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Re: [ARSCLIST] Tolstoy expertise?
Hello All,
I'm no Tolstoy expert, but there's some information here and there about
the Tolstoi recordings, made for the Gramophone Company:
Those known here are
1412 Thoughts from the book "For every day" (10-inch, 1 side, reissued on
E-158), in English
21407 [approximately the same title] (10-inch, 1 side), in Russian
021000 [approximately the same title] (12-inch, 1 side), in Russian
31329 Qu'est-ce qu'est la religion [sic] (10-inch, 1 side), in French
2-41114 [approximately the same title as the first three, only in German]
(10-inch, 1 side), in German
All of these were regular Gramophone issues, presumably recorded because
the company thought customers would be interested in the voice of a famous
writer and because the writer was willing to make recordings. The English,
French, and Russian records appear to have been made in the same session.
Some of the labels say that the recordings were done at Iasnaia Poliana (as
does Alan Kelly, basing information on the logs), which was Tolstoi's home;
Mr. Kelly's data show that they were made on Oct. 31, 1909
Several of the sides were reissued by Symposium Records: 1029 - 1030 and 1056.
The French and one of the Russian sides were dubbed and issued on Rococo
4002, and there are fragments of these records on Gotham and Edward J.
Smith LP's.
There are two Soviet (USSR) 12-inch LP's which, to judge from the listings,
do NOT duplicate the 78's.
Sincerely, Richard Warren
At 01:24 PM 7/1/2004 -0400, you wrote:
There was an article about them many years ago in the British Institute of
Recorded Sound magazine or one of its successors.
Steven Smolian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 10:06 AM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Tolstoy expertise?
> Forwarded by a third party. If you can help, please correspond directly
> with Mr. Kaufman - leave me out of it. <G>
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> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:42:50 -0700
> From: Andrew Kaufman <adk59@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: FW: Re: Tolstoy expert needed
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> Can you help me to post this message ?
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> I need a Tolstoy expert who knows about Leo Tolstoy's voice recordings
> now in the public domain. Under what pretext were they recorded, by whom,
> and for what purpose?
>
>
> Mike
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