Various performers. CD 1 recorded Germany 1889 September-1890 late August/early September. CD 2 recorded late 1890-mid-1890s. Instrumental and vocal musical selections and spoken word (poetry, speeches. etc.) dating from the 19th-century launch of Emile Berliner's disc gramophone. Title from disc label. Booklet with program notes by Stephan Puille, David Giovannoni, and Richard Martin, with bibliographical references, in English and texts of the vocal works in various languages (78 pages : illustrations (some color) inserted in container.
Contents:
disc 1. Wacht am Rhein / Carl Wilhelm (Max Schneckenburger) -- Post / Heinrich Schäffer -- Gasparone / Carl Millöcker -- Loreley (Heinrich Heine) -- Der Kampf m. d. Drachen (Friedrich Schiller) -- Handschuh (Friedrich Schiller) -- Bier Walzer / A. Ludwig -- Loreley / Friedrich Silcher -- Vater unser -- Bürgschaft (Friedrich Schiller) -- (Thou knowst my pretty damsel) -- (Variationen) -- (Loreley) k/ Friedrich Silcher -- Lord's prayer -- Eng. vers. (Numbers, days of the week) -- Song : (We don't want to fight) / George William Hunt -- For you Sydney Smith -- (Heil Dir/God save the Queen) -- Des deutschen Vaterland / Ernst Moritz Andt -- Crambambuli / Christoph Friedrich Wedekind -- Soldatenlied (Friedrich Güll) -- (Twinkle, twinkle, little star) (Jane Taylor) -- HD. M. (Mary had a little lamb/Humpty Dumpty) (Sarah Josepha Hale) -- Jones (Heinrich Hoffmann) -- (Der alte Dessauer) -- Boccaccio / Franz von Suppé -- Freischütz / Carl Maria von Weber -- Glocke (Friedrich Schiller) -- Glocke II -- Thierstimmen -- Gaudeamus -- Oestr. Hymne -- (Ach, wie ist's möglich dann?) / Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken -- Posaune / Ludwig Fischer -- (Jack and Jill/Tom, Tom, the piper's son) -- Simple Simon -- (Old Uncle Ned) k/ Stephen C. Foster -- Grandfather's clock k/ Henry Clay Work -- Gigerl Marsch / Josef Franz Wagner -- Hohenfriedberger kkkk-- Trommel -- Prophet / Giacomo Meyerbeer -- So wie du / Ludolf Waldmann -- Les cloches de Corn / Robert Planquette (Charles Gabet) -- (Morning hymn) (Thomas Ken) -- Lobe den Herren / Johann Sebastian Bach(Joachim Neander) -- Thierstimmen -- (Signal) -- Deutschland / Joseph Haydn (August Heinrich Hoffmann) -- Stille Nacht (Franz Xaver Gruber). disc 2. A little ship was on the sea (Dorothea Ann Thrupp) -- The north wind -- Father William (Robert Southey) -- Old King Coal (Charles Mackay) -- By thy cold breast etc. (Byron's Manfred) (Lord Byron) -- Rule Britannia / Thomas Arne (James Thomson, David Mallet) -- Blue bells of Scotland / Dorothea Jordan -- Auld lang syne (Robert Burns) -- Rei. pag 367 (Who killed Cock Robin?) -- Rei. pag 99 (Sing a song of sixpence/Oh, carry me back) -- Auld Mother Hubbd. -- We don't want to fight / George William Hunt -- Wot cher! / Albert Chevalier -- Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay! / Henry J. Sayers -- Jägers Abschied / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- Le corbeau et le renard (fable) (Jean de La Fontaine) -- La marseillaise (Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle) -- Le père la victoire / Louis Ganne (Lucien Delormel, Lékon Garnier) -- La boiteuse / Léopold Gangloff -- (Proverbs) -- Home sweet home / Henry Bishop (John Howard Payne) -- Long, long ago (Thomas Haynes Bayly) -- Sweet by-and-by k/ Joseph Philbrick Webster (Sanford Fillmore Bennett) -- Hark, the herald angels sing (hymn) / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (CharlsWesley) -- Instr. Quartt. Tannhäuser / Richard Wagner -- Hobellied / Conradin Kreutzer (Ferdinand Raimund) -- Numeri, la settimana, le mesi etc. -- Lena la bella Lena -- Fra diavolo k/ Daniel Auber (Augustin Eugène Scribe) -- I due ladri e l'asino (Luigi Grillo) -- La rondinella (Tommaso Grossi) -- Willow tit-willow (Mikado) / Arthur Sullivan (William Schwenck Gilbert) -- Mikado (The flowers that bloom) -- Whist! The bogie man / David Braham (Edkkward Harrigan) -- Numeros, dias, meses -- El credo -- Versos y canto (Hermilio de Olọriz) -- Me gustan todas/Aroro mi nena -- God save the Queen! -- God bless the Prince of Wales -- Gramophone -- Sprüche -- (Weisst du, wie viel Sternlein stehen) (Johann Wilhelm Hey) -- (Vater unser) -- A healthy boy was Alfred Jones -- Marsch No. 1 -- Gesänge -- Czarenlied aus (Czar + Zimmermann) / Albert Lortzing (Georg Christian Römer) -- (Variante) -- (Es ist bestimmt) / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Ernst von Feuchtersleben) -- Bonus : Sing a song of sixpence -- Bonus : Restoration focus on "Gasparone".
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