Isolde MENGES: Sonata no 1 in G minor - Fugue (Bach) HMV E 269 NEAR MINT
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Description
10" "gold horn" HMV (England)
E 269
BACH: Sonata no 1 in G Minor - Fugue (in 2 parts)
Isolde Menges, violin (unaccomp.)
Conservative Grade: 1-2 Top Copy
Acoustic recording, cut, Hayes, Middlesex, England, 1924 (mx Bb 1103-V & 1104-V)
Isolde Marie Menges (16 May 1893 – 13 January 1976) was an accomplished English violinist who was most active in the first part of the 20th century.
A native of Sussex, England, she became a student of Leopold Auer and Carl Flesch. She performed widely, as soloist and with the Menges Quartet (founded by her in 1931) and Quintet, in locations such as Darmstadt (at 14 years of age), Liège, Wiesbaden, Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, and throughout England, Scotland, Canada and the United States.
Her Quartet gave a complete cycle of the Beethoven quartets in Wigmore Hall, London in 1938, and another in Oxford..
She appeared as soloist with noted orchestras and conductors such as the New Queen's Hall Orchestra conducted by Henry J. Wood and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter. In 1916 she played the Brahms Violin Concerto and Edouard Lalo's Symphonie espagnole, conducted by Ernest Bloch, together, on the same evening!
A major prize commemorates her at the Royal College of Music, where she taught. - Wikipedia
I have been a dealer in rare 78rpm discs since 1992, and offer only records in TOP Condition - no scratches, stressed grooves, or significant defects.
My grading standards are identical to those of Lawrence F. Holdridge, the late Milt Weiss, Norbeck Peters & Ford, and other well-known USA dealers.
GRADING
1-2 TOP Condition - no visible wear or significant defects
2 VERY FINE COPY - only a few light non-sounding (NS) rubs or marks, or light-sounding thumps or light swish due to inherent pressing defects.
2-3 FINE COPY - a few more light ns rubs, marks, or blemishes.
3 VERY GOOD COPY - light gray traces (LGT), usually inaudible, and possibly other superficial, ns flaws
3-4 GOOD COPY - discs in this category have slightly more audible sonic wear from minor gray traces (MGT) usually on fortissimo passages, and possibly other sounding defects, such as ticks from small scratches (SS) or needle digs (ND).
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