[78-L] Oh, da shark bites wif it's teefs, dear

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Feb 15 11:51:15 PST 2009


As a matter of fact, the Shostakovich might be on the Naxos Online Library site 
since it was part of an LP I put there some time ago. I'll see if it's there 
and if it can be accessed..circuitously, since it's not available to US customers.

dl

Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> .Hadn't heard of the Shostakovich recording before, but I now have a 
> sound clip of
> "Zuhalterballade". I can now get the rest of the instrumentation from 
> it. Nice sg solo.
> 3 collectors agree that it's probably Willy Berendt. He recorded with 
> Ruth/Mackeben a number of times.
> Do you have a MP3 of the Co 12881-D that you could send me?
> Thanks!
> Mal
> 
> *******
> 
> David Lennick wrote:
>> The entire set is Ultraphon/Telefunken A752/5. If I could find the Pearl CD 
>> reissue, it would show the matrix numbers..or if I could find the 2 78s I have 
>> from the set..I doubt that the soloist is identified anywhere, and I've had 
>> that set on about a dozen issues (LP, CD).
>>
>> Speaking of Hawaiian guitar in odd contexts, have you ever noted Shostakovich's 
>> "Waltz" from "The Golden Mountains" Op. 30 with Efrem Kurtz and the New York 
>> Philharmonic? (Columbia 12881-D, ML 4233)? Also by Uriev's Orchestra on USSR 
>> 13266, a disc I've been looking for forever, but I don't know if it uses the 
>> guitar.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>>   
>>> Okay, all you opera nuts out there.
>>> Can anyone tell me what the original 78rpm label / issue number
>>> and matrix number for this item is?
>>>
>>> Opera Collection Teldec, 0630-13824-9 (this is a CD)
>>> Kurt Weill,  Die Dreigrosscher Opera (Threepenny Opera)
>>> 13  tracks recorded 7 XII 1930 (would that be Dec. 7, 1930?)
>>> Lewis  Ruth Band, Conducted by Theo Mackeben
>>> All other tracks (?) recorded on different dates.
>>>
>>> The Hawaiian guitar solo is on track 8 "Zuhälterballade" (The Pimp's Song).
>>> Instrumentation? Personnel?
>>> Malcolm R
>>>



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