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Performance Practice Pub

Stay posted on the Celebrating Romantic-Era Performance Practice Facebook Page!


The Performance Practice Pub is a virtual zoom meeting to share one of your favorite early sound recordings or historical videos, and discuss Romantic-era performance styles. You may also bring your instrument to play a Romantic-era piece you're working on in the "Romantic-era" style, or just sit back and listen!

Recordings from Sunday, February 11th


Mark Bailey


Alfred Coates, conductor; London Symphony Orchestra (1921)

Beethoven 7th Symphony, 4th Movement


Leo Blech, conductor; Berlin State Opera Orchestra

Verdi, Overture to La Forza del Destino


Willem Mengelberg, Concertgebouw Orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Valse from Serenade for Strings


Contact mark.bailey@yale.edu for audio files of the digitized recordings from the Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings


Artem Belogurov and Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde


Artem Belogurov & Postscript (2022)

Mozart Piano Concerto KV 271, II. Andantino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbG2luqCzoI


Bob Kosovsky


Enrico Caruso, tenor (1904)

Donizetti, "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore


Ferenc János Szabó


Ferruccio Corradetti, Giuseppe de Luca (Fonotipia, 12 January 1907)

Donizetti, "Cheti cheti immantinente" from Don Pasquale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa2_FyYMPgk


Kevin Sherwin


Maria Luisa Anido, guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuIASLsu-0k

Anton Rubenstein: Romanza


John Snijders


Julia Culp, soprano; Coenraad V. Bos, piano (1914-15)

Schumann: "I've Been Roaming" Mondnacht


Emily Worthington


Oskar Schubert, clarinet (other instrumentalists listed on recording)

https://archive.org/details/anker-e-9938-beethoven-rondino-in-eb-woo25

Beethoven Rondo in E-Flat Major


Eugene Tzigane


Eugene Tzigane, conductor; Kuopio Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven: Symphony #5, Allegro con brio

https://youtu.be/O34Ctw1Bvco?t=4872


Recordings from Sunday, July 9th


Ferenc János Szabó

Leo Slezak, tenor; Heinrich Schacker, piano, 1928

Schubert: Ungeduld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi0Tp0AQerQ


Mark Bailey


Ferruccio Corradetti, baritone; Mandolin and piano, unlisted

Mozart: Serenata from Don Giovanni ("Deh vieni alla finestra")


M.A. Frezin, cello; M.F. Goeyens, piano

Schubert: Ave Maria


John Snijders 


Federico Mompou, piano roll

Mompou: Variations on a Theme of Chopin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThRRa9gayc


George Kennaway


Orlando Cello Quartet, c. 1926-7

David Popper: Requiem for 3 Cellos and Piano

ca. 1926-27


Kevin Sherwin


Leopold Stokowski, conductor; American Symphony Orchestra, 1971

Tchaikovsky: 1st movement from Symphony #4


Eugene Tzigane


Eugene Tzigane, conductor; Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Debussy: Clair de Lune (arr. L. Caillet)


Domen Marincic


John Harrison, tenor, 1906

Handel: "Deeper and Deeper Still" from Jeptha




Recordings from Sunday, November 27th


Ferenc János Szabó


Lillian Nordica, soprano

 Ferenc Erkel: "Nagy eg..." from "Hunyadi László" (1907)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N22YqR38CY


Mark Bailey


Lucrezia Bori, soprano (1911-1914)

Bellini: Ah! Bello a me ritorna" from Norma


E. Robert Schmitz, piano

Chopin: Valse in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, no. 2 

Edison 80896-L, 1928


John Snijders 


Dirk Schäfer, piano

Johannes Brahms - Waltz in E major op.39 nr. 2

Adolf von Henselt - Berceuse in G flat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WbQ-SzvcZE


Pabo Cáceres Aranibar

Walter Fischer, organ

Intermezzo Op. 80, Nr. 10 (Max Reger)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voCfzA9M1Ec


George Kennaway


Heinrich Grünfeld, cello

Haydn: Adagio, 2nd mvt. from Cello Concerto in D Major


Domen Marincic

Mark Hambourg, piano

Couperin: Les Baricades mistérieuses

https://open.spotify.com/album/0rptlRqSk64gu0Ghw9omKB?autoplay=true/landmarks2


Kevin Sherwin


Charles O'Donnell, conductor and orchestrator

Albéniz: Cordoba from "Cantos de España"


