwise clean looking. 4. $75.00.

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2389. 10” Green Zonophone X-23012. MIGNON: Styrienne (Thomas). A few grey grooves but mostly fairly clean. 4. $75.00.

2390. 10” Green Zonophone X-23013. ERNANI: Arie der Elvira (Verdi). Greying in spots throughout (a very forward recording). 5. $50.00.

1451. 10” Red Dog Gram. Con. 53565 [13069u]. TRAVIATA: Addio del passato (Verdi). In German. Gilt on lbl. lightly faded. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1760. 10” Red Hist. No. 2 HMV DA 408 [9885u/ 15284u]. DER VOGEL AM WALDE (Tau-bert) / IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Una voce poco fa (Rossini). Side two in Italian. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

4236. 10” Red HMV DA 408 [9885u/15284u]. Same as previous listing but earlier pressing. SR. IMs. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1666. 10” Red Polydor 70673 [2488ar/2490½ar]. DER VOGEL IM WALDE (Taubert) / AVE MARIA (Bach-Gounod). Extraordinary trilling on side one. Side two with violinist VAŠA PRIHODA (although not given label credit here). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1550. 10” White elec. HMV VA 2 [Bb6956-III/Bb6996-II]. QUEEN OF SHEBA: Lockruf (Goldmark) / SANDMÄNDCHEN (Brahms). Piano acc. side one Gerald Moore. Side two by Julius Harrison. On side one, virtually unaccompanied, Kurz displays her long trill. Two of her only four electrically recorded sides. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

3500. 12” Red acous. Polydor 72846 [1287as/1304as]. ERNANI: Ernani, involami (Verdi) / DINORAH: Ombra leggiera (Meyerbeer). Both in Italian. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3734. 12” Red acous. Polydor 72850 [1288as/1289as]. SERENATA (Toselli) / JOCELYN: Berceuse (Godard). In German. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3733. 12” Red acous. Polydor 72852 [1290½as/1297as]. CAPRICE VIENNOIS (Kreisler) / SERENADE (Gounod). Few lightest rubs. Cons. 2. $15.00.

3916. 12” White lbl. HMV 2-033036 [686m]. ROMÉO ET JULIETTE: Je veux vivre (Gounod). In French. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

4314. 12” White lbl. HMV 043181 [569m]. QUEEN OF SHEBA: Lockruf (Goldmark). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3247. 12” White lbl. HMV 043270 [770m]. DON PASQUALE: Quel guardo … So anch’ io la virtue magica (Donizetti). Fine pressing. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2886. 12” Red Dog Monarch Gram. 2-043005 [Ho685m]. ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO: Ach, ich liebe (Mozart). Small scr. in matrix (i.e. in all copies) near start (harmless). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

3691. 12” White lbl. HMV blk. vinyl 2-043005 [Ho685m]. Same as preceding listing (item #2886). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

3262. 12” Red Vinyl HMV 043181 [569m]. QUEEN OF SHEBA: Lockruf (Goldmark). Another amazing lengthy trill display. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3477. 12” White lbl. HMV 053254 [2070c]. ERNANI: Involami (Verdi). In Italian. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2887. 12” Red Dog Monarch Gram. 053276 [572m]. I VESPRI SICILIANI: Bolero (Verdi). In Italian. Scarce original. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3766. 12” White lbl. HMV 053279 [571m]. IL TROVATORE: D’amor sull’ ali rosee (Verdi). In Italian. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3092. 12” White lbl. blk. vinyl HMV mat. 771m. DIAMANTS DE LA COURONNE: Air et variations (Auber). Unpublished except for historic HM issue. Amazingly good sound for the era (1911). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3687. 12” White lbl. blk. vinyl HMV mat. 772m. DON CARLO: Tu che la vanità (Verdi). As above, unpublished except for historic HM issue. Remarkable sound. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

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3583. 12” Red lbl. blk. vinyl HMV mat. Cc4768-I. MAGIC FLUTE: Infelice, sconsolata (Mozart). Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $50.00.

3496. 12” PW Hist. No. 2 HMV DB 330 [0750v/0821v]. MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: Ihr, die ihr Triebe (Mozart) / DINORAH: Ombra leggiera (Meyerbeer). In German/Italian. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3259. 12” PW Czech HMV DB 498 (043181/053275) [569m/570m]. QUEEN OF SHEBA: Lockruf (Goldmark) / BALLO IN MACHERA: Saper vorreste (Verdi). Great pressing. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

4304. 12” Silver PW elec. Victor IRCC 165 35 [Cc6973-II/Cc6992-II]. AN DER SCHÖNEN BLAUEN DONAU (Strauss) / MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: Deh vieni non tardar (Mozart). In German. Orch. dir. Julius Harrison. Her other two electric sides. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2846. 12” White elec. HMV VB 35 [Cc6973-II/Cc6992-II]. Same as previous listing (item #4304) but later pressing. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

Cantor MOSHE KUSEVITSKY [t] 2923. 12” Red late RCA Victor 12-3211. ADOSHEM MOLOCH / RETZEI VIMNUCHO-

SEINU (both Traditional Hebrew). With A. Ellstein [organ]. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

DORA LABETTE [LABBETTE][s] 3182. 12” PW Blue Microphone Columbia 9092-M [WAX5069-1/WAX5104-2]. CRADLE

SONG; THE NIGHTINGALE / EVENING VOICE [TWILIGHT FANCIES] (all Delius). Piano acc. Sir THOMAS BEECHAM. Couple tiny rim patinas side one, otherwise as new. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3582. 12” PW Blk. Eng. Columbia 9343 [WRAX2384/WRAX2385]. THE APOSTLES: By the Wayside (Elgar). Two sides. with HUBERT EISDELL [t], DENNIS NOBLE [b], HAROLD WILLIAMS [b], ROBERT EASTON [bs]. Sir HAMILTON HARTY dir. Halle Chorus and Orchestra. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

ANDREI M. LABINSKY (as LENSKY) [t]. 1871-1941.

1960. 10” Green Russian Zonophone X-64444/X-64445 [4935L/4817L]. IL TROVATORE: Ai nostri monti (Verdi). With YULYA N. NOSILOVA [as NO-SOVA) [c]./ NICOLAI A. BOLSHA-KOV [t], LEV SIBIRIAKOV (as LAVRENTEV) [bs]. OH SAY THOSE WORDS TO ME AGAIN (L. Badia). Piano acc. side two. Lt. marks, side one 2-3, side two 3. $25.00.

WLADYSLAW LADIS [t]. Sosnowiec, Po-land, 1904-Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1998. En-couraged to pursue his singing talent by his brother, Jan (Kiepura), he decided on a stage name (Ladis) so there might be no specific com-petition between the two singing Kiepuras. Ladis sang in a number of the world’s leading opera houses in the 1930s, including La Scala, the Chicago Opera and the Hamburg Opera. He left Europe in 1939 and then settled in the U.S. According to an obituary, “In an era before antibiotics, health considerations then forced a partial retirement from singing and he was advised to seek a cure in ‘healthy’ farm living.” He retired from singing and for over two decades owned and operated farms in New York and New Jersey. In 1966 he retired from farming and joined his brother in commercial real estate ventures in Toronto. Several years after the death of Jan, Wladyslaw again retired, this time to Fort Lauderdale, where he embarked on another real estate career that lasted until the year of his death.

1536. 10” Blk. Parlophone R 2227 [Be11291/Bb11292]. TU, CA NUN CHIAGNE! (DeCurtis-Bovio) / LOLITA (Buzzi-Peccia). Both in Italian. Just about 1-2 $12.00.

ANDREI M. LABINSKI as Gérald in Lakmé

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LÉON LAFFITTE [t]. St.-Geniès, 1875-Paris, 1938. After studying at the Paris Conser-vatoire, Lafitte made his debut at the Paris Opéra as David in Die Meistersinger. The following year he began a fifteen year tenure at la Monnaie in Brussels. His also included seasons with the Boston Opera, Covent Garden and the Teatro Colón. His career continued into the 1920s and included Saint-Saëns’ Samson at the Paris Opéra in 1923. Laffitte’s scarce records all date from the 1901-03 period.

4252. 7” Berliner 32993 [ 754-nb-2]. LE ROI D’YS: Vainement, ma bien aimée (Lalo). Nice looking copy. One harmless mark. Some LGTs. 2-3. $250.00.

RAFAELE LAGARES [t]. A noted Mexican tenor active in Spain, South America and Italy. He also appeared in the U.S. with the NYC Opera (making his debut as Alfredo in 1945) and with the Philadelphia Opera in 1946, as well as with Fortune Gallo’s touring San Carlo where he sang, among other roles, Rhadames and Manrico. Lagares’ physical appearance was somewhat remi-niscent of Caruso, and his dark vocal timbre was also akin to that of his eminent predecessor in his later years.

3705. 12” Red late VdP DB 11352 [2BA7982/2BA7983]. CARMEN: Ah! Mi parla de lei (Bizet). Two sides with ROSANNA PAPAGNI [s]. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

GEORGE LAMBERT [t]. See: FORREST LAMONT

FORREST LAMONT [t]. Athelstan, Canada, 1881-Chicago, 1937. Lamont was raised in Chicopee, MA, where he studied voice in nearby Springfield with Alfred Y. Cornell. He subsequently prepared further in Italy with Fernando Tanara and made his operatic debut there in Donizetti’s Poliuto. This was followed by a concert tour of Italy with soprano Celestina Boninsegna. Most of Lamont’s career was with the Chicago Opera (1917-1932), where he sang a wide variety of leading roles in operas such as Isabeau, Tiefland, Die Walküre, Boris Godounov, Il Trovatore, I Gioielli della Ma-donna and Parsifal. He also created principal tenor parts in several American operas, including Azora, Daughter of Montezuma (Hadley); Daughter of the Forest (Arthur Nevin); Light from St. Agnes [a “jazz oriented” opera] (Harling) and The Echo (Patterson). While Lamont’s only issued records under his own name are ten sides for lateral Okeh made in 1920, he appeared under at least three noms-du-disque for Okeh (vertical and lateral) as well as Emerson and Lyric during the later ‘teens

1647. [as GEORGE LAMBERT]. 10” acous. Vertical Blue Indian Okeh 1182 [369-B/271-B]. DRINK TO MY ONLY WITH THINE EYES (Jonson). / MARIE MORRISEY [c]. MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME (Foster). One lbl. tear side one. Cons. 2. $15.00.

1911. [as GEORGE LAMBERT]. 10” acous. Vertical Blue Indian Okeh 7006 [357C/354B]. TOSCA: E lucevan le stelle (Puccini) / FILIPPO ANTONIO [b]. FAUST: Dio possente (Gounod). Side two may be a nom-du-disque? 2. $15.00.

1152. 10” acous (lateral) Blue Indian Okeh 6001 [S-746-B/S-765-B]. TOSCA: E lucevan le stelle (Puccini) / IL TROVATORE: Di quella pira (Verdi). Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $15.00.

1091. 10” acous. (lateral) Red Okeh 6003 [S-792-B/S-776-B]. I’M DREAMING MY LIFE AWAY (Chiaffarelli) / SOMEWHERE A VOICE IS CALLING (Tate). Lt. rubs, 2. $15.00.

2320. 10” acous. (lateral) Purple Okeh 6007 [S-7346-B/7380-a]. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Brindisi / CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Sicliana (Mascagni). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1790. [As JOSEPH O’HARA] 10” acous. Vertical Lyric 7101 [ ?/ ? ]. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Siciliana and Intermezzo (Mascagni) / MARIO CHAMLEE [t] (as MARIO RODOLFI). MARTHA: M’appari (Flotow) Just about 1-2. $25.00.

ORPHÉE LANGEVIN [b]. Born in Québec around 1880, Langevin studied voice in Paris with Emmanuel Lafarge, Léon Melchissédec and August-Jean Dubulle. He recorded for Edison for a period beginning in 1915 French arias, duets and songs and at least two discs for U.S. Columbia.

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He made concert appearances in the ‘teen and ‘twenties and was, according to the U.S. census, living in New York City in 1930, although information as to his activities and later life hasn’t been found.

4230. 10” Green Columbia E4050 [44489-2/44490-4]. J’AI REVÉ QUE TU ME QUITTAIS/ CARILLON D’AMOUR (composers not stated). Nice copy. One tiny smudge. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

MARIO LANZA [t] 2215. 10” Blk. very late “New Orthophonic” RCA Victor 20-5478. SERENADE / MY

DESTINY (both Brodszky). From film Serenade. Orch. dir. Ray Heindorf. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

ULYSSES LAPPAS [t] 1823. 10” Gold Flags Columbia 30022-D [B84/B88]. PAGLIACCI: Vesti la giubba (Leonca-

vallo) / TOSCA: E lucevan le stelle (Puccini). Lt. rubs, 2. $8.00.

1512. 10” Blue acous. Columbia 3910-M [B89/B90]. TOSCA: Recondia armonia (Puccini) / CARMEN: Romanza del fiore (Bizet). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2267. 10” Blue acous. Eng. Columbia D1472 [B87/B91]. FANCIULLA DEL WEST: Ch’ella mi creda / MANON LESCAUT: Fra voi belle (Puccini). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2673. 12” Blue acous. Columbia 7080-M [BX1/BX2]/ ANDREA CHÉNIER: Improvviso / ANDREA CHÉNIER: Come un bel dì di maggio (Giordano). IMs. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2840. 12” Blue EE Columbia 7106-M [W98194-4/W98204-3]. GIOCONDA: Cielo e mar (Ponchielli) / AIDA: Celeste Aida (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3002. 12” Blue acous. Eng. Columbia L1703 [AX1078/AX1079]. MY LOVE, GET MARRIED (Greek Folk Song) / MARKOS BOTSARIS: Old Demos (Pavlos Karreris). In Greek. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

HULDA LASHANSKA [s]. New York, 1893-New York, 1974. Lashanska made her concert debut around 1909 (which would lead one to believe her birth date in error), although her obituary notes her debut having been an Aeolian Hall Song Recital in 1918. She was on the Met roster the season of 1917-18 but sang only in one Sunday night concert. A pupil of Frida Ashforth and Marcella Sembrich, her voice was described in a review as “a soprano voice of rare, almost fragile, beauty unlike any other that has come to maturity in New York since that of Alma Gluck”. Lashanska never appeared in opera but had an important concert career that lasted into the 1940s. Many of her performances were benefits for various charitable causes, and it seems she performed when and where she liked. She shared the stage with such varied artists as George Gershwin, Lawrence Tibbett, Rudolf Serkin and Morton Downey.

1755. 10” Red acous. Vla 964. LUNGI DAL CARO BENE (Secchi) / PARIS AND HELEN: Spiagge amate (Gluck). Beau-tiful performances. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1870. 10” Red EE Vla 1085. NAUGHTY MARIETTA: Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life (Herbert) / SLEEP LITTLE BABY OF MINE (Dennée). Lbl. stkr. side two. Otherwise just about 1-2. $7.00.

2058. 10” Red Orth. Vla 1226. ANNIE LAURIE (Scott) / LONG, LONG AGO (Bayly). Just about 1-2. $6.00.

1338. 10” Red PW (gold print) elec. Victor 1746. DU, DU LIEGST MIR IM HERZEN (Pax) / ACH, WIE IST’S MÖGLICH DANN (Thuringian Folk Song). With PAUL REIMERS [t]. Very effective vocal blending. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2546. 12” Blk. acous. Columbia 5021-M [49364-14/49516-7]. LOUISE: Depuis le jour (Charpentier) / CARMEN: Je dis que rien (Bizet). Excellent pressing. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

HULDA LASHANSKA knitting

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JEAN LASSALLE [b]. Lyons, 1847-Paris, 1909. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire and made his debut in 1868 as St. Bris in Les Huguenots at Liège. In 1872 he was engaged for the reopening of the Paris Opéra and remained a leading baritone there until he retired in 1901. He was also very successful, as both a singer and actor, at Covent Garden, where he was first heard in 1879, at the Metropolitan Opera (1892-97) and La Scala. The few and rare records of this most elegant singer were made for Odeon (1904) and Pathé (1902). -J. Steane.

9119. 11” Odeon Simplex 33908. AMOUR D’AUTOMNE (Chaminade). 1904 origi-nal. Clean reproduction in-cluding the announcement. Hair crack on blank side neatly taped. Excellent copy, gen. 2. $350.00.

GIACOMO LAURI-VOLPI [t] 1486. 10” Purple acous. Brunswick 10131.

CARMÈ (De Curtis) / MAMMA MIA CHE VO SAPÈ (Nutile). Superficial rubs, gen. 2. $8.00.

1688. 10” Purple acous. Brunswick 10136. SERENATA (Mascagni) / LUNA D’ESTATE! (Tosti). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2268. 10” Purple acous. Brunswick 10172. CIELO TURCHINO! (Ciociano) / MANELLA MIA! (Valente). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1685. 10” Gold acous. Brunswick 15047 [9985/10026]. RIGOLETTO: La donna è mobile / RIGOLETTO: Questa o quella (Verdi). As new, as would be most discs with this grading. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

4232. 10” Gold acous. Brunswick 15050 [10024/10173]. MAMMA MIA CHE VO SAPÉ (Nutile) / CARMÉ (De Curtis). Couple lightest rubs, cons. 2. $10.00.

2288. 10” Gold acous. Brunswick 15085 [10274/ ? ]. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Brindi- si (Mascagni) / PAGLIACCI: Vesti la giubba (Leoncavallo). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1206. 10” Gold acous. Brunswick 15095. IL TROVATORE: Ah si ben mio / IL TROVA-TORE: Di quella pira (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2008. 10” PW Blue French Polydor 590000 [Brunswick 10274/10277]. PAGLIACCI: Vesti la giubba (Leoncavallo) / CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Brindisi (Mascagni). Wonderful pressing. Electrical Polydor label. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1150. 10” Red Orth. Vla 3051. LA GIOCONDA: Assassini! (Ponchielli) / LES CONTES D’HOFFMAN: Légende de Kleinzack (Offenbach). With Met Opera Chorus and Orchestra. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2287. 10” PW French Disque Gram. DA 983 [BVE-41451-2/BVE-41664]. NORMA: Meco all’ alter di venere (Bellini). Late ‘30s glassy surface. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3192. 12” Gold Brunswick (Polydor) A73055 [same as U.S. Brunswick 50073]. BOHÈME: Racconto di Rodolfo / LO SCHIAVO: Quando nascesti tu (Gomes). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2467. 12” Red Vla 7226. LO SCHIAVO: Quando nascesti tu (Gomes) / I PURITANI: A te, o cara (Bellini). Fine surfaces. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3223. 12” Red Late VdP DB 1438. LO SCHIAVO: Quando nacesti tu (Gomes) / I PURI-TANI: A te, o cara (Bellini). Wonderful surfaces. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2501. 12” Red Scroll “Z”-type shellac Victor 7389. CARMEN: Air de la fleur (Bizet) / FAUST: Salut demeure (Gounod). Great pressing. Just about 1-2. $12.00

3104. 12” Mauve HMV AGSB 57. HUGUENOTS: Bianca al par (Meyerbeer) / FAUST: Salut demeure (Gounod). From orig. 1929/1928 Victor matrices. Side one first and only edition. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

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MARJORIE LAWRENCE [s] 3737. 12” Red PW Disque Gram. DB 4890 [2PG919-2/2PG920-1]. LOHENGRIN: Duo de 2e

Acte, Elsa et Ortrude (Wagner). Two sides. In French. With YVONNE BROTHIER [s]. Orch. dir. Piero Coppola. One rub, just about 1-2. $15.00.

HIPOLITO LAZARO [t]. Barcelona, 1887-1974. Lazaro’s first musical experience was as a saxophonist during military service. After some engagements singing in zarzuela he made his official operatic debut in Donizetti’s La Favorita in his native Barcelona, 1910. While mostly self- taught, he did spend a period later that year studying in Italy with Ernesto Colli, making his Italian debut as the Duke in Rigoletto. During the summer of 1911 he visited England primarily to record for the Gramophone Company. Lazaro described this adventure in his autobiography, the following quotes as translated from Spanish in The Record Collector magazine: “I go to the plant, make the records … and can hardly wait for my lovely voice to be reproduced. … I listen to the records … they are terrible.” He felt that it was a conspiracy by the company, lest his records outsell those of “another tenor” (i.e. Caruso) as the Gramophone Company “has spent a great fortune in promoting [that other tenor’s] records”. Lazaro reasoned, therefore, that “the company told the engineers to make bad records of me”, even though “… my voice is known as the most perfect tenor there is, that has been and, according to the press, that will be for many years to come.” It wasn’t until 1916 that he resumed recording, this time for Columbia, who referred to him as “the wonder tenor” and advised in their publicity that he was obviously better than that “other” tenor, as Lazaro could sing higher notes. Despite his “contentious disposition” (as aptly put by John Steane in the Grove Opera Dictionary), Lazaro had a successful career that lasted until the early 1950s and included most of the world’s major opera houses. He created the leading tenor roles in Mascagni’s Il Piccolo Marat (Rome, 1921) and Giordano’s La Cena delle Beffe (La Scala, 1924). For the latter he sang the premiere but withdrew from further performances after dis-agreements with the composer.

