Graham Rankin
I greatly enjoy sharing what I consider to be good music with the world. The "holographic" audio experience of EMG gramophones playing shellac discs is unique and compulsive, especially when sitting directly in front of the horns---less so through YouTube. Their design creators were men of unparalleled genius and hugly appreciated worldwide by those lucky enough to have been able to experience the immaculate exponential acoustic reproduction. For folk of my generation I am really playing the records which many may still have secreted in their attics---but unplayed for decades ! I hope you will enjoy the results.
I still have one or two complete Xb Oversize gramophones available for sale at "[email protected]", the story of which is told here : https://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewtopic.php?t=15076. Unfortunately the original link to the photographic story has now lapsed. Please go to page 3 and scroll down to the blue text to find a new working link. Many thanks.
"Son geloso del zephiro errante". "La sonnambula". Bellini. Amelita Galli-Curci & Tito Schipa.
"Dream valley" & "O mistress mine". Quilter. Walter Midgley.
"O cieli azzurri". "Aida". Verdi. Carla Castellani.
"Echo song". Henry Bishop. Amelita Galli-Curci.
"The bassoon". Ashlyn. Jack Hylton and His Orchestra.
"Non mi resta che il pianto". "L'amico Fritz". Mascagni. Pia Tassinari.
"O wie ängstlich, o wie feurig". "The seraglio". Mozart. Richard Tauber.
"Son pochi fiori". "L'amico Fritz". Mascagni. Pia Tassinari.
"Non ve l'avevo detto". "Madama Butterfly". Puccini. Enrico Caruso and Antonio Scotti.
"Un di all'azzurro spazio". "Andrea Chénier". Giordano. Francesco Tamagno. (Experiment-68rpm).
"L'hiver à pu finir". (Chanson de Solveig). "Peer Gynt". Grieg. Amelita Galli-Curci.
"Arie des Max". "Der freischütz". Weber. Horst Taubmann.
"O Gott ! Wo eilt ihr hin ?". "Die Huguenotten". Meyerbeer. Teschemacher & Wittrisch.
"Er wird mir glauben". "Die lustigen weiber von Windsor". Nicolai. Maria Cebotari.
"Hoffmann's aria". "Tales of Hoffmann". Offenbach. Richard Tauber.
"Dichterliebe". (11,12,13). Schumann. Aksel Schiøtz.
"Ozean du ungeheuer". "Oberon". Weber. Margarete Teschemacher.
"Che ! Siete all'osteria Quieti !". "La forza del destino". Verdi. Faticanti & Righetti.
"Di piacer mi balza il cor". "La gazza ladra". Rossini. Lina Pagliughi.
"I wonder where my baby is tonight ?". Quintet of The Hot Club of France.
"O hält ich meiner tochter nur geglaubt". "Die kluge". Carl Orff. Gottlieb Frick.
"Maria, Mari !". Di Capua. Beniamino Gigli.
"Und ob die wolke sie verhülle". "Der freischütz". Weber. Margarete Teschemacher.
"Der wegweiser". Schubert. Alexander Kipnis.
"Lo, here the gentle lark". Bishop. Amelita Galli-Curci.
"Bagatelle". Scarlatescu. Ginette Neveu.
"Quartetto". "L'Italiana in Algeri". Rossini. Supervia, Ederle, Scattola & Bettoni.
"Pretty mocking bird". Bishop. Amelita Galli-Curci.
"Morgen". Strauss. Elisabeth Schumann.
"O soave fanciulla". "La bohème". Puccini. Onelia Fineschi & Francesco Albanese.