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epigramophone wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:35 am Most collectors of vocal art will be familiar with the HMV No.2 Catalogue of historic recordings, and the post war VA and VB reissues.
Parlophone's Historical Series "Famous Voices of the Past" is less well known, and in my experience the records, pressed from Fonotipia masters, are harder to find.
Here is the list as it appeared in the 1940/41 Parlophone catalogue. This was wartime, so there may have been others which were deleted. If anyone can add further information it would be appreciated.

drh wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:48 pm
I sent a link to this posting to a non-member collector friend, and he sent this back:

I compared the list he posted
with the listing in Seventy Years of Issues. His list contains several
entries not in the book; the book contains no items not on his list.
FWIW. One does wonder what was on the numbers not on the list, or
whether they were just not used.

He also called attention to the entries for Carreno, Granados, and Leschetizky, noting that he was unaware they had made records. As was I. Were the Parlophones dubs of piano rolls, which all three *did* make?

epigramophone wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:35 am Most collectors of vocal art will be familiar with the HMV No.2 Catalogue of historic recordings, and the post war VA and VB reissues.
Parlophone's Historical Series "Famous Voices of the Past" is less well known, and in my experience the records, pressed from Fonotipia masters, are harder to find.
Here is the list as it appeared in the 1940/41 Parlophone catalogue. This was wartime, so there may have been others which were deleted. If anyone can add further information it would be appreciated.

epigramophone wrote: Fri Jan 26, 2024 5:01 am

drh wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:48 pm
I sent a link to this posting to a non-member collector friend, and he sent this back:

I compared the list he posted
with the listing in Seventy Years of Issues. His list contains several
entries not in the book; the book contains no items not on his list.
FWIW. One does wonder what was on the numbers not on the list, or
whether they were just not used.

He also called attention to the entries for Carreno, Granados, and Leschetizky, noting that he was unaware they had made records. As was I. Were the Parlophones dubs of piano rolls, which all three *did* make?

I found this label on line, which confirms that at least some dubbings were made from piano rolls :

epigramophone wrote: Fri Jan 26, 2024 7:07 am Opera and other classical vocal such as lieder. My main record collecting interest since I was at school, over 60 years ago.