1204. 10” Blue Columbia acous. 2013-M [47211-1/77911-1]. IL TROVATORE: Di quella pira (Verdi) / GEORGE BAKLANOFF [b]. LA GIOCONDA: Pescator, affonda l’esca (Ponchielli). Beautiful pressing. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1943. 10” Blue acous. Columbia 3911-M [46752-1/47211-1]. I PURITANI: Vieni fra queste braccia (Bellini) / IL TROVATORE: Di quella pira (Verdi). Probably the biggest voice on records to have negotiated the high Bellini tessitura. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

1659. 10” Purple PW elec. Eng. Columbia 8801 [WB1077/WB1079]. CHIQUILLA (Lacalle) / PRINCESITA (Padilla). Lightest mks., cons. 2. $20.00.

2601. 12” Blk. acous. Victor 68539 [z5286f/561aj]. LA FAVORITA: Spirto gentil / IDA ZIZOLFI [ms]. LA FAVORITA: O mio Fernando (Verdi). Tiny piece of Scotch tape attached to rim (not into grooves) but I can’t determine for what reason. Otherwise few lightest mks., cons. 2. $12.00.

3793. 12” TC Columbia 49020 [take 1]. PAGLIACCI: Vesti la giubba (Leoncavallo). Excellent ‘20s laminated pressing. Tiny harmless rim patina, otherwise just about 1-2. $10.00.

3166. 12” Gold Flags Columbia 68033-D [48750-2/49020-1]. TOSCA: Recondita armonia (Puccini) / PAGLIACCI: Vesti la giubba (Leoncavallo). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3167. 12” Gold Flags Columbia 68055-D [48748-1/48749-3]. FAVORITA: Spirto gentil / FAVORITA: Una vergine (Donizetti). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3117. 12” Gold Flags Columbia 68063-D [48741-3/48793-1]. LA BOHÈME: Che gelida manina (Puccini) / MANON: Ah! dispar vision (Massenet). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2458. 12” Blue acous. Columbia 7025-M [49925-3/49914-2]. EILI, EILI (arr. Schindler) / ROSA PONSELLE [s]. RACHEM (Mana-Zucca). In Yiddish. Rare. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

3285. 12” Blue acous. Columbia 7028-M [49020-1/49452-1]. PAGLIACCI: Vesti la giubba (Leoncavallo) / GEORGE BAKLANOFF [b]. HAMLET: Brindisi (Thomas). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2549. 12” Blue acous. Columbia 8931-M [48788-3/49350-1]. MARTHA: M’appari (Flotow) / AVE MARIA (Bach-Gounod). Side two with SASCHA JACOBSEN [vln]. Piano acc. Romano Romani. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2634. 12” Blue acous. Columbia 8933-M [48782-4/48748-1]. FAUST: Salve dimora (Gounod) / LA FAVORITA: Spirto gentil (Donizetti). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3170. 12” Green Viva-Tonal Columbia 52076-X [WKX183/WKX181]. LA BRUJA: Jota navarrese (Chapí) / LA PARTIDA (Alvarez). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

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VIRGILIO LAZZARI [bs] 3713. 12” Brown Shellac Vocalion 70040 [9063/12687]. IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: La

calunnia (Rossini) / SIMON BOCCANEGRA: Il lacerate spirito (Verdi). Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $12.00.

LILLI LEHMANN [s] 3977. 11” Early Blue Odeon 50078/50094 [XB.1306/XB.1304]. FREUDVOLL UND

LEIDVOLL (Beethoven) / AUF DEM WASSER ZU SINGEN (both Schubert). Piano acc. One tiny ND side two. Cons. 2. $35.00.

9116. 11” White lbl. test Odeon mat. XB.3135. MONDNACHT (Schumann). Piano acc. Orig. test pressing prior to catalogue numbering. Untrimmed edges. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

9037. 11” Col. Fonotipia 50354/50355 [XB.2977/XB.3065]. TRAVIATA: Sempre libera (Verdi) / CRUCIFIX (Faure). Side two with HEDWIG HELBIG [s]. Cons. 2. $35.00.

9122. 11” Blue Odeon X.52598 [XB.3049/XB.3065]. FIDELIO: Abscheulicher! [Part I] (Beethoven) / CRUCIFIX (Faure). Side two with HEDWIG HELBIG [s]. IMs. Just about 1-2. 35.00.

9096. 11” Yellow Hist. Odeon O-5603 [XB.1306/XB.3157]. FREUNDVOLL UND LEIDVOLL (Beethoven) / MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: Heil’ge Quelle (Mozart). Side one with piano. Side two with orch. Excellent ‘30s pressing. Few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $30.00.

3637. 12” Red early ‘30s Odeon 79300/79301 [XXB3050/XXB3051]. FIDELIO: Abscheu-licher! (Beethoven. Two sides [Parts II and III]. Few lightest mks. Cons. 2. $30.00.

LOTTE LEHMANN [s] 1487. 10” Red acous. Polydor

70692 [19186L/19259L]. DIE WALKÜRE: Du bist der Lenz (Wagner) / DIE TO-TEN AUGEN: Amor und Psyche (d’Albert). Just about 1-2. $35.00.

2014. 10” Brown PW elec. Odeon O-4841 [Be10388/Be10389]. DIE TOTEN AUGEN: Psyche wandelt durch Säulenhallen (d’Albert) / MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: O säume länger nicht (Mozart). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1190. 10” Blue Shellac PW Colum-bia G-4101-M [Be9495-2/ Be9496]. FLEDERMAUS: Czardas / FLEDERMAUS: Mein Herr, was dächten Sie von mir (J. Strauss). Orch. dir. Frieder Weissmann. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2277. 10” PW Red (gold print) Victor 1893. MY NATIVE LAND (Gretchaninoff); MID-SUMMER (Amy Worth) / DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES (Old English, arr. Alfred Cohn). Piano acc. Erno Balogh. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1210. 10” PW Red (gold print) Victor 1972. D’UNE PRISON (Hahn) / VISIONS (Sjoberg). In French/English. Piano acc. Erno Balogh. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

4395. 10” Late RCA Victor 10-1551/ DER JÜNGLING AN DER QUELLE; AN DIE NACHTI-GALL, Op 98, No. 1 / DER MÄNHNJER SIND MÉCHANT!, Op. 95, No. 3 (all Schubert). Piano acc. Paul Ulanowsky. Lovely late issue, few lightest mks., cons. 2. $7.00.

3432. 12” Red acous Polydor 72903 [416as/1103m]. DIE MEISTERSINGER: O Sachs, mein Freund / LOHENGRIN: Du Aermste (both Wagner). Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $30.00.

3220. 12” Red acous. Polydor 72906 [477½as/1221½m]. WALKÜRE: Der Männer Sippe (Wagner) / EUGEN ONEGIN: Letter Scene (Tschaikowsky). Few lightest rubs. Cons. 2. $40.00.

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2664. 12” Red acous. Polydor 72912 [420as/530as]. CÄCILIE (Strauss) / DER SPIEL-MANN (Hildach). Just about 1-2. $50.00.

3619. 12” Red acous. Polydor 72917 [421as/739av]. MORGEN (Strauss) / MARIA OLSZEWSKA [c]. DIE MAINACHT (Brahms). Small lbl. tear side one, otherwise just about 1-2. $30.00.

3132. 12” Red Shellac acous. U.S. Vocalion 35045 [420as/1101m]. CÄCILIE (Strauss) / TANNHAUSER: Dich, theure Halle (Wagner). From Polydor matrices. Side one just about 1-2. Side two few LSSs and scuffs, 2. $25.00.

4165. 12” PW Brown Odeon O-8722 [XXB-7997-2/XXB-7998-2]. DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE: Ich ging zu ihm (Korngold). Two sides. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2503. 12” PW Blue (blue shellac) Columbia G-9079-M [XXB8268/XXB8269]. THE GYPSY BARON: Finale, Act 2 (J. Strauss). Two sides. With KARIN BRANZELL [c], GRETE MERREM-NIKISCH [ms], RICHARD TAUBER [t], WALDEMAR STAEGEMANN [b], HANS LANGE [b]. Orch. dir. Frieder Weissmann. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2504. 12” PW Purple elec. U.S. Odeon 5172 [XXB8268-2/XXB8269]. Same as preceding issue. Slightly earlier pressing on equally good laminated shellac. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3183. 12” Blue PW (Blue Shellac) Columbia G-9059-M [XXB7621/XXB7622]. VON EWIGER LIEBE (Brahms) / AUF FLÜGELN DES GESANGS (Mendelssohn). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2537. 12” Blue PW (Blue Shellac) Columbia G-9082-M [XXB8151/XXB8494]. DAS ZAU-BERLIED (Meyer-Helmund) / FAUST: Es wär ein König in Thule (Gounod). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3564. 12” Red PW elec. U.S. Odeon 3286 [XXB8305/XXB8306]. DER FREISCHÜTZ: Wie nahte mir der Schlummer (v.Weber). Two sides. IMs. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

4313. 12” Red Decca P-G-25805 [XXB7997-2/XXB7998-2]. DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE: Ich ging zu ihm (Korngold, Op. 20). Two sides. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

FRIDA LEIDER [s] 3967. 12” Blk. acous. Polydor 65625 [605as/606½as]. OBERON: Ozean! Du Ungeheuer!

(v.Weber). Two sides. Just about 1-2. $75.00. 3351. 12” Blk. acous. Schall. Grammophon 65651 [602as/678as]. AIDA: O patria mia /

AIDA: Ritorna vincitor (Verdi). In German. Just about 1-2. $75.00. 3968. 12” Blk. acous. Polydor 65743 [599½as/600as]. FIDELIO: Abscheulicher! (Beetho-

ven). Two sides. IMs. Few lt. rubs, couple harmless tiny bumps. Cons. 2. $50.00.

3965. 12” Blk. acous. Polydor 65745 [682as/683as]. AH! PERFIDO, Op. 65 (Beethoven). Two sides. Just about 1-2. $75.00.

3966. 12” Blk. acous. Polydor 65746 [680as/681as]. SCHMERZEN / TRÄUME [both from Wesendonck Lieder] (Wagner). Lt. rubs. 2. $40.00.

3852. 12” Red acous. Polydor 72934 [1485½as/1486as]. WALKÜRE: Du bist der Lenz / WALKÜRE: Wie dir die Stirn so offen steht (Wagner). With LAURITZ MELCHIOR [t]. Few lt rubs, cons. 2. $50.00.

3964. 12” Red acous. Polydor 72934 [1485½as/1486as]. Same as preceding listing (item #3852). IMs. Labels faded. Some lt. rubs, 2. $30.00.

3244. 12” Red acous. Polydor 72986 [891az/892az]. WALKÜRE: Siegmund! Sich’ auf mich / WALKÜRE: Hehr bist du und helig (Wagner). Both with FRITZ SOOT [t]. Side one few lt. rubs, cons. 2. Side two just about 1-2. $50.00.

3801. 12” Red elec. Polydor 73052 [22be/11bo]. DON CARLOS: O don fatale (Wagner) / TANNHÄUSER: Dich teure Halle (Wagner). This is some sort of very early experimental electrical recording and is extremely rare (and brilliantly sung). Excellent copy. Few lightest rubs. Cons. 2. $600.00.

3859. 12” Blk. elec. Electrola EJ 339 [CR2010-I/CR2012-IIA]. DON GIOVANNI: Or sai l’onore (Mozart) / ARMIDE: Ah, si la liberté (Gluck). In Italian/French. Excellent late ‘30s pressing. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

4162. 12” White lbl. HMV vinyl (two) SS HMV DB 1533 [CR 2011-I/2B 906]. TRAUME / SCHMERZEN (both Wagner, from Wesendonck Lieder). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

3969. 12” Red Wartime Electrola DB 5626 [2RA4838-1/2RA4839-1]. WIDMUNG; MARIENWÜRMCHEN / MEINE ROSE (all Schumann). Piano acc. Excellent copy. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

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EMMI LEISNER [c] 1441. 10” Blk. No-Dog acous. Gram. 62371 [1370ar/1371ar]. DEM UNENDLICHEN

(Schubert). Two sides. Two small rubs side two, otherwise just about 1-2. $50.00. 3974. 10” Red acous. Polydor 70709 [1600ax/1601ax]. LIEBESFEIER (Weingartner) /

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: Einsam wachend (Wagner). IMs. Just about 1-2. $35.00. 2696. 12” Blk. PW elec. Polydor 66736 [906½bm/984½bn]. CANTATA CON STROMENTI:

Dank sei dir, Herr /XERXES: Recitativo e Largo (both Händel). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3885. 12” Blk. PW elec. Polydor 66818 [1449BM/1450½BM]. CARMEN: Final Scene (Bizet). Two sides. With HELGE ROSWAENGE [t]. Orch dir. Manfred Gurlitt. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3561. 12” Red Orth. Vla 7742, 7743 [2B2840-II/2B2841-I, 2B2842-II/2B2843-I]. DIE WALKÜRE: Der alte Sturm, die alte Müh’! (Wagner). Four sides. With FRIEDRICH SCHORR [b] and London Symphony dir. John Barbirolli. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

4053. 12” Red PW Electrolas DB 5561, DB 5562 [2RA4310-1/2RA4311-1, 2RA4312-1/ 2RA4313-2]. VIER ERNSTE GESÄNGE, Op. 121 (Brahms). Four sides. Piano acc. Michael Raucheisen. Scarce. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

ENZO [TADEUSZ] LELIVA [t] 2421. 11” Pink Sample Fonotipia 39928/39929 [XPh2275/XPh2272]. PIQUE DAME: Per-

dona a me (Tschaikowsky) / MANRU: Come al sol cocente (Paderewski). Piano acc. Untrimmed rim. Rubs, few LSSs. Side one just about 3. Side two 2-3. $40.00.

2341. 10” B&S Columbia 35261. AFRICAINE: O Paradiso (Meyerbeer). In Italian. Piano acc. Nice bright copy, 2. $40.00.

SERGEI LEMESHEV [t] 2109. 10” Red Orth. Vla 4092. SADKO: Oh, Yon Dark Forest / SADKO: Song of the Indian

Guest (Rimsky-Korsakov). IMs. Just about 1-2. $15.00. 3579. 10” Orange Russian CCCP 016087/024800. RUSSLAN AND LUDMILA: Bayan’s

Song (Glinka) / SADKO: Song of India (Rimsky-Korsakov). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

TIANA LEMNITZ [s] 2278. 10” Red PW Electrola DA 4486 [ORA4740-II/ORA4741-II]. DER MOND IST AUFGE-

GANGEN (Anton Straamair) / ALS ICH DICH KAUM GESEH’N (Theodor Storm). With BRUNO SÄNGER [violin), MAX SAAL [harp]. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2063. 10” PoW Blue Eng. Telefunken GF.63018 [TEL.36410/TEL.36411]. AVE MARIA, Op. 56, No. 2 (Schubert) / AVE MARIA (Bach-Gounod). Late Lemnitz (1951). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2732. 12” Red PW Electrola EB 5549 [2RA4338-II/2RA4339-II]. DER FREISCHÜTZ: Wie nahte mir der Schlummer (v. Weber). Two sides. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3008. 12” White lbl. blk. vinyl HMV mat. 2RA2355-II. SANKT HNEPOMUKS VORABEND (Wolf). Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

3007. 12” White lbl. blk. vinyl HMV mat. 2RA2358-I. WIEGENLIED IN WINTER (Wolf). Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

EVA LEONI [s]. Berlin, c. 1895-New York, 1972. The daughter of Hungarian parents, Leoni studied in Milan at the age of 16 and made her debut in operetta, 1913. She appeared in 1914 at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, with great success as Gilda in Rigoletto. Leoni’s varied career moved between opera and operetta. In 1923 she gave the American premiere of Arnold Schönberg’s Herzgewächse and also starred in Lee DeForest’s first operatic sound film experiment (1923, excerpts from Rigoletto). In 1929 she gave a well received New York Town Hall recital. In later years Leoni founded and directed the New York Children’s Opera Company.

1768. 10” Blk. acous. Victor 73736. DIE FLEDERMAUS: Herr, was dächten sie von mir? / FLEDERMAUS: Mein Herr Marquis (J. Strauss). With “Chorus”, listed in the recording log as two tenors: Ivan Frank and William Robyn. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2220. 10” Purple elec. Brunswick 53000. THE MERRY WIDOW: Vilia / THE MERRY WIDOW: Lied von dummen reiter (Lehár). Rare. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2943. 12” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 5064-M [W98267-6/W98283-4]. PARYSATIS: Le ros-signol et le rose (Saint-Saëns) / LAKMÉ: Bell Song (Delibes). Just about 1-2. $12.00

3134. 12” Blue PW Eng. Col. L1988 [W98267-6/W98283-4]. Same as previous listing (item #2943) except U.K. pressing rather than U.S. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

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GJURGJA LEPPÉE [s]. Zagreb, 1907-Stockholm (?), 1996. She studied at the Zagreb Music Academy, making her debut in Zagreb in 1931 or 1933 (sources differ). She appeared at La Scala and other European houses, her prominent roles having been Carmen, Santuzza, Desdemona and Aida. Her debut in Sweden was in 1943 and Scandinavia subsequently became her home. She appeared in most of the principal Scandinavian opera houses and later taught in Stockholm.

1784. 10” Red HMV DA 1872 [OSB2716-1/OSB-2717-1]. CARO MIO BEN (Giordani) / LA FLÛTE DE PAN (Debussy). Piano acc. Leo Demant. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

PHYLLIS LETT [c] 2068. 10” Blk. acous. HMV E.69 [Ho4079ae/

Ho3966ae]. ALLELUIA (arr. Morris) / BEN MILLETT [boy alto]. AVE VERUM (Elgar). Side one with piano and organ. Side two with organ and choir. Lbl. stkr., 2. $8.00.

MARY LEWIS [s] 1447. 10” Vinyl White Orth. Vla. mat. BVE-43583-3.

LITTLE BIT OF A FELLOW (Morris). With LOUIS RADERMAN [violin]. Piano acc. Elmer Zoller. Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

4079. 12” Red Orth. Vla 6878. LES FILLES DE CADIX (Delibes) / LA DANZA (Rossini). Excellent copy, few lightest mks. Cons. 2. $12.00.

AROLDO LINDI (HAROLD LINDAU) [t] 2564. 12” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 52804-D

[WBX198/WBX200]. IL TROVATORE: Ah si ben mio / OTELLO: Niun mi tema (both Verdi). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

JANE (also JULIA and JULIE) LINDSAY [s]. Paris (?), 1878 - ? . Lindsay was in private life Julie Lillie, daughter of Andrew J. Lillie of New York, a prominent Paris financier. In Paris, she moved “in prominent social circles”, at the same time studying voice. Though she hadn’t intended to adopt a professional career, she was heard at a private concert by Pedro Gailhard, Director of the Paris Opéra, who immediately hired her. Her first appearance there was in 1903 as Constanze in the Paris Opéra premiere (well over a century after the world premiere) of Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio. One review mentions her debut as “possibly the most genuinely important of any for years”. Her other roles included Marguerite (Faust), Eva (Meistersinger) and Sidonie (Armide). After three years with the Paris Opéra, Lindsay refused to extend her engagement over a salary disagreement and she subsequently sang at Monte Carlo and filled occasional guest engagements (Brussels being one such location). Exactly why she left Paris, likely late in 1910, is uncertain, although a magazine article states that it was “with the intention of coaching and teaching” in Philadelphia. Shortly after her arrival in that city, however, she lost all of her possessions in an apartment house fire. Two weeks later (late January, 1911) a benefit concert was arranged at Witherspoon Hall, Lindsay being the featured soloist, assisted by violinist Thaddeus Rich, and “there being a long list of fashionable patronesses” to provide financial assistance. She gave another concert in Witherspoon Hall on December 21st, 1911, but information as to her subse-quent activities and whereabouts has so far reached a dead end.

1266. 10” Blk. acous. Dog Disque pour Gram. 33758/4-32081 [15835u/15836u]. THAÏS: L’amour est une vertu rare / HENRI DANGÈS [b]. THAÏS: Toi qui mis la pitié dans nos ames (Massenet). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

LYDIA LIPKOVSA (LIPKOVSKAYA) [s] 2865. 12” White lbl. vinyl HMV 023131 [2941c]. LA BOHÈME: Mi chiamano Mimì

(Puccini). Just about 1-2. $35.00.

