[78-L] 1903 recording of Bukke aria listed on CHARM

[Christopher Peters]

Well I’ve been looking for 5 years...!

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> On 28 Jan 2019, at 19:21, Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com.invalid> wrote:
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> Good luck, Christopher!
> Don't forget to tell us when you've found the record.
> Kristjan
> 
>> On 2019-01-28 17:59, Christopher Peters wrote:
>> Thanks Kristjan - and with regard to your latter point I heartily 100% 
>> agree. I apologize if I was clumsy in my wording, what Inmeant was 
>> what is (theoretical) passport would have said. And thank you for your 
>> information about what the numbers mean - I never knew this. I hope 
>> this will help to find a copy of the recording... Best regards, 
>> Christopher Sent from my iPhone
>>> On 28 Jan 2019, at 15:43, Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com.invalid> 
>>> wrote: Hi, Christopher, Its a Gramophone Company recording, and the 
>>> catalogue number, 22068 tells you it's sung in Russian. The 0 is for 
>>> 30 cm disc, the first 2 is for "sung in Russian", the second 2 is for 
>>> "sung by male singer" - the rest is irrelevant, in this case. But 
>>> where you could locate it...no idea. Kristjan P S: the fact that 
>>> Latvia was a part of Russia, doesn't mean that its population was 
>>> Russian. Even if you studied and worked in Russia you remained what 
>>> you were, ethnically. My grandfather was Estonian, worked in Russia, 
>>> but remained Estonian. Buke also remained Latvian.
>>>> On 2019-01-28 13:54, Christopher Peters wrote: Can anyone on this 
>>>> list give me any advice on possible locations of a 1903 recording 
>>>> which is listed on the CHARM database: It’s a 1903 recording of an 
>>>> aria from the opera “Fate” (or “Sud’ba in Russian”) sung by Alexandr 
>>>> Matveev. The opera is by the composer Evgeny Bukke (1877-1920). The 
>>>> listing says that it’s sung in Polish, though I think this is 
>>>> probably a mistake as Bukke and Matveev (and the opera) are all 
>>>> Russian! (Well, Bukke was Latvian, but Latvia was part of the 
>>>> Russian empire at the time, and he was part of the Moscow/St 
>>>> Petersburg music scene - in Latvian his name is Eižens Buke.) This 
>>>> is the link and contents:- 
>>>> http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/discography/search/search_advanced?operatorSel_0=and&parameterSel_0=composer&parameterKey_0=compo_004039&parameterKeyTxt_0=Bukke 
>>>> Composer: Bukke, Work: Ariya iz operi “Sudba” Bukke, na polskom 
>>>> yazike[Fate: Aria, sung in Polish], Performer: A M MATVEEV, Date: 
>>>> -03 Catalogue: Kelly Performer: A M MATVEEV Venue: Moscow CatNum: 
>>>> 022068 Num: 129Hp Date: -03 Title: Ariya iz operi “Sudba” Composer: 
>>>> Bukke Title: , na polskom yazike Trans: [Fate: Aria, sung in Polish] 
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