Tony Duggan wrote:

>There were the two attempts Fred Gaisberg had at getting Elgar conducting
>"The Dream of Gerontius" (Hereford Cathedral and Royal Albert Hall in,
>I think, 1925 and 1926).

IIRC there were quite a number of live recordings made at that time to
exploit the just-introduced electric technology.  The Elgar performance
Tony mentions is new to me, but I can think of Melba's farewell concert
and Chaliapine at Covent Garden in 'Boris Godunow' (or was that later?).
Does anyone here know of any others?

Felix Delbruck
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