WILMA LIPP [s] 1385. 10” Yellow Deut. Gram. Var. Micrograde 36044 [3606LKK/3607LKK]. ABDUCTION

FROM THE SERAGLIO: Rezitativ und Arie aus dem 2. Akt (Mozart). Two sides. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

EMANUEL LIST [bs] 3209. 12” Brown PW Parlophon P.9850 [2-21177/2-21178]. FAUST: Church Scene

(Gounod). Two sides. With META SEINEMEYER [s]. Orch. dir. Frieder Weissmann. Few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $10.00.

AROLDO LINDI

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TILLMAN LISZEWSKY [b] 9112. 11” Dk. Blue Odeon X.52752/X51951 [XB.4968/XB.4901]. DER TROMPETER VON

SÄKKINGEN: Behüt dich Gott Wie stolz un stattlich / MARGA BURCHARDT [s]. DER TROMPETER FON SÄKKINGEN: Wie stolz un stattlich (Nessler). Excellent ‘20s pressing. IMs. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

LAURA COMSTOCK LITTLEFIELD [s]. Boston, c. 1883-Durham, NC, (en route to Florida) 1941. Among the artists likely to be completely forgotten today had she not recorded,

Mrs. Littlefield was a gifted concert soprano heard in the Boston area in the ‘teens to the mid- ‘20s of the last century. She had been a soloist with the Boston Symphony, the Händel and Haydn Society, the Cecilia Society of Boston and with various festivals in New England. In addition she frequently gave recitals, one in Aeolian Hall in New York, 1924, eliciting extraordinary praise from critic W. J. Henderson. Littlefield was a graduate of Radcliffe College in 1904, as had been her older sister, Dr. Ada Comstock, later to hold the Presidency of Radcliffe for a number of years. At the time of her death, Mrs. Littlefield was assistant Professor of Music at the University of Michigan.

1841. 10” Blk. Victor 18428. SHE NEVER TOLD HER LOVE (Haydn); ORPHEUS WITH HIS LUTE (Carl Busch) / WHEN DAISIES PIED (Arne). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1981. 10” Blue Victor 45172. VENETIAN BOAT SONG (Blumenthal) / CIRIBIRIBIN [CANOE SONG] (Martins-Pestalozza). Mrs. Littlefield demonstrates very accurate coloratura side one and a final high D (albeit that final note is produced quite a distance from the horn). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

GOTA LJUNGBERG [s] 2150. 10” Red acous. Disque Gram. DA 616 [Bb4604-I/Bb4666-II]. JUNGFRUN UNDER

LIND (Peterson-Berger) / DET FØRSTE MODE (Grieg). Piano acc. Percy Kahn. Scarce. Good pressing. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

2508. 12” Red Orth. Vla 9786 [CLR5395-II/CLR5396-I]. SALOME: Final Scene (Strauss). Two sides. Berlin State Op. Orch. dir. Leo Blech. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3492. 12” Blk. PW Electrola EJ 175 [CR1333-I/Cc10952-I]. FORZA DEL DESTINO: Pace, pace mio Dio / FORZA DEL DESTINO: Madre pietosa Vergine (Verdi). In Italian. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

EDWARD LLOYD [t] 4231. 10” Blk. London G&T 3-2294 [2348e].

BONNIE MARY OF ARGYLE (Scottish Air). Piano acc. Landon Ronald. Small PB, cons. 2. $15.00.

4215. 10” Purple HMV 3-2855 [10080b]. MARTYR OF ANTIOCH: Come, Margherita, Come (Arthur Sullivan). Creator in the 1880 world premiere. Piano acc. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

VITTORIO LOIS [t] 1677. 10” Blue Odeon B3762 [Mo2903/Mo2898].

WILLIAM TELL: O muto asil / WILLIAM TELL: Corriam! (Rossini). Few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $10.00.

FANNY LOTTI [s]. Once source indicates that Lotti was born in Boston. She studied in Firenze with Lombardi and Orefice and made her debut as Micaëla in 1908. She appears to have sung only in Italy in various provincial houses, into 1911. Her name is missing from major Italian singer directories of 1912, so it is presumed that she retired early on for some unknown reason, perhaps marriage.

2961. 12” Blue Victor 55023 [212ai/1876c]. OTELLO: Quando narravi (Verdi). With FRAN-CESCO CONTI [t] / ERNESTO BADINI [b]. OTELLO: Credo (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

EMMA LUART [s] 1484. 10” Red elec. Odeon 188.513 [KI-1152-1/KI-1155-1]. SOPHIE ARNOULD: J’ai six

moutons / SOPHIE ARNOULD: Dorval jeune ingénue (Gabriel Pierné). With ROGER BOURDIN [b]. Creator recording (Opéra-Comique, 1927). One lt. rub side two, otherwise just about 1-2. $20.00.

EDWARD LLOYD

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2072. 10” Red elec. Odeon 188.583 [KI-1652-1/ KI-1653-II]. LE BON ROI DAGOBERT: C’est une toute petite histoire / LE BON ROI DAGOBERT: Majeste, Madam, mon Enfant (Samuel Rousseau). Both with ROGER BOURDIN [b]. Creator recording (Opéra-Comique, 1927). Just about 1-2. $25.00.

GERMAINE LUBIN [s] 2139. 10” Red PW French Odeon 188.725 [KI-

3265-2/KI-3266]. SIGURD: Salut, splen-deur du jour (Reyer). Two sides. Orch. dir. Henry Defosse. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

4281. 12” Red PW French Odeon 123.684 [XX-7024-1/XXP-7025-2]. DIE WALKÜRE: Drapée dans une Cape Noire / SIEG-FRIED: 1er Acte-Scène finale (both Wag-ner). Tiny lbl. stain. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

WALTHER LUDWIG [t]. See also ELSA FOERSTER

2211. 10” Maroon PW Grammophon 47374 [8518½GR/8519½GR]. NIMMERSATTE LIEBE / AUCH KLEINE DINGE KÖNNEN UNS ENTZÜCKEN (both Hugo Wolf). Piano acc. Sebastian Peschko. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3883. 12” Plum Swiss HMV FKX 131 [2RA870-2/2RA871-1]. LA TRAVIATA: Querschnitt [Highlights] (Verdi). Two sides. With MARGHERITA PERRAS [s], GERARD HÜSCH [b]. Berlin Staatsoper Orch. und Chor dir. Bruno Seidler-Winkler. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

ORESTE LUPPI [bs]. Rome, 1870-Milan, 1952. Having made his debut in Foligno in 1892, Luppi became one of the most noted basses of his era. His career encompassed the major Italian houses including La Scala, where his work included the Milano premiere of Mascagni’s Le Mas-chere with Caruso and Pandolfini in 1901. The year before he had sung Gremin there in the Italian premiere of Tschaikowsky’s Queen of Spades. He was also heard at the Teatro Costanzi, the Teatro Regio, and was a guest at Covent Garden. His popularity at the Buenos Aires Teatro Colón was also notable. He performed into the 1920s, then taught and in later years lived at the Verdi Casa di riposo in Milano. He recorded only for Fonotipia, 1905-09. [See also Antonio Magini-Coletti.]

9012. 11” Fonotipia 92531/92532 [XPh3999/XPh4005]. MEFISTOFELE: Son lo spirito che nega (Boïto) / DON CARLO: Dormirò sol (Verdi). One small PB side one, otherwise just about 1-2. $15.00. .

JUAN LURIA [b]. Warsaw, 1862-Auschwitz, 1942. Born Johannes Lorié, Luria studied in Vienna with Joseph Gänsbacher and made his debut in Stuttgart in 1885. His career was international in scope. He appeared the season of 1890-91 at the Metropolitan Opera, singing roles such as Pizarro (Fidelio), Nevers (Le Prophète), Alberich (Siegfried) and Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde). As a guest at La Scala, he was Wotan in that company’s first Walküre. He also made appearances in Paris, Genoa and Brussels. In 1903 he created the principal baritone role in the 1901 Elberfeld world premiere of Pfitzner’s Der Rose von Liebesgarten. Being Jewish, Luria left Germany in 1937 and taught in Amsterdam and The Hague. He was sent from there by the occupying German troops to the concentration camp in Auschwitz, where his life was taken. His pupils included Kathe Heidersbach, Elfriede Marherr, Gotthelf Pistor and Michael Bohnen.

9028. 11” Brown Odeon 99031/99017 [XB3902/XB3924]. IL TROVATORE: Rings tiefes Schweigen / IL TROVATORE: Wilde Eiferdsucht (Verdi). With JUAN SPIVAK [t] both sides, ALINE SANDEN [s] side two. Nice pressing. Cons. 2. $20.00.

3255. 12” Girl-and-Gramophone Parlophon P.726/P.727. DAS HERZ AM RHEIN (Hill) / DAS HEIDEGRAB (Heiser). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3949. 12” Orange U.S Odeon 85034 [P.471/P.474]. LIEB MICH UND DIE WELT IST MEIN [LOVE ME AND THE WORLD IS MINE] (Ernest R. Ball) / DIE BEIDEN GRENA-DIERE (Schumann). Looks new. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

EMMA LUART

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FLORENCE MACBETH [s]. Mankato, MN, 1891-Hyattsville, MD, 1966. Macbeth studied in New York and in Pittsburgh with Yeatman Griffith, as well as in Paris. Her professional career began in 1912 in Holland as soloist with the Lamoureux Orchestra. Her operatic debut was in 1913 in Darmstadt, Ger-many as Gilda, and appearances followed with the London Symphony and other orchestras. In 1914 she made her Chicago Opera debut and was associated with that company and the Ravinia Summer Festivals into the 1930s. She also frequently toured in concert. In 1947, Macbeth became the fourth and final wife of author James M. Cain. This relationship must have worked well for Cain (whose mother had also been an opera singer), as it lasted longer than any of his other marriages, ending only upon Macbeth’s death.

4202. 10” Blk. Columbia 25-M [80525-2/81065-2]. ROBIN ADAIR (Keppel) / LAZY SONG (Lawson). Some tiny rim lams. side two not into grooves, otherwise as new. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

3001. 12” Blk. Columbia 5017-M [49993-7/ 98086-3]. MIGNON: Io son Titania (Thomas) / LUCIA: Ardon gl’ incensi (Donizetti). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3830. 12” Vinyl elec. Columbia test pressing 98172. SUMMER [L’ÉTÉ] (Chaminade). The Rust-Brooks Columbia Master Book Discography, Volume IV, lists this number as “untraced”. As far as I know this is the only extant copy. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $100.00.

JEANNETTE MACDONALD [s] 2247. 10” Blk. Orth. Victor 22247. DREAM LOVER / MARCH OF THE GRENADIERS (both

Victor Schertzinger). From film The Love Parade. Just about 1-2. $10.00. 1971. 10” Blk. PW (gold print) Victor 24896. ITALIAN STREET SONG / AH, SWEET

MYSTERY OF LIFE [both from film Naughty Marietta] (Victor Herbert). Orch. dir. Herbert Stothart. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1343. 10” Blk. Scroll Victor 24896. Same as preceding listing (item #1971) but slightly earlier pressing. Both excellent surfaces. Lt. superficial rubs, 2. $8.00.

4401. 10” Red late RCA Victor 10-1420. WHEN THERE’S LOVE (R. Strauss, based on Rosenkavalier waltzes) / SPRINGTIDE (Grieg). Both from film Three Daring Daughters. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2538. 12” Red PW (gold print) Victor 15850. ROMÉO ET JULIETTE: Je veux vivre (Gou-nod) / LOUISE: Depuis le jour (Charpentier). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

4168. 12” Red RCA Victor 11-9599. MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Un bel di / LA BOHÈME: Mi chiamano Mimì (Puccini). Orch. dir. Frieder Weissmann. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

TANDY MACKENZIE [t]. To add to previous years’ notes on Mackenzie, among his operatic performances was Turiddu in Hollywood Bowl, Aug., 1938, opposite Maria Jeritza

2331. 10” TC SS Columbia 80997 [take 8]. ROSES OF PICARDY (Wood). Excellent laminated surface. Just about 1-2. $6.00.

1526. 10” Blk. acous. Columbia 40-M [80139-4/80997-8]. I’LL SING THEE SONGS OF ARABY (Clay) / ROSES OF PICARDY (Wood). Very minor lbl. scuffing. Surfaces just about 1-2. $8.00.

ANTONIO MAGINI-COLETTI [b] 9063. 11” Fonotipia 39410/39411 [XPh1537/XPh1538]. CRISTOFORO COLOMBO: M’odi!

l’estrema è questa / CRISTOFORO COLOMBO: Il sol per me (Franchetti). Cons. 2. $20.00.

9027. 11” Fonotipia 39434/39415 [XPh1520/XPh1519]. RIGOLETTO: Pari siamo / RIGO-LETTO: Signor, va, non ho niente (Verdi). Side two with ORESTE LUPPI [bs]. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

9040. 11” Fonotipia 92465/92466 [XPh3421/XPh3423]. FAUST: Tu puoi la spada frangere / FAUST: Dio possente (Gounod). Small lbl. tear side two, otherwise just about 1-2. $15.00.

FLORENCE MACBETH

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RENÉ MAISON [t] 1895. 10” Red PW French Odeon 188.532 [KI-1228-2/KI-1230-2]. RÉSURRECTION: Ka-

tiusha, ce jour exquis / RÉSURRECTION: Pleure, oui pleure (Alfano). Few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $12.00.

GIOVANNI MALIPIERO [t] 2380. 10” Red late VdP DA 5381 [OBA6344/OBA6345]. RIGOLETTO: Parmi veder le la-

crime / RIGOLETTO; Questa o quella (Verdi). Top pressing. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

JOSEF MANN [t]. Lwów, 1883-Berlin, 1921. Mann originally earned a law degree. His vocal studies began as a bass and subsequently as a tenor. His tenor debut was in 1909 in Moniuszko’s Halka. After success in Poland he appeared 1912-15 with Vienna Volksoper and then in Darmstadt. He was very popular at the Berlin Staatsoper, where he sang the title role in that company’s premiere of Pfitzner’s Palestrina. He was also a favorite with the Vienna Staatsoper as well as other major houses. His death was during a performance of Aida in Berlin, shortly before he was to have made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera. His excellent recordings are understandably sought by collectors.

2744. 12” SS Odeon LXX 80923 [XXB6629]. BALLO IN MASCHERA: O sag, wenn ich fahre (Verdi). Cons. 2. $15.00.

3620. 12” Brown Odeon acous. 80704/80705 [XXB6691/XXB6692]. AIDA: Ich she dich wider, meine Aida / AIDA: Zur Ferne ent-fliehn (Verdi). With BARBARA KEMP [s]. Nice pressing. Few lightest mks. Cons. 2. $15.00.

4303. 12” Brown Odeon O-8573 (80728/807290 [XXP6406-2/XXP6404-2]. LA JUIVE: Recha, als Gott dich einst / LA JUIVE: Gebet, 2 Akt (Halévy). Excellent later pressing. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

OTOKÁR [OTTO] MA�ÁK [t]. Hungary, 1872-Prague, 1939. Ma�ák studied in Prague and made his debut in 1899 in Brno as Gounod’s Faust and then at the Prague National Theater as Tamino. In 1903 he was engaged by Mahler for the Vienna Hofoper. Subsequently, he appeared with the Berlin Volksoper and in London, Munich, Paris and Brussels. During a season with the Chicago Opera (1913) he married the young American soprano Mary Cavan, and they toured together in the U.S. the next year. Ma�ák was named a principal tenor of the Prague National Opera, where he remained for twenty seasons, appearing there over 1500 times. He then returned to Chicago as a singing teacher but soon suffered a stroke, supposedly became completely impoverished and, according to one source, had to sell newspapers on the street as a means of support. When this became known in Czech circles, a fund was raised to permit Ma�ák to return to Prague, where he died soon after.

9094. 11” Blue late ‘20s Odeon 29046/29047 [XB.4596/XB.4594]. NEŠTASTNÝ ŠA�Á��V DVORE�EK (Bechy�ská píse�) / JAK MÁM T� RÁD (Malát). Piano acc. Remark-able sound. Excellent pressing. IMs. Lt. superficial rubs, 2. $20.00.

9095. 11” Blue Odeon 29058/29059 [VX.1587/VX.1591]. DV� VDOVY [TWO WIDOWS]: Kdy� zavítá maj [When Maytime comes] (Smetana) / RUSSALKA: Píse� prince (Dvo�ák). Piano acc. Side one cons. 2. Side two lt. rubs, 2. $20.00.

1141. 10” Blk. ’08 Pats. Victor 16205 [6974b/1925x]. BARTERED BRIDE: Arie Jenika (Smetana) / V STUDNI: Dueto Janka a Vojtécha (Blodek). Piano acc. Excellent recordings and pressing. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

2075. 10” Blk. ’10 Pats. Victor 16631 [6976b/6979b]. RIGOLETTO: Parmi veder le lagri-me / RIGOLETTO: La donna è mobile (Verdi). In Czech. Piano acc. Index mks and lt. lbl. fade side one. Cons. 2. $15.00.

2337. 10” Blk. ’10 Pats. Victor 16636 [4219L/6868b]. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Brindisi (Mascagni) / CZECH BAND. DOSTAVENICKO [GAVOTTE]. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

4185. 10” Red elec. Parlophon B.13572 [39383/39384]. DALIBOR: Kdyz Zden�k múj (Smetana) / CARMEN: Flower Song (Bizet). In Czech. Superficial rubs. Side one 2-3, side two 3-4. $7.00.

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LUCILLE MARCEL [s] 2679. 12” White lbl. vinyl Vla 76018 [508m]. TOSCA: Vissi d’arte (Puccini). Just about

1-2. $35.00.

BLANCHE MARCHESI [s]. Paris, 1863-London, 1940. Daughter of the celebrated voice teacher Mathilde Marchesi, Blanche studied with her mother and made her debut as a concert singer in 1895. Her first appearance in opera was five years later in Prague as Brünnhilde in DieWalküre. Her voice was capable of the sound and stamina required of this role as well as the fleet coloratura heard on some of her rare 1906 G&Ts. She taught in London for a number of years and made a group of private recordings for HMV (some issued in the U.S. by IRCC) in 1936 and 1937. Evidently somewhat an eccentric (as is permitted of musicians), she was recalled by Saint-Saëns as having paid him a short visit accompanied by forty luggage chests.

1711. 10” PW Silver Scroll Victor IRCC 89 [TTP.853-2/TTP.854-1]. DIDO AND AENEAS: When I am Laid in Earth (Purcell) / SICILIAN CART DRIVER’S SONG (Sadero). Piano acc. Agnes Bedford. Recorded London, 1936. Pressing No. 1. Autographed by Marchesi. Just about 1-2. $60.00.

FRANCESCO MARCONI [t]. 2476. 12” Red Vla 89046 [1446c]. I PURITANI: Vieni fra queste braccia (Bellini). With

MARIA GALVANY [s]. Just about 1-2 (i.e. as new). $15.00.

JOSÉ MARDONES [bs]. Fontecha, 1869-Madrid, 1932. Beginning as a boy soprano in church choirs, Mardones studied at the Conservatory of Madrid but was basically self-taught. His first operatic experiences were in South America, and he appeared from then through 1909 in primarily Spanish speaking countries. 1909 marked his Boston Opera debut, where he was a tremendous success. In 1917 he first appeared at the Met, singing 21 roles there, leaving in 1926. He then returned to Spain, continuing his career there until his death. His roles included such parts as Padre Guardiano (with Caruso and Ponselle in her Metropolitan debut), Mefistofele, Sparafucile, Ramfis and Don Basilio. In Rosa Ponselle-A Centenary Biography, author James A. Drake quotes Ponselle’s thoughts on Mardones:

He had the greatest bass voice I ever heard. Nobody could even come close to that sound. It was like the lowest pedal on a pipe organ of a great cathedral – a real basso profundo. He had everything vocally, a huge voice, excellent technique, and a top that could go way up into the high baritone range. Now, he wasn’t any kind of actor, but he was good for those ‘robe parts’ – the toga roles, things like that.

1968. 10” Cream Columbia acous. S79 [78149-3/78213-1]. EL ARRIERO (Di Nogero / TANGO DE LAS FRUTAS (Anglada). Excellent laminated surfaces. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

2319. 10” Blk. acous. Columbia 1917-M [78145-5/82233-2]. SAETA Y PRAVIANA (Can-ciòn Asturiana) / OS TEUS OLLOS (Canciòn Gallega). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

2012. 10” Blk. acous. Columbia 1919-M [77832-2/82414-2]. O PALLIDE MAMMOLE (Trimarchi) / MEFISTO (Beniamino Carelli). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1544. 10” Blk. acous. Columbia 1921-M [78213-1/82427-5]. TANGO DE LA FRUTAS (Anglada) / ALBORADA (Alvarez). As new. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

2279. 10” Blk. acous. Columbia 122-M [78149-3/79012-2]. EL ARRIERO [Di Nogero) / AY-AY-AY (Vidalita Argentina). 1-2. $20.00.

