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

[Erwin Kluwer]

Hi,

I don't have the magazine...

bit it seems fun to ttrough in my list of Desert Island opera vocal
discs... in random order.....

1) Ivan Yershov... Sopra Bertha

2) Pol Plancon- air de Tambour aria 1902 version

3) Caruso Amor ti vieta 1902

4) Battistini eveningstar tannhauser 1902

4) Antov van Rooy Wotans farewell

5) Rienzi aria Edison.... 1915? Urlus

6) Frida Leider/Melchior springsong walkure Polydor 1924?

7) Ruffo and Caruso in Otello

8) one of  deReszke Fonotipia's


Try to make up of a shortlist of top 78's trough all genres now...

Erwin







On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Spats <spats47 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> PS For those not already receiving this quarterly magazine, just e-mail to...
>
> larry.lustig at therecordcollector.org
>
> Of-course, the Web site URL is...
>
> http://www.therecordcollector.org
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