Description The collection contents A) Vocalists - all 234 titles which are recorded from Enrico Caruso - and as a special curiosity: one shellac-record which never has been to buy - records from Frencesco Tamagno (first Othello, yet got up his part by Verdi himself) - records from Heinrich Schlusnus - nearly all records from Franz Völker (Wagner-tenor), Joseph Schmidt, Wilhelm Strienz, Karl Schmitt-Walter, Amelia Pinto, Maria Jvogün, Frieda Hempel, Selma Kurz, Sigrid Onegin - early recordings from Selma and Julius Scheidt, Karl Scheidemantel (born on 1859 at Dresden, Germany) - records from Leo Slezak and Benjamino Gigli - nearly all records from Tito Schipa and Tino Rossi, Richard Tauber and Herbert Ernst Groh - Elena Theodorini - and more B) Other musiciens - pieces for piano played by Richard Strauss, Arthur Nikisch, Josef Hoffmann, Emil von Sauer - pieces for violin played by Pablo de Sarasate, Mischa Elmann, Fritz Kreisler, Maud Powell, Adolf Busch, Jan Kubelik - records with celebrated composers who play theirselfs an instrument: Eugène d'Albert, Ignaz Pederewski, Xaver Scharwenka, Paul Hindemith (viola-solo) - composers who conduct their pieces: Richard Strauss, Igor Strawinski, Emil Waldteufel - and more C) Actors, review artists - theatre: records from Carl Clewing, Sarah Bernhardt, Karl Zeska, Alexander Moissi, Heinrich George, Hugo Thiming, Ernst Ritter von Possart, Adolf Ritter von Sonnenthal, Josef Kainz - poets: Jakob Bährer, Alfred Huggenberger - cabaret, film: records from Schaggi Streuli, Alfred Rasser, Emil Hegetschweiler, Rudolf Bernhard, Fredy Scheim, Karl Valentin, Claire Waldoff, Heinz Rühmann, Clown Grock - and more D) Speaches from celebrities: - Max Schmeling (world champion in boxing) - general Booth, founder of the Salvation Army - Pope Pius XII - Theodor Roosevelt, president of USA - King Arewell - King George V (United Kingdom of Great Britan) - Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss (Austria) - Stalin - Mussolini - Hitler - Goebbels - and more |