1159. 10” Blk. elec. Viva-Tonal Columbia 123-M [W95099-6/W95100-6]. A TRAVES DEL DESIERTO (Blanco) / VIVA SEVILLA (Ochoa). Gleaming. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

3790. 12” Blk. vinyl Columbia 83018 [take 1]. UNHA NOITE [GALICIAN SONG] (José C. Chané). Cons. 2. $15.00.

4322. 12” TC Columbia A5201 [30432-1/30459-1]. SIMON BOCCANEGRA: Il lacerato spirito (Verdi) / STABAT MATER: Pro peccatis (Rossini). Good surface material. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2821. 12” Blue Eng. Columbia A5202 [30449/30469]. EL GUITARRICO (Perez-Soriano) / LA JUIVE: Se oppressi ognor (Halévy). Excellent mid-‘20s laminated pressing. Small lbl. stain side two, otherwise just about 1-2. $20.00.

3614. 12” TC Columbia A6220 [49602-5/49628-2]. MAGIC FLUTE: Possenti Numi (Mozart) / NABUCCO: Del futuro nel bujo discerno (Verdi). Top laminated surfaces. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3954. 12” Blk. acous. Columbia 5053-M [49420-2/49427-6]. BRINDO A TU SALUD (An-glada) / SALVATOR ROSA: Mia piccirella [sic] (Gomes). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2880. 12” Blue acous. Columbia 7058-M [49591-1/49632-2]. ROBERT IL DIAVOLO: Scene ed evocazione / LES HUGUENOTS: Piff, paff (both Meyerbeer). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

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3325. 12” Blue elec. Eng. Columbia RS3027 [WRX130/WRX138]. IN TIEFEN KELLER (Fischer) / LA PULGA [THE FLEA] (Moussorgsky). Just about 1-2. $30.00.

2678. 12” White lbl. Victor vinyl (95213) [C-27392-2]. WILLIAM TELL: Troncar suoi dì (Rossini). With GIOVANNI MARTINELLI [t], GIUSEPPE DE LUCA [b]. Unpublished take. Issued take is 4. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

3544. 12” Red acous. Vla 6420. STABAT MATER: Pro peccatis (Rossini) / REQUIEM: Confutatis (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3634. 12” Red acous. Vla 6434. NABUCCO: Tu sul labbro de’ veggenti / VESPRI SICILIANI: O tu Palermo! (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2671. 12” Red acous. Vla 6537. STAR OF THE NORTH: Beati i di (Meyerbeer) / NORMA: Ite sul colle (Bellini). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2800. 12” White lb. vinyl Vla mat. C-30051-1. LA GIOCONDA: Si, morir ella debbe (Ponchielli). Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

ADOLPHE MARÊCHAL [t]. Liège, 1867-Brussels, 1935. His studies were at the Dijon Conservatory and his debut was in Dijon in 1891. Subsequently he appeared in Rheims, Nice, Bordeau and Aix-les-Bains before making his Paris Opéra-Comique debut in 1895 as Turiddu. His repertoire in Paris included a variety of lyric roles. He was also the creator of Julien in Charpentier’s Louise and Alain in Massenet’s Grisélidis. At Monte Carlo, 1902, he created Jean in the premiere of Massenet’s Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame. He also was a guest a Covent Garden and in Russia. He appears to have retired in 1907, one writer stating “after a crisis of voice and health”.

1048. 10” Blk. Fr. G&T 3-32422 [4510o]. MANON: Le Rêve (Massenet). Cons. 2. $200.00.

ANDRÉE MARILLIET [s] 1309. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 2325-D [WL1431-1/WL1432-1]. SOLVEIG’S SONG

(Grieg) / MARIAGE DES ROSES (Franck). Piano acc. Just about 1-2. $12.00. 1384. 10” Blk. Eng. Col. DF944 [WL3615/WL3796]. AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE (Lulli) /

NOUS N’IRONS PLUS AU BOIS (arr. Penau). With ALBERT CAURAT [film actor, popular singer (tenor)]. Few lt. rubs, cons. 2. $10.00.

2967. 12” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 5082-M [WLX28/WLX59]. HÉRODIADE: Il est doux (Massenet) / LOHENGRIN: Chant d’amour (Wagner). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

FRANCESCO MARINA [b] 1087. 10” Blk. Orth. Victor 80218. VECCHIA CANZONE (Scarmolin) / CHIMES OF

CORNEVILLE: Patria mia, terra natia (Planquette). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

CRISTINA MARISTANY [s]. Portugal,1906 (?)-Brazil, 1966. Gifted with a very attractive lyric soprano voice, Maristany had left Portugal as an infant and spent most of her life in Brazil, where she became noted as one of that country’s leading exponents of Brazilian chamber music. She was highly regarded in particular by composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. One source indicates that she also studied in Russia and in Europe, and she gave a number of successful performances in Europe. Her birth date is listed in various sources as either 1906 or 1918, quite a difference. The recordings listed below have a mechanical copyright date of 1938. She taught in her later years at the Brazilian Academy of Music. Her recordings were originally recommended to me by the late Richard Bebb, a noted collector who understandably greatly admired her discs.

1939. 10” Green PW Polydor 47229 [7912½GR/7915½GR]. EL CLAVELITO EN TOS LINDOS CABELLOS / BELLA GRANADA (both Francisco Mignone). Acc. by the composer. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

ETTY MAROLI [s]. Maroli studied in Milano and likely made her debut in the Asti Teatro Alfieri in 1923 as Leonora in Il Trovatore. She repeated this role in a number of smaller Italian houses, as well as having sung Elvira in Ernani, Tosca, and Adriana Lecouvreur, to mention three, as well as Rosmunda by Trentinaglia at two different houses in 1929. She seems to have ended her career in 1931.

1304. 10” Blue elec. Odeon B3769 [Mo2913/Mo2921]. FEDORA: Vedi, io piango (Giordano). Two sides. With EGIDIO CUNEGO [t]. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

LUCY ISABELLE MARSH [s] 1698. 10” Purple Pats. Victor 60037. PRINTEMPS (Leo Stern). Just about 1-2. $12.00. 1858. 10” Purple Pats. Victor 60059. GYPSY LOVE: The Melody of Love (Lehár). Just

about 1-2. $10.00. 1434. 10” Blue acous. Victor 45321. THE FIRST PRIMROSE, Op. 26, No. 4; GREETING,

Op. 48, No. 1 / PEER GYNT: Solvejg’s Cradle Song (all Grieg). Small lbl. stkrs. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

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1712. 10” Red Scroll “Z”-type Shellac Victor 4014. PEER GYNT: Solvejg’s Cradle Song / PEER GYNT: Sunshine Song (Grieg). Top half label side one has glue and partially removed sticker, otherwise everything just about 1-2. $8.00.

3076. 12” Purple ’12 Pats. Victor 70011. THE SWALLOWS (dell’Acqua). Fine pressing. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $8.00.

2739. 12” Purple Victor 70094. TRAVIATA: Ah, fors’ è lui … Sempre libera (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2790. 12” Blue Victor 55135 [takes 4/5]. AIDA: O patria mia / AIDA: Ritorna vincitor (Verdi). Couple harmless LSSs, otherwise just about 1-2. $8.00.

2617. 12” Red Victor 74398. AIDA: O terra addio (Verdi). With JOHN MC CORMACK [t]. As new, as the grading indicates. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

RICCARDO MARTIN [t]. 1039. 10” Red ’08 Pats. Vla 87050. TOSCA: E lucevan le stelle (Puccini). Just about 1-2.

$15.00.

1067. 10” Red ’12 Pats. Vla 87051. ALS DIE ALTE MUTTER (Dvo�ák). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1693. 10” Red “A” Plate Pats. Vla 87081. MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Amore o grillo (Puccini). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1182. 10” Red ’08 Pats. Vla 87503. MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Lo so che alle sue pene (Puc-cini). With RITA FORNIA [ms], ANTONIO SCOTTI [b]. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

GERMAINE MARTINELLI [s] 4434. 10” PW Blue Pathé Art-Label X-3994 [N250061/N250062]. PHILYDÈ (Duparc). Two

sides. Orch. dir. Franz Ruhlmann. Just about 1-2. $30.00. 3647. 12” PW Blk. Polydor 566044 [1799BMP/1800BMP]. NOCTURNE [O FRAICHE NUIT]

(Franck) / MATER DOLOROSA (both César Franck). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

GIOVANNI MARTINELLI [t] 2310. 10” Red Vla 64772. O BEN TORNATO, AMORE! (Roxas). Just about 1-2. $8.00. 1124. 10” Red acous. Vla 737. IRIS: Apri la tua finestra (Mascagni) / ERNANI: Come

rugiada al cespite (Verdi). Side one harp acc. Francis Lapitano. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1061. 10” PW Red (gold print) Victor 1208. RIGOLETTO: La donna è mobile (Verdi) / TOSCA: E lucevan le stelle (Puccini). Excellent pressing. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2631. 12” Red Victor 74483. LUCIA: Fra poco (Donizetti). Just about 1-2. $6.00. 2678. 12” White lbl. Victor vinyl (95213) [C-27392-2]. WILLIAM TELL: Troncar suoi dì

(Rossini). With GIUSEPPE DE LUCA [b], JOSÉ MARDONES [bs]. Unpublished take. Issued take is 4. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

2600. 12” Red Scroll “Z” shellac Victor 6595 [takes 7/4]. AIDA: Celeste Aida (Verdi) / LA BOHÈME: Racconto (Puccini). Excellent copy, few lightest rubs. Cons. 2. $7.00.

2573. 12” PW Red Scroll “Z” shellac Victor 6707. ANDREA CHÉNIER: Un di all’ azzurro spazio / ANDREA CHÉNIER: Come un bel dì di maggio (Giordano). Beautiful pressing. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3807. 12” PW Red Orth. “Z” shellac Victor 8109. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Preludio e Siciliana (Mascagni) / IL TROVATORE: Ah, si ben mio … Di quella pira (Verdi). Met Opera Orch. and Chorus dir. Giulio Setti. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2591. 12” Red Orth. Vla 8159. SAMSON ET DALILA: Arrêtez, ô mes frères / SAMSON ET DALILA: L’as-tu donc oublie? (Saint-Saëns). With Met. Op. Chorus and Orch. dir. Giulio Setti. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

3902. 12” Red Orth. Vla 8165. LA JUIVE: O Dieu, Dieu de nos pères / LA JUIVE: Si trahison (Halévy). With Met. Op. Cho. and Orch. dir. Setti. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2590. 12” Red late VdP DB 1089 [CVE-37096/CVE-37353]. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Mamma, quel vino è generoso (Mascagni) / FORZA DEL DESTINO: O tu che in seno agli angeli (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2589. 12” Red late VdP DB 1172 [CVE-41425/CVE-41426]. LA FORZA DEL DESTINO: Invano Alvaro (Verdi). With GIUSEPPE DE LUCA [b]. Two sides. Great pressing. Really exciting performance. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2677. 12” White lbl. Orth. SS vinyl Vla mat. CVE-31365-5. LA JUIVE: Rahel, quand du Seigneur (Halévy). Unpublished take. Issued take on Victor 6545 is 6. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

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3661. 12” PW Silver Victor IRCC 126 [C-29446-2 CVE-32865-3]. AIDA: Pur ti riveggo (Verdi) With ROSA PONSELLE [s] / PONSELLE [s]. OLD FOLKS AT HOME (Foster) Both sides first editions. Side one 1924 acoustic and side two 1925 electric. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

MADELEINE MARTINETTI [c] 4084. 12” Blue French Columbia LFX 741 [CLX2522/CLX23523]. POÈME DE VERLAINE;

POÈME DE WILLIAM AGUET / PSAUME 130; MIMAAMAQUIM (all Arthur Honegger). Conducted by the composer. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

GINO MARTINEZ-PATTI [t]. Parma, 1866-Rome, 1925. Of Spanish ancestry, Martinez-Patti made his debut in 1888. From 1893 through 1910 he was among the important heroic tenors of the era. He sang internationally, including South America and North America (with the Lombardi Opera Company), creating for the Americas the title role in Orefice’s Chopin. In Holland he was the first Herod in Strauss’s Salome, conducted by the composer. His repertoire included the major tenor roles in such works as La Boheme, Carmen, Pagliacci, Ruy Blas, Fedora, Andrea Chenier and Ernani.

4095. 12” Blk. GP ’07 “A” plate Victor 58329 [548c]. UN BALLO IN MACHERA: Ah! quell soave brivido (Verdi). With IDA GIACOMELLI [s]. Nice copy. Few lt. rubs, 2. $8.00.

4209. 10” Blk. Victor 62067 [ ? /7346b]. LA TRAVIATA: Un di, felice. With EMMA TRENTINI [s] / AMELIA RIZZINI [s], EMILIO PEREA [t]. TRAVIATA: Parigi o cara (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

NINO MARTINI [t] 1188. 10” Red Orth. Vla 4231. EL TRUST DE LOS TENORIOS: Te quiero morena / LA

DOLOROSA: Romanza de Rafaël (both Serrano). Scarce. Martini concludes side one with a brilliant high D. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1648. 10” Red HMV DA 1882 [OEA-12447-2/OEA-12448-1]. ROADS THROUGH THE FOREST / ONE NIGHT WITH YOU (both Bixio). From film One Night With You. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

GALLIANO MASINI [t] 2567. 12” Blue PW Columbia Master Works 9151-M [WBX1207/WBX1212]. L’ARLESI-

ANA: È la solita storia del pastore (Cilèa) / LODOLETTA: Se Franz dicesso il vero (Mascagni). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3535. 12” Blue PW Columbia Master Works 9151-M [WBX1207/WBX1212]. Same as preceding listing (item #2567). Lt. rubs, 2. $8.00.

EDITH MASON [s]. St. Louis, MO, 1893-San Diego, CA, 1973. As Edith Barnes, Mason made her 1912 debut with the Boston Opera as Nedda in Pagliacci. She then studied with Edmond Clément in France and appeared in Nice, returning to the U.S. after the outbreak of the First World War. Her Metropolitan Opera debut was as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, 1915. From 1921 to 1939 she was a leading Chicago Opera lyric soprano. Guest appearances were also made at La Scala, Covent Garden, Monte Carlo, Salzburg and the Paris Opéra-Comique. Mason had been selected to create what would have been the ideal role for her voice: Liù, for the 1924 La Scala world premiere of Puccini’s Turandot, but pregnancy intervened. On her recording career, Mason stated in a 1915 interview that she had just visited Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edison in Orange, NJ, and added, “But I am not going to make any records just now”. She decided to wait so as not to “rush into too many things at once.” A pity, as it was to be ten more years before her all too brief recording career began.

2244. 10” elec. Purple Brunswick 10215. O DRY THOSE TEARS! (Del Riego) / FAR OFF I HEAR A LOVER’S FLUTE (Cadman). Such gorgeous singing (side one in particular)! Side one just about 1-2. Side two few lt. rubs, cons. 2. $40.00.

1143. 10” elec. Purple Brunswick 10222. DREAMIN’ TIME (Strickland) / KASHMIRI SONG (Woodforde-Finden). Small lbl. stkr. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

1721. 10” elec. Purple Brunswick 10243. SERENADE (Tosti) / OH, FOR THE WINGS OF A DOVE (Mendelssohn). As new. Just about 1-2. $40.00.

2697. 12” elec. Gold Brunswick 50080. MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Un bel di (Puccini) / FAUST: Air des bijoux (Gounod). Fine copy. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $40.00.

FRITZI MASSARY [s] 1877. 10” Red PW Electrola EG 1185 [BLR4957-I/BLR4958-I]. MERRY WIDOW: Mein

Freund aus Singapur / MERRY WIDOW: Lippen Schweigen (Lehár). Side two with WALTER JANKUHN [t]. Jankuhn was a star of German musicals and films in the 1920s-‘30s. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

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3519. 12” Plum PW Electrola EH 83 [CW1177-I/CW1185-I]. EINE FRAU VON FORMAT: Nebenbei / EINE FRAU VON FORMAT: Wir wollen Tun (Michael Krausz). Side two with HANS HEINZ BOLLMANN [t]. Cons. 2. $15.00.

MARGUERITE MATZENAUER [ms] 1230. 10” Blk Schall. Gram. 61774 (2-

43270/2-43271 [6626r/6627r]. CARMEN: Habanera /CARMEN: Card Song (Bizet). In German. One minor rub, otherwise just about 1-2. $30.00.

1025. 10” Blk. Dog Gram. Concert 3-44031/3-44032 [323ab/5076r]. MIGNON: Schwalben-Duett (Thomas). With PAUL BENDER [bs] / RIZA EIBENSCHÜTZ [s], MINNIE NAST [s]. MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: Letter Duet (Mozart). Just about 1-2. $50.00.

1559. 10” Dog Con. Gramophone 2-44132/2-43350 [4453L/1899y]. TALES OF HOFFMANN: Barca-rolle. With HERMINE BOSETTI [s] / MIZZI FINK [s]. TALES OF HOFFMANN: Puppen-Arie (Offen-bach). Small PB side two, other-wise just about 1-2. $15.00.

1024. 10” Red ’12 Pats. Vla 87102. DIE WALKÜRE: Fort denn eile (Wag-ner). Exciting performance. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1452. 10” Red ’12 Pats. Vla 87103. CARMEN: Seguidilla (Bizet). In French. IMs. Text label on verso. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1854. 10” Red EE Vla 1080. LA GOLONDRINA / PREGÚENTALES Á LAS ESTRELLAS (Mexican Folk Songs, arr. La Forge). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2482. 12” Red “B” plate Pats. Vla 88365. ROBERT LE DIABLE: Roberto, o tu che adoro (Meyerbeer). Few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $8.00.

3382. 12” White lbl. Vla 88365. Same as preceding listing (item #2482) but later white label pressing. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3226. 12” Red “A” plate Pats. Vla 88430. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Voi lo sapete (Mascagni). Few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $7.00.

3884. 12” White lbl. acous. blk. vinyl Vla mat. C-31631-2. SAMSON ET DALILA: Mon coeur (Saint-Saëns). Unpublished take. Issued version recorded electrically later the same year (1925). Just about 1-2. $25.00.

CARMELO MAUGERI [b] 2547. 12” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 52805-D [WBX178-2/WBX181]. BARBIERE DI

SIVIGLIA: Largo al Factotum (Rossini) / ANDREA CHÉNIER: Un dì m’era di gioia (Giordano). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

BARBARA MAUREL [ms]. Born in Alsace, Maurel first studied piano and then voice with Jean de Reszke. Although she had some operatic experience in her earlier years, she was better known in concert. A 1926 Musical America review of a Steinway Hall concert stated that Maurel’s voice “is one which, in a limited range, has a beauty that is positively electrifying”. The reviewer continued to enthusiastically mention Maurel’s sense of legato, general musicianship, and language skills, but bemoaned the fact that she hadn’t command over her head voice [I presume he meant in the area of 4th space E and above] “which [could] have given her abilities that might be well-nigh unequalled!”

1840. 10” TC Columbia A3777 [80586-1/80596-5]. WERE MY SONGS WITH WINGS PROVIDED (Hahn) / OH, FOR THE WINGS OF A DOVE (Mendelssohn). Excellent laminated surfaces. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

MARGUERITE MATZENAUER

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4204. 10” Blk. acous. Columbia 26-M [78170-13/79553-2]. THE ROSARY (Nevin) / I LOVE YOU TRULY (Bond). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

4219. 10” Blk. acous. Collumbia 27-M [81110-4/81544-3]. LADY IN ERMINE: When Hearts are Young (Al Goodman-Sigmund Romberg) / ROCK ME TO SLEEP, MOTHER (Leslie). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

4203. 10” Blk. acous. Columbia 45-M [79991-9/80053-2]. ONE FLEETING HOUR (Lee) / SHIP O’ DREAMS (Francis). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

4246. 10” Blk. acous. Columbia 110-M [140479-1/140480-2]. AT PARTING (Rogers) / VALE (Russell). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

VICTOR MAUREL [b]. Marseilles, 1848-New York, 1923. Maurel’s debut was in 1867 in Ros-sini’s William Tell, and he appeared the following season at the Paris Opéra. La Scala first heard him in 1870 in the premiere of Il Guarany (Gomez), his later triumphs there including the revised version of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra (1881), Iago in the premiere of Verdi’s Otello (1887) and the title role in the premiere of Verdi’s Falstaff (1893). In addition he had been the first Tonio in Pagliacci (1892). He created for England the Wagnerian roles of Telra-mund (Lohengrin), Wolfram (Tannhäuser) and the title role in Der fliegende Höllander. For America, his “firsts” included Amonasro in American pre-miere of Aida (1873). After retiring from the stage, Maurel taught singing in New York City until his death.

