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Listing of albums and record recordings owned by Richard Nickel, Collection of the Richard Nickel Committee, Chicago, Illinois (These recordings located by John Vinci in 2011 from his collections and given to the Richard Nickel Committee)

Compiled by Ward Miller, Executive Director of the Richard Nickel Committee - for The Art Institute of Chicago, Burnham & Ryerson Libraries, December 2011

Albeniz, Iberia, Turina, Danzas Fantasticas, L’ de las Suisse Romande Ansermet, Records, Inc. New York, NY (Cover: John Singer Sargent “El Jaleo”, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, )

Bach, Johann Sebastian. Anthony Newman Plays J.S. Bach on the Pedal Harpsichord and Organ, Passacaglia and in C Minor, BWV 582 (Pedal Harpsichord), Trio No. 1 in E-Flat Major, BWV 525 (Organ), Fantasy and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 537 (Pedal Harpsichord), Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, BWV 544 (Pedal Harpsichord), Prelude and Fugue in G Major “Great” BWV 541 (Organ) and Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 (Pedal Harpsichord and Organ), Produced by Steven E. Paul, /CBS, Inc, New York, NY (Cover photo of Anthony Newman by Columbia Records)

Bach, Johann Sebastian. Die Violinkonzerte – The Concertos with , Regis Pasquier, Violine, Festival Strings Lucerne and Rudolf Baumgartner, , (Cover photo by Urs F. Kluyver, Hamburg)

Bach, Johann Sebastian. Bach Organ Favorites played by E. Power Biggs, recorded on the Flentrop (D.A. Flenthrop-1958) Organ in the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Harvard University Toccata and Fugue in /Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major and Fugue in G Minor (The “Little”)/Fugue in G Major (The “Jig”), Columbia Masterworks, USA (Cover photo: Columbia Records Studio- Henry Parker)

Bach, Johann Sebastian. J.S. Bach: Chorale , Edouard Commette, playing the Great Organ of the Cathedral Saint-Jean De , ,

Bach, Johann Sebastian and Janos Starker, Suites for Unaccompanied Complete, (Suite 1 in G, Suite No. 2 in D minor, Suite No. 3 in C, Suite No. 4 in E-Flat, Suite No. 5 in C Minor, Suite No. 6 in D), , USA (3 record-album set – 6 recorded sides in a box, with a pamphlet with cover and all photos by Mary Morris)

Bach, Johann Sebastian, The Bach Suites-Four Orchestral Suites, Muncchinger, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, London Recordings, London, England.

Bartok, The Six String Quartets, The Juilliard , produced by Paul Myers, Columbia Records, New, NY. –two record-album set with text and box cover.

Richard Nickel Committee, Listing of Record-Album Collections belonging to Richard Nickel Page 1 of 10 (typewritten note enclosed with albums: “WFMT Monday, May 12, 69, Harry Bouras on Bartok & De Kooning—Bartoks compactness and lack of spatialness De Kooning’s Europeaness, Inverted Lyrical poets--Kiss the young lips to feel the skull underneath-- Greatness rests on the flaw of the bitterness of their nature”)

Bartok, Bela. Geza Anda - , Bartok: Concerto No. 1 for and Orchestra and Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 1, Geza Anda, Piano, Radio Orchestra , Ferenc Fricsay Conductor. Deutsche Grammaphon Gesellschaft, Germany (Cover photo of Anda and Fricsay by Werner Neumeister, )

Berlioz, Benevenuto Cellini. Le Carnaval Romain, Beatrice Et Benedict, Le Corsaire, Le Damnation De , with Ernest Ansermet, L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, The Decca Record Company. Ltd, London and New York, 1965 (Cover image of Berlioz)

Berlioz , Charles Munch, Boston Symphony Orchestra with the New England Conservatory Chorus, Lorna Cooke DeVaron, Conductor, Soloist, Leopold Simoneau, , RCA Victor, USA (two record-albums -4-sides of recordings in a box with an elaborate color book designed by Albert Skira for the Soria Series of the RCA Victor and printed in at the Skira color Studios, Lausanne, first edition, completed February 1st, 1960, A limited edition of 200 copies. Also, news clipping from HiFi/Stereo Review form September 1968-recording of special merit enclosed)

