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  • Fabien Sevitzky conducts the Philadelphia Chamber String Sinfonietta in Arensky’s Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky
  • Marie Novello plays Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (abridged)
  • Thorpe Bates sings the Captain’s Song from HMS Pinafore, with chorus of Ernest Pike, Stanley Kirkby, Peter Dawson
  • Joseph Batten conducts “March of Victory” for the National Savings Movement, with baritones Thorpe Bates and Walter Saull
  • Henry Wood conducts Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music (improved transfer)
  • Michael Zacharewitsch plays violin solos
  • Franz André conducts Carnival of the Animals and Daphnis and Chloe Suite No.2
  • François Ruhlmann onducts Chabrier’s España
  • Maurice Maréchal plays Lalo’s Cello Concerto, Philippe Gaubert conducting
  • W.H. Squire plays Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto, Hamilton Harty conducting
  • Arnold Földesy plays Bruch’s Kol Nidrei, with piano accompaniment
  • Antonio Janigro plays Dvorak’s Cello Concerto, Dean Dixon conducting
  • Dennis Noble sings for the National Savings scheme
  • Eugene Goossens conducts Delius in Cincinnati
  • Andreieff’s Balalaika Orchestra, 1911
  • Fucik’s Entry of the Gladiators - Coldstream Guards Band, 1905
  • Horenstein conducts Dvorak’s New World Symphony
  • Dean Dixon conducts Schumann’s Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4, Schubert’s Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5, and the incidental music to Rosamunde
  • Franz André conducts Bizet’s Arlèsienne Suites
  • Ivanov, Gauk and Golovanov conduct Balakirev
  • Henry Wood conducts Purcell and Mendelssohn
  • Hamilton Harty conducts Tchaikovsky and Mengelberg conducts Johann Strauss II
  • The Virtuoso String Quartet play Debussy’s Quartet and a movement from a Mendelssohn Quartet
  • Robert Carr sings “The trail of the lonesome pine” and “When love creeps in your heart”
  • Violin solos by Daisy Kennedy (Columbia 1916-7)
  • Walter Susskind conducts Handel’s Messiah (improved transfer)
  • Rousseau’s “Le Devin du Village” with Micheau, Gedda and Roux, conducted by Louis de Froment
  • Selections from Rameau operas, conducted by Nadia Boulanger
  • Renee Chemet plays Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
  • Eugene Goossens conducts the RAHO in selections from Tosca
  • Landon Ronald conducts the New World Symphony (abridged acoustic recording from 1919-22)
  • Albert W Ketelbey conducts Irish Jigs arranged for band (1920)
  • David McCallum plays traditional Scottish fiddle pieces (late 1920s)
  • Peter Miles, actor, sings two pop songs from 1958
  • Georg Schneevoigt conducts Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite (1927 and 1928 versions)
  • Alick Maclean conducts 5 movements from Peer Gynt (1923 acoustic recording)
  • Landon Ronald conducts Beethoven’s 5th Symphony (1922 acoustic recording)
  • Thomas Beecham conducts Berlioz and Johann Strauss II (acoustic recordings)
  • Carlo Sabajno conducts Elgar (1906 recording)
  • Landon Ronald conducts Glazunov Chopiniana, Mendelssohn Songs without words and Grieg Lyric Suite (1925 and 1933 recordings)
  • De Greef plays Liszt Piano Concerto 1, Saint-Saens Piano Concerto 2, Landon Ronald conducting
  • Daisy Kennedy plays Beethoven Romance in G, Hamilton Harty conducting
  • Landon Ronald conducts Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony
  • Franz André conducts French overtures, Bolero, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Rhapsodie Dahoméenne by de Boeck, Suites from Coppélia and Sylvia
  • Theo Olof plays Mozart Violin Concerto No.5, Walter Goehr conducting
  • Carl Bamberger conducts Mozart Symphony No.32
  • Frank Titterton sings Schubert Lieder in English
  • Landon Ronald conducts Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Wagner, Svendsen and Bizet
  • Eugene Goossens conducts Tchaikovsky
  • Mary Law plays operatic fantasias for violin
  • Excerpts from Il Trovatore with Carrie Lanceley and Gwilym Richards
  • Daisy Kennedy interviewed on radio
  • Arthur de Greef plays Grieg and Liszt, with Landon Ronald conducting
  • Thor Johnson conducts Grieg’s Sigurd Jorsalfar
