David Harbin asking Richard Pennycuick:

>Thanks Richard.  May I please ask if they are going to release any
>historical performances/recordings?

As you're in Nottingham, UK, here's what I found about Naxos Historical
releases in Europe in May:

GILBERT and SULLIVAN: Yeomen of the Guard (D'Oyly Carte) (1950) Iolanthe:
Entrance and March of the Peers - Iolanthe: March - Finale Act I -
Ruddigore: Hornpipe - The Gondoliers: Dance a Cachucha - The Gondoliers:
Gavotte - The Gondoliers: March - With ducal pomp - The Mikado: Behold
the Lord High Executioner - The Mikado: Three little maids from school
- Utopia, Limited: Entrance of the Court - Yeomen of the Guard Darrell
Fancourt, tenor / Martyn Green, baritone / Neville Griffiths, tenor /
Ella Halman, mezzo-soprano / Muriel Harding, soprano / Donald Harris,
bass / Leonard Osborn, tenor / Geoffrey Sanders, baritone / Diedree
Thurlow, soprano / Richard Watson, bass / D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus /
British Light Orchestra / D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra / New Promenade
Orchestra / Isidore Godfrey, conductor / Stephen S.  Moore, conductor

Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls, Vol. 3 (1905-1926)
'Lucia di Lammermoor' Fantasia - Elfenspiel, Etude in E major - German
Waltz - La Campanella, Etude No. 3 - Mignon's Song - Polish Dance, Op.
3, No. 1 - Rhapsody No. 2 - Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15, Nos.  1-6
- Scherzo in B minor, Op. 20, No. 1 - Sonatine: 2nd Movement - Minuet
- Valse Noble, Op. 77 - Valse triste - Waltz, Op. 70, No. 1 Fannie
Bloomfield Zeisler, piano / Ferruccio Busoni, piano / Fanny Davies, piano
/ Rudolph Ganz, piano / Josef Hofmann, piano / W.  Krowsky, piano /
Yolanda Mero, piano / Olga Samaroff, piano / Wera Schapira, piano / Xaver
Scharwenka, piano / Carl Schmidt, piano / Artur Schnabel, piano

BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT: Sonatas (Menuhin) (1934-1938)
Rondo in B minor, Op. 70 - Rondo in G, WoO 41 - Sonata No. 7 in C
minor, Op. 30 - Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47, "Kreutzer" Hephzibah
Menuhin, piano / Yehudi Menuhin, violin

Melba, Nellie: London and Middlesex Recordings (1921-1926)
Address by Lord Stanley of Alderley - Annie Laurie - Away on the Hills
There Runs a Stream - By the Waters of Minnetonka - Clair de lune, Op.
83, No. 1 - Dame Nellie Melba's Farewell Speech - Down in the Forest -
Home, Sweet Home - La boheme - La Traviata: Dita all giovine - Otello -
Sadko: Les diamants chez-nous sont innombrables (Chanson Hindoue) - Swing
Low, Sweet Chariot (arr.  H.  T.  Burleigh) - Un ange est venu John
Brownlee, baritone / Frederic Collier, bass / Edouard Cotreuil, bass /
Harold Craxton, piano / Nellie Melba, piano / Nellie Melba, soprano /
Browning Mummery, tenor / Aurora Rettore, soprano / Landon Ronald, piano
/ Landon Ronald Orchestra / Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden
/ Isidore Godfrey, conductor / Stephen S.  Moore, conductorVincenzo
Bellezza, conductor / Landon Ronald, conductor

Scott Morrison