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Auction Number 144 -- AUCTION Closing Date: Monday, 13 June, 2010 Since 1972 Regarding AUCTION #144 (Closing Date: Monday, 13 June, 2011), The Minimum Bid ("MB") is a guide which has been set in accordance with current market value, determined through constant monitoring of auction sales during recent years. In cases of extreme rarity, the actual realized price may far exceed the Minimum Bid, while in other cases an item may realize a price very close to the Minimum Bid, and, occasionally, the Minimum Bid itself. Please simply bid in accordance with whatever a given item means to you. If a bidder wins more than originally anticipated, we are most pleased to make any mutually comfortable arrangement for payment terms. Please inquire. TELEPHONE HOURS are 10:00 am - 5:00 PM, EST - Monday – Friday, when PETER FORD is available to take bids and answer any questions. Bids may be submitted by e-mail, FAX, telephone or (bearing closing date in mind) postal mail. [802 524-7673] or FAX [1 888 819 4831]. CONDITION GRADING, 78rpm: M-A - nearly MINT, albeit slightly used Copy. A - slightly used Copy, but with very minimal or no defects. B - used Copy, with light wear and rubs, not affecting playing. Any other defects, e.g.: light (lt), edge chip (ec), lamination (lam), hairline crack (hlc), internal pressure crack (ipc), scratch (scr); label damage, etc. are most clearly identified within each individual listing. POM - A Direct Pressing, Pressed from Original Master, (never a dubbing), whether an Original Pressing or Subsequent Issue. only form of issue - relates exclusively to 78rpm issues, only those which are Pressed from Original Masters. Scroll - relates exclusively to the best period of Victor, always featuring the Scroll Label, mid-1930's, and always offering remarkably quiet surfaces, very often on Z Shellac, although not always so indicated. Z Shellac - relates exclusively to the best pressings ever produced by Victor, mid-1930's, found on PW, Orth (Orthophonic), but primarily on Scroll Labels, always offering remarkably quiet surfaces, identifiable by the minuscule "z" found only in the upper portion of the inner margin of the shellac. In the event that there is no “z” embossed in such pressings, they will be identified as being “z-type shellac.” Master Works is Columbia's equivalent, offering the best pressings ever produced by Columbia, preceded (chronologically) by their notable Blue Shellac Pressings. How to Place Bids We are pleased to receive bids via phone (802-524-7673) or Fax: (1 888 819 4831), or e-mail ([email protected]) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We also accept bids via postal mail. When placing your bids, please list the ITEM NUMBER (in left column of catalogue) and a brief description of the item. Include your phone & FAX number (e-mail, when available) on all orders. 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Our catalogue is also available at http://www.norpete.com Auction Number 144 -- AUCTION Closing Date: Monday, 13 June, 2010 Since 1972 TABLE OF CONTENTS: Piano 78rpm records Nos. K 1 – K158 Violin 78rpm records Nos. K159 – K298 Viola 78rpm records Nos. K299 – K314 Cello & Double Bass 78rpm records Nos. K315 – K368 Chamber Music 78rpm records Nos. K369 – K434 Orchestral 78rpm records Nos. K435 – K571 Female Vocal 78rpm records Nos. K572 – K1418 Tenor Vocal 78rpm records Nos. K1419 – K1699 Baritone & Bass Vocal 78rpm records Nos. K1700 – K2126 Personality, popular & Jazz 78rpm records Nos. K2127 – K2238 Spoken Word 78rpm records Nos. K2239 – K2257 Opera News & Record News Periodicals Nos. K2258 – K2318 Books Nos. K2318 – K2328 Autographed Vintage Photographs Nos. K2329 – K2391 Mapleson Cylinders LP Boxed Set No. K2392 THE RECORD COLLECTOR Larry Lustig, Editor 111, Longshots Close Broomfield, Chelmsford Essex CM1 7DU, ENGLAND Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.therecordcollector.org By annual subscription: £31 ($58.00) per year by air mail Norbeck, Peters & Ford, LLC 59 Congress Street Saint Albans, VT 05478-1611 USA 802-524-7673 - Fax: 1 888 819 4831 email: [email protected] website: www.norpete.com Auction Number 143 -- AUCTION Closing Date: Saturday, 8 May, 2010 Nos. K1 – K158 are Piano 78rpm records K1. MARGUERITE de VALMALÈTE: Le Tombeau de Couperin (Ravel), 4s. 2-10” EL green French Polydor 522754/55, POM-1932. M-A, Exemplary! MB 45, the Pair. "This is another kind of playing altogether – a luminous, dazzling pianism, full of delicacy, passion, polish, exquisitely shaped, with hushed, shaded pianissimos….