[78-L] The Record Collector. Vol. 53 No. 3. BELHOMME.

[Spats]

Hi!

I just received the new issue of The Record Collector.
(This is an indispensable magazine, I think, for the opera record collector...
...I delighted that I have all of them).

This issue is a particularly fine one!

Firstly, it continues the series of 'Desert 
Island Discs', wherein collectors choose their 8 
'sine qua non' records. I found the piece written 
by a certain 'Earl Okin' fascinating reading 
indeed! ;-)

Then there are biographies and discographies of 
two singers who are both very under-estimated and 
whose records I certainly collect. Firstly, the 
Spenish coloratura, Josefina Huguet and then the 
French bass, Hippolyte Belhomme, mostly known on 
Pathé records. The discography was written 
Christian Zwarg and to him, I'd like to ask the 
following question.

Knowing how apparently without any logic at all 
that Pathé seemed to run their catalogue numbers, 
how were the recording dates, as accurately as 
the month, ascertained?

Secondly, in response to his request for more 
transfer serial numbers, I offer these...

55. 4554 (9913BC).
91. 354. (40827GR).
139. 400. (43516GR).

I also own...

104. 703...

...issued on DISQUES HENRI 6.

Earl Okin.

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larry.lustig at therecordcollector.org

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