1908 Enrico CARUSO Marcella SEMBRICH Scotti Journet Daddi LUCIA SEXTET 78

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I am currently selling a series of great Richard Wagner and classic European 78 rpm orchestral recordings on all the great European labels:

1908 young Caruso in his second recording of the LUCIA SEXTET with a great MARCELLA SEMBRICH, Antonio Scotti, Daddi, Marcel Journet and Severina

Original Issue 5 Line Patent Label 12" 78 rpm Plays at 80 rpm

Condition: EXCELLENT minus, needs cleaning, one grey groove at start causes a light swishing sound before start of music, otherwise plays very very quiet - A GREAT COPY

After the short-lived quartet with Bessie Abbot of 1907, this quick remake with the "Polish Patti" Marcella Sembrich seems to have satisfied, as it lasted until 1917 when the NEXT recording with the Soprano du jour Amelita Galli Curdi was done.

The Rigoletto Quartet and the Donizetti Sextet were the most heavily recoded and priced classical ensemble pieces, and for every company it was their flagship and highest priced recording. Just to summarize:Top The 3 Carusos: w Sembrich/Abott, Tetrazzini/ Galli Curci, and the 1926 electric remake with the 1917 cast and Gigli singin for Caruso. Columbia had Barrientos Stracciari Hacket, Edison recorded with VERLET in their only 84,000 Series High priced record, and even Pathe would throw in a Quartet.

Now, these 5 to 7$ prestige records were not necessarily intended to sell, so the marketing is a shrewed example: In the middle tier $1.50 you had the Columbia with no names, the Victor 1911 Purple Label with Lucy Isabelle Marsh, the Blue label with Olive Kline.

And Bargain basement 1$ the 1905 imported recordings with the great Giuseppina Huguet. Though - not produced in US, no celebrity singers - these lowly black labels include some of the great Milan La Scala singers, and the higher fidelity and immediate G&T acoustics of these recordings make them rival some of the expensive ones

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