Recordings from Sunday, September 18th

Mark Bailey


Slavonic Dance no. 10, Dvorak

Grand Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, Dr. Weissmann, conductor


Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61

Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona, Concordio Gelabert, 1916

Juan Manén, violin


Kevin Sherwin


Goldmark: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 28

Jascha Heifetz, violin, 1920


Vijay Chalasani


Raff: Cavatina

J. H. Squire Celeste Octet - Cavatina (Raff, op. 85, no. 3, arr Sear), 1926

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REyt8QVUSCc



George Kennaway


"If I had a girl like you" from Wonder Bar

Gwen Farrar, cello and voice, 1931


Domen Marincic

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Moriz Rosenthal, piano, 1929

Radio Broadcast

https://www.marstonrecords.com/products/landmarks2


Recordings from Saturday, April 16th

Mark Bailey


Moriz Rosenthal, piano - Unpublished Test Pressings from the Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings

Chopin: Nouvelle Etude in A-Flat and Etude in C Major, Op. 10, No. 1


David Eggert


Original Recording with pianist Gili Loftus

Melodram (spoken recitation) by David Eggert

Schubert: Abschied von die Erde

Text by Prato Beaver


John Snijders


Max Reger plays Max Reger

Piano Roll, 1913 

Sillhouettes, Op. 53, No. 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKOdZIzg1ps


George Kennaway


Fauré: Après un rêve

Comparison recordings: W.H. Squire, cello and Ninon Vallin, soprano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a84eAvJuFuQ


Ferenc János Szabó

Raoul Koczalski (1938) and Moriz Rosenthal (1935), piano

Chopin: Nouvelle Etude in A-Flat


Kevin Sherwin


Richard Rogers, composer, pianist, and vocals

"Down by the River" from Mississippi (1934)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWjMLkiaORI

Recordings from Sunday, December 5th

Mark Bailey


Alexander Zemlinsky, conductor - Berlin State Opera Orchestra (1927)

Overture to Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss II

Available on Zemlinsky: The Complete Recordings https://www.pristineclassical.com/products/pasc642


Roberto Alegre


Franz Léhar, piano roll (year unlisted) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ5ekXKMjws

Piano arrangmeent from Die Lustige Witwe


John Snijders


Manuel de Falla, piano roll (1912) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_cvXGNMgpg

De Falla: Montañesa, from Cuatro Piezas Españolas (1908)


Johnathan Bellman


Lady Annie Cory, piano roll (Welte) - Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUyu4UUf7wg

Domen Marincic

Maurizio Troselli, tenor (1912)

Verdi: "Non, Non! Loin D'elle Tout Plaisir Est Trompeur" from La Traviata (sung in French)

Available at https://www.marstonrecords.com/products/freres-danilo


Ferenc János Szabó

Elza Szamosi, mezzo-soprano (1905)

Bizet: Habañera from Carmen

Available at https://historicaloperarecordings.blogspot.com/2019/10/great-hungarian-sopranos-koralek.html

Thesis on Elza Szamosi: https://apps.lfze.hu/netfolder/PublicNet/Doktori%20dolgozatok/szabo_ferenc_janos/tezis_en.pdf


Kevin Sherwin


Frederic Lamond speaks about lessons with Liszt (1945): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbnLji3A_I


Recordings from Saturday, August 7th

Mark Bailey


Tour of Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings Studio

Mark Bailey, Head/Director

Learn more at https://web.library.yale.edu/music/hsr


Kevin Sherwin


Maria Luisa Anido, guitar (ca. 1930s) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MaGmOaUORE
Granados: Spanish Dance No. 5


John Snijders


Elena Gerhardt, mezzo-soprano - Arthur Nikisch, piano - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt57KgtTPWc&t=1534s

Brahms: Sapphische Ode, Op. 94, No. 4


Sappische Ode from the 1939 film, "Der Schritt vom Wege"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOrm8f0oAH4


Feodor Chaliapin, bass (ca. 1914) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB308hsLkkM

Brahms: Sapphische Ode, Op. 94, No. 4


David Wells


William Gruner, bassoon (1920) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4eIXMISgX0

Carl Maria von Weber: "Andante e Rondo Ongarese" (condensed)


Domen Marincic

David Bispham, baritone (1902) 

Verdi: "Quand'ero paggio" from Falstaff


Jonathan Bellman

Lady Annie Cory, piano roll (Welte) - Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUyu4UUf7wg


Other referenced recordings, videos, and resources:


