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20 78rpm RECORDS - GIGLI, RACHMANINOFF, DEAN MARTIN, CARUSO, PONS, GLENN MILLER

Sold Date: June 24, 2014
Start Date: June 14, 2014
Final Price: £10.00 (GBP)
Bid Count: 1
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Buyer Feedback: 20

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20 78rpm records. Collection only from Putney, London, SW15, as too heavy to post. Unless you want to arrange a courier?
A lot are His Masters Voice
- Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff Concerto no 1 (I think - label a bit hard to read
- Gigli sings - Mamma, quel vino, and Santa Lucia
- Gigli sings Bizet's Agnus Dei, and Ave Maria
- Caruso - Rachel! quand du Seigneur la grace,
- Dean Martin -  How do you speak to an angel and Every Street's a boulevard in ole' New York
- Lily Pons - Traviata, Act 1, both sides
- Yehudi Menuhin on violin playes Beethoven violin concerto in D major - both sides
- Harry James and Orchestra - trumpet rhapsody - both sides
- Glenn Miller and his orchestra - Moonlight Serenade and American Patrol
- Benno Moiseiwitsch - Liszt Libestraum and Chopin nocturne
- Irene Scharrer piano - Chopin Fantaisie Improptu and Revolutionary study
- Tannhauser overture part 1 and 2
- Arthur Rubenstein on piano plays Tchaikovsky concerto no 1 on both sides
- Louis Kentner on piano plays Chopin waltz no 7, Impromptu in A flat
- Dennis Noble with Sadlers Wells orchestra plays Pagliacci and Rossini (bit of barber of seville)
(you can tell I'm getting tired now!)
- Benno Moiseiwitsch - Rach prelude in B minor, and a scherzo Midsummer Nights' Dream
-Choir of Temple Church London - Recit, Hear my Prayer both sides
- La Boheme - Lovely maid in the moonlight, Mimi's farewell on the other side
- Selection of Frederica - London Theatre orchestra
and finally
- Gigli conducted by Barbirolli no less - Donizetti, Una Furtiva Lagrima, Ombra Mai Fu

No idea of how they play as I don't have a 78rpm record player

Any questions, do ask, and see other items for sale. thanks