Berlioz, Symphonie Funebre Et Triomphale, Op. 15, - Prelude to “The Trojans”-“ a Carthage” Funeral March-Marche Funebre, Op. 18, No. 3 Pour La Derniere Scene D’Hamlet, London Symphony Orchestra, and , Phillips Recordings, Phonographic Performances Ltd, London

Berlioz, , Op. 22, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis, Conductor, Franco Tagliavini, tenor, Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir with Chorus master, John Alldis; Nicholas Kynaston, Organist, Phillips Recordings and Phonographic Performance, Ltd, London

Berlioz, Te Deum, Op. 22, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir , Bart., Conductor, Alexander Young, Tenor; London Philharmonic Choir (Chorus Master, Frederick Jackson) and the Dulwich College Boys Choir, Dennis Vaughan, Organist, Columbia (Masterworks) Records, Inc. USA (Cover drawing by Ben Shafer-sp?)

Block, Ernest. Concerto Grosso, No. 1 (1925) and Concerto Grosso, No. 2 (1952), conducting the Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Mercury Records, USA (Cover design by George Ries)

Boulez, Pierre: Le Marteau sans maitre and : Nr. 5 Zeitmasse for Five Woodwinds, “New Directions in 1,” Conducted by , Columbia Records

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Brahms, Johannes, and , Orchesterlieder, Brahms (1833- 1897)-Rhapsodie Op. 53 fur Alt-Solor Mannerchor und Orchester. Grieg (1843-1907), and Mahler (1860-1911), Funf Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Ruckert, Deutsche Grammophon, Hamburg.

Britten, Benjamin. Two Chamber Works, Quartet No. 1 in D Opus 25 and A Fantasy for and Strings, Opus 2 with Harold Gomberg, Oboe, , Violin, Karen Tuttle, Violin and , Cello (Fantasy) and The Galimir String Quartet composed of Felix Galimir, 1st Violin, Leon Zawisza, 2nd Violin, Karen Tuttle, and Seymour Barab, Cello, /Esoteric Records, Hollywood, California (cover design by Cynthia Pennell) - unopened record album.

Boulez: , conducting and Messiaen: Chronochromie for Orchestra, Koechlin: Les Bandar-Log, Op. 176, based on Kipling’s “Jungle Book” Conducted by Antal Dorati and Pierre Boulez, with Josephine Nendick (), Barry McDaniel (tenor), Louis Devos (), BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Angel Records

Bumbry, Grace. Casta Diva, arias in the grand manner (Cherubini, Verdi, Bellini, Ponchielli, Giordano, Mascagni and Puccini) -Bavarian Orchestra, Aldo Ceccato conducting. Capital Records, Hollywood, California (Cover photo by Hiro) – unopened record album

Chausson, Ernest. Chausson, Symphony in B Flat Major, Op.20, Franck (Cesar) Les Eolides, l’Orchestre de las Suisse Romandem Ansermet. Decca Record Company Ltd. London, 1967 – unopened record album.

Crespin, Regine. Ravel: Scheherazade-, Berlioz: Nuits d’ete-, L’orchestre de las Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet, London

“Cymanfa Ganu 1969.” Massed of South Wales (The , Morriston Orpheus, New Siloh Choir, Swansea Male Voice Choir, Dunvant Male Voice Choir, Morriston Ladies Choir, St. David’s Church Singers, Morrison Aelwyd Choir). Newly recorded in the famous Tabernacle Congregational Chapel, Morriston, Glamorgan, Wales, “A hymn-signing festival from Morriston, Glamorgan, in the presence of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.” Conducted by Alun John and organist Eurfryn John, BBC Records, London, (Cover design by Roy Curtis-Bramwell)

Debussy, Claude. Fifteen Piano Pieces played by Walter Gieseking, Angel Records, New York, NY. (Cover is a portrait of by Marcel Baschet from the Musee de Versailles)

Dusik: Concerto in B flat for 2 & Orchestra and Schumann: Andante & Variations for 2 Pianos, 2 Celli & Horn. Toni and Rosi Grunschlag, and the Orchestra of the Volksoper, Paul Angerer, Conductor, Turnabout Vox, Universal

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Elgar: Op. 37 and Mahler: Five Songs from Ruckert, with and Sir , New Philharmonic Orchestra, Angel and Capital Records, Los Angeles