9083. 11” Flush (early) Fonotipia 39032/39042 [XPh65/XPh58-3]. A MARECHIARE (Tosti) / OTELLO: Sogno (Verdi). Side one never reissued. Side two creator performance. Few LGTs side one, small spot start of side two (should be harm-less), otherwise 2. $200.00.

9108. 11” Red Odeon IRCC 4 [XPh53-3/ XPh2332]. OTELLO: Era la notte / FALSTAFF: Quand’ero paggio (both Verdi). Piano acc. Both sides creator performances. A small studio audience applauds Maurel on side two and he grants two repetitions of the air, one in Italian and the last in French. Excellent pressing. Just about 1-2. $40.00.

3956. 11” Red Odeon 39245/39246 [XPh68-2/XPh67]. MANDOLINATA (Paladilhe) / RON-DEL DE L’ADIEU (de Lara). Piano acc. Excellent pressing. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

RICHARD MAYR [bs] 2302. 10” Blk. acous. Polydor 62391 [1400ar/1403ar]. BARBAIER VON BAGDAD: So

schwärmet Jugend (Cornelius) / LA BOHÈME: Höre du alter Mantel (Puccini). Great copy. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

3723. 12” Blk. acous. Nordisk Polyphon B22038/B22039 [544as/546as]. ELIJAH: Herr Gott Abrahams (Mendelssohn) / THE SEASONS: Rollend in schäumjenden Wellen (Haydn). Despite the labels listing the voice as a “tenor” and the language “Danish”, Mayr is of course a bass and is singing in German. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

ESTER MAZZOLENI [s] 9046. 11” Fonotipia 92821/92822 [XPh4711/XPh4712]. OTELLO: Già nella notte densa

(Verdi). Two sides. With GIOVANNI ZENATELLO [t]. Good surface material. Some minor (harmless) marks, gen. 2. $25.00.

JOHN MC CORMACK [t] 9080. 11” Col. Fonotipia 57548/57591 [Lx2431-2/Lx2845]. A FAREWELL (Liddle) / I

KNOW OF TWO BRIGHT EYES (Clutsam). Side one cons. 2. Side two gen. 2. $12.00.

VICTOR MAUREL in Erlanger's Le Juif Polonais

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1273. 10” Red ’12 Pats. Vla 87078. GLI MARINARI (Rossini). With MARIO SAMMARCO [b]. Text label on verso. Gorgeous copy. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2119. 10” Red ’12 Pats. Victor 64253. A CHILD’S SONG [from A MASQUE] (Moore-Marshall). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1661. 10” Red ’12 Pats. Victor 64257. THE ROSARY (Nevin). First issued version (1912), replaced in 1915. As new (as the grading indicates). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2126. 10” Red ’12 Pats. “A” plate Victor 64316. MOLLY BRANNIGAN (Old Irish Melody). Piano acc. Spencer Clay. Gleaming pressing. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1833. 10” Red ’12 Pats. Victor 64329. THE LOW-BACK’D CAR (Samuel Lover). Delightful! Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1827. 10” Red Victor 64496. EVENING SONG (Henry Hadley). Few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $8.00.

4212. 10” Red Vla 64773 [take 2]. GOD BE WITH OUR BOYS TONIGHT (Sanderson). The second and rarest of three issued takes. Gen. 2. $8.00.

1847. 10” Red ’08 Pats. “B” plate Vla 87063. LAKMÉ: Vieni al contento profondo (Delibes). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1989. 10” Red Vla 89573. SINCE YOU WENT AWAY (J. Rosamund Johnson). With FRITZ KREISLER [vln]. Piano acc. Edwin Schneider. A really lovely disc. IMs. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1839. 10” Red Vla 750. UNTIL (Sanderson) / CALLING ME HOME TO YOU (Dorel). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1976. 10” Red Vla 757. THE KINGDOM WITHIN YOUR EYES (Nicholls) /PARTED (Tosti). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1593. 10” Red acous. Vla 1081. PUR DICESTI, O BOCCA BELLA (Lotti) / SWANS (A. Walter Kramer). Piano acc. Edwin Schneider. A “must” for all collectors interested in beautiful singing! Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1684. 10” Red Orth. Vla 1133. JUST A COTTAGE SMALL (Hanley) / THROUGH ALL THE DAYS TO BE (Hope). Very fine shellac. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2194. 10” Red EE Vla 1147. DEVOTION (Wood) / I LOOK INTO YOUR GARDEN (both Haydn Wood). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

1975. 10” Red Vla 1229. LILIES OF LORRAINE (Connor) / A ROSE FOR EVERY HEART (Cadman). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

1633. 10” Red “Z”-type shellac Victor 1307 [Bb11344-II/Bb11346-II]. A FAIRY STORY BY THE FIRE (Merikanto) / NOW SLEEPS THE CRIMSON PETAL (Quilter). Piano acc. Edwin Schneider. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1652. 10” Red Orth. Vla 1360. SONNY BOY (Jolson-DeSylva-Brown-Henderson) / JEANINE, I DREAM OF LILAC TIME (L. Wolfe Gilbert-Nathaniel Shilkret). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1850. 10” Red Orth. Vla 1425. LITTLE PAL (DeSylva-Brown-Henderson) / I LOVE TO HEAR YOU SINGING (Wood). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2318. 10” Red Orth. Vla 1453. I FEEL YOU NEAR ME (Hanley) / A PAIR OF BLUE EYES (Kernell). Both from film Song o’ my Heart. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2038. 10” Red Orth. Vla 1463. SONG OF THE NIGHT (Una Waldrop) / THE GATEWAY OF DREAMS (Granville English). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1331. 10” Red “Z”-type shellac Victrola 1528 [takes 2/2]. BY THE SHORTCUT TO THE ROSSES (Fox) / THE IRISH EMIGRANT (Lady Dufferin-Barker). Piano acc. Edwin Schneider. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1788. 10” Red Orth. Vla 1554 [Bb20691-II/Bb21028-I]. THE PRAYER PERFECT (Speaks) / FAR APART (Edwin Schneider). Side one with Herbert Dawson [Organist] and string quartet. Side two acc. by the composer. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1941. 10” Red Scroll Z-type Shellac Victor 1739 [OEA2134-I/OEA2135-I]. HERR, WAS TRÄGT DER BODEN HIER / AUCH KLEINE DINGE KÖNNEN (both Hugo Wolf). Piano acc. Edwin Schneider. Beautiful glassy pressing. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1944. 10” Red acous. Vla 3018. CARMÈ [CANTO SORRENTO] (de Curtis) / SERENATA (Moszkowski). Both with FRITZ KREISLER [vln]. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1649. 10” Red Dum Dum (Indian) HMV DA 1752 [OEA8850-I/OEA8862-1]. MEETING OF THE WATERS (Moore, arr. Schneider) / THE BARD OF ARMAGH (arr. Hughes). Piano acc. Gerald Moore. IMs. Excellent pressing. Lightest rubs, cons. 2. $10.00.

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4286. 10” (on 12”) acous. blk. vinyl HMV SS DA 644 [Bb5616-II]. BEFORE MY WINDOW (Rachmaninoff). With FRITZ KREISLER [vln]. A better pressing would be impossi-ble! Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1033. 10” White HMV VA 59 [Bb11336-1/Bb11337-1]. DESOLATION / A DREAM OF SPRING [both from “Songs from the Chinese Poets”] (Granville Bantock). Tiny lbl. tear. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3060. 12” Blk. Eng. Columbia (Odeon mat.) 880 [LXX3135/LXX3160]. MOUNTAIN LOVERS (Squire) / GREEN ISLE OF ERIN (Roeckel). Good pressing. Cons. 2. $12.00.

3482. 12” Purple SS U.S. Okeh 50003 [LXX3158-2]. O LOVELY NIGHT (Landon Ronald). Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $12.00.

3082. 12” Purple U.S. Okeh 50008 [LXX2853]. WHEN SHADOWS GATHER (Charles Marshall). Accompanied by the composer. Cons. 2. $10.00.

3601. 12” Red ’08 Pats. Vla 88245. DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT: Per viver vicino a Maria (Donizetti). Beautiful as mint copy. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3915. 12” Red ’08 Pats. “C” plate Victor 74157. KILLARNEY (Balfe). One minor rub, otherwise just about 1-2. $8.00.

3651. 12” Red ’08 Pats. “C” plate Victor 74184. HAS SORROW THY YOUNG DAYS SHA-DED (Moore). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3699. 12” Red ’08 Pats. Victor 74166. THE SNOWY BREASTED PEARL (Robinson). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

4143. 12” Red Pats. Victor 74219. ELISIR D’AMORE: Una furtive lagrima (Donizetti). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2823. 12” Red Victor 74224. LUCIA: Tu che a Dio (Donizetti). Just about 1-2. $8.00. 3652. 12” Red Pats. Victor 74236. KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN (Crouch). Gorgeous copy,

but then again so are most others in this category. Just about 1-2. $8.00. 4272. 12” Red ’12 Pats. Victor 74242. SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND (Moore-Lambert).

Just about 1-2. $8.00. 3079. 12” Red “A” Plate Victor 74243. AN EVENING SONG (Blumenthal). Just about 1-2.

$10.00.

3080. 12” Red ’12 Pats. Victor 74296. LIKE STARS ABOVE (Squire). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2617. 12” Red Victor 74398. AIDA: O terra addio (Verdi). With LUCY ISABELLE MARSH [s]. As new, as the grading indicates. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3887. 12” Red Victor 74432. THE TRUMPETER (Dix). Just about 1-2. $8.00. 3530. 12” Red Victor 74434. COME INTO THE GARDEN, MAUD (Tennyson-Balfe). Just

about 1-2. $7.00. 3586. 12” Red Vla 74435. TURN YE TO ME (Scottish Air). Just about 1-2. $7.00. 4291. 12” Red Victor “C” plate 74486. NON É VER (Mattei). Just about 1-2. $8.00. 3472. 12” Red acous. Vla 6199. KILLARNEY (Balfe) / KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN

(Crouch). Mint? Just about 1-2. $6.00. 3588. 12” Red Vla 6209. MEISTERSINGER: Prize Song (Wagner) / THE TRUMPETER (Dix).

Just about 1-2. $7.00.

4327. 12” Red PW (gold print) Victor 6926. HOLY NIGHT; THE TROUT; TO THE LYRE / HARK! HARK! THE LARK; HEDGE ROSES; WHO IS SYLVIA? (all Schubert). With Victor Salon Group dir. Nathanel Shilkret. Not part of the An Hour With Schubert set but probably originally recorded with inclusion in mind. First rate pressing. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3083. 12” Red PW (gold print) Victor 6926. Same as previous listing (item #4327). Cons. 2. $7.00.

3704. 12” Red HMV DB 2848 [2EA2749-II/2EA2748-IA]. THE KERRY DANCE (Molloy) / GREEN ISLE OF ERIN (Roeckel). Side two not issued on Victor. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

3900. 12” Mauve HMV AGSB 3. LA TRAVIATA: De’ miei bollenti spiriti (Verdi) / NATOMA: No country can my own outvie (Victor Herbert). Side one never issued in the U.S. Side two undoubled. Conducted by the composer. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3869. 12” Green RCA Victor SS Vinyl Christmas Greetings 1945 [C-17047]. DON GIO-VANNI: Il mio Tesoro (Mozart). RCAVr bk. Issued for Victor dealers. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

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GEORGE MEADER [t] 2143. 10” Green acous. Schall. Grammophon 11042 [458ak/460ak]. DON GIOVANNI:

Bande der Feundschaft (Mozart) / BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Sieh’ schon die Morgenröte (Rossini). One very tiny PB (harmless), just about 1-2. $20.00.

1617. 10” Green acous. No-Dog Gramophone 13114 [12834r/12835r]. FAUST: Es ist schon spat (Gounod). Two sides. With GERTRUD RUNGE [s]. Label side two very discolored (opposite side fine). Other than a couple tiny PBs, surfaces are just about 1-2. $15.00.

MEDEA MEI-FIGNER [s] 4439. 10” Red Flush St. Petersburg G&T 23123 [296x-D-2z]. PENSO [REMEMBRANCE]

(Tosti). In Italian. Fine copy of this gorgeous and extremely rare record. Lt. Lbl. Rubs. Few inherent pressing indentations, couple MGTs., gen. 2-3. $1200.00.

KATHRYN MEISLE [c] 1934. 10” Gold elec. Brunswick 15205. SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME (Dvo�ák) / AT

PARTING (Rogers). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

ANNA MEITCHIK [c]. Minsk, 1875–New York City, 1934. A notable Russian contralto, Meitchik made her Met debut in 1909 as La Cieca in La Gioconda. The following season she earned praise for the role of The Old Countess in the first Met performance of Tschaikowsky’s Queen of Spades, sharing the stage with Destinn and Slezak. One reviewer noted that “Mme. Meitchik, in particular, covered herself with glory.” She repeated that role successfully in New York with the Fine Arts Opera Company two decades later (1929). Her voice was so deep and rich that supposedly she once stood in for an ailing baritone in Rubinstein’s The Demon. During the later 1920s up to the period shortly before her death she was active in New York as a teacher, singer and impresario. One interesting performance must have been that of scenes from Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila, a charity performance at the Pythian Temple, for which she shared the stage with Nina Koshetz, Thalia Sabanieva and Dmitri Criona. She made only five issued sides for Fonotipia in 1908 and two electric Brunswick discs in 1927.

4189. 10” Purple elec. Brunswick 53010. AUFENTHALT (Schubert) / XERXES: Ombra mai fu (Händel). Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $60.00.

CARLOS MEJIA [t]. Mexico, 1892-1968. Possesser of one of Mexico’s leading tenor voices, Mejia studied at the Mexico City Conservatory and made his debut in 1915 at the Abreu in Donizetti’s La Favorita. He appeared in the U.S. beginning in 1917, mostly in Mexican/Spanish repertoire. Victor signed him as an exclusive artist in 1917, and he began recording first arias and concert pieces, then specializing in popular songs well as duets with other Mexican artists. His career continued in Mexico, where his work on the opera stage was particularly admired. Retiring in 1944, Mejia taught voice until his death.

1254. 10” Blue acous. Victor 45141. MIGNON: Addio Mignon (Thomas) / FAVORITA: Spirto gentil (Donizetti). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2545. 12” Blue acous. Victor 55091. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Ecco ridente (Rossini) / PEARL FISHERS: Mi par d’udir ancora (Bizet). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

NELLIE MELBA [s]. Melbourne, 1861-Sydney, 1931. Many considered Melba the true vocal successor to Adelina Patti. A star from her acclaimed debut in 1887 through over forty years of international triumphs, Melba was noted for the purity of her voice and its remarkable silvery quality. Her finishing work with Mathilde Marchesi provided an exceptional technique. Melba’s personality was, as with a number of other divas, bigger than life. When approached by young conductor Eugene Goossens, unexpectedly assigned a Melba performance at the last minute, as to anything about her interpretation he should know in advance, she replied, “I shall sing the opera exactly as Gounod wrote it; I hope that you’ll conduct it the same way.” Others referred to her acting skills as consisting of “quaint little gestures”, but the voice had an ethereal beauty that could not be duplicated. She was personally the epitomy of efficiency, and her brusque directness could often create lasting impressions for better or worse. When introduced to Rosa Ponselle at a luncheon arranged for the two of them in London prior to the America soprano’s triumph at Covent Garden, Ponselle (who bore “Melba” as her middle name) remembered Dame Nellie’s stone-faced introductory remarks: “You must be the new singer from New York. What sort of voice are you supposed to have?” Ponselle recalled that she should have been forewarned by McCormack asking her upon her London arrival, “Have you met the bitch yet?”, the word the tenor consistently used in referring to his Australian colleague. We certainly hear the voice of an angel in many of her recordings, although the owner of it may at times have seemed to acquaintances as having come from the nether regions.

2043. 10” White lbl. Vla 94001 [6151b]. LES ANGES PLEURENT (Herman Bemberg). Acc. by the composer. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

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1735. 10” White lbl. Vla 94007 [7205b]. AWAY ON A HILL THERE RUNS A STREAM (Landon Ronald). Acc. by the compo-ser. IMs. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

3526. 10” White lbl. HMV blk. vinyl (pressed on 12”), mat. 11690e. JEAN (Harry Burleigh). Piano acc. Landon Ronald. Unpublished. Rec. 11 May 1910. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

2973. 10” White lbl. HMV blk. vinyl (pressed on 12”), mat. Bb150-I. ANNIE LAURIE (Scott). Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

4055. 12” Lilac Victor “B” plate “Melba” Record 95016 [Melba 15]. IL PENSIEROSO: Sweet Bird [Cadenza] (Händel). Flute obb. by Phillipe Gaubert. Few LGTs, 2-3. $35.00.

3016. 12” White lbl. Victor vinyl 95017 [Melba 25]. THREE GREEN BONNETS (d’Har-delot). Just about 1-2. $30.00.

4056. 12” Lilac Victor “A” plate “Melba” Record 95019 [Melba 9]. SE SARAN ROSE (Arditi). Nice copy. 2. $35.00.

4066. 12” Lilac Victor “C” plate “Melba” Record 95027 [521c]. LO, HERE THE GEN-TLE LARK (Bishop). Flute obb. by Albert Fransella. Fine copy. Few MGTs, 2 $35.00.

3454. 12” White lbl. Victor blk. vinyl 95025 [Melba 26]. MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: Porgi amor (Puccini). Orig. 1904 master. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

2707. 12” White lbl. HMV mat. 4184f [unpublished]. DON CÉSAR DE BAZAN: Sevillana (Massenet). Spectacular performance, first rate recording (for 1910) and pressing. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3327. 12” White lbl. vinyl HMV mat. 4214f. PUR DICESTI (Lotti). Piano acc. Excellent pressing, needless to say. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3857. 12” Pink Dog HMV 03199 [4212f]. O FOR THE WINGS OF A DOVE (Mendelssohn). Piano acc. Landon Ronald. Excellent heavy early pressing. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

4278. 12” Red vinyl Victor (HMV) 2-053020 [4183f]. TOSCA: Vissi d’arte (Puccini). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3824. 12” Red Victor 88065 [2nd take]. GOOD-BYE (Tosti). Text label on verso. Just about 1-2. $5.00.

2466. 12” Red Victor 88067 [2nd take]. NOZZE DI FIGARO: Voi che sapete (Mozart). Just about 1-2. $6.00.

2452. 12” Red ’12 Pats. Vla 88074 [2nd take]. LA BOHÈME: Mi chiamano Mimì (Puccini). Just about 1-2. $6.00.

2639. 12” Red GP ’06 “C” plate Victor 88076 [1st take]. SE SARAN ROSE (Arditi). Few lt. mks., 2. $10.00.

4097. 12” Red Pats. Vla 88076. SE SARAN ROSE [MELBA WALTZ] (Arditi). Just about 1-2. $6.00.

2884. 12” Red Victor 88077. MATTINATA (Tosti). Self-accompanied. Excellent pressing. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2826. 12” Red GP ’08 “D” plate Victor 88080. SI MES VERS AVAIENT DES AILES (Hahn). Harp acc. by Ada Sassoli. Excellent early pressing, cons. 2. $10.00.

4137. 12” White lbl. Vla 88080. Same as preceding listing (item #2826). Very fine pressing, few lightest rubs. Cons. 2. $8.00.

4155. 12” Red ’08 GP Victor 88149 [1st take]. OTELLO: Ave Maria (Verdi). Rare. Very short catalogue life. IMs. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

4342. 12” Red ’08 GP “A” plate Victor 88151. D’UNE PRISON (Hahn). Self-accompanied. Minor lbl. scr., just about 1-2. $12.00.

2492. 12” Red Pats. Vla 88149 [2nd take]. OTELLO: Ave Maria (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $6.00.

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4068. 12” Red GP ’08 Victor 88150. YE BANKS AND BRAES O’ BONNIE DOON (Burns). Self-accompanied. Fine original pressing. Very lt. rubs, 2. $7.00.

4152. 12” Red ’08 Pats. Victor 88150. Same as preceding disc (item #4068) except slightly later pressing. Very tiny edge flake on blank side, otherwise just about 1-2. $7.00.

3321. 12” Red ’08 Pats. “A” plate Vla 88182. OH, LOVELY NIGHT (Ronald). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3110. 12” Red ’08 Pats. Vla 88252. DON CAESAR DE BAZAN: Sevillana (Massenet). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3957. 12” Red “A” plate Victor 88454. OLD FOLKS AT HOME (Foster). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2940. 12” Red “A” plate Victor 88485. SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME (Dvo�ák). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

4067. 12” Red GP ’07 Victor 89012. UN ANGE EST VENU (Bemberg). With CHARLES GILIBERT [b]. Nice copy, lt. rubs. 2. $12.00.

