FRANCESCO TAMAGNO RECORDINGS - HISTORIC MASTERS (MINT Sealed) 12" Vinyl 78s [78]
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12" 78 rpm Vinyl Records

Issued by EMI ARCHIVE & HISTORIC MASTERS

78 rpm Vinyl Recordings from Original Masters

His 12" Records

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FRANCESCO TAMAGNO RECORDINGS

Box includes Vinyl 78 rpm Recordings and Booklet

This set includes 7 x 12" Vinyl Records ( HM FT 1 - HM FT 7 ) featuring

14 sides all originally recorded for the Gramophone and Typewriter

Company in 1903 / 1904. These high quality Vinyl Records have been 

repressed from the original Metal Masters. Also included is a 

Booklet, a duplicate set of record labels and a technical note regarding

correct playback speeds. 

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CONDITION: MINT

( Brand New, Factory Sealed; Immaculate Condition!  )

Images are for illustration only; the item is Factory Sealed as stated

CAUTION: Don't play Vinyl 78s with steel needles!

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The first twelve items in this set (HM FT1 – FT6) were all recorded at Tamagno’s villa in Ospedaletti, 

Susa, Italy in February 1903.

HM FT1

10-W2-FT Otello (Verdi): Esultate! (Published as G & T issue no. 052101) 11-W2-FT Otello (Verdi): Esultate! (Unpublished)

HM FT2 12-W2-FT Otello (Verdi): Ora e per sempre addio (Published as G & T issue no 052102) 13-R-FT Otello (Verdi): Ora e per sempre addio (Unpublished)

HM FT3 14-R-FT Otello (Verdi): Niun mi tema (Unpublished except as HM 36) 15-R-FT Otello (Verdi): Niun mi tema (Unpublished)

HM FT4 16-W2-FT Andrea Chénier (Giordano): Un dì all’azzuro spazio (Unpublished) 17-R-FT Guglielmo Tell (Rossini): O muto asil (Published as G & T issue no 052103)

HM FT5 18-R-FT Il Re de Lahore (Massenet): O casto fior (Promesse de mon avenir) 19-W2-FT Priv Otello (Verdi): Sì, pel ciel marmoreo giuro

(Both are private, unpublished recordings. 18 is sung by an unknown baritone who accompanies on 19)

HM FT6 20-R-FT Private Messalina (de Lara): Dei del patria suol 21-R-FT Private A Santa Maria di Oropa (Mapelli)

(Both are private recordings and unpublished.)

The following were recorded in Rome in April 1904. The engineer was William Sinkler Darby:

HM FT7 269i Otello (Verdi): Niun mi tema (Published as G&T issue no. 052068) 270i Andrea Chénier (Giordano): Un dì all’azzuro spazio

(Published as G&T issue no. 052100)

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Historic Masters was a historical reissue record label dedicated to making available quality

pressings on vinyl  of rare 78 rpm recordings of opera singers. 

Originally an offshoot of the British Institute of Recorded Sound, Historic Masters was the 

brainchild of the actor, record collector and connoisseur of singers, Richard Bebb. The initial 

Historic Masters release was planned as a subscriber-only series of twenty reissues, pressed 

on high quality vinyl using original metal parts from the EMI archive.

The first release was despatched to subscribers in 1973. Despite making a profit, the British 

Institute of Recorded Sound lost interest in the project. To fill the gap, Historic Masters Ltd,

 was set up as an independent company. It was able to release its first reissue in 1983: a set of 

five records produced in a similar manner as before and again distributed on a subscriber-only

basis. 

Many more releases followed along similar lines, including some records which had never 

previously been released in any format. As of 2011, when Historic Masters ceased operation,

they had released over two hundred discs by historic singers, including larger collections of 

recordings by Fernando De Lucia, Nellie Melba, Adelina Patti and Francesco Tamagno.



                                    


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