Fleisher, Leon. Piano Works by Copland and Kirchner, Sessions and Rorem, and Leon Kirchner, Piano Sonata and , from My Diary and , Three Barcarolles, Epic Records/A product of CBS, 1963 (Cover has an image of a piece by artist Moholy Nagy ’43)

Handel-The Dettingen Te Deum, conducted by Wolfgang Gonnenwein, Angel Records, London, 1964 – (unopened record album)

Haydn, Joseph. Quartets, op.54 (complete) and Allegri String Quartet, Quartet No. 1 in G Major, Quartet No. 2 in C Major and Quartet No. 3 in E Major, Recorded in Mozart Hall, Vienna, July 1964, Westminster Recording Company, ABC-Paramount Records, Inc. New York, NY.

Haydn, Joseph. Quartet in E flat Op. 33/2 “Joke” and Quartet in F, Op.3/5 “Serenade” and Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76/2 “Flutes”, Janacek Quartet, Company, Ltd, London, 1964 (unopened record album)

Haydn, Joseph: Te Deim C-dur, , Maurerische Trauermusik c-moll KV 477 (Masonic Funeral Music in C Minor), Adagio und Fuge c-moll KV 546 (Adagio and Fugue in C minor), Missa brevis Nr. 11 C-dur KV 259 (Orgelsolo-Messe) Missa brevis in C major (Organ Mass), Deutsche Grammaphon Gesellschaft, Germany

Haydn, Joseph. Streichquartette G-Dur, Op.77, 1, F-Dur, Op.77,2, String Quartet in G Major and , Amadeus Quartett, Deutsche Grammaphon Gesellschaft, Germany

Haydn, Joseph. London No. 103 and 104, conducted by , Symphony No. 103 in E Flat Major (“Drum Roll”) and Symphony No. 104 in (“London”), Orchestra, Westminster Recording Company, Inc., Subsidiary of Am-Par Record Company, New York, NY.

Haydn, Joseph-Frederic Chopin-Claude Debussy-Serge Prokofieff, Svjatoslav Richter: Recital, Deutsche Grammaphon Gesellschaft, Germany (cover photo by Paul Moor, Berlin)

Henze, Hans Werner. 3 Kantaten, Philharmonisches Kammerorchestrer Berlin, with , Soprano, Deutsche Grammaphon Gesellschaft, Germany

Hetszinvirag, Rainbow Garland, Magyar Allami Nepi Egyuttes, Hungarian State Folk , ,

Richard Nickel Committee, Listing of Record-Album Collections belonging to Richard Nickel Page 4 of 10 Hindemith, Bartok and Bernstein, , Concert Music for Strings and Brass, Op. 50 (), and Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta (Bela Bartok) and of the New York Philharmonic, Columbia “Masterworks” Records, USA

Hindemith, Quartet No. 3, Opus 22 and Bloch, Quartet No. 5-the Fine Arts Quartet (Leonard Sorkin, violin, Abram Loft, violin, Irving Ilmer, viola and George Sopkin, cello), Concertapes, Inc. Wilmette, Illinois.

Hindemith-Shostakovich-Webern-Kelemen-Roussel - Modern Masterpieces for Strings, I Solisti Di , Antonio Janigro, Conductor. Hindemith, Five Pieces for Strings, Op. 44, No. 4, “Trauermusik” for cello and strings (1936), Antonia Janigro, Solo Cello, Shostakovich, Scherzo for Strings, Op. 11, Webern: Five Movements for Strings, Op. 5, Kelemen: Concert Improvisations, Roussel: , Op. 52, Vanguard Recording for the Connoisseur, Vanguard Stereolab, New York, NY

Janacek, Leos. Pro Klavie Levou Rukou and Jaroslav Tomasek, Op 7, Sonata Pro Klavie Levou Rukou, Supraphon, 1955

Janacek, Leos: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2, Performed by the Smetana Quartet, Artia Recording Corporation, Connoisseur Record Corporation, Kearny, NJ. (Cover design by Reid Miles)

Janacek, Sonate fur Violine und Klavier and Brahms, Sonate Nr 2, A-dur opus 100 with Theo Olof, Violine (violin) and Daniel Wayenberg, Klavier (piano), Iramac, Schwarzwald, Germany

Jongen, Joseph. World Premiere Recording of Joseph Jongen Symphonie Concertante, , organ and the Orchestre Du Theatre National De Opera-Geroges Pretre, Conducting, Capital Records, Los Angeles, California

