The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

Lucius1958 wrote:

marcapra wrote:These recording pose many questions such as what recording was the first to have real cannon shots, or at least gun shots? What recording was the first to include a chorus at the end singing the Russian anthem?

Here is a video of the 1908 Edison wax Amberol #51 cylinder recording of the the 1812, (not mine)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1n46nx

Wow: I didn't know my old videos were still up there!

- Bill

Menophanes wrote:

drh wrote:It's 1812 mania!

If you would like to hear four other early versions of the 1812, you can download them (not stream them) here:

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ppgll3ix9fovx/

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Thank you for these! Sokoloff's reading certainly has an impressive urgency and momentum. Wood draws out the slow opening and (I agree) has some rather deliberate tempi elsewhere, especially perhaps in the ninth and tenth minutes, but he too gives us some exciting moments. The studio environment does strike me as rather close, but not objectionably so; it is, I think, rather like the relatively dry acoustic favoured by French engineers in the 1920s and 1930s. These are all I have had time to hear so far.

I should have liked to hear what Albert Coates would make of this piece.

Oliver Mundy.