Granados plays Granados - Spanish Dance No. 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUyu4UUf7wg


“Tips on Popular Singing” (1941) by Frank Sinatra and John Quinlan (Sinatra’s voice teacher) 


"La ci darem la mano" performed by Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPzHYiiRgxA

From the 1947 film, "It Happened in Brooklyn"


Documentary on Frank Sinatra: "All or Nothing At All" (2015)

Recordings from Sunday, May 30th

Domen Marincic

Francisco D’Andrade, baritone (ca. 1910)

W.A. Mozart - "Deh, vieni alla finestra" from Don Giovanni


Ferenc Szabo

Fernando de lucia, tenor (1917) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp9_S6AyuBY

Puccini - “Che gelida manina” from La bohème


Vijay Chalasani

Isolde Menges, violin (ca. 1920s) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BHGxDfYc4A

Elgar - Salut d’Amour, Op. 12


Luisa Tetrazzini (soprano),  Josephine Jacoby (mezzo-soprano), Enrico Caruso (tenor, and Pasquale Amato (bass) - (1912)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XN672BRJw0

Verdi: “Bella figlia dell’amore” from Rigoletto (1912)



Edson Scheid 


Flausino Vale, violin (ca. 1931) - https://youtu.be/q-9QYIMzGHE

Vale: Preludes 6 and 1, Repente e Batuque


Elisa Wicks

Pablo de Sarasate, violin (ca. 1904) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABm7nMVyNh4

Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20


Kevin Sherwin


Max Fiedler, conductor - Berlin Philharmonic (1931) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mRvlcHoCyM

Brahms - Allegro con Spirito (4th movement) from Symphony No. 2


John Snijders

Francis Planté, piano (1928) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOVs526XWJw

Chopin - Etude in C, Op.10, No.7


Francis Planté, piano (1928) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kig9iELknY

Boccherini - Minuetto


Other referenced recordings and videos:

Franz Drdla, violin (1903) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiX7HOdyMgA

Bruch: Violin Concerto in G minor (excerpt)


Lauritz Melchior, tenor (1946) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cqnATSWX6I

Wagner - "Prize Song" from Die Meistersinger

From the 1946 film, "Two Sisters From Boston"

Recordings from Sunday,March 14th 


Mark Bailey


Elena Gerhardt, mezzo-soprano and Arthur Nikisch, piano (ca. 1905) - https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vw4ddPnDY7o&list=RDAMVMvw4ddPnDY7o

Robert Schumann - Ich Grolle Nicht from Dichterliebe, Op. 48


Emily Worthington


The Leipzig Gewandhaus Wind Quintet (ca. 1925) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4HhEihjHTI

Hindemith -  Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2


Domen Marincic


Johanna Gadski, soprano (1904) - https://www.marstonrecords.com/products/gadski1?fbclid=IwAR3F3kL3AC1N4bNsDy5x3VlkJn0CbgnXbe5dZXjd8hH5gCUgtT8ylvXIupA

Bach-Gounod - Ave Maria



John Snijders


Oboe: Roland Lamorlette, oboe - Gustave Dhérin, bassoon - Francis Poulenc, piano Studio Recording (1928)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiW5ZVJaj9w

Poulenc - Trio pour Hautbois, Basson, et Piano, FP 43


Ferruccio Busoni, piano - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3O1yygAEc0

Chopin - Prélude in A major, Opus 28, No. 7


Kevin Sherwin


Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1938) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY1UN9Lx-7g

Schubert -  Impromptu in A-flat,  Op. 142


Dave Wells


Unlisted Fagott Trio (1913)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1muBRla2nQ0hXGw02dxrLUjKl1ea3-qOQ-48FWkxJkz6XjHIyN-zktLl4&v=6o4MxLVkE-I&feature=youtu.be   

Im Landschößchen Polka 


Vijay Chalasani


Moriz Rosenthal, piano (1939)

Albert Sammons, violin - Ellen Tuckfield, piano (1922) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiDY6tBerlo&list=PLyeLIHE4KCfMsjZ8_4tLM7VgMsdViUy-Y&index=18

Joachim Raff - Cavatina, Op. 85

Recordings from Sunday, January 24th 


Mark Bailey


Nellie Melba, soprano (1904) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT5R3mgaUWY

Giacomo Puccini - Addio di Mimi ("Donde lieta usci") from La Bohème 


Elisa Wicks


Carl Flesch, violin (1939) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DHy0CFShp4&feature=youtu.be

