Rare 1927 recording of the Composer Mascagni conducting Rossini's Barbiere overture.
Ps, sorry for the bad sound quality, but as stated, it's a rare 78rpm!!

Il barbiere di Siviglia - Overture Pietro Mascagni conducting, 1927

Sorry for the mediocre transfer... Label states that this violinist had won "1er prix des Conservatoires de Budapest et de Prague". Odeon catalogue dates it 1907. Flipside is posted on youtube. 

Cavatina in D (Joachim Raff, op.85,3) 1907 record Imre Pillitz

Interview (in Dutch) with founder of Navis Classics, a new (yeah!) classical CD label from the Netherlands

Navis Classics interview

Karel Bondam was a Dutch pianist, writer Louis Couperus mentions him in his diary and a Dutch newspaper from feb 1910 mentions him as "pianist from the Hague". 
https://www.yumpu.com/nl/document/view/6681763/algemeen-handelsblad/7
After that, he emigrated to New York and became a piano teacher and performer:
http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/83146358/
Note that "Willem Durieux" is also mentioned as cello partner, just like in the 1910 Dutch newspaper.
He recorded for Edison in 1911, no further information about him... 


Karel Bondam 1911 Henry Litolff (1818-1891) - Spinningsong

Sabine Kars, gedicht van Twitter geplukt

Van JH Leopold (1865-1925) uit verzen en gedichten
"ik ben een rusteloze stroom"

JH Leopold Uit "verzen en fragmenten" Ik ben een rusteloze stroom

Judith Herzberg - Daglicht

Over hoe beeld en geluid bij verhuizing de transciptieplaten vernietigde... :-/ 

Beeld En Geluid Vernietiging Platen En Opnames

Franz Schmidt - Notre Dame DG variable microgroove 78 rpm around 1950

Ladies and gentlemen, there hardly is a classical music scene on Soundcloud, 
LE'T'S BUILD ONE!!! 

When I was 10 years old, I found a 78-rpm record and the book "Thank you mr. Edison". I don't know why, but I was immediately fascinated by old recording techniques. My musical taste at that time was more oriented at reggae, ska and punk. When I was 12 years old, I sneaked out of my parents home to see the Specials collapse from stage (during "Sock It To 'Em J.B.", I still have the tape from that concert..... ) But at the age of 16 I madly fell in love with a girl that played viola.... Suddenly I was very interested in classical music....... :) Even when the love for that girl gradually diminished, the love for classical music continued..... After a blue monday musicology, I studied music technology and did my masters in Interactive multi-media at the Royal college of Art in London. For seven years thereafter I was the head of the sound design department at Philips design (a/o. I programmed the ringer tones for Philips telephones and pagers....). At the moment I am a researcher/ Ph.D. candidate at the TU-Delft, lecturer at the Rotterdam University of applied sciences, and historical audiovisual expert at the European archive in Paris. 

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