Historic discoveries and finds …

 

Far too rarely do records or documents come to light that have long since been assumed to have been lost.
But occasionally, such a situation arises when, with a sense of adventure and anticipation, someone feels their adrenalin level rising.
Surely all of us have experienced such a moment of irrepressible joy of discovery?
We have compiled some of the most exciting “gifts of discovery” here that we have had the good fortune to uncover over decades of research:

 

	All of the earliest recordings of music by Strauss, all preserved in the USA, featuring the Staatskapelle Dresden under Fritz Busch · 1923 AUDIO EXAMPLE & FURTHER DETAILS
	The earliest recording of the Gewandhaus Orchestra under the direction of the Leipzig (Jewish) GMD Gustav Brecher, rejected by the Carl Lindström recording company for technical reasons and therefore never released in Germany 1929 → FURTHER DETAILS
	A complete copy of the English cinema film copy – picture and sound – of the Tannhäuser Overture, recorded in 1932 at the Semperoper in Dresden with the Staatskapelle under the baton of Fritz Busch · 1932 → VIDEOCLIP & FURTHER DETAILS
	A rediscovered – previously believed lost – radio recording of the “Berliner Funkstunde” programme featuring the Jewish tenor Joseph Schmidt · 1932 AUDIO EXAMPLE & FURTHER DETAILS
	The missing Fidelio Overture from the opening performance in the “Grosses Haus” in Dresden · 1948 → VIDEOCLIP & FURTHER DETAILS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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