Dance of the Goblins-Prince’s orchestra- 1915

[Edisonfan]

[youtubehd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dpVcbFaYWk[/youtubehd]

Happy Halloween!

[Menophanes]

A curious jumble of a piece – it sounds more like a series of cobbled-together fragments than a single work – but a credit to both performers and engineers nonetheless, apart from the all too clearly articulated coughs at about 2:15. I wonder who was responsible for these? It should not have been the conductor, since he would have had his back to the horns.

I should like to know more about Charles A. Prince. Most of his recorded work is light in character, but in the apparently unique 1917 record of Wagner's Rienzi overture (I call it unique because I know of no other commercial acoustic recording of a full-strength orchestra) he shows a real mastery of symphonic conducting. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkVOo9mzMx8 on YouTube for this recording.

Oliver Mundy.

[Lucius1958]

A curious jumble of a piece – it sounds more like a series of cobbled-together fragments than a single work – but a credit to both performers and engineers nonetheless, apart from the all too clearly articulated coughs at about 2:15. I wonder who was responsible for these? It should not have been the conductor, since he would have had his back to the horns.

I should like to know more about Charles A. Prince. Most of his recorded work is light in character, but in the apparently unique 1917 record of Wagner's Rienzi overture (I call it unique because I know of no other commercial acoustic recording of a full-strength orchestra) he shows a real mastery of symphonic conducting. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkVOo9mzMx8 on YouTube for this recording.

Oliver Mundy.

Certainly we'd like to know more about Prince. I wonder, was he in any way related to George A. Prince, who was a pioneer in the reed organ industry? (I have a Prince melodeon from 1864).

-Bill

[gramophone-georg]

Personally, I wonder if he ever went by

[drh]

Personally, I wonder if he ever went by

I wrote an equipment review that included as an audio example Bazzini's violin encore showpiece Le Ronde des Lutins, op. 25 (in English, "The Dance of the Goblins") performed by Czech violin virtuoso Vasa Prihoda with pianist Asta Doubravska from Edison disc 82227-L. I recorded it electrically (two different preamps) and also via microphones set before my Edisonic Schubert. The links are about midway down the page here: https://www.tnt-audio.com/ampli/gsp_accession2_e.html Sorry, no nice video of the old machine doing its stuff, although I do have a still adjacent to the audio links.

Incidentally, Heifetz recorded the same piece for Victor twice, acoustically on 74570 and electrically on 15813-A. The pianists were Andre Benoist and Emanuel Bay, respectively.

David Popper wrote a "Dance of the Elves" and a "Dance of the Gnomes" for cello and piano.