3550. 12” Red ’12 Pats. Vla 89073. AVE MARIA (Bach-Gounod). With JAN KUBELIK [vln]. Beautiful early pressing. Just about 1-2. $6.00.

4153. 12” White lbl. Vla 89074. IL RE PASTORE: L’amerò sarò costante (Mozart). With JAN KUBELIK [vln]. Just about 1-2. $6.00.

3062. 12” White vinyl (acous.) RCA Victor mat. C-13903. LOUISE: Depuis le jour (Charpentier). Pressed in the early 1960s for William Moran. The master subsequently disappeared (or was misfiled). Piano acc. Unpublished. The label of this disc, illustrated, is the style RCA used for custom/special pressings in the 1950s until the service was discontinued in the later 1960s. Just about 1-2. $100.00.

2874. 12” Green Grammophon 85149 (053111/2-053028) [C-4341-I/C-4341-II]. BOHÈME: Addio (Puccini) / BOHÈME: Addio (Puccini). A very odd record, being two different takes of the same selection. One side is the 1910 version which on Victor and HMV (2-053028) replaced the 1907 record. The other side is a 1909 version which may have had a very short life on HMV between the takes mentioned above. It was supposedly issued in England as 053111 and deleted upon the issue of 2-052028. It never appeared on Victor. Just about 1-2. $60.00.

2465. 12” Red Australian HMV DB 943 [CR421-I/CR412-I]. FAREWELL SPEECH [Covent Garden, June 8, 1926] / BOHÈME: Addio (Puccini). Good shellac. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2459. 12” Red Orth. Vla 6733 [Cc9952-II/Cc9953-IA]. CLAIR DE LUNE (Szulc) / SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT (arr. Harry Burleigh). Piano acc. Harold Craxton. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3762. 12” Red elec. Disque Gram. DB 987 [Cc9550-I/Cc9551-IA]. LA TRAVIATA: Dite alla Giovine (Verdi) / UN ANGE EST VENU (Bemberg). With JOHN BROWNLEE [b]. With Harold Craxton [pianist]. Small lbl. stkrs (partially removed). Few lt. rubs, cons. 2. $8.00.

3609. 12” PW Silver Victor IRCC 17 [690c/684½c]. ELAINE: L’amour est pur (Bemberg) / ADELINA PATTI [s]. LA CALESERA (Yradier). From orig. 1906 matrices. Side one only form of issue. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

2993. 12” White lbl. Blk. Vinyl Vla, mat. C-13908. LES ANGES PLEURENT; CHANT VENETIEN (Bemberg). Piano acc. Unpublished (except for AGSB issue). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

LAURITZ MELCHIOR [t]. Copenhagen, 1890-Santa Monica, CA, 1973. A student at the Royal Opera School in Copenhagen, Melchior made his debut as a baritone in 1913, singing Silvio in Pagliacci. Despite being received enthusiastically, he was advised by Mme. Charles Cahier that his voice was certainly that of a tenor. (He also studied with her for a period in 1926.) After studies with Vilhelm Herold he made a second debut in 1918, singing the title role in Tannhäuser. After a period of study specifically in Wagnerian repertoire, he had a great success at Covent Garden singing Siegmund, and he was subsequently a regular there, as well as at the Metropolitan, Bayreuth, Berlin and Hamburg. His outgoing and good natured personality was such that he was in demand as a guest on various popular radio and later TV shows in the 1940s through the 1960s. During the ‘40s he also appeared as a co-star in several Hollywood films. While his Met career ended in 1950 after an argument with Rudolf Bing, Melchior continued singing on occasion until shortly before his death.

2291. [as a baritone] 10” Blue acous. Odeon A144261/A144262 [Kpo253/Kpo254]. MIT HJERTE OG MIN LYRE (Kjerulf) / ØRNER LØFER MED STÆRKE SLAG (Heise). From his first recording session, Copenhagen, 1913. Cons. 2-3. $50.00.

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2438. 10” Green acous. Nordisk Polyphon 3-82078 [769ar/856ar]. DER FLYVER SAA MANGE FUGLE (Andersen) / DA FREDEN DROG OVER LANDE (Bonnèn). Side one piano acc., side two orch. Few lightest mks., side two small LSS. Cons. 2. $40.00.

1297. 10” Purple elec. Brunswick 10245. TO MY BRIDE (von Klenau) / DO NOT GO, MY LOVE (Hageman). Very attractive lyrical singing. Side two with FREDRIC FRAD-KIN [vln]. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3058. 12” Blk. acous. Nordisk Polyphon 082102/082103 [318as/319as]. LOHENGRIN: Graals Fortælling (Wagner) / LIDEN KIRSTEN: Sver-kels Romance (I. P. Hartmann). In Danish. Fine copy, few lt. mks. Cons. 2. $60.00.

3562. 12” Purple acous. Parlophone E10352 [7742-2/7743-2]. DIE WALKÜRE: Winterstürme / PAR- SIFAL: Nur eine waffe taugt (both Wagner). Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $35.00.

3636. 12” acous. Parlophon P.1927 [2-7824/2-7825]. TANNHÄUSER: O Fürsten [II. Akt, 2. Szene duet]. Two sides. With EMMY BETTENDORF [s]. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

3852. 12” Red acous. Polydor 72934 [1485½as/1486as]. WALKÜRE: Du bist der Lenz / WALKÜRE: Wie dir die Stirn so offen steht (Wagner). With FRIDA LEIDER [s]. Few lt rubs, cons. 2. $60.00.

3366. 12” Gold elec. Brunswick 50085. WALKÜRE: Winterstürme / MEISTERSINGER: Morgenlich leuchtend (both Wagner). Lt. rubs, 2. $12.00.

3324. 12” Blk. PW Electrola EJ 574 [CR2509-I/CR2510-III]. OTELLO: Gott! Warum has du [Monologo] / OTELLO: Jeder Knabe [Otello’s Death] (Verdi). Orch. dir. John Barbirolli. Very few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $15.00.

2831. 12” Blk. PW Electrola EJ 574 [CR2509-I/CR2510-III]. Same as previous listing (item #3324). Few rubs, gen. 2. $12.00.

2715. 12” White lbl. HMV SS vinyl EJ 582 [Cc19608-1A]. PAGLIACCI: Vesti la giubba (Leoncavallo). In German. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

4041. 12” White lbl. HMV SS vinyl EJ 583 [Cc19609-1A]. TANNHÄUSER: Der tone Lob! (Wagner). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3347. 12” Red HMV DB 3936 [CS-035835/CS-035837-1]. LOHENGRIN: In fernem Land / TRÄUME (Wagner). With Philadelphia Orch. dir. Eugene Ormandy. Side two the only form of issue. Side one just about 1-2. Side two lt. superficial scr. (actually a rub), few lt. mks., cons. 2. $15.00.

3732. 12” White lbl. RCA test mat. CS-035837-2. TRÄUME (Wagner). With Phil. Orch. dir. Ormandy. Unpublished take. Few lt. mks., cons. 2. $50.00.

3791. 12” Blk. Vinyl Columbia mat. C-13086-2. OTELLO: Si, pel ciel (Verdi). With HERBERT JANSSEN [b]. In Italian. Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $60.00.

CARMEN MELIS [s]

1945. 10” Black Pats. Victor 63422 [10636b/10670b]. HERMES: Figlio del mar (Attilio Parelli) / JANA: Madonna ascolta (Renato Virgilio). Both conducted by the respective composers. Creator performances. Just about 1-2. $40.00.

2306. 10” Red acous. La Cigale (Columbia) D9438 [B-120/B-121]. OTELLO: É un dì sul mio sorriso / OTELLO: Esterrefatta (Verdi). Labels worn. Excellent surface material, one very tiny scr. (about 1/8”), cons. 2. $20.00.

JAMES MELTON [t] 1521. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 1853-D [W148634-1/W148635-2]. WITH A SONG IN

MY HEART (Rodgers-Hart) / PAGAN LOVE SONG (Freed). Cons. 2. $10.00.

LAURITZ MELCHIOR and YOU-KNOW-WHO

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1425. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 1932-D [W147716-4/W147717-5]. MACUSHLA (MacMurrough) / BECAUSE (d’Hardelot). Small lbl. stkrs. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1746. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 1932-D. Same as preceding listing (item #1425) but without the lbl. stkrs. (i.e. as mint). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1990. 10” Blk. Orth. Victor 22439. BLUE IS THE NIGHT (Fisher) / I REMEMBER YOU FROM SOMEWHERE (Harry Warren). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

FRANCESCO MERLI [t] 3331. 12” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 50243-D [WBX226/WBX233]. SLY: La canzone dell’

Orso / SLY: Non sono un buffone (Wolf-Ferrari). Just about 1-2. $15.00. 3497. 12” Red PW Eng. Columbia D14704 [WBX226/WBX233]. Same as preceding listing.

Just about 1-2. $15.00. 2562. 12” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 52809-D [WBX260-2/WBX261]. AIDA: Celeste Aida

(Verdi) / GIOCONDA: Cielo e mar (Ponchielli). Just about 1-2. $10.00. 3257. 12” Red PW Eng. Columbia D14698 [WBX229/WBX230]. GIULIANO: Duetto

d’amore (Zandonai). Two sides. With ROSETTA PAMPANINI [s]. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

2968. 12” Blue PW Columbia 9102-M [CBX1371/CBX1372-2]. OTELLO: Dio ti giocondi [Act III Duet] (Verdi). Two sides. With CLAUDIA MUZIO [s]. As new. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

3224. 12” Green PW Columbia GQX 10776 [WBX1412/WBX1413]. OTELLO: Monologo / OTELLO: Niun mi tema (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

OTTILIE METZGER [c] 3535. 12” Girl and Gram. Parlophon P.1210/P.1211. DAS GLÖCKCHEN DES EREMITEN:

Denkt nur, vor dem Eremiten (Maillard) / DER TOD UND DAS MÄDCHEN (Schubert). Lt. rubs, 2-3. $12.00.

MARIA MICHAILOWA [s]. Kharkov, 1864 –Moscow, 1943. Her mother's surname was van Puteren, of Dutch ancestry. For three years she studied in St. Petersburg with Z. P. Grenning-Vilde, then approximately four years in Milan with S. Ronconi and in Paris with Saint-Yves-Bax and Laborde. From 1892 to 1912 she was leading artist of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, where she made her debut as Margherita in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots. During her career she also performed in Orel, Tambov, Odes-sa, at the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre (1902), Vladivostok (1903), and Kharkov, among other locales. She made guest appearances as well in Prague (1903), Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Austria and Japan. She possessed a flexible, easy, well schooled voice of a silvery timbre and a wide range with coloratura skills. – Internet sources.

1036. 10” Red Pats. Victor 61129 [2867L]. LUCIA: Mad Scene (Donizetti). Just about 1-2. $6.00.

1144. 10” Red Victor 61133 [2826L]. THE FATE-FUL MOMENT (Tschaikowsky). With E. WOLF ISRAEL [cellist] and piano. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1037. 10” Red ’08 Pats. Victor 61134 [2906L]. FREISCHÜTZ: Comes a Gallant Youth (von Weber). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

1050. 10” Red ’12 Pats. Victor 61143 [2816L]. THE SEA GULL’S CRY (Grodski). With KLAVDILA TUGARINOVA [c]. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

1103. 10” Red Victor 61181 [6328L]. LET JOY ABIDE (Trojansky). With Balalaika acc. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

WALTER MIDGLEY [t] 1743. 10” Red HMV DA 2036 [OEA-16472-2/16475-4]. O MISTRESS MINE, Op. 6, No. 2 /

DREAM VALLEY, Op. 20, No. 1 (both Roger Quilter). Piano acc. Gerald Moore. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

MARIA MICHAILOWA

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BEN MILLETT [boy alto]. Soloist: the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm St., London.

2068. 10” Blk. acous. HMV E.69 [Ho3966ae/4079ae]. AVE VERUM (Elgar) / PHYLLIS LETT [c]. ALLELUIA (arr. Morris). Side one with organ and choir. Side two with piano and organ. Lbl. stkr., 2. $8.00.

ZINKA MILANOV [s] 4171. 12” Red RCA Victor 11-9839. AIDA: Ritorna vincitor! / IL TROVATORE: Vanne,

lasciami … D’Amor sull’ ali rosee (both Verdi). Orch. dir. Frieder Weissmann. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

IRENE MINGHINI-CATTANEO [ms] 4296. 12” Red Orth. Vla 7824 [CM1693-II/CM1550-II]. LA FAVORITA: O mio Fernando /

LA FAVORITA: Pietoso al par del nume (Donizetti). Side two with LIONELLO CECIL [t]. Very rare Victor issue. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

RENZO MINOLFI [b] 1906. 10” Blue Victor 45002 [10553b/10555b].

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Turridu mi tolse l’onore / CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Ad essi io non perdono (Mascagni). Both with CLARA JOANNA [s]. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

JOSÉ MOJICA [t] 1535. 10” Red “Z” type shellac Scroll Vla 4228.

OMO TU Y YO (María Grever) / JÚRAME [TANGO] (both María Grever). Very lt. rubs, 2. $15.00.

1849. 10” Red “Z” type shellac Scroll Vr 4240. HOJAS MUERTAS (Mojica-Maduro) / MARIA LA O (Mojica-Lecuona). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1624. 10” Red Vla 1324. GITANA-SERENATA ESPAÑOLA (Jorge del Moral) / JÚRAME [TANGO] (María Grever). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3757. 12” Red Orth. Vla 6892 [takes 3/1]. FAUST: Salve, dimora (Gounod) / SNOW MAIDEN: Czar Berendey’s Cavatine (Rim-sky-Korsakov). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

2708. 12” White lbl. vinyl Orth. Vla mat. CVE-42693-2 (6892). SNOW MAIDEN: Tsar Berendy’s Cavatine (Rimsky-Korsakov). Unpublished take. Issued take is 1. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

3574. 12” Blk. Sal Mus B-033. HALLELUJA (Hummel) / PREGHIERA (Tosti). With Salvador Munoz [organist]. Rare. Some superficial rubs, 2. $15.00.

LUIGI MONTESANTO [b] 2548. 12” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 50173-D

[WBX324-2/WBX329-2]. ARIA DELLA PULCE [SONG OF THE FLEA] (Mous-sorgsky) / OTELLO: Credo (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

GRACE MOORE [s] 1296. 10” Gold elec. Brunswick 15186. FOR YOU

(Goodman) / BY THE BEND OF THE RIVER (Edwards). Just about 1-2. $15.00. 1329. 10” Red PW (gold print) Victor 1614. DUBARRY: The Dubarry / DUBARRY: I Give

My Love (Leigh-Carl Millöcker). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

JOSÉ MOJICA striking a heroic pose

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2052. 10” Blk. Brunswick 6994 [B16101-A/ B16102-A]. CIRIBIRIBIN (Pestalozza) / ONE NIGHT OF LOVE (Schertzinger). From film One Night of Love. With Met Male Chorus dir. Wilfred Pelletier. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2694. 12” Red late RCA Vr 11-8158. TOI SEULE, Op. 57, No. 6 (Tschaikowsky) / QUE DEVIENNENT LES ROSES, Op. 110 (Gaston Paulin). Orch. dir. Wilfred Pelletier. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

3376. 12” White lbl. vinyl PW lbl. Victor mat. CS-056451-1. LES NUITS D’ÉTÉ: L’Absence (Berlioz). Rec. 7 Oct. 1940. Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

3375. 12” White lbl. vinyl PW lbl. Victor mat. CS-075263-2. OUVRE TON COEUR (Bizet). Rec. 5 June 1942. Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

BERTHA MORENA [s]. Mannheim, 1878-Tegernsee, 1952. A pupil in Munich of Röhr- Brajnin and Orgeni, Morena made her debut at the Munich Hofoper in 1898 as Agathe in Der Freischütz, remaining there until her farewell in 1927. She was also with the Metropolitan Opera, making her debut there in 1908, and Covent Garden in 1914, singing primarily Wagnerian roles. She had been announced for the Metropolitan Opera in 1905, but, according to one press account she had “lost her reason” and had been on temporary leave from the Munich Hofoper. Whatever the case, she recovered from her ailment and resumed her career in 1907. Morena was noted for her acting skills and her attractive appearance, described in a newpaper article as “a very beautiful woman, tall and stately, with magnificent dark eyes, utterly unaffected and charming.”

1489. 10” Blk Angel Pre-Dog Gram. 43995/43996 [3927r/3928r]. TANNHÄUSER: Gebet der Elisabeth / TANNHÄUSER: Dich, theure Halle (Wagner). Beautiful copy. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

ALESSANDRO MORESCHI [castrato]. 1858-Rome, 1922. He studied with Gaetano Capocci and in 1873 was appointed primary soprano at the Chapel of Laterano. Ten years later he was admitted to the Sistine Choir. He was then “a high soprano of extraordinary purity and agility, to such an extent that he was nicknamed Angelo di Roma and was made soloist of the Capella Sistina by the Pope”. In 1898 he was promoted to Director of the Choir. He retired in 1913.

2158. 10” Red ’08 Pats. “B” plate Victor 61116 [2199h]. LAUDAMUS TE (Capocci). With CESARE BOEZI [t], AUGUSTO DADÒ [bs], SISTINE CHAPEL CHOIR. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

4182. 10” Red Vla 61116 [2199h]. Same as preceding listing but later pressing. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

4435. 10” White lbl. Vla 61119 [2185h]. PREGHIERA [ROMANZA] (Pablo Tosti). Piano acc. Very rare. Just about 1-2. $400.00.

GINA STEFANI MORETTI [s]. c.1874-Milano, 1914. Wife of bass Guido Stefani, Gina appears to have made her debut in 1902. She sang until late 1912, when a serious illness forced her retirement. She appeared in various Italian houses, mostly provincial, in a variety of lyric and coloratura roles such as Rosina, Lucia, Gilda, Violetta, Amina, Suzel (in l’Amico Fritz) and Elsa.

9101. 11” Brown Odeon X.110409/X.110410 [XM.1694/XM.1819]. LA FAVORITA: Vieni, ah vieni (Donizetti). With CARLO ALBANI [t] / OLIMPIA FRATTI [s]. LA CON-TESSA D’AMALFI: Io son la farfalla (Petrella). One harmless discoloration area side two. IMs. Cons. 2. $15.00.

JOSE MORICHE [t]. Burguillos, Spain, 1890-1964. Born José Adolfo Moriche Cubillo (and appearing as Giuseppe Moriche on the label below), Moriche began his career in opera. One clipping mentioned his having sung, with great success, Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Madrid Teatro Reale the season of 1918-19. He then appeared in Cuba and Mexico, mainly singing lighter Spanish and Mexican songs, and he appeared live on dozens of U.S. radio stations in the 1920s and ‘30s. According to one source he opened a restaurant in his later years here on Long Island (the town not mentioned) called “Caruso” and would entertain the diners by playing the guitar and singing.

GRACE MOORE, Hollywood, 1932

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1255. 10” Green acous. Flags Columbia 14111-F [64653-2/93835-4]. MANON: Il sogno (Masenet) / IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Se il mio nome (Rossini). Very effective singing, particularly on side two. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $15.00.

BARRY MORELL (MORRELL) [t]. Manhasset, NY, 1927-Sandwich, MA, 2003. Instead of going into the family textile business, he decided to be a singer and first performed at a benefit for the NY Actors’ Fund on Broadway at the age of 17, singing “Old Man River”. He believed he was a baritone and sang as such (as is the case with the recordings below) until he began studying with Giuseppe Danise. From then on his work was as a tenor. He made his operatic debut with the NYC Opera in 1955 as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, six years after his studies with Danise began. Three years later he first appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, singing seven principal roles that first year and remaining for 19 seasons. Jay S. Harrison, the music critic for The New York Herald Tribune at the time of Mr. Morell's debut, described his voice as ''a glorious instrument -- true, vibrant, splashed with silver.'' – Internet sources including NY Times obituary.

3336. 12” Red Vinyl Private L-18686/L-18697. THROUGH THE YEARS (Youmans); GO DOWN, MOSES (Spiritual) / BIRD SONGS AT EVENTIDE (Eric Coates). Piano acc. Rec. 5 Feb. 1945 (side one)/5 July, 1945 (side two). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3337. 12” Red Vinyl Privat L-23438/L-23439. I ATTEMPT FROM LOVE’S SICKNESS TO FLY (Purcell); HOMING (del Riego) / BECAUSE (d’Hardelot); VISIONS (Sjöberg). Piano acc. Both sides rec. 16 Oct. 1947. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

GAVRIL A. MORSKOI [t]. Ukraine, Chernigov province, 1862 - St. Petersburg, 1914. Morski (born Heinrich Janchevetzki) made his debut in Odessa in 1889. Among the other houses to hear him were the Kiev Opera and the Mariinsky Theater. His repertore included lyric and dramatic roles.

