Historic Recordings I

A portion of Souvenir for Violin & Piano (1904) by František Alois (Franz) Drdla played by the composer. The recording is from an original issued on the Japanese Polydore label.

Pablo de Sarasate playing his work Zigeunerweisenr from the private collection of Harold W. McCracken.

Death of Othello from Verdi's opera sung by the tenor Francesco Tamagno. Tomango died in 1905.

Camille Saint-Saëns playing his work Marche Militaire.

Nellie Melba singing the Willow Song from the fourth act of Othello by Verde. It is Melba's last public performance at Covent Garden on June 8, 1926.

Soprano Mary Garden singing an aria from Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande with Debussy himself at the piano. The recording was made in Paris in 1904.

Baritone Edward Duresky recorded in 1903 Aria from the opera Ernani by Verde.

Part II
Divertimento in C for Ten Instruments by Haydn recorded on a Westminster LP by the London Barak Ensemble by Karl Haas.

Joseph Joachim, violinist and close friend of Brahms playing a Hungarian dance written by Brahms.

Edvard Grieg playing piano.

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