>Agustin Barrios made commercial recordings around 1913.=0D
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These recordings have been put on vinyl (double LP album) somewhere befor=
e
the late '70s. I would have to look through my collection to find out the
details from the actual album.=0D
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Peter Steur=0D
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From: Howard Posner=0D
Date: 11/24/04 22:13:23=0D
To: lute list=0D
Subject: Re: oldest known recording of a lute?=0D
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Ed Durbrow wrote:=0D
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> Edison recorded Brahms. The piano is a cordophone.=0D
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True, but it rarely gets invited to cordophone family gatherings.=0D
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Agustin Barrios made commercial recordings around 1913.=0D
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You can buy one CD (Opal 9851) that contains all the extant recordings of=
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the violinists Joachim and Sarasate (from 1903 and 1904, respectively).=0D
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The Dolmetsch Online web site has a list of recordings at=0D
www.dolmetsch.com/darecordings.htm=0D
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It lists some recordings of ensembles with Arnold Dolmetsch playing lute =
as=0D
early as 1920. No sound clips.=0D
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Arthur Robb's lute history page www.art-robb.co.uk/hist.html has a sound=0D
clip of maybe eight seconds with this intro:=0D
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"Here are Arnold and Rudolph Dolmetsch playing lute and viol, possibly in=
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that order and probably about 1930. This is from a Columbia 78rpm record.=
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has been said that Arnold played a heavily built lute but I have seen a=0D
picture of him captioned something like 'Arnold Dolmetsch playing a lute =
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Micheal Harton'. It is interesting to speculate what lute is heard here."=
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There's a complete recording of the same Dolmetsches playing a Divisions =
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a Ground by Norcombe on viol da gamba and lute:=0D
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www.tcd.ie/Music/Recording%20Events_Examples.htm=0D
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Arnold Dolmetsch died in 1940.=0D
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There are two LPs by Suzanne Bloch listed on Todd McComb's site; see=0D
www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/alg93.htm. The earliest of them is listed as=0D
"1951 or prior." I'd love to hear it some time.=0D
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While I was searching for Suzanne Bloch info on the web just now, I came=0D
across a peculiar reminiscence from Jeffrey Dane, a musician and writer=0D
whose name is known to me, (if mostly from writings of people who disagre=
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with him) at=0D
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http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/202/300/inditer/2001/06-04/dane/bloch/er=
nes=0D
t.htm=0D
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He says:=0D
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"Ernest Bloch's daughter Suzanne was, like her father, born in Geneva, on=
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August 7, 1907."=0D
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It must have been quite a day for both of them. Dane continues:=0D
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"Her interest in the music of previous periods prompted her to learn to p=
lay=0D
the instruments - lute, harpsichord and others - for which the earlier mu=
sic=0D
was written. She performed and lectured widely, and was for many years on=
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the faculty of the author's alma mater, The Juilliard School in New York,=
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where he met and spoke with her on several occasions. It was she who had=0D
organized the ear-training department there during the tenure of William=0D
Schuman as the School's president. Though approaching her sixth decade, h=
er=0D
vitality, enthusiasm, and still jet-black hair made her look and even sou=
nd=0D
much more youthful. The natural charm and genuine personal sparkle she=0D
exuded made her remarkably attractive to much younger male students, whos=
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emotions could be aroused as much by her smile as by her father's music."=
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And finally, as if we needed to be told at this point:=0D
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"The author acknowledges he was one of them."=0D
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HP=0D
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