King Henry VIII-Complete Works (MHS 1530), Performed by St. Georges Canzona, John Sothcott, Director, The Musical Heritage Society, Inc. New York, NY

Mahler, Gustav. Mahler Symphony No. 2 (in C Minor), with Heather Harper and , conducted by George Solti, and Orchestra. London ffrr and the Decca Record Company-Artist Portrait Series, London Record Company, New York, NY, 1966. –two record-album set with 4 recorded sides in a box. (Cover photo is a close-up image of George Solti face and hand). Box also features a long article with many historic photos of the composer titled, “Mahler: Out of Sorrow, Spendour” from The Sunday Times Magazine, February 22, 1970

Mahler, Gustav. (1860-1911) Mahler Symphony No. 5, in C-Sharp Minor, Boston Symphony Orchestra, , Music Director, with Berg/ (Excerpts) and Phyllis Curtain, Soprano, Sacred Heart Boychoir of Roslindale, Massachusetts, John Oliver, Conductor, Produced by , RCA Victor (two record-album set- 4

Richard Nickel Committee, Listing of Record-Album Collections belonging to Richard Nickel Page 5 of 10 sides with a booklet and various newsclippings on “Wozzeck” Revisited: The Impact Remains from the Chicago Dailey News, November 23, 1965, and another “Wozzeck” Triumphant by Donald J. Henahan (no newspaper title or date) with a photo of Brenda Lewis as Marie in “Wozzeck”, along with a program from the titled “Wozzeck” in its First Chicago Performances, with music by , from 1965.

Mahler, Gustav. Mahler Symphony No 8, Leonard Bernstein and The London Symphony Orchestra, with the Festival Chorus, The London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Orpington Junior Singers, Highgate School Boy’s Choir, Finchley Children’s Music Group, with Erna Spoorenberg (Soprano), (Soprano), Gwenyth Annear (Soprano), Anna Reynolds (Alto), Johan Mitchinson (Tenor), Vladimir Ruzdiak () and Donald McIntyre (Bass), Columbia Records, New York, NY. –two record-album set with four sides in a box.

Mahler, Gustav. Mahler Symphony No. 9 (in D), In Memoriam (1876- 1962) conducting The Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Records, New York, NY. 1962, two record-album set – 4-recording sides (Cover photo by Irving Penn)

Mahler, Gustav. First Complete Recording of Mahler Symphony No.10, performing version by , and the Orchestra., Columbia Records. – two record-album set- 4- recording sides, with text and box covering.

Messiaen, Oliver. Groupe Instrumental A Percussion De Strasbourg Orchestre Du , Conducted by Pierre Boulez, with Yvonne Loriod, Piano, artistic direction: Oliver Messiaen, Erato-CBS Records, London (unopened record album)

Monteverdi, Claudio. (1567-1643), Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Dramma per Musica, Madrigal of War, Madrigal of Love, Vocal Ensamble and Chamber Orchestra of the Scuola Veneziana with Angelo Ephrikian, Conductor, Period Long Playing Records

Monteverdi, Claudio. (1567-1643),The Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Monteverdi, L’Incoronazione Di Poppea, Edited by Raymond Leppard, with Magda Laszlo, Richard Lewis, Francis Bible Oralia, Dominguez and Carlo Cava, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, John Pritchard, Conductor, Angle Records, England. (two-record-album set 4-sides in a box with part of a program from the Lyric Opera of Chicago “La Giara” (The Jar), First Chicago Performances with music by Alfredo Casella (no date)

Mozart, Divertimento in E Flat Major, K. 563 and The Grumiaux Trio (, violin, Georges Janzer, viola and Eva Czako, cello), Phillips and Mercury Record Corporation, (35 E. Wacker Drive 60601) Chicago, Illinois (unopened record-album)

Noris, Gunter. The Piano Genius of, Romantic Favorites in the Now Sound of Noris, (: Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Bizet, Schubert, Schumann, Grieg, Von Weber,

Richard Nickel Committee, Listing of Record-Album Collections belonging to Richard Nickel Page 6 of 10 Brahms, Dvorak, Liszt) London Records, New York, NY (Cover by Harry Farmlett Studio)

Organ Music Form Cambridge, The Organ in the Chapel of Trinity College (No. 3), Dr. Richard Marlow, Grosvenor Records, Birmingham, England

