Recent Entries

• Download: Carmen - 1920 acoustic Columbia set + lots more Carme

  by Damian Rogan October 25, 2011
  It's been four months since the last update to my website, and finally Carmen has arrived! The many recordings new to the site today are of Carmen, together with flip sides of records and other recordings by the same artists where appropriate. The contents are as follows:   Carmen - Columbia ...
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• Holst's missing Saturn, and Ernest Macmillan conducts some Plan

  by Damian Rogan June 25, 2011
  I've just completed the latest update to my site, with a focus on Holst's Planets Suite. First up is Ernest Macmillan's 1942 Victor recording of Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter, with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The filler side is Adrian Boult's 1937 BBCSO recording of Elgar's Imperial March...
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• Early Toscanini (1920)

  by Damian Rogan June 7, 2011
  I recently made another update to my website, this time two sides from Toscanini's earliest sessions. These were recorded in 1920 with the Orchestra of La Scala Milan, in Camden New Jersey, while the orchestra was touring the USA. They can be found on my website. Damian

• Shakespeare and Coates

  by Damian Rogan April 25, 2011
  On Saturday I uploaded the latest updates to my website (though I'm two days late drawing attention to it here). On this St. George's Day, Albert Coates's birthday, and the anniversary of Shakespeare's death (and possibly birth) there's Coates 1926 recording of Siegfried's Funeral March, and a nu...
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• Site update: Marjorie Hayward and Fethi Kapuz

  by Damian Rogan February 27, 2011
  The latest update to my site focuses on two violinists: Marjorie Hayward is heard as the first violinist of the Virtuoso Quartet in Beethoven's E flat Quartet Op.127 (coupled with a Minuet in E flat by Dittersdorff). She is also to be heard as soloist in Grieg's Violin Sonata No.3 in C minor and ...
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• The blogging habit

  by Damian Rogan February 20, 2011
  I just don't have the blogging habit - it's more a case of the occasional post when the mood strikes me, and usually when there's an update on my website. Well, the update's not quite there yet, but it's coming soon, with a Beethoven's Op.127 Quartet played by the Virtuoso Quartet, Grieg's Third Vio...

• Happy New Year

  by Damian Rogan December 31, 2010
  I've just made the New Year update to my site. The first record rings in the New Year with the chiming of Big Ben, along with the bells and organ of St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, and the noise of London traffic (deliberately recorded!). The organist is Stanley Roper on this 1926 HMV record...

• Adela Verne and Albert Sammons

  by Damian Rogan December 15, 2010
  Last weekend, I made the latest update to my website, with two acoustic English Columbias. On the first Albert Sammons plays the Ballade et Polonaise by Vieuxtemps, recorded in 1916 with the accompaniment played by the Grenadier Guards Band. I've transferred it at A452, as this was standard Br...
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• Curious couplings

  by Damian Rogan November 21, 2010
  As I've mentioned elsewhere, while I work on a specific project for my website, I'm trying to make occasional, smaller updates to the site. The latest, which is now online, is my most recent 78rpm acquisition, and is one of those curious couplings that one occasionally finds on early double sided re...
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• Site update

  by Damian Rogan October 31, 2010
  While I work on larger projects, I'm trying to keep things ticking over on my site with one or two items every couple of weeks. The latest update contains: 1929 Zonophone of the overture to The Barber of Seville, with the National Symphony Orchestra, possibly conducted by George W Byng Ted An...

• New site, and what I've been listening to

  by Damian Rogan October 24, 2010
  I like this new site, though I'm still finding my way around it as I figure out how best to integrate it into what I do. For a start this has included putting it as one of my home tabs in Firefox to make sure I check it regularly. On the listening front, for the sake of the performances I've been l...

• Site Update - Aida Excerpts and More

  by Damian Rogan October 19, 2010
  9 October 2010 I’ve just made the latest update to my website, after a rather longer hiatus than I expected. As I transferred one or two items, it led me to a kind of theme to follow, and that branched out along some other roads.   I started out planning to transfer a few of my Gramoph...