[78-L] recording date Mattia Battistini?

[Björn Jakobsson]

One of them is a duet between Caruso and Geraldine Farrar, Madama Butterfly (rec. March 10, 1908 according to John Bolig's discography)
The other one is a double sided HMV, which doesn't really have a vocal duet (at least that is what I assume, but I haven't listened to them yet), but Caruso is joined by violinist Micha Elman on both sides - so I guess it could regarded as a duet: Si vous l'aviez compris / Les deux serenades (rec. February 6, 1915). 

> From: mshoshani at sbcglobal.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:52:49 -0600
> Subject: Re: [78-L] recording date Mattia Battistini?
> 
> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 19:40 +0100, Björn Jakobsson wrote:
> > Found two 12" Enrico Caruso records today as well - and they had yellow labels, so I guess that was his colour? Or is that another mystery?
> 
> They had a whole system of label colors, based on the stature of the
> artist and how many were on the record. A yellow label usually was used
> for duets; is Caruso by himself on those two, or does he sing with
> someone else?
> 
> Howard Friedman has a very complex guide to label colours, matrix
> numbers (with trailing letters indicating the recording engineer)
> online. The page for label colors is
> http://www.musicweb-international.com/Friedman/page17.htm .
> 
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