Purcell, -An Opera, Oriana Concert Choir and Orchestra, Harold Lester, Harpsichord and Alfred Deller, Conductor, The Bach Guild, Vanguard Stereolab Corporation, New York, NY. (Cover artist, Joseph Lori)

Reger, Max. (1873-1916), Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 132 and A Ballet Suite for Orchestra, Op. 130, The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra with , Conductor, TELDEC-Telefunken-Decca, Hamburg, Western Germany (Cover has a drawing of “Max Reger, Radierung von Franz Nolken, 1916”)

Ravel, Maurice. (1875-1937), String Quartet in F Major and Claude Debussy (1862- 1918), String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, The Stuyvesant String Quartet (Sylvan Shulman, Bernard Robbins, and Ralph Hersh, viola and Alan Shulman, cello, , (51 W. 51 Street) New York, NY (Cover design by William S. Harvey)

Reubke, Julius. Sonata “The 94th Psalm” and Max Reger, Toccata and Fugue, Opus 59 , Nos. 5 and 6, Fantasia on the Chorale “Straf” Mich Nicht in Deinem Zorn’, Opus 40, No. 2, Simon Preston Organ, Recorded at Westminster Abbey, The Decca Record Company Limited, London, England

Rimsky-Korsakov, The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka), An opera in four acts with a prologue sung in Russian, Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev, , USSR and Columbia Records Master Works (four record-albums in a box set with 8-recorded sides). Cover design by Henrietta Condak/Cover art by John Collier

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. Le Petit Prince de Saint-Exupery (FRL 1518), La Comedie Francaise, Musique de Maurice Le Roux, Grand Orchestre de Radio- Luxemburg, Everest Records, Los Angeles, California.

Schonberg, Arnold. – 4 String Quartets-Kohon & Ramor Quartets, No. 1 in D Minor, No. 3 (1927) & No. 4 (1936) played by the Kohon String Quartet and No. 2 in F sharp minor, with Soprano Solo played by Ramor Quartet with Maria Theresia Escribano, Soprano, SVBX 590 (3 records), Vox Records/Vox Productions, New York, NY.

Schoenberg, , Op. 42, , and , Op. 36, , violinist, Symphony Orchestra of Southwest German Radio Baden-Baden, , Conductor, Vox Productions, New York, NY, 1958

Richard Nickel Committee, Listing of Record-Album Collections belonging to Richard Nickel Page 7 of 10 Schonberg, Arnold.-The Music of -Volume One, Robert Craft Conducting, . Op.17, Violin Concerto, Op. 36, Lunaire, Op 21, Die Gluckliche Hand, Op. 18, , Op. 46 with text booklet, Columbia Records, New York, NY, 1962

Schonberg, Arnold.-The Music of Arnold Schoenberg-Volume III, Chamber Symphony No. 1- 1906, Five pieces for Orchestra (the original version) -1909, Herzgewachse-1911, Four Orchestra Songs – 1916, Bach: “Komm Gott” and “Schmucke Dich” – 1922, Bach: “St. Anne” Prelude and Fugue-1928, Kol Nidre – 1938, Chamber Symphony No 2 – 1939, Dreimal Tausend Jahre – 1949, Robert Craft, Conducting The Orchestra, The CBC Symphony Orchestra, The Columbia Symphony, The Festival of Singer of Toronto, with Regina Sarfaty, Mezzo-soprano, Rita Tritter, Soprano and Victor Braun, Speaker. Includes a booklet with articles, pictures and texts, along with a recording of Schoenberg’s voice, -two record-album set with 4 sides in a box

Schonberg, Arnold.- The Music of Arnold Schoenberg-Volume Two, Robert Craft Conducting, Pelleas and Melisande, Op. 5, Prelude to the Genesis Suite, Op.44, Three Little Orchestra Pieces (1910), Variations for orchestra, Op. 31, Verklaerte Nacht, Op.4, Columbia Records, New York, NY

Schonberg, Arnold. Funfzehn Gedichete aus Das Buch der hangenden Garten von Stefan George, Op. 15 and , Funf Lieder nach Gedichten von Stefan George, Op. 4, -, Sopran and , Klavier, Barenreiter-Musicaphon, Kassel, Germany