Beethoven - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61


Vijay Chalasani


Enrico Caruso, tenor and Mischa Elman, violin (1913) -  

https://youtu.be/pjjqbtiijt4?t=259

Massenet - Élégie


Eugene Ormandy, violin and Stephanie Goldner Ormandy, harp (1928)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cAQ7UCuGNg&list=PLyeLIHE4KCfMsjZ8_4tLM7VgMsdViUy-Y&index=40

Dvořák - Humoresques, Op. 101, No. 7


Jonathan Bellman 


Arthur Nikisch, piano roll (ca. 1906)

https://youtu.be/Fgz6vMhx2PI

Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1, WoO 1


Kevin Sherwin


Villa-Lobos conducts Villa-Lobos (ca. 1958)

Victoria de Los Ángeles, soprano

https://youtu.be/I7zOFizBigI

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (excerpt)


Newsreel footage, including Villa-Lobos conducting: https://youtu.be/TDFDXguz_2w

Date and repertoire unknown


Domen Marincic


Helge Rosvaenge, tenor (ca. 1936-1944)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KDgKOJ8RUw

Hugo Wolf - Der Feuerreiter from Mörike-Lieder


Roberto Alegre


Moriz Rosenthal, piano (1939)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0-Bn0eyK4VfpmvcaRLhSRrVzL0z1pALxgtTubT2kPeaHm8Gf13_Aw8FSg&v=cn4SmBSoG_I&feature=youtu.be

Chopin - Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58


George Kennaway


 W.H. Squire, cello; Pianist unlisted (ca. 1927) 

https://youtu.be/CCo4LoicwlA

Herbert Hughes: I will walk with my Love


John Snijders


Josef Labor, piano (ca. 1921) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0XIvOlKW2s

Beethoven - Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10, No. 3 (excerpt)



Recordings from Sunday, November 22nd


Mark Bailey


Jerzy Żurawlew, piano (ca. 1940s) - https://soundcloud.com/user-485192321-1413080/ludwig-van-beethoven
Beethoven - Ecossaises, WoO 83

Clive Brown and Neal Peres da Costa


Clive Brown, violin and Neal Peres da Costa, fortepiano -
Brahms - Sonata Op. 120, No. 2 (in the composer's own version for violin and piano)
Accompanied by their edition of the Brahms Sonatas, Op. 120, published by Bärenreiter (2016) - https://www.jwpepper.com/Sonatas-in-F-minor-and-E-flat-Major%2C-Op.-120/10604435.item#/submit


George Kennaway
National Gramophonic Society, 1925  Walter Cobbett, violin 1 Emily Keady, violin 2 Susan Spain-Dunk, violaMarie Dare, cello 1Charles Crabbe, cello 2
Schubert - C Major String Quintet, D. 956


Vijay Chalasani


Accordes! Concert Recording (August 2019), Clare Holden, director

Transforming C19 HIP, University of Oxford
Excerpts from:
Fuchs - Adagio from Serenade, No. 1, Op. 9

Tchaikovsky - Valse from Serenade for Strings, Op.48


To order a CD, contact claire.holden@music.ox.ac.uk. 

Laura Granero


Laura Granero, fortepiano, performs Chopin and Czerny
Czerny available at: https://open.spotify.com/album/0gsOYdu0aBZawNzaJ63oUn?nd=1
Chopin - Prélude, Op. 28, No. 8

Czerny - Nocturne Sentimental


Kevin Sherwin


Comparative recordings, Tchaikovsky - Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42
Leopold Auer, violin (ca. 1920) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1vVlMp2YTA
Jascha Heifetz (1945) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22YUP0zQ3sA

Recordings from Sunday, October 4th


Mark Bailey

Mattia Battistini, baritone (undated Berliner) - https://yalemusiclib.aviaryplatform.com/collections/213/collection_resources/12838

Largo al factotum from The Barber of Seville

Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings, Berliner Gramophone Disc Collection - https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/6/resources/5878/collection_organization#scroll::/repositories/6/archival_objects/2378180

Finding Aid to the Yale HSR Berliner Collection - http://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5878.pdf


George Kennaway 

Auguste van Biene, cello and actor

Excerpt from The Broken Melody (play), including spoken word and a musical performance of the piece, "The Broken Melody" 


