Songs, opera arias, piano music, ragtime, and dance music.
"Produced under license by the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation."
Recorded 1910-1929 (v. 1), 1912-1928 (v. 2).
v. 1. Voce di primavera / Johann Strauss (Melitta Heim, soprano) -- Rigoletto. Questo o quella ; La donna e mobile / Verdi (Alessandro Bonci, tenor) -- Lohengrin. Elsa's Traum / Wagner (Marie Rappold, soprano) -- Le cor / Flegier (Paul Payan, bass) -- Prophete. Ah, mon fils / Meyerbeer (Marie Delna, alto) -- La sonnambula. Come per me sereno / Bellini (Maria Galvany, soprano) -- Forza del destino. Pace, mio Dio / Verdi (Celestine Boninsegna, soprano) -- Pescatori di perle. Mi par d'udir ancora / Bizet (Giuseppe Anselmi, tenor) -- Samson et Dalila. Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix / Saint-Saëns (Carolina Lazzari, alto) -- Don Pasquale. So anch'io la virtu magica / Donizetti (Lucrezia Bori, soprano) -- Pagliacci. Vesti la giubba / Leoncavallo (Giovanni Martinelli, tenor) -- Nocturne, op. 9, no. 2, in E flat / Chopin (Moriz Rosenthal, piano)
v. 2. Those ragtime melodies / Hodgkins (Peerless Quartet) -- When the midnight choo-choo leaves for Alabam' / Berlin (Collins & Harlan) -- The Hungarian rag / Lengberg (New York Military Band) -- You made me love you / McCarthy-Monaco (Anna Chandler, soprano) -- Alexander's ragtime band (Fred Van Eps, banjo) ; The international rag (Billy Murray, tenor) / Berlin -- Egyptian ballet. Egyptian echoes : foxtrot / Luigini ; adapted by Frank Black (The Aristocrats) -- Five pennies : foxtrot / Red Nichols (Phil Napoleon and His Orchestra) -- Get out and get under the moon / Tobias (Golden Gate Orchestra) -- You'll do it someday : foxtrot / Al Wrubel (Yale Collegians) -- Chinese jumble : foxtrot (Californian Ramblers) -- Moonlit waters / Cliff Friend-Nacio Brown (Oreste and his Queensland Orchestra)