1905 Nellie "MELBA" Mauve RECORD Gold Signature COME BACK TO ERIN 78

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I am currently selling a series of great Richard Wagner and classic European 78 rpm orchestral recordings on all the great European labels:

Superb Victor MAUVE MELBA RECORD of 1905 Melba record with Gold Signature on label.

Label has a great even mauve color, the photo is way to faded

Nellie MELBA in the great G&T London recording

 Gramophone matrix 7202½b. Come back to Erin / Nellie Melba

Claribel (composer) 
J. W. Cherry (lyricist) 

Nellie Melba (vocalist : soprano vocal) 
John MacKenzie-Rogan (conductor) 
Band of H. M. Coldstream Guards (Musical group) 

  Take Date and Place Take Status Label Name/Number Format Note
9/4/1905 London, England  [1]  Master  Gramophone 3616

10" disc 78 rpm record..

Condition: EXCELLENT MINUS, rare faint scratch,  rare scuffs, needle run first 4 mm 2 mm needle dig at start.

Label excellent, "35" in blue crayon lightly written, "I 3" scratched next to the catalog number.

Plays E- very quiet, rare ticks, dig causes 4 clicks, no distortion

One of Melba’s closest friends was the elegant and wealthy Parisian composer Herman Bemberg (1859-1931). His opera Elaine was given through her influence both at Covent Garden (1892) and at the Metropolitan Opera (1894/5), Melba in the name part. She regularly sang his delightful songs (often accompanied by the composer) – and enjoyed his clowning and practical jokes. At an evening party in London, Melba was singing Nymphes et Sylvains with Bemberg at the piano when, just before the final cadenza, he accidentally modulated into the wrong key. Without turning a hair, Melba followed him, improvised a few bars leading back, and they finished together, no one having noticed. “Herman, you fool…are you drunk?” she enquired. “Her personal touches abound,” wrote PG Hurst of this recording, “and no other singer I can recall could express with her voice such lightness and gaiety.” Later, she recorded Bemberg’s Chant Vénitien, Les anges pleurent, Chant Hindou, Sur le lac and an aria from Elaine.

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