Scriabin: Second Symphony-Symphony No. 2, George Semkov, conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Columbia Records/CBS, New York, NY, (Cover art and design by Lloyd Ziff)

Smetana, My Fatherland (Ma’ Vlast) The Leipzig Gewandhasu Orchestra-Vaclav Neumann, London Records, Inc, New York, NY

Smetana, The Quartet, String Quartet in E Minor (“From My Life) and Dvorak: String Quartet in A-Flat, Op. 105, RCA Victor Records, 1966

Stockhausen, Karlheinz. Electrinic Music, Song of the Youths, Contact, Gesand der Junglinge, (1. Teil) and Kontakte (2.Teil), Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, Germany

Stockhausen, Karlheinz. First Recording-Complete Piano Music, Aloys Kontarsky, piano, 1965, CBS Records, New York (Cover design by Horst H. Baumann) with an attached article

Strauss, Richard. Capriccio, and , with Elisabeth Schwartzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, , , Rudolf Christ, , Dermot Troy, Karl Schmitt-Walter, , Wolfgang

Richard Nickel Committee, Listing of Record-Album Collections belonging to Richard Nickel Page 8 of 10 Sawallisch, Angel Records, 3 record-albums in a box with a booklet on the music and the cast, also includes three Russian records in the same box-unrelated (cover “photos by Fayer, Vienna”) 1959

Stravinsky, Igor. , with conductor ; Zoltan Kodaly, Hary Janos- Suite, with conductor Ferenc Fricsay and both by the Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, Germany

Tannhauser: Overture/Venusberg Music, Die Gotterdammerung: ’s Rhine Journey and Die Walkure: Magic Fire Music, Munch Conducts Wagner, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, Conductor, RCA-Radio Corporation of America, USA (Cover has a detail with the face of Venus in the Bottecelli painting “The Birth of Venus”)

Thompson, Virgil and Gertrude Stein. “Four Saints in Three Acts,” with words by Gertrude Stein (abridged by the composer, Maurice Grosser), and conducting. “About Four Saints” on back cover by Virgil Thomson gives the story on his with Gertrude Stein in 1927 and the 1934 cast of an all African-American production in Hartford, New York and Chicago, and focused on the lives of St. Teresa of Avila and St. Ignatius Loyola and several others (St. Settlement, St. Chavez, St. Stephen, St. Plan-recorded June 1947), RCA Victor-Red Seal, Radio Corporation of America, USA, 1964. (Cover has a historic photograph from the “Prologue of original stage production in February 1934,” with its elaborate “cellophane scenery” designed by Florine Stettheimer and choreographed by and John Houseman. Back cover features individual photographic portraits of Stein and Thomson in the early 1930s along with the story of the production)

Tchaikovsky, Scenes and Arias from Eugene Onegin, Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater conducted by Boris Khaikin, Monitor Records, New York, NY, 1965.

Varese, Edgar. Music of Edgar Varese, Robert Craft conducts woodwinds, brass and percussion. Ionisation-Density 21.5 Integrals Octandre-Hyperprism and the first recording for Poeme Electronique created directly on magnetic tape by the composer for the World’s Fair, 1958, Columbia Recording, New York, NY. (Cover contains an image of a painting by Joan Miro) – Unopened record-album.

Wagner, Richard. Flagstad – Melchior-Wagner, Historical Recordings of Two Immoral Performances, Tristan and Isolde: Love Duet, : Bridal Chamber Scene, RCA Victor, Radio Corporation of America, USA, 1962 (Cover photo: Flagstad and Melchior acknowledging ovations at the opening night of Tristan and Isolde, November 29, 1937, Courtesy of Opera News)

Wagner, Richard. Gotterdammerung, Orchestra, Conducted by and produced by , Time Inc, 1972, five-record-album set with 10 sides in a box with a booklet containing notes by conductor Georg Solti, included with portraits and biographies of all in the production, autographed.

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Williams, Ralph Vaughan. Mass in G Minor (entire Mass with Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus- Osanna I-Benedictus-Osanna II, Agnus Dei) King’s College Choir, Cambridge, The English Chamber Orchestra with David Willcock’s conducting.-(Five Mystical Songs with John Shirley-Quirk, Baritone and Motet: O clap your hands for double choir, brass and organ), Angel and EMI Records. (Cover is an image by J.M.W. Turner-King’s College in 1796, photographed by Richard H. Tilbrook)

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