1902 BERLINER CONCERT GRAND Emilia Kristman Ivan Christman VIOLIN AVE MARIA 5439
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Description
A series of great Eastern European and Slavic Marches, Folk Band, Songs and Popular recordings
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Great example of a BERLINER CONCERT RECORD pressed in brown wax with chocolate brown label.
Pressed from a 1902 Russian G&T master
Early recording of brother and sister? Emilia Ivanovna Christman and Ivan Kristman violin
23190 (309z)
russian soprano with piano and cello
Ave Maria romance (Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles Gounod)
Emilia I. Kristman, acc. Ivan Kristman (violin, piano) 1902
St.-Petersburg
Please see top of the page for condition
The one characteristic of the earliest "made in Canada" records that makes them both recognizable and in demand by collectors, particularly those in the United States, is the fact that from 1900 to about 1910 the Montreal-pressed records of Emile Berliner were, unlike any others at the time, on a light to medium brown material, known to collectors as "brown wax", although wax was never used for disc records and only for the earliest cylinders. These records were apparently introduced in early 1900, shortly after Berliner set up operations in Montreal. The first issues, like the U.S. Berliners in size and often in musical content, were 7-inch records which, unlike their earlier American counterparts, had a brown and gold paper label. They were known as "Gram-O-Phone" or "Improved Gram-O-Phone" records, crediting the Berliner Gram-O-Phone Company of Montreal.
In the following year, 1901, the U.S. Victor firm introduced the 10-inch "Monarch" record and these appeared in Canada as the "Berliner Concert Grand" record. Shortly thereafter, probably late 1902 or 1903, the familiar figure of Nipper appeared on a label similar to the Victor/ Monarch label, then in use in America, and the brand name was simplified to "Concert Record" while the label colour was lightened to match the milk-chocolate colour of the actual record. During this period, and probably until 1904, the Canadian records differed from their U.S. counterparts in two respects; first, they were numbered in their own sequence, with most in a 5000 series (even though the majority were pressed from Victor matrices), and second, the centre holes of the records were protected by a brass ferrule - a feature which would have saved many a record for today's collectors, as the automatic changers introduced in the late 1930s had a tendency to chew away at the hole in the record!
Emilia Kristman
Aliases
E.N. Kristmann
Born
1874
Died
1957
Country
Russian Federation
Comments
Emilia Ivanovna Kristman was a soprano born in St. Petersburg, whre she studied singing at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and probably made her debut in 1897 at the "Teatro Il Comercio" in Milan as Rosina in ‘’Il Barbiere di Siviglia’’. Together with her sister Gabrielle - a famous soprano - they made guest appearances in Warsaw (1897), Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, London and Prague. In the 1899-1903 seasons she appeared at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. In 1904 she sang in Magdeburg and Leipzig. In 1906 she performed in St. Petersburg and Moscow .
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