Oldest Recording in Your Colletion

[Opus106]

Here's a chance to go through the pile. What is the oldest recording in your current collection? (The year(s) in which a particular work was recorded. You may mention if you have a remastered version if you wish.)

In my case, it's a couple of works by Beethoven, for cello and piano.

Sonata No.3
Minuet in G

Pablo Casals and Otto Schulhof

Recorded: 6 and 7 March, 1930
Remastered: 1999

[springrite]

Pugno playing the piano. I believe recorded before or around 1910.

[Renfield]

I think I've a piano recording (Chopin prelude, IIRC) from 1907 somewhere around here...

But I certainly have quite a few from the 1920's, mostly chamber and concerto recordings.

[mn dave]

Probably Enrico Caruso from 1902.

[Opus106]

What was Pugno playing? Who was playing the Chopin preludes? And what was Caruso singing?

[greg]

Has to be my "Prokofiev plays Prokofiev" CD......

[mn dave]

What was Pugno playing? Who was playing the Chopin preludes? And what was Caruso singing?

This.

[Opus106]

Has to be my "Prokofiev plays Prokofiev" CD......

I think this thread will see a lot of 'composer conducting/playing his work '.

This.

Thanks.

[marvinbrown]

  This:



  Recorded on May 18, 1936 Flagstad would not only "bring the house down" (you should hear the audience ROAR at the end of that live performance) but also rule over all the other Isoldes to come after her.  A stunning performance, this one's a keeper  0:) 0:)!

  marvin

[Renfield]

Who was playing the Chopin preludes?

If I remembered, I'd have mentioned the name.

I'll check at some point, and get back to this.

[DFO]

Bronislav Humerman's recordings on Berliner label,
1899/1900.

[Renfield]

Bronislav Humerman's recordings on Berliner label,
1899/1900.

I had no idea he had made records so early. Have they been released on CD?

Thank you for the revelation, regardless.

[ezodisy]

goodluck beating mine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdFuqKcYaZk

[DFO]

I had no idea he had made records so early. Have they been released on CD?

Thank you for the revelation, regardless.

Yes; "the Columbia recordings with piano".
2 Biddulph LAB 081-82 (1993)

[Renfield]

Yes; "the Columbia recordings with piano".
2 Biddulph LAB 081-82 (1993)

I'll seek it out. Again, my thanks.

[Christo]

Phonograph recordings of Moravian and Slovak folk music, made by Leoš Janáček c.s. between 1909 and 1912.
         

[Harry]

A 3 far cd with original recordings with Fred Astaire, with numbers like "Cheek to cheek, A fine Romance, They can't take that away from me, Lets call the whole thing off and much more, 3 discs filled with greatest hits from 1938 till 1948.
My only digression from classical music.

[lukeottevanger]

I have some early ethnomusicological field recordings dating from the early-mid 1890s. Classical-wise, Albeniz playing his own music improvising (amounts to the same thing, perhaps), 1903. on the same disc among other early Catalan piano recordings (of Granados and Alicia de Larrocha a.o.), Joaquin Malats, also recorded in 1903

Edit - yes, the oldest one on those 'ethno' discs dates from 1893. In some respects the 4 CDs in this set are the most prized CDs I have, though they ain't classical.

[johnQpublic]

1905

Grieg playing his own stuff and Saint-Saens playing stuff by a guy named Camille.

[SonicMan46]

Original Dixieland Jazz Band w/ LaRocca & gang - all white guys from New Orleans - first presumed jazz (or jass) recordings - 1918 and later - controversial group relative to early jazz history & recording - basically, dixieland style jazz; of course, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, et al were around in that city @ the time -