1013. 10” Blk. Monarch 61063 [278z-Ao-2z]. SERENADE (Zaremba). Bright label. Lt. sounds during piano intro., otherwise lt. rubs.. Clean, cons. 3. $60.00.

EUGENIUSZ MOSSAKOWSKI [b]. �ód�, 1885-Warsaw, 1958. Originally a factory worker, Mossakowski resolved at the age of 30 to become a singer and began studies under Waclaw Brzezi�ski. His debut took place in 1921 in Warsaw, and he was engaged there immediately as principal artist with the Warsaw Opera. He was tall, athletic and gifted with a beautiful voice and an “actor’s temperament”. Remaining with the Warsaw Opera until shortly after World War II, he then taught.

1029. Blue PW elec. Odeon O.236764 [Wo484/Wo488]. BÓG SI� RODZI / LULAJ�E JEZUNIU (both Koleda). Small lbl. stkr. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $20.00.

FRANK MULLINGS [t] 3160. 12” Purple SS Eng. Columbia 735 [74665]. TANNHÄUSER: Act II, Scene 2 [“Hall of

Song” Duet] (Wagner). In English. With ELSA STRALIA [s]. Orch. dir. Hamilton Harty. Small lbl. stkr. Just about 1-2. $12.00 .

PATRICE MUNSEL [s]. Spokane, WA, 1925. Her Met debut was in 1943, the youngest leading role debutante in the history of the Met. She continued for many years in just about every area of show business.

4223. 10” Blk. RCA Victor 20-4255. DIE FLEDERMAUS: Look Me Over Once (Dietz-J. Strauss) / BELLA BIMBA (De Mejo-Harrington). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

LAMBERT MURPHY [t]. Springfield, MA, 1885-Hancock, NH, 1954. A 1908 graduate of Harvard, Murphy had begun his musical studies at the age of 16. He and his brother, Ray, entered Harvard at the same time and were accepted as members of the Varsity Quartet, along with bass Leroy J. Snyder (who recorded for Victor in 1926 and studied in Italy with Lombardi following his years at Harvard). Murphy became a prominent church singer, first in Boston and then in New York at St. Bartholomew’s. He was heard by tenor Riccardo Martin, who in turn urged the Met’s General Manager Gatti-Casazza and conductor Toscanini to hear him. This resulted in a contract with the Metropolitan Opera from 1911 through 1914. His roles were small but were often singled out by reviewers for praise. He was featured on a number of Sunday night concerts, one on Feb. 23, 1913 including an aria from Die Meistersinger, which he repeated March 1, 1914. Despite laudatory reviews, he wasn’t promoted to larger parts, so he left the Met in favor of more lucrative concert work, his name already prominent to the public through his first Victor records. He was active in concert and as a Victor recording artist into the 1930s. He then taught in Boston at the Malkin Conservatory. When the Conservatory closed (circa. 1942), Murphy gave group voice classes in Springfield, supplementing his income by working at an army war plant. During these later years, two tragedies affected Murphy’s life. The first, in 1938, was the suicide of a namesake nephew. A few years later, during the War, Murphy was stricken with cancer of the larynx. While he survived the surgery, he was unable to speak for the remainder of his life.

1979. 10” Blue acous. Victor 45257. AN OLD SACRED LULLABY (Liddle). With OLIVE KLINE [s] / MERLE ALCOCK [c]. THE COMING OF THE KING: The Virgin’s Lullaby (Dudley Buck). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

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1736. 10” PoW RCA Victor 4083. FLOW GENTLY SWEET AFTON; SALLY IN OUR ALLEY; YE BANKS AND BRAES / ROYAL DADMUN [b]. JOHN PEEL; JOCK O’ HAZELDEAN; SCOTS WHA HAE WI’ WALLACE BLED (English and Scottish Folk Songs). Excellent late pressing. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2723. 12” Purple “B” plate ’12 Pats. Victor 70100. AFRICAINE: O Paradiso (Meyerbeer). In Italian. Scarce. Very effective performance. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3066. 12” Blue Victor 55069. MAVOURNEEN ROAMIN’ (Johnstone-O’Neill) / THE SUN-SHINE OF YOUR SMILE (Ray). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

M. MURRAY-DAVEY [bs]. 1877-1947. Born in England, Davey studied in France with Jean de Reszke. He evidently first sang in opera at the Paris Opéra in 1905 as the Hermit in Der Freischutz. 1907 marked his debut with the Monte Carlo Opera (Raimondo in Lucia) and 1909 at Covent Garden (making his debut as Abimelech in Samson et Dalila), where he remained through 1914. In 1912 he sang once at the Metropolitan Opera in a Sunday Night Concert and also was involved in other musical events in the New York area. He returned to the U.S. in 1921 for what was noted as his recital debut at Aeolian Hall, the audience “small in numbers but great in enthusiasm”. His first hearing at la Monnaie, Brussels, was in 1922, according to one source, although I could not find his name in the cast listings. In the ‘teens and ’20s, Davey was active in England on the concert stage as a singer and occasionally as a composer and arranger as well. Noted a reviewer in the London Musical Times in Jan. 1918, “It is unusual to find in an opera singer such reserve and so little desire for the cheaper ways of currying favour with the public. Mr. Murray Davey is not only a singer and a composer, he is an artist.”

3571. 12” Pink acous. Eng. Aeolian-Vocalion A-234 [03923/03924]. MAGIC FLUTE: Qui sdegno non s’accende (Mozart) / MEISTERSINGER: Pogner’s Address (Wagner). Side one in Italian, side two in German. Small lbl. stkrs. A couple of small rub patches, otherwise 2. $25.00.

3572. 12” Pink acous. Eng. Aeolian-Vocalion A254 [04221X/04222]. ROBERT LE DIABLE: Nonnes qui reposez (Meyerbeer) / LA JUIVE: Si la rigeur (Halévy). In French. Nice copy, cons. 2. $30.00.

CLAUDIA MUZIO [s] 2273. 10” Green Dog Con. Gram. 254063/254062 [1165ah/2680ah]. TRAVIATA: Amami!

Alfredo. With GAETANO TOMMASINI [t] / NOEME CASINI [s], GIUSEPPE MAGGI [b]. TRAVIATA: Morrò la mia memoria (Verdi). Beautiful copy of an exceptional Muzio rarity. Just about 1-2. $250.00.

1473. 10” Red Pathé Actuelle 025109 [N66023-2/ N66074-2]. MANON LESCAUT: In quelle trine morbide (Puccini) / IL TROVATORE: Tacea la notte (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

3896. 12” Red Vinyl SS Victor 55028-A [298ai]. LA BOHÈME: Mi chiamano Mimì (Puccini). VrBk. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2568. 12” Blue PW Columbia 9084-M [CBX1337-1/ CBX1338-1]. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Voi lo sapete (Mascagni) / COLOMBETTA (Buzzi-Peccia). Side two especially delightful. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2968. 12” Blue PW Columbia 9102-M [CBX1371/ CBX1372-2]. OTELLO: Dio ti giocondi [Act III Duet] (Verdi). Two sides. With FRANCES-CO MERLI [t]. As new. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2569. 12” Blue PW Columbia Master Works 9106-M [CBX1358/CBX1364]. FORZA DEL DESTI-NO: Pace, pace mio Dio / LA TRAVIATA: Ad-dio del passato (both Verdi). Her reading of Germont’s letter (side two) is uniquely touching. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

2565. 12” Blue PW Columbia Master Works 9148-M [CBX1335-2/CBX1336-2]. CECILIA: L’An-nuncio (Refice). Conducted by the composer. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

CLAUDIA MUZIO as Manon

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LULU MYSZ-GMEINER [c] 4216. 10” Blk. acous. Polydor 62534 [3565ar/3567ar]. WER HAT DAS LIEDEL ERDACHT

(Gustav Mahler) / FRÜHLINGSGLAUBE (Schubert). Piano acc. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

MINNIE NAST [s]. 1025. 10” Blk. Dog Gram. Concert 3-44032/3-

44031 [5076r/323ab]. MARRIAGE OF FI-GARO: Letter Duet (Mozart). With RIZA EIBENSCHÜTZ [s] / MARGARETE PREUSE-MATZENAUER [ms], PAUL BEN-DER [bs]. MIGNON: Schwalben-Duett (Tho-mas). Just about 1-2. $50.00.

2445. 12” acous. Odeon 80066/80067 [XXB5405/ XXB5406]. DER ROSENKAVALIER: Mir ist die Ehre wiederfahren / DER ROSENKAVA-LIER: Mit ihren Augen voller Tränen (R. Strauss). With EVA VON DER OSTEN-PLASCHKE [s]. Artists were creators in the Dresden 1911 world premiere. Small scr. into last grooves about ¼” side two (likely harm-less), 2. $100.00.

3457. 12” acous Dog Schall. Gram. 65239 (044183/ 044184) [2304c/2305½c]. DER ROSENKA-VALIER: Ist ein Traum / DER ROSENKAVA-LIER: Mit ihren Augen (R. Strauss). With EVA VON DER OSTEN-PLASCHKE [s]. Creators in the Dresden 1911 world premiere. Just about 1-2. $75.00.

FRANZ NAVAL [t]. 2415. 10” Blk. Wien G&T 44066 [851x-N2-2z]. DIE WEISSE DAME: Duett (Boieldieu).

With MARIE GUTHEIL-SCHODER [s]. Minor lbl. rubs. Clean surface. 2. $75.00.

2416. 10” Blk. Wien G&T 44067 [858x½-No-2z]. TALES OF HOFFMANN: Hörst Du es tönen mit süsser Meloldie (Offenbach). With MARIE GUTHEIL-SCHODER [s]. Lightest lbl. rubs. 2. $75.00.

FRANCESCO NAVARINI [bs] 2628. 11” Fonotipia SS vinyl (pressed on 12”) 62026 [XPh2397]. LUCREZIA BORGIA:

Vieni, la mia vendetta (Donizetti). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

INOCENCIO NAVARRO [b]. Barcelona, 1888-Barcelona, 1941. A somewhat mysterious figure, Navarro, according to one source, grew up as a member of the famous choir “Orfeó Catalá”. He made his debut at the Barcelona Teatro Real in 1912 and also sang at the Colliseu in Lisbon. Traces of his career disappear after 1917. Likewise his active recording career came to a halt about that time. Other sources indicate that he was from Bilbao, that his career began in 1888 (the year the reference work cited above gives as his birth!) and that he died in 1917. Perhaps some reader can end the confusion?

1249. 10” Blue Victor 45127 [s19096u/s19155u]. MI BANDIERA (Tejerina-González) / VIVA LA PILARICA [JOTA] (Olivera y Chaves). Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $12.00

CARL NELSON [t]. Label states that he is a “svensk-amerikansk” tenor.

1394. 10” Purple Scandinavian (?) Decca F44203 [RTJ5265MA/RTJ5266MA]. ACK, VÄRMELAND DU SKÖNA / TONERNA (Sjöberg, arr. Nils Kyndel). Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $10.00.

MARIA NEMETH [s] 2935. 12” Black PW Czech HMV ES 516 [CA101-II/CA102-II]. QUEEN OF SHEBA: Der

Freund is Dein / QUEEN OF SHEBA: Arie der Sulamith mit Frauenchor (Goldmark). Wonderful singing, fine pressing. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

LUCIANO NERONI [bs] 3346. 12” Orange Cetra 25247 [2-71184/2-71195]. DEJANICE: O patria mia (Catalani) /

MEFISTOFELE: Ave Signor (Boïto). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

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MARTHE NESPOULOUS [s] Paris, 1894-Bordeaux, 1962. Born of a Greek family, Nespoulous originally planned on a career in edu-cation, taking voice lessons for fun. After, by chance opportunity, singing at the funeral of Sarah Bernhardt, she was heard there by several important musical figures, including Jacques Rouche, director of the Paris Opéra. After some experience with smaller com-panies, she was hired by Rouche for the Paris Opéra in 1923 for a secondary role in Hérodiade. Her career there gradually increased in momentum, and by 1926 she was singing principal parts, such as Nedda in Pagliacci. She subsequently appeared as a leading figure as well in Monte Carlo, la Monnaie in Brussels and in Italy’s San Carlo Opera. She left the Paris Opéra after a contract dispute with the management in 1933 and sang thereafter primarily in the provinces. Despite subsequently trying to make amends in Paris, Nes-poulous wasn’t welcomed back and was told that she had “abused her voice” and at that time “failed to rise to the level of perfection and style” required by the Opéra. She then retired and taught, and was appointed a professor at the Conservatoire in Bordeaux in 1947. – Various Internet sources.

1752. 10” Red PW Eng. Columbia RF 23 [WL2293-1/WL2339-1]. MÂROUF: Mârouf, il n’est pas de richesse (Rabaud) / SAPHO: Pen-dant un an, je fus ta femme (Massenet). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

EMMA NEVADA [speaker] and MIGNON NEVADA [s] 3473. 12” Purple SS PW IRCC 118. A MESSAGE FROM EMMA NEVADA INTRODUCING

HER DAUGHTER WHO SINGS “LE SOIR” (Ambroise Thomas, her Godfather). Label autographed by both Nevadas. Recorded 1938. PW Columbia pressing. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

ANTONINA NEZHDANOVA [s]. 4183. 10” White lbl. HMV 2-23315 [7216L]. SNOW MAIDEN: Gathering berries (Rimsky-

Korsakov). Just about 1-2. $50.00. 3928. 12” White lbl. HMV 023047 [1927c]. DER VOGEL IM WALDE (Taubert). Just about

1-2. $60.00. 4073. 12” White lbl. HMV 023054 [1928c]. FRA DIAVOLO: Or son sola (Auber). Just about

1-2. $60.00. 4072. 12” White lbl. HMV 023051 [1929c]. TO FORGET SO SOON (Tschaikowsky). Piano

acc. Just about 1-2. $75.00. 3930. 12” White lbl. HMV 023097 [2602c]. LES FILLES DE CADIZ (Delibes). Just about

1-2. $60.00. 2871. 12” White lbl. HMV 023098 [2606c]. I PURITANI: Qui la voce (Bellini). Just about 1-

2. $60.00. 2872. 12” White lbl. HMV 023109 [2607½c]. LAKMÉ: Bell Song (Delibes). Just about 1-2.

$60.00. 3769. 12” White lbl. HMV 023122 [2797c]. MIGNON: Je suis Titania (Thomas). Just about

1-2. $60.00. 2658. 12” White lbl. HMV 023126 [2796½c]. LUCIA: Regnava nel silenzio (Donizetti). Just

about 1-2. $60.00. 4058. 12” White lbl. HMV 023132 [2798c]. HAMLET: Mad Scene (Thomas). Just about

1-2. $60.00. 4057. 12” White lbl. HMV 023149 [319af]. LIFE FOR THE TSAR: I do not grieve (Glinka).

Just about 1-2. $60.00. 3929. 12” White lbl HMV 023158 [324af]. CRADLE SONG, Op 16, No. 1 (Tschaikowsky).

Piano acc. Just about 1-2. $75.00. 2959. 12” White lbl. vinyl HMV, mat. 2791c. THE ROSE AND THE NIGHTINGALE (Rim-

sky-Korsakov); HOW FAIR THIS SPOT (Rachmaninoff). Piano acc. Unpublished. Just about 1-2. $100.00.

2972. 12” White lbl. vinyl HMV 023159 [235af]. HOW FAIR THIS SPOT (Rachmaninoff); THE ROSE AND THE NIGHTINGALE (Rimsky-Korsakov). Piano acc. Same

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selections as on the preceding unpublished edition but the order is reversed. Just about 1-2. $75.00.

3546. 12” Purple HMV AGSB 71 [1917c/398ac]. DER VOGEL IM WALDE (Taubert) / THE DEMON: Warm night, quiet night (Rubinstein). One small LSS, otherwise just about 1-2. $10.00.

ALICE NIELSEN [s] 1865. 10” Red Victor 64091. ROMÉO ET JULIETTE: Ne fuis pas encore (Gounod). With

FLORENCIO CONSTANTINO [t]. As mint (as is the case with most listings in this grading category). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2475. 12” TC Flush Columbia A5248 [30597-1/30598-1]. MEFISTOFELE: L’altra notte (Boïto) / TOSCA: Vissi d’arte (Puccini). Good pressing. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2641. 12” Cream Notes Brazilian Columbia S5074 [30924-2/30921-1]. FAUST: Tardi si fà (Gounod). With GIOVANNI ZENATELLO [t] / MARIA GAY [c], ZENATELLO [t]. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Tu qui Santuzza? (Mascagni). Side one issued only in South America. Small harmless PB. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

3633. 12” Red GP ’08 “B” plate Victor 74117. DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT: Convien partir (Donizetti). Just about 1-2. $10.00.

2682. 12” White lbl. vinyl Vla mat. C-6147-2. TRAVIATA: Un dì felice eterea (Verdi). With FLORENCIO CONSTANTINO [t]. Unpublished. Rec. 23 Apr. 1908. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

GALINA I. NIKITINA [c] 1926. 10” Blk. St. Petersburg &GT 2-23332 [7733L]. CHANTEZ POUR MOI (Dlussky).

Fine copy, cons. 2. $40.00.

JUSTE NIVETTE [bs]. 1866 - ? . His debut was as Sarastro at the Paris Opéra-Comique in 1892. At the Paris Opéra, he was first heard in 1900 in Paladilhe’s Patrie. His diverse repertoire included parts such as King Henry (Lohengrin), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Marcel (Les Huguenots) and Un Moine Peintre in Massenet’s Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, which he created at Monte Carlo in 1902. Nivette appeared as well at La Scala and Covent Garden, and with the Boston Opera, singing Alvise in La Gioconda upon the company’s first season opening night in 1909.

9029. 11” Brown Odeon 60719/60652 [XP.3881/XP.3885]. LE MULETIER DE TARRA-GONE (Paul Henrion) / ROBERT LE DIABLE: Valse Infernale (Meyerbeer). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

HELENE NOLDI [s]. Chicago, 1874-1962. Born Helen Russell Urlich, Noldi accompanied her father to Italy in 1893 and studied voice there with Alexander Busi and then in Paris with Calvé’s teacher, Mme. Laborde. Returning to the U.S., she settled in New York and wed Italian baritone Achille Alberti. Noldi’s career began touring the U.S. with Sofia Scalchi. She then became a member of a company in Mexico organized by Eugenia Mantelli and following that sang with the Castle Square Opera. The Boston Transcript noted of Noldi in a performance of Faust in 1907, “The ‘Jewel Song’ proved a revelation of her powers, and for the moment her brilliant singing took the audience off its feet.” During the season of 1905-06 Noldi was on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera, singing in a Sunday night concert and giving one performance as Leonora in Il Trovatore as a last minute re-placement for Lillian Nordica. She apparently ap-peared in Europe as well, as a 1910 engagement in London under Henry Wood’s baton is mentioned in one music journal.

1200. 10” Blk. ’07 GP Victor 5264. THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER (Moore-Stevenson). Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $8.00.

4176. 10” Blk. ’07 GP Victor 5356. FAUST: Jewel Song (Gounod). Few lt. rubs, cons. 2. $8.00.

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LILLIAN NORDICA [s]. Farmington, ME, 1857-Batavia, Java, 1914. Born Lillian Norton, her early studies were at the New England Conservatory with John O’Neill. In 1879 she made her operatic debut in Milan at the Teatro Manzoni as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. Paris first heard her at the Opéra in 1882 as Marguerite in Faust, and she repeated that role for her New York entrée at the Academy of Music, 1883. She was first heard at Covent Garden in 1887 as Violetta and in 1891 at the Metropolitan Opera as Valentine in Les Huguenots. Nordica became particularly noted for her singing of the Wagnerian heroines and is recalled as one of the greatest sopranos of her era. Her personal life was less fortunate. A first husband, a rich cousin named Frederick Gower, disappeared during a hot air balloon flight. This was perhaps fortuitous, as he wanted her to give up her career. A second, Zoltan Döme (Solomon Teitlbaum), was a Hungarian who made use of Nordica’s bank account when his own success as a singer proved to be less than substantial. He fled to Hungary and was replaced by a third husband, banker George W. Young, who eventually “drained her coffers dry” in the stock market. She died of typhus while touring the East Indies before a fourth husband could be acquired.

3931. 12” Purple Columbia 30133 [take 2]. LA GIOCONDA: Suicidio (Ponchielli). Excellent later ‘20s laminated pressing. Small rim bump not into grooves, otherwise just about 1-2. $25.00.

2426. 12” Red PW Columbia IRCC 87 [30144-1/30677-1]. HUNYADI LASZLO: Ah rebegés (Erkel) / SERENADE (Strauss). Beautiful pressing of her greatest record (side one). The Strauss song was never issued in the U.S. Piano acc. Just about 1-2. $50.00.