John Snijders 

Comparative Recordings, Grieg's 'To Spring,' Op. 46, No. 6


Edvard Grieg, piano (1903) - https://youtu.be/IYkhCzquwCw

Percy Grainger, piano roll (1921) - https://youtu.be/IYkhCzquwCw

Marek Weber, violin, and his orchestra (ca. 1930) - https://youtu.be/m6c4PLN7sKw


Gili Loftus 

Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano (1930) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrQG-Z5gdfg

Chopin: Sonata in B-flat minor, Op. 35


Domen Marincic

Franz Schubert: Aufenthalt (from Schwannengesang, No. 5)
Recorded in St Petersburg in 1912, sung in Russian
Lev Sibiryakov, bass, with unknown pianist
Available on: Schubert Lieder on Record, 1898-1952, Volume 1, 1898-1939, EMI

https://www.amazon.com/Schubert-Lieder-Record-Vol-1898-1939/dp/B000005GTK


Aldo Mata

Charles Draper, clarinet and the London String Quartet (1916)

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 


Artem Belogurov

Andreas Weissgerber, violin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHVcP7YJddM&fbclid=IwAR3TqY7FINCKOxGbp3HKwuS75jCgn4ebRpDn3_48NEwNhd5Sy9-o5n-BBKM 

Mozart: Andante Sostenuto from Violin Sonata in C, K 296


Kevin Sherwin

Comparative and performance recordings of Elgar's Salut d'Amour, Op. 12


Elgar conducts the New Symphony Orchestra (1923): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=davY_Zzbj7U

Carlo Sabajno conducts La Scala Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKfMrI0RfEk


The American Romantics; Kevin Sherwin, conductor

Rehearsal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfTDbbkdv1I

Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-1hSq575EI 

Recordings from Friday, August 14th

Mark Bailey 


Excerpts from Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64


Eddy Brown, violin; Orchestra of the Staatsoper Berlin; Frieder Weissmann, conductor (ca. 1920s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjwwUtwtrsA


Juan Manen, violin; Kark, F., conductor; Unlisted Orchestra (ca. 1920s) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsmqxrfbm2g


Jonathan Bellman


Vladimir De Pachmann, piano (1927) - https://arbiterrecords.org/catalog/pachmann-the-mythic-pianist/

Chopin: Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72/1


John Snijders


Anton Webern, conductor; Berliner Funkorchester (1932)

Schubert: 6 German Dances, D. 820

Arranged for orchestra by Anton Webern (1931) 

https://www.archiphon.de/arde/catalog/products/kolisch-quartett/kolisch-arcwu-044-schubert-historical.php


Sebastian Bausch 


James Simon, piano

Chopin: Nocturne, Op. 32, No. 1 in B Major

Parlophon P1246B, 78rpm


Vijay Chalasani


Ethel Hobday, piano, with the London String Quartet (c. 1921): https://youtu.be/9UJK0y26HII?t=254

Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44

Second movement: In modo d'una marcia. Un poco largamente


Christoffer Woodard


Édouard Risler, piano: https://youtu.be/WliKZGQCENQ

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: II. Andante con moto

Arr. for solo piano by Édouard Risle


Kevin Sherwin


Schumann: Träumerei from Kinderszenen, Op. 15, No. 7


Luise Walker, guitar (ca. 1932): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hly0J2Vy9AE

Carola Hanke, cello (ca. 1928): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrEge2qz5Qs


Artem Belogurov and Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde


Mark Hambourg, piano; Malcolm Sargent, conductor; London Symphony Orchestra (1929)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2C7XDoCXh8

Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37


More information can be found at:

 http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/Oct10/hambourg_tchaikovsky_223.htm?fbclid=IwAR1xgUp36d7Ftz-Z1kRUEMiq2pEt5b0xuwiw_Wnsp_DnA0AszBesHRt62Gk


Domen Marincic


Victor Gille, piano (1959): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3nETYbBz-g

Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor, K. 9

Recordings from Sunday, July 12th

Vijay Chalasani


Charles D'Almaine, violin (1901) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP1-pR2vAqM

 Joachim Raff: Cavatina, Op. 85, No. 3


Daniel Lanthier


Carl Reinecke, piano (1907), piano roll - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXapt6YRxkY

W.A. Mozart: Rondo alla turca, K. 331/300i


Gili Loftus


Dylan Thomas, spoken word (1949) - http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/8-glorious-hours-of-dylan-thomas-reading-poetry-his-own-others.html

Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night


John Snijders


Alexander Moissi, spoken word - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhV2WwEQj7U

Goethe: Erlkönig


Etelka Freund, piano (1953) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9vLh05Ea2A

Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo in A minor, Op. 116 No. 2


Kevin Sherwin


Comparative Recordings, Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger


Berlin State Opera Orchestra - Leo Blech, conductor (1929) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5xq5Seehf0


Grosses Odeon-Streich-Orchester - Conductor Unlisted - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxOFfqeRyYI


David Eggert


Cartoon (1930s) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iekqC1DCFgY&feature=youtu.be

'How portamento met its fate'


Roberto Alegre


Frederic Lamond, piano (1926) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKXFwT7Gp8&feature=youtu.be

Beethoven: Sonata Op. 27 No. 2 ("Moonlight")


Domen Marincic


Comparative Recordings, Bizet

 

Bizet: Le pecheurs de perles

Duet from Act 2: Ton coeur n'a pas compris


John Aler (Nadir) and Barbara Hendricks (Leïla)

Orchestre de Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson (1989)

https://youtu.be/scWFcTIYSB4?t=1894


Bizet: I pescatori di perle (sung in Italian)

Duet from Act 2: Non hai compreso un cor fedel


Fernando De Lucia (Nadir) and Josefina Huguet (Leïla)

unnamed orchestra, Carlo Sabajno (Milan, 1 May 1906, G&T)

https://www.marstonrecords.com/collections/singer/products/delucia


A less successful transfer from the Bongiovanni label is available on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RHpl1AteXc


Christoffer Woodard


Mattia Battistini, tenor (1907) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s43GY8bBfww&feature=youtu.be

"Eri tu che macchiavi" from Un Ballo in Maschera


Agnes Nicholls, soprano and Hamilton Harty, piano (1908) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EDp_2uPR6A&feature=youtu.be

F. H. Cowen: At the Mid Hour of Night


Recordings from Sunday, May 31st

 Domen Marincic


Excerpt from Il Barbiere di Siviglia


Edoardo Taliani (Almaviva), Ernesto Badini (Figaro), Davide Carnevali (Bartolo) and Malvina Pereira (Rosina)

Orchestra of La Scala, Milan; Carlo Sabajno (1919)

https://youtu.be/KCaM4dnwb9k?t=1381

Rossini: "Se il mio nome" from Il Barbiere di Siviglia 


Daniel Lanthier


Featured oboe solos


London Philharmonic Orchestra - John Barbirolli, conductor (1933)  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5PmTrOjLKY

Tchaikovsky: "The Swan Lake" Suite, Op. 20a


Fanny Davies, piano - Royal Philharmonic Society Orchestra - Ernest Ansermet, conductor (1928)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB9zQVjh8CQ

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54


Vijay Chalasani


Comparative Recordings of Joachim Raff's Cavatina, Op. 85, No. 3


Marie Hall, violin (1904) -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MuUIi5D4q0

Anton Hekking, cello -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSBXEGR67Sc

Mischa Elman, violin (1913) -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRAHlmFhppY

Maud Powell, violin (1911) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3prdn1QZeQ

Imre Pillitz, violin (1907) - https://youtu.be/25EWFHfLgoI?t=197


Jonathan Bellman


Raoul Koczalski, piano - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z25LB6SIIY

Chopin: Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2


Dhyani Heath


(Live performance, violin)

Fauré: Après un rêve, Op. 7


Artem Belogurov and Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde


Emil Liebling, piano - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA_mmj7O_U8

Chopin: "Minute Waltz," Op. 64, No.1


Joseph Hollman, cello

Fauré: Romance sans paroles, Op. 17


John Snijders


Olimpia Boronat, soprano (1904) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKPbB6EEJSc

Bellini: "Qui la voce" from I Puritani


Aldo Mata 


Philippe Dreisbach, clarinet - The Wendling String Quartet - https://youtu.be/jx7kc4o1RmU

W.A. Mozart: Larghetto from Clarinet Quintet, K. 581


Johannes Gebauer


Jan Rudenyi, violin; Imperial Symphony Orchestra; Lilian Bryant, conductor (1911)

Link to full CD (transferred by Christian Zwarg): https://www.truesoundtransfers.de/Titellisten/TT3112.htm

Mendelssohn: Allegretto non troppo – Allegro molto vivace from Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64


Laura Granero, Sebastian Bausch, and Pablo Cáceres Aranibar


Joseph Pembauer, piano

Brahms: Ballade Op.10 No. 2 in D major


Christoffer Woodard


Raoul Koczalski, piano - https://youtu.be/CPL2bgEv_R0

Chopin: Berceuse in D-flat, Op. 57