Research Catalog

Title

The dawn of recording [sound recording] : the Julius Block cylinders.

Publication

[Swarthmore, Pa.] : Marston, p2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Block, Julius, 1858-1934.

Description

3 sound discs : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Alternative Title

Julius Block cylinders

Subjects

• Passacaglias (Violin and cello), Arranged
• Violin and piano music
• Suites (Pianos (2)) > Excerpts
• Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
• Songs (High voice) with piano
• Piano music
• Piano trios
• Suites (Violin) > Excerpts
• Piano music (4 hands)
• Songs (Medium voice) with piano
• Operas > Excerpts, Arranged
• Piano music, Arranged
• Violin and piano music, Arranged

Note

• Compact discs.
• Program notes and texts of announcements and spoken word selections in English and English translations (70 p. : ill., facsims.) inserted in container.

Event (note)

• Recorded betweem 1890 and 1927, principally at Julius Block's residences in Russia, Germany, and Switzerland.

Language (note)

• Sung in Russian, French, German, and Italian ; announcements and spoken word selections in Russian, German, and English.

Contents

• Fantasie in C minor, K. 396 / Mozart (Sergei Taneyev, piano) -- Contredanse A : no. 3 from Le bal : op. 14 ; Contredanse B : no. 3 from Le bal : op. 14 / Anton Rubinstein. Magic fire music : from Die Walküre / Wagner-Brassin. Song without words : op. 38, no. 5 : Passion / Mendelssohn (Josef Hofmann, piano) -- Gavotte in G, op. 81, no. 2 / Godard (Anna Essipova, piano) -- Nocturne in E, op. 62, no. 2 / Chopin. Waltz in D-flat, op. 64, no. 1 : Minute / Chopin-Pabst. Carnaval : op. 9. Chopin ; Estrella / Schumann. Paraphrase on Sleeping beauty : op. 66 / Tchaikovsky-Pabst. Papillons / Pabst. Mazurka in D, op. 33, no. 2 [2 recordings] / Chopin-Pabst (Paul Pabst, piano) -- Improvisation in E-flat ; Improvisation in A ; Nocturne in D-flat : no. 3 from 24 morceaux charactéristiques : op. 36 ; Intermezzo in F minor : no. 12 from 24 morceaux charactéristiques : op. 36 ; Consolation : in D : no. 5 from 24 morceaux charactéristiques : op. 36 ; Le ruisseau dans la forêt : in G : no. 15 from 24 morceaux charactéristiques : op. 36 ; Ioniques : no. 3 from Essais sur les rythmes oubilés : op. 28 ; Strophe Alcéene : no. 5 from Essais sur les rythmes oubilés : op. 28 ; An der Quelle : in A, op. 46, no. 1 ; Unidentified composition / Arensky (Anton Arensky, piano) -- Etude in F-sharp : no. 13 from 24 morceaux charactéristiques : op. 36 / Arensky. Prelude in F-sharp minor, op. 28, no. 8 / Chopin (Sandra Droucker, piano) -- En courant : in G-flat : no. 1 from 6 morceaux, op. 53 / Godard (Vladimir Wilschaw, piano) -- Free improvisation ; Unidentified composition ; Unidentified composition ; Unidentified composition (Egon Petri, piano) -- Variation 4 from the second movement of Sonata for violin and piano, op. 7 / Juon (Paul Juon, piano) -- Etude in F, op. 37 / Liadov. Mazurka in G minor, op. 67, no. 2 / Chopin. Humoresque in F : no. 3 from 6 Klavierstücke, op. 12 / Juon (Leonid Kreutzer, piano) -- Tanzrhythmen : op. 41, no. 3 (Allegretto grazioso) ; Tanzrhythmen : op. 41, no. 2 (Vivace molto) / Juon (Leonid Kreutzer and Paul Juon, piano duet) -- Suite for piano four-hands / Leo Conus (Sergei Taneyev and Leo Conus, piano duet) -- Suite no. 2 for two pianos, op. 23 : Silhouettes. No. 1, Le savant ; No. 3, Polichinelle ; No. 4, Le rêveur / Arensky (Sergei Taneyev and Paul Pabst, pianos) -- Zigeunerweisen : op. 20, no. 1 / Sarasate (Jules Conus, violin; unidentified pianist) -- Partita no. 3, in E, BWV 1006. Minuet 1 / Bach (Jules Conus, violin) -- Nocturne in E-flat, op. 9, no. 2 / Chopin-Sarasate (Jules Conus, violin; Paul Juon, piano) -- Piano trio no. 1 in D minor, op. 32 / Arensky (Anton Arensky, piano; Jan Hřímalý, violin; Anatoly Brandukov, violoncello) -- Orientale : from