2469. 12” Pink Eng. Columbia 74027 [30657]. MANDOLINE (Debussy). With harp and piano. Excellent later ‘20s laminated pressing. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

2478. 12” Purple Columbia 30486 [take 1]. FROM THE LAND OF THE SKY BLUE WATER (Cadman); MIGHTY LAK’ A ROSE (Nevin). Piano acc. Excellent late ‘20s laminated pressing. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

3796. 12” Blk. Vinyl Columbia 30658. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: Liebestod (Wagner). The published number for this record was 30652 but this oddity has (in type) 30658 instead. It appears to be the same as the issued version. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

EIDÉ NORENA [s] 2305. 10” Red PW French Odeon 188796 [KI-3938-2/KI-4006-1]. LE COQ D’OR: Hymns

au Soleil (Rimsky-Korsakov) / LA VOIX DU PRINTEMPS (Johann Strauss). Minor lbl. stain side one. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

4184. 10” Plum PW Disque Gram. K-6865 [OPD-4-1/OPD-5-1]. THOUSAND AND SECOND NIGHT [LA MILLE ET DEUXIÈME NUIT]: La Barcarolle bleue (Jacques Dallin) / PEER GYNT: Chanson de Solveig (Grieg). Side one appealing musical exotica, beautifully sung by Noréna. Just about 1-2. $40.00.

4181. 10” Plum PW Disque Gram. K-7202 [OPG-1237-1/OPG-1238-1]. RENCONTRE / TOUJOURS; ADIEU (all Fauré, orch. Ariste Martz). Just about 1-2. $40.00.

2301. 10” Plum PW Disque Gram. K-7202 [OPG-1237-1/OPG-1238-1. Same as preceding listing (item #4182). Tiny harmless rim bruise, far from grooves. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

1508. 10” Red PW Disque Gram. DA 4832 [OPG-72-1/OPG-73-1]. TURANDOT: Tanto amore segreto / TURANDOT: Tu che di gel sei cinta (Puccini). In Italian. Excellent pressing. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2551. 12” Red PW (gold print) Victor 14742 [2PG874-3/2PG907-1]. ROMÉO ET JULIETTE: Je veux vivre (Gounod) / CARMEN: Je dis que rien (Bizet). Orch. dir. Piero Coppola. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

3488. 12” Maroon PW Parl.-Odeon R20162 [XXP6781-4/XXP6861-3]. ROMÉO ET JULIETTE: Je veux vivre (Gounod) / RIGOLETTO: Caro nome (Verdi). In French. Just about 1-2. $12.00

2539. 12” Blue PW Blue Shellac Columbia G-7302-M [XXP6781-4/XXP7042-2?]. ROMÉO ET JULIETTE: Valse (Gounod) / LES HUGUENOTS: O beau pays (Meyerbeer). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

JARMILA NOVOTNA [s] 1961. 10” PW Plum HMV EG 2727 [OD1396-I/OD1397-I]. FRÜHLINGSSTÜRME: Walzer-

lied der Lydia / FRÜHLINGSSTÜRME: Tangolied der Lydia (Jaromir Weinberger). orch. dir. Franz Schönbaumsfeld. Scarce. Superficial rubs. Side one 3. Side two 2. $12.00.

3399. 12” Plum Czech HMV AN 682 [2D381-I/2D382-I]. LA TRAVIATA: Ah, fors’ è lui / LA TRAVIATA: Sempre libera (Verdi). In Czech. Very light lbl. rubs, surface just about 1-2. $12.00.

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FRANCISCO (AUGUSTIN) NUIBO [t] 1555. 10” Blk. Notes Columbia A545 [3127-

1/3135-1]. MARTHA: Romance (Flotow) / MARCEL JOURNET [bs]. LAKMÉ: Stances (Delibes). Cons. 2. $15.00.

1681. 10” White lbl. Vla 64016 [B-2221]. MIREILLE: Cavatine (Gounod). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

MARGARETE OBER [c] 1077. 10” Red “B” plate Victor 64443. GIO-

CONDA: Voce di donna (Ponchielli). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1049. 10” Red Victor 64446. ICH LIEBE DICH (Beethoven). Piano acc. Arthur Arndt. Cons. 2. $7.00.

1872. 10” Red Victor 64506. IL TROVATORE: Stride la vampa (Verdi). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

2670. 12” Red “A” plate Victor 74397. LE PROPHÈTE: Ach, mein Sohn! (Meyer-beer). Scarce. Never doubled. Perfect copy. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

3383. 12” Red “C” plate Victor 74397. Same as preceding listing. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $12.00.

3521. 12” Red Victor 76031. BORIS GODOU-NOV: Finale Atto 3 (Moussorgsky-Rimsky-Korsakov). With PAUL ALT-HOUSE [t]. In Italian. A wonderful record if you don’t mind the internationalization of Moussorgsky. With these beautiful results I don’t! Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3339. 12” Purple Flowers acous. Parlophon P.267 [2-414/2-421]. LE PROPHÈTE: O du, der nich verlassen / LE PROPHÈTE: Wirf deinen Lichts [Prison Scene, Act V] (Meyerbeer). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

ARVID ÖDMANN [t]. 1850-1914. Ödmann, having studied in Stockholm, made his debut there in 1873 as Tamino in The Magic Flute. From 1875-1911 (excepting three seasons, 1887-1889 in Copenhagen) he was a leading lyric tenor with the Stockholm Royal Opera. Baritone John Forsell, who had been a colleague and “great friend” of Ödmann, heard the young Jussi Björling at the age of 22 sing Gounod’s Romeo. After the Balcony Scene, Forsell ran to Björling’s dressing room with tears flowing. He had been reminded of his late colleague and dear friend Arvid Ödmann, Romeo having been one of his great roles. Jussi couldn’t ask for greater approval. [Ödmann] had a “bright, gentle tenor voice, and audiences adored him. … As a special tribute to his young successor, Ödmann’s old, worn-out chair was eventually placed in Jussi’s dressing room. The chair followed him throughout his life, and now stands in the Bjorling Museum in Borlänage.” – quotes from the informative and enjoyable biography of Björling, Jussi (by Anna-Lisa Bjoring and Andrew Farkas)

2644. 12” Blk. acous. Favorite 2-85055/2-85059 [54-p/55-p]. KING FOR A DAY: Hennes namn och börd (Adam) / ROMÉO ET JULIETTE: Recit. and Cavatina (Gounod). Piano acc. I can’t find the slightest resemblance to the voice heard here and that of Jussi Björling. See what you think! Few MGTs, gen. 3. $25.00.

MAARTJE OFFERS [c] 2795. 12” Red Spanish Disco Gramófono DB 754 [Ck1471-I/Ck1473-IV]. TROVATORE:

Condotta ell’era in ceppi / TROVATORE: Giorni poveri vivea (Verdi). Side two with EZIO PINZA [bs], UGO MARTORANO [b]. Rare. Lt. lbl. fade. 2-3. $15.00.

3844. 12” Red Spanish Disco Gramófono DB 1185 [CR1459-I/CR717-II]. LA FAVORITA: O mio Fernando (Donizetti) / ORFEO: Che farò senza Euridice (Gluck). Side one orch. dir. Carlo Sabajno. Side two dir. Mo.Van Buuren. Her scarce records usually turn up on gritty HMV pressings. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $15.00.

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JOSEPH O’HARA [t]. See: FORREST LAMONT

KNUT ÖHRSTRÖM [t]. 1885-1964. Swedish operatic tenor. He was a member of the Swedish Royal Opera and in the 1920s toured the U.S. in concert, singing particularly in Swedish-American areas.

4210. 10” Green acou. Nordisk Polyphon X.S42368 [2294ax/2295ax]. OM DAGEN VID MITT ARBETE / OM SOMMAREN SKÖNA (Swedish Folk Songs). One harmless depression side one, otherwise just about 1-2. $10.00.

ROSA OLITZKA [c] 3055. 12” TC Columbia A5428 [30837-3/30995-1]. AGNUS DEI (Bizet) / SAPHO: Oh ma

lyre immortelle (Gounod). Flush pressing, good shellac. Lt. NR on lbl. Cons. 2. $15.00.

JULIAN MARIO OLIVER [t] 1725. 10” Regal (Sp. Columbia) Viva-Tonal RS 584 [W95125-3/W95346-2]. EL TRUST DE

LOS TENORIOS: Te quiero (Serrano) / JOTA (de Falla). With guitar. Few lightest rubs. Harmless 1” edge patina side one, otherwise cons. 2. $10.00.

MAGDA OLIVERO [s] 2756. 12” Orange late Cetra PE 184 [2-71552/2-71553]. MANON: Addio o nostro picciol

desco (Massenet) / LA PROCESSION (Franck). Side one orch. dir. Arturo Basile. Side two piano acc. Ermelinde Magnetti. Harmless lt. rubs. Gen. 2. $45.00.

2917. 12” Orange Cetra 25049 [2-70329/2-70330-II]. MEFISTOFELE: L’altra notte (Boïto) / ADRIANA LECOUVREUR: Poveri fiori (Cilèa). Couple tiny rubs. Just about 1-2. $60.00.

MARIA OLSZEWSKA [c] 2071. 10” Red acous. Polydor 70617 [831at/

1534ar]. AIDA: Schon sind die Priester all’ vereint (Verdi) / HELENE WILDBRUNN [s]. WALKÜRE: Walküfenruf (Wagner). Few lt. rubs, cons. 2. $40.00.

1998. 10” Red acous. Polydor 70651 [819at/ 820at]. RUHE, MEINE SEELE (Strauss) / ESULTATE JUBILATE: Alleluia (Mozart). Piano acc. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

1904. 10” Red acous. Polydor 70653 [821ai/ 822ai]. MONDNACHT (Schumann) / FRÜHLINGSNACHT (both Schumann). Piano acc. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

4042. 10” (pressed on 12”) White lbl. SS vinyl E.589 [Bb16884-1A]. AUFENTHALT (Schubert). An immaculate copy, as are all the vinyl pressings listed herein. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

4172. 12” Red acous. Schall.-Grammophon 72786 [679av/680av]. SAMSON ET DALILA: Sieh’ mein Herz / SAMSON ET DALILA: De Sonne, sie lachte (Saint-Saëns). Couple rubs and small (harmless PB). Cons. 2. $30.00.

3619. 12” Red acous. Polydor 72917 [421as/739av]. DIE MAINACHT (Brahms) / LOTTE LEHMANN [s]. MORGEN (Strauss) Small lbl. tear side two, otherwise just about 1-2. $30.00.

AUGUSTA OLTRABELLA [s]. Savona, 1897-1981. Her studies were with Manlio Bava- gnoli, who had also taught Bruna Rasa, and her debut was in Mondovì as Leonora in Il Trovatore. She then was heard in a number of local houses for several seasons. Said Oltrabella, “The rumour got around that I could sing everything, which was absolutely true.” She appeared at the Metropolitan Opera the season of 1929-30, singing there Musetta, Cio-Cio-San, Nedda and Liù. She said she had been offered a contract for two more seasons, but that she felt there were “…too many sopranos – Bori, the very fat Frances Alda, Easton, Moore, Queena Mario, and several others, all singing my parts. No rehearsals- one just jumped in.” She then made her La Scala debut, which elevated her to star status in Europe. Toscanini hired her for the Salzberg Festival as Nanetta in Falstaff, her usual role in that opera having been Alice. In 1948 she sang in the world

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premiere of Ghedini’s Le Baccanti. “There were high Ds jumping all over the place. As I adored challenges on that level, I accepted. Oltrabella would show them ...”. Her late repertoire included operas such as Menotti’s The Medium and and Rosselini’s La Guerra. “But I never should have stopped [singing]. Look at Magda. I was loved too, you know; she is not the only one!” - Quotes from Rasponi’s The Last Prima Donnas.

2844. 12” Red VdP DB 2828 [2BA1204-II/2BA1205-I]. IL DIBUK: Eccoti, bella amica / IL DIBUK: Ma ora torno verso l’anima tu (Rocca). With GINO DEL SIGNORE [t]. Excellent pressing. One small mark. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3543. 12” Red late VdP DB 5350 [2BA1200-I/2BA1341]. SUOR ANGELICA: Senza mamma (Puccini) / FEDORA: Vedi, io piango (Giordano). Side two with ALESSANDRO ZILIANI [t]. Excellent copy. Few lt. rubs, cons. 2. $8.00.

3662. 12” Red VdP DB 5382 [2BA4071-II/2BA4072-I]. MESE MARIANO: Racconto di Carmela (Giordano). Two sides. With EMMA TEGANI [s], RITA MONTICONE [c]. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

SIGRID (HOFFMANN) ONEGIN [c]. 1889-Magliaso, Switzerland, 1943. Born in Sweden of German and French parents, Onegin studied in Frankfurt, Munich and Milan with, among others, Lilli Lehmann and Margarethe Siems. Her debut, as Lilly Hoffmann, took place in 1912 as Carmen with the Stuttgart Opera. The next year she wed pianist Baron Eugen Borisowitch Onégin (1870-1919) and then sang as Lilly Hoffmann-Onégin until 1920, retaining Onégin but dropping her maiden name Hoffmann and replacing Lilly with Sigrid. Interestingly, Baron Onégin was actually a woman, Agnes Elizabeth Overbeck, who used a male alias, a fact not generally known at the time. Sigrid’s second husband (whom she married in 1920) was a male, Dr. Fritz Pensoldt (1849-1927), and they had one son. 1919 marked her debut with the Munich Opera and 1922 the first of two seasons at the Met. She also appeared at Salzburg (1931-32), the Bayreuth Festival (1933-34) and Covent Garden (1927), but much of her career was as a concert singer. Her last U.S. concert appearance was in 1938. Her extraordinary technique and wide ranging voice were reminiscent of Schumann-Heink at her peak. The author Gordon Eby, in his book From the Beauty of Embers, gave a visual description of Onegin on the concert stage in York, PA, shortly before her retirement. “She was that super-elegant sort of diva whose stage appearance entailed a bird-of- paradise head-dress, a diamond tiara, shoulder-length gloves, a varied assortment of bracelets from wrist to elbow, chandelier earrings, a five-foot train and a huge ostrich feather fan.” The visual and aural Onegin must have made quite a feast for the senses.

1238. 10” Gold acous. Brunswick 15093. TROVATORE: Ai nostri monti / TROVATORE: Mal reggendo (Verdi). With MARIO CHAMLEE [t]. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1280. 10” Gold elec. Brunswick 15128. CARMEN: Habanera / CARMEN: Seguidilla (Bizet). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

1594. 10” Gold elec. Brunswick 15137. SWEDISH LULLABY (arr. Raucheisen) / HERD-MAN’S SONG (Berg). Both in Swedish. Side one with FREDERIC FRADKIN [vln] and piano acc. by Franz Dorfmüller. Side two with orch. Just about 1-2. $10.00.

1592. 10” Gold elec. Brunswick 15154. ZANETTO: Serenade / OUVRE TES YEUX BLEUS (both Massenet). Piano acc. Franz Rupp. Side two with FREDRIC FRADKIN [vln]. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

2009. 10” Gold elec. Brunswick 15155. THE BLIND PLOUGHMAN (Hall-Clarke) / THE FAIRY PIPERS (Brewer). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1596. 10” Gold elec. Canadian Brunswick 15156. CARO MIO BEN (Giordani) / DORMI PURE! (Scuderi). Lightest rubs, 2. $8.00.

1326. 10” Blue elec. Polydor 590002 [Brunswick 15110]. LUCREZIA BORGIA: Brindisi (Donizetti) / IL TROVATORE: Stride la vampa (Verdi). Superb Polydor pressing from electric Brunswick masters. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3219. 12” Red acous. Polydor 72919 [790as/791as]. DENN ES GEHET DEM MENSCHEN/ ICH WANTE MICH (both Brahms). From Four Serious Songs. Piano acc. Trademark covered for import purposes. IMs. Beautiful pressing. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

2996. 12” Gold elec. Brunswick Polydor A73056 [U.S. issue 50077]. SAMSON ET DALILA: Mon coeur (Saint-Saëns) / CARMEN: Chanson Bohême (Bizet). Better shellac than the U.S. issue. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3352. 12” Red Scroll “Z”-type shellac Victor 6803. LE PROPHÈTE: Ah, mon fils! (Meyer-beer) / ORFEO: Che farò senza Eurydice (Gluck). Just about 1-2. $7.00.

3537. 12” Red Orth. Vla 6842. IMPROMPTU IN A FLAT MAJOR (Chopin, Op. 29) / LEGGIERO INVISIBLE (Arditi). Piano acc. Franz Dorfmüller. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $8.00.

2737. 12” Red Scroll “Z”-type shellac Victor 7075. DU BIST DIE RUH’, Op. 59, No. 3 (Schubert) / DIE LORELEI (Liszt). Piano acc. Fritz Huebach. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

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3392. 12” Red Orth. Vla 7305 [CLR5799-III/CLR5800-II]. SAMSON UND DALILA: Der Frühling erwachte / SAMSON ET DALILA: Mein Herz (Saint-Saëns). Scarce German language version. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

3518. 12” Red Scroll “Z”-type shellac Victor 7350 [CLR5799-II/CLR5800-I]. SAMSON ET DALILA: Printemps qui commence / SAMSON ET DALILA: Mon coeur (Saint-Saëns). Just about 1-2. $8.00.

DMITRI ONOFREI [t].1897-1966. Onofrei’s long career included twenty seasons traveling the U.S. with the San Carlo Opera along with his wife, soprano Bianca Saroya. He appeared at the Met once as Lohengrin, in 1937, but the whole performance was apparently (according to the NY Times) a dismal failure. It included three debuts and no rehearsals. He had much better results in his touring performances. Onofrei and Saroya later taught, Onofrei’s pupils having included serious artists such as Metropolitan Opera tenor John Alexander (1923-1990) and colorful personalities, for example “America’s Singing Farmer”, Bob Parrish.

3607. 12” Red U.S. Odeon 3284 [XXJO2020/XXPh6191-2]. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Addio alla Mamma / ANTONIO GUARNIERI dir. ORCH. SINFONICA DI MILANO. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Intermezzo (Mascagni). Just about 1-2. $30.00.

Chief OS-KE-NON-TON [b]. Kahnawake, Quebec, 1886-Lily Dale, NY, 1955. A Mohawk Indian, he first worked as a hunter and guide in the Lake of Bays district of Ontario. According to one source, he was heard singing by a group of white campers in 1915 and was invited to perform at the Christmas tree lighting in Madi-son Square Garden that December. More likely, he was discovered by Lenore James Kennedy, a Toronto singing teacher, who taught him the rudiments of music and encouraged further vocal studies in New York City. He performed as a concert singer in Western arrangements of a number of American Indian songs (notably of his tribe, the Mohawks) in many international concert venues. In 1924 he had great success in London’s Royal Albert Hall, singing the part of the Indian Medicine Man in Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha.

1404. 10” Blue Notes Columbia A3092 [90096/90099]. EVERY-DAY SONG / WAR SONG (Indian Songs, Drum acc.). Small lbl. stkrs. Gen. 2. $8.00.

JOHN O’SULLIVAN [t] 3415. 12” Dk. elec. Blue elec. Parlophon

P.9312 [2-20805/2-20809]. OTEL-LO: Niun mi tema / OTELLO: Tu! indietro! fuggi` … Ora e per sempre addio (Verdi). Orch. dir. Frieder Weissmann. Few lt. rubs, cons. 2. $15.00.

ANGELES OTTEIN [s] 3819. 12” Brown elec. Spanish Odeon 121.134 [XXS6143/XXS6144]. LUCIA: Ardon gli

incensi (Donizetti) / RIGOLETTO: Caro nome (Verdi). Lt. rubs, 2. $15.00.

FRANZ (FRANTISEK) PÁCAL [t]. Leitomischi, Austria, 1865-Nepomuk, Czechoslo- vakia, 1938. First an orchestral violinist, Pácal then studied voice with Gustav Walter in Vienna

and sang as a chorister in Cologne, Bremen and Graz. In 1895 he became a member of the Vienna Hofoper and had a great success there in 1897, singing the small role of the Fisherman in Rossini’s William Tell. He then was promoted to leading roles and remained in Vienna through 1905. Unfortunately he and the Opera’s director, Gustav Mahler, didn’t get along, despite Pácal having instructed his son to kiss Mahler’s hand in public (behavior Mahler considered obsequious). Pácal stated that Mahler ruined his career, calling him “talentless” and “humiliating me in front of all the Opera personnel.” We don’t know what happened to invoke Mahler’s wrath, but we do know that Pácal sent Mahler a letter in 1906, unsuccessfully begging for another chance. Leaving Vienna, Pácal then sang with the Prague National Opera, in Riga and finally in Posen. His rare records demonstate a fine voice with considerable ring in the upper register. -Internet sources

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