[78-L] Pre-1010 German Grammophon Opera Sets A-F

[Michael Biel]

On 6/15/2011 3:40 PM, Erwin Kluwer wrote:
> I have the Carmen with the original album... I will send you a picture if
> you like..

Yes, please.  And the spine and one of the labels.  And any place else 
where there is printing.   Thanks!!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Michael Biel<mbiel at mbiel.com>  wrote:
>
>> Pardon the cross-postings, but I am looking for any collector or archive
>> which might have any of the album sets which the German branch of
>> Grammophon recorded and released between 1907 and 1909.  I briefly saw
>> one of them, Set E Carmen, in a TV show and have a screen shot but would
>> like better images.  It shows silver lettering and an illustration with
>> Carmen's dress colored a vivid red.  I would like to be able to get
>> photographs of the covers and album spines of these albums.  Here is the
>> list from page 1252 of Alan Kelly's German HMV discography.
>>
>> Set A  Die Fladermaus  (Johan Strauss)
>> Set B  Die lustige Witwe  (Franz Lehar)
>> Set C  Ein Walzertraum  (Oscar Straus)
>> Set D  Faust  (Charles Gounod)
>> Set E  Carmen  (Georges Bizet)
>> Set F  Der Zigeunerbaron  (Johan Strauss)
>>
>> I am likewise interested in any other illustrated album covers from this
>> period and the teens.  I have info and images of the English HMV albums
>> of Gilbert and Sullivan and Wagner from the late teens, but still need
>> the images of the several other operettas they issued this way.
>>
>> Thanks for any help or leads you might be able send.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com