[This is] the first Ravel 'Tombeau de Couperin' ever recorded….[a] marvelous performance. Although the Marquise de Valmalète could summon forth a very beautiful tone and could establish an enchanting mood, she was at her best in fast, toccata-like movements which she executed with fearless brio and assurance, her big technique carrying the music forward with intoxicating effect." – David Mulbury, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, Nov./Dec., 2005 K2. MARIUS FRANÇOIS GAILLARD: Préludes, Book I – La Cathédrale engloutie (Debussy), 2s. 10” EL green French Odéon 166.150, POM-1928. A, lovely copy has, Sd. 2 only, faint pap. rubs, faintly audible. MB 15 K3. MARIUS FRANÇOIS GAILLARD: Préludes, Book I – Danseuses de Delphes / Minstrels (Debussy). 10” EL red Decca-Odeon 20091, POM-1928. M-A MB 10 K4. MARIUS FRANÇOIS GAILLARD: Préludes, Book I – La fille aux cheveux de lin / Children’s corner – La sérénade interrompue (both Debussy). 10” EL red Decca-Odeon 20090, POM-1929. M-A MB 10 K5. MARIUS FRANÇOIS GAILLARD: Préludes, Book I – Valse romantique) Estampes – Pagodes (both Debussy). 12” EL red Decca-Odeon 25427, POM-1929. M-A, Exemplary! MB 12 K6. MARIUS FRANÇOIS GAILLARD: Préludes, Book II – La Puerta del vino / General Lavine, eccentric (Debussy). 10” EL Green French Odéon 166.262, POM-1929. M-A, Exemplary! MB 15 K7. MARIUS FRANÇOIS GAILLARD: Suite Bergamasque – Prélude / Pour le Piano – Toccata (both Debussy). 12” EL Green French Odéon 171.081, POM-1929. M-A MB 15 K8. MARIUS FRANÇOIS GAILLARD: Pour le Piano – Sarabande (Debussy), 2s. 10” EL green French Odéon 166.175, POM-1928. M-A, Exemplary! MB 12 K9. MARIUS FRANÇOIS GAILLARD: Rêverie / Estampes – Jardins sous la pluie (both Debussy). 12” EL Green French Odéon 171.057, POM-1928. M-A, Exemplary! MB 15 K10. MARIUS FRANÇOIS GAILLARD: Mazurka / La plus que lente (both Debussy). 12” EL red Decca-Odeon 25428, POM-1929. M-A, Exemplary! MB 12 K11. MARIUS FRANÇOIS GAILLARD: Ballade slave (Debussy), 2s. 10” EL red Decca-Odeon 20092, POM-1928. M-A MB 10 K12. YVONNE LEFÉBURE: Variations, Interlude et Final on a theme by Rameau (Dukas), 4s. 2-12” EL PW V 12088/89, POM-1936. M-A, appears unplayed! MB 15, the Pair. “Yvonne Lefébure was one of the premier French pianists and teachers of the 20th century. A prodigy, she studied with Maurice Emmanuel (with whose family she remained close throughout her life) and Charles- Marie Widor at the Paris Conservatoire. She has also studied with Marguerite Long, first at a private school called the Conservatoire Femina-Musica (which provided Nadia Boulager with her first official teaching post) and then in Long's preparatory class at the Conservatoire (1ère médaille). Alfred Cortot is said to have had the greatest influence over her playing.” K13. NADIA BOULANGER & DINU LIPATTI: Waltzes, Op.39, Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 14 & 15 (Brahms), 2s. (Complete, as recorded). 12” EL Disque Gram. DB 5061, only form of issue, 1937. M-A, Exemplary. MB 15 K14. NADIA BOULANGER (Pf.), w.IRÈNE & NATHALIE KEDROFF: Klänge; Die Meere / NADIA BOULANGER, w.NATHALIE KEDROFF & de POLIGNAC: Die Schwestern; NADIA BOULANGER, w.JEAN de POLIGNAC, IRÈNE KEDROFF, HUGUES CUÉNOD & DODA CONRAD: Der Gang zum Liebchen (all Brahms) (in French). 12” EL Disque Gram. DB 5060, only form of issue, 1937. M-A, Exemplary! MB 15 K15. NADIA BOULANGER & DINU LIPATTI, w.JEAN de POLIGNAC, IRÈNE KEDROFF, HUGUES CUÉNOD & DODA CONRAD: Liebeslieder Walzer, Op.52 (Brahms), 6s. 3-12” EL PW Disque Gram DB 5057/59, only form of issue, 1937. M-A, Exemplary! MB 45, the Trio. “Boulanger, who liked to be known as ‘Mademoiselle’, made her conducting début in 1912. She was the first woman to conduct several major symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and in England the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In 1938 she directed the first performance of Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks Concerto in Washington, DC. As a performer she made few recordings. In 1937 HMV issued three sets of discs featuring her: Jean Françaix’s Piano Concerto in D, which she conducted; Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes, in which she and Dinu Lipatti were the duo pianists with a vocal ensemble; and the first recordings of any music by Monteverdi: a selection of his madrigals, which she directed.” “The Romanian classical pianist, Dinu Lipatti, was born into a musical family: his father was a violinist, his mother a pianist, and his godfather was the violinist and composer George Enescu.