Latest Updates - Felix Mendelssohn

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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

Among the popular Christmas carols there are some original settings of favourite pieces, and some new compositions. Here is Stephen Jackson's setting of Noël Nouvelet:
[YouTube Video]

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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

The notes say that this album was the follow up to the earlier Ago release of the Festival of Lessons and Carols at King's College Chapel on RG 39, which was directed by Boris Ord and released in 1954. This 1959 issue was also issued in stereo (ZRG 5190), having been recorded on the 22nd and 23rd of December 1958. The Capel choir is made up of men and boys from the King's College choir.

This video of the Invitatory appears to be correct for this record, though the credited label is Beulah, who may have acquired the rights.

[YouTube Video]

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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

Further, Teresa Carreno (1853 – 1917) had recorded this track on a Welte-Mignon piano roll, so it sounds probable that the West Cornwall Museum of Mechanical Music made this album from recordings played on one or more player pianos in their collection.

[YouTube Video]

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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

Interesting to see this one-off record on this label, it sounds as if there could be more.
The recordings themselves are historical; Theodor Leschetizky died in 1915, and Mischa Levitzki in 1941.
The pianist "Miss Maria Zucca" is an interesting addition to our artists, this is the second mis-spelling I have seen, "Maria" along with "Manna", both are excusable for an artist who only worked under the stage name Mana-Zucca.

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Comment by gregs45s SUBS:

With a nod to MM, keebrev, added label scans with a text layout variation (content is the same, apart from the "N").

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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

Could the joint-composer credited on 'What Is Life?' be pianist Valda Aveling, I wonder?