Kaleidoscope : op. 50 [2 recordings] / Cui. Gavotte in G, from Idomeneo / Mozart-Auer. Etude, op. 55, no. 1 : Spinnlied / Popper-Auer. Schön Rosmarin / Kreisler (Jascha Heifetz, violin; Waldemar Liachowsky, piano) -- Variations on a theme of Corelli / Tartini-Kreisler. Chasse in the style of Cartier ; Andantino in the style of Martini ; Liebesleid / Kreisler. Minuet in F, from Symphony no. 96 / Haydn-Burmester. Minuet no. 2 in G, 167, WoO 10 / Beethoven-Burmester. Vogel als Prophet : from Waldscenen : op. 82 / Schumann-Auer. Berceuse, op. 28, no. 3 / Juon (Eddy Brown, violin; Julius Block, piano) -- Passacaglia in G minor, from Harpsichord suite no. 7, HWV 432 / Handel-Halvorsen (Joseph Press, violoncello; Michael Press, violin) -- Spiritual concert / Rachmaninoff (Choir of the Synodical School of Moscow; unidentified conductor) --
• Quando rapito : from Lucia di Lammermoor / Donizetti. Ernani, involami : from Ernani / Verdi. La zingara / composer unidentified. At the fountain / composer unidentified. Nocturne in E-flat, op. 9, no. 2, arranged for voice and piano / Chopin (Mademoiselle Nikita (Louisa Margaret Nicholson), soprano; Pyotr Schurovsky, piano) -- I am in love, my maiden, my beauty / Dargomïzhsky. Longing : op. 27, no. 9 / Rubinstein. Don Juan's serenade : op. 38, no. 1 / Tchaikovsky (Vasily Samus, tenor; unidentified pianist) -- Habanera from Carmen / Bizet (Adele Borghi, mezzo-soprano; unidentified pianist) -- Pastorale / Bizet. Do not leave me! : no. 4 from 6 romances, op. 27 / Tchaikovsky. Unidentified composition. Widmung : no. 1 from Mythren : op. 25 / Schumann (Maria Klimentova-Muromtzeva, soprano; Sergei Taneyev, piano) -- Ich liebe dich : op. 5, no. 3 / Grieg. Mai : no. 7 from Musical pictures : op. 15 / Cui. Legend : no. 5 from 16 songs for children : op. 54 / Tchaikovsky (Eugenia Jurjevna Werdam, mezzo-soprano; unidentified pianist) -- I remember the evening / Cui (Nikolai Figner, tenor; unidentified pianist) -- Sail / Rubinstein. And night, and love, and moon / Davydov. Longing : op. 27, no. 9 / Rubinstein (Maria Ivanovna Gutheil, soprano; unidentified pianist) -- Berendey's cavatina : from The snow maiden / Rimsky-Korsakov. O pechal i toska : from Nero / Rubinstein (Lavrentii Donskoi, tenor; unidentified pianist) -- In fernem Land : from Lohengrin / Wagner (Evgeny Dolinin, tenor; unidentified pianist) -- Unidentified composition ; Chanson de Florian / Godard (Thérèse Leschetizkaya-Dolinina, soprano; unidentified pianist) -- Lullaby in a storm : no. 10 from 16 songs for children : op. 54 / Tchaikovsky. Unidentified composition (Elizaveta Lavrovskaya, soprano; unidentified pianist) -- Blinde Kuh : no. 1 from (8) Lieder und Gesänge, op. 58 / Brahms. Wohin? : no. 2 from Die schöne Müllerin / Schubert (Elena Gerhardt, mezzo-soprano; Arthur Nikisch, piano) -- Spoken word. Elena Gerhardt and Arthur Nikisch ; Leo Tolstoy ; Leo Tolstoy, with Countess Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya, Tatiana L'vovna Tolstaya-Sukhotina, and Tatiana Mikhailovna Sukhotina-Albertini ; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Anton Rubinstein, with Elizaveta Lavrovskaya, Vasily Ilyich Safonov, Alexandra Ivanovna Hubert, and Julius Block.

Call Number

*LDC 47080

LCCN

638335301129

OCLC

297170419

Title

The dawn of recording [sound recording] : the Julius Block cylinders.

Imprint

[Swarthmore, Pa.] : Marston, p2008.

Performer

Various performers.

Event

Recorded betweem 1890 and 1927, principally at Julius Block's residences in Russia, Germany, and Switzerland.

Language

Sung in Russian, French, German, and Italian ; announcements and spoken word selections in Russian, German, and English.

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Added Author

Block, Julius, 1858-1934.

Other Standard Identifier

638335301129

Publisher No.

53011-2 Marston

Research Call Number

*LDC 47080 Program notes and texts on file