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 acoustic recording c1920 (abridged) with Fanny Anitua, Luigi Bolis, Ines Maria Ferraris and Cesare Formichi
Carmen - highlights on LP, conducted by Walter Goehr, with Cora Canne Meyer and Leo Larsen
Carmen - highlights on LP, conducted by Erasmo Ghiglia, with Franca Sacchi and Eddie Ruhl
Carmen - orchestral and choral excerpts (with associated sides) by Felix Weingartner, Percy Pitt, Alick Maclean, Landon Ronald, Carlo Sabajno, Saba Matacena, John Mackenzie-Rogan, Frieder Weissmann and Albert Coates
Carmen - excerpts from the 1911 Pathé recording (Mérentié and Affre, François Rühlmann conducting)
Carmen - vocal excerpts (and associated sides) by Henri Albers, Albert Vaguet, Gaston de Poumayrac, Maurice Renaud, Marie Delna, Alice Raveau, Emilio de Gogorza, Sigrid Onegin, Angelo Bendinelli, Nini Frascani, Thomas Chalmers, Elsa Stralia and Frank Mullings (with Hamilton Harty conducting), Harold Williams, Noel Eadie, Nancy Evans, Webster Booth, Dennis Noble, Carrie Tubb, Violet Elliott, Ernest Pike, Harold Wilde, Stewart Gardner, Peter Dawson, Edna Thornton, Eleanor Jones-Hudson, Roy Henderson, Constance Willis, Frank Titterton, Maria Olszewska and Dmitri Smirnov
http://www.damians78s.co.uk/html/currently_available_recordings.html#2011-10-25
Damian
