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