  • Franz André conducts Tchaikovsky, Glazunov and Meyerbeer
  • Landon Ronald conducts Capriccio Italien
  • Georg Schneevoigt conducts Grieg’s Norwegian Dances and Sigurd Jorsalfar
  • Franz André conducts Beethoven Symphony No.7
  • Enrique Jorda conducts Haydn Symphony No.88
  • Leo Blech conducts Haydn Symphony No.94 Surprise
  • Royalton Kisch conducts Haydn Symphony No.99
  • Georg Hann sings Verdi, Rossini, Cornelius
  • Harry Secombe sings operatic arias
  • Franz André conducts Franck, Mussorgsky, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven
  • Albert Coates conducts Die Meistersinger Overture - 1921 acoustic
  • Paul Kletzki conducts Leonore No.3
  • André Gertler plays Berg’s Violin Concerto, conducted by Paul Kletzki
  • Henry Wood conducts Turina’s Danzas Fantasticas
  • Landon Ronald conducts Weber, Liszt and Jarnefelt
  • Benno Moiseiwitsch plays Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto, Landon Ronald conducting
  • John Drinkwater reads his own poems
  • Daisy Kennedy plays Saint-Saëns’s Rondo Capriccioso, Hamilton Harty conducting
  • Jules Gressier conducts Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers (abridged)
  • Eleanor Jones-Hudson sings Handel, Haydn, Puccini
  • Goossens conducts Delibes, Auber, Wolf-Ferrari, Sibelius
  • Hamilton Harty conducts Mendelssohn Symphony No.4
  • Golschmann conducts Shostakovich Symphony No.5
  • Mendelssohn’s Walpurgisnacht (conducted by “Mario Bernardi”)
  • Frank Mullings sings Handel
  • Salvatore Salvati sings Donizetti and Mascagni
  • Clarence Raybould conducts overtures to Egmont and Raymond
  • Eugene Goossens conducts Wagner’s Meistersinger overture
  • Robert Heger conducts the Love Scene from R Strauss’s Feuersnot
  • Mario Rossi conducts Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony
  • Malcolm Sargent conducts Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony
  • Robert Easton sings Mendelssohn and Gounod
  • Landon Ronald and Henry Gibson conduct German’s Welsh Rhapsody
  • Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings Addio del passato from La Traviata
  • Artur Rodzinski conducts Mussorgsky-Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Henry Wood conducts Handel’s Berenice Overture
  • Abridged Scheherezades from Landon Ronald, Eugene Goossens and Philippe Gaubert
  • Vladimir Golschmann conducts Sibelius Symphony No.7 and Mozart Symphony No.38
  • Mark Hambourg plays Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1, Landon Ronald conducts
  • Howard Barlow conducts Haydn’s Surprise Symphony
  • Artur Rodzinski conducts Mozart’s Clarinet and Bassoon concerti, with Wlach and Oehlberger
  • Minnie Nast and Eva Plaschke-von der Osten sing duets from Der Rosenkavalier
  • Henry Wood conducts Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music, Greensleeves Fantasia and Wasps Overture
  • Stanford Robinson conducts the BBC Wireless Chorus in Strauss’s Blue Danube
  • Reginald Jacques conducts Vaughan Williams, John Faulds, Purcell and Handel
  • Malcolm Sargent conducts Mendelssohn’s Ruy Blas Overture
  • Jascha Horenstein conducts Haydn’s Surprise Symphony
  • Henry Wood and Eugene Goossens conduct Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony
  • Luella Melius sings Mozart
  • Safford Cape directs secular works by Dufay
  • Landon Ronald conducts The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • Leo Blech’s 1927 Schubert Great C major
  • Konstantin Ivanov conducts the Czech PO in Glazunov’s 5th Symphony
  • Pauline Aubert plays music by the Couperin dynasty
  • Peter and the Wolf with David Franklin, and Summer Day Suite
  • Charles Munch conducts Haydn’s Symphonie Concertante
  • Slobodskaya’s Peter and the Wolf
  • The Floral Dance and The Lute Player – Peter Dawson, Frederick Ranalow, Robert Easton and Thorpe Bates

Coming up:

  • Albert Coates from 1920s and 1930s
  • Henry Wood from the 1920s to the 1940s
  • Hamilton Harty 1920s to 1930s
  • Frieder Weissmann in the 1920s
  • Malcolm Sargent 1920s to 1940s
  • Eugene Goossens 1920s to 1950s
  • Landon Ronald 1910s to 1930s
  • Alois Melichar
  • Yovanovitch Bratza
  • Assorted Haydn Symphonies

 

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