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-This page presents a discography of the '''National Gramophonic Society'''.
+This page presents a discography of the '''National Gramophonic Society''' (NGS).
 It is part of the wiki [[Classical 'Society' Records by Nick Morgan]].
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-|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcangelo_Corelli '''Corelli''']</span> ed. <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bridge Bridge]</span><ref>''No. viii ... of Corelli's Twelve grand Concertos, for 2 Violins & Violoncello (Solo), 2 Violins, Viola and Basso (Tutti)''. Edited by F. Bridge. (Parts.) London: Goodwin & Tabb, [1911]</ref> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Concerto_grosso_in_G_minor_%27Fatto_per_la_Notte_di_Natale%27%2C_Op.6_No.8_(Corelli%2C_Arcangelo) Concerto grosso in g Op.6 No.8]</span> – (i) Vivace; Grave<br />(ii) Allegro<br />(iii) [part 1] Adagio; Allegro||NGS Chamber Orchestra<ref>Personnel: 'First violins: André Mangeot, John Fry, A. [sic, for H.?] Ayckborn, J. Price.<br />Second violins: George Whitaker, V. Allchurch, V. Leonard, J. Rosenthal.<br />Violas: L. Rubens, L. D'Oliviera [sic, for d'Oliveira].<br />'Cellos: J. Leonard, J. Moore.<br />Basses: Victor Watson, Charles Winterbottom.'<br />'National Gramophonic Society Notes', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.IV No.9, February 1927, pp.390-91 (on p.390)<br />'''NB''' Concertino players not specified; probably Mangeot (violin I), Fry (violin II), J. Leonard ('cello)</ref>, Mangeot (leader),<br /><span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barbirolli Barbirolli]</span> (conductor)||<div style="text-align: center;">orch.</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 57E</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">3 January 1927</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">el</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 69+ / 69A+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||First NGS orchestral issue<br />First issue coupled with Debussy ''Danses''<br />Reissued in January 1930 with new coupling and unprefixed catalogue number (see [[#Supplements to Issue 24, January 1930|below]])
+|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcangelo_Corelli '''Corelli''']</span> ed. <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bridge Bridge]</span><ref>''No. viii ... of Corelli's Twelve grand Concertos, for 2 Violins & Violoncello (Solo), 2 Violins, Viola and Basso (Tutti)''. Edited by F. Bridge. (Parts) London: Goodwin & Tabb, [1911]</ref> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Concerto_grosso_in_G_minor_%27Fatto_per_la_Notte_di_Natale%27%2C_Op.6_No.8_(Corelli%2C_Arcangelo) Concerto grosso in g Op.6 No.8]</span> – (i) Vivace; Grave<br />(ii) Allegro<br />(iii) [part 1] Adagio; Allegro||NGS Chamber Orchestra<ref>Personnel: 'First violins: André Mangeot, John Fry, A. [sic, for H.?] Ayckborn, J. Price.<br />Second violins: George Whitaker, V. Allchurch, V. Leonard, J. Rosenthal.<br />Violas: L. Rubens, L. D'Oliviera [sic, for d'Oliveira].<br />'Cellos: J. Leonard, J. Moore.<br />Basses: Victor Watson, Charles Winterbottom.'<br />'National Gramophonic Society Notes', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.IV No.9, February 1927, pp.390-91 (on p.390)<br />'''NB''' Concertino players not specified; probably Mangeot (violin I), Fry (violin II), J. Leonard ('cello)</ref>, Mangeot (leader),<br /><span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barbirolli Barbirolli]</span> (conductor)||<div style="text-align: center;">orch.</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 57E</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">3 January 1927</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">el</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 69+ / 69A+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||First NGS orchestral issue<br />First issue coupled with Debussy ''Danses''<br />Reissued in January 1930 with new coupling and unprefixed catalogue number (see [[#Supplements to Issue 24, January 1930|below]])
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 |(iii) [part 2] Adagio<br />(iv) Vivace<br />(v) [part 1] Allegro||NGS Chamber Orchestra, Mangeot (leader),<br /><span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barbirolli Barbirolli]</span> (conductor)||<div style="text-align: center;">orch.</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 58E</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">3 January 1927</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">el</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 69– / 69A–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Edition by Frank Bridge credited on disc labels<br />Recording date from Malcolm Walker

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 |(ii) Scherzo. Prestissimo||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Pecker, Mangeot, Berly, Barbirolli), Pougnet (viola II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 38</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. April 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">EEE–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Mangeot billed first on disc labels, but Pecker reported as leading this set
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-|(iii) Alla Sarabanda. Lento<ref>Two small cuts were made in this movement, a rare instance of a practice normally avoided by the NGS</ref><br />(iv) Burlesca. Allegro moderato [part 1]||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Pecker, Mangeot, Berly, Barbirolli), Pougnet (viola II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 40<sup>2</sup></div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. April 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">FFF+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Note order of matrix nos.
+|(iii) Alla Sarabanda. Lento<br />(iv) Burlesca. Allegro moderato [part 1]||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Pecker, Mangeot, Berly, Barbirolli), Pougnet (viola II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 40<sup>2</sup></div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. April 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">FFF+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Note order of matrix nos. Unusually for NGS, two small cuts made in this movement
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 |(iv) Burlesca. Allegro moderato [part 2]||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Pecker, Mangeot, Berly, Barbirolli), Pougnet (viola II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 39</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. April 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">FFF–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Note order of matrix nos.

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 |(ii) Scherzo. Prestissimo||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Pecker, Mangeot, Berly, Barbirolli), Pougnet (viola II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 38</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. April 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">EEE–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Mangeot billed first on disc labels, but Pecker reported as leading this set
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-|(iii) Alla Sarabanda. Lento<br />(iv) Burlesca. Allegro moderato [part 1]||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Pecker, Mangeot, Berly, Barbirolli), Pougnet (viola II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 40<sup>2</sup></div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. April 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">FFF+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Note order of matrix nos.
+|(iii) Alla Sarabanda. Lento<ref>Two small cuts were made in this movement, a rare instance of a practice normally avoided by the NGS</ref><br />(iv) Burlesca. Allegro moderato [part 1]||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Pecker, Mangeot, Berly, Barbirolli), Pougnet (viola II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 40<sup>2</sup></div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. April 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">FFF+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Note order of matrix nos.
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 |(iv) Burlesca. Allegro moderato [part 2]||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Pecker, Mangeot, Berly, Barbirolli), Pougnet (viola II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 39</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. April 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">FFF–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Note order of matrix nos.

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 ==Sources==
-This discography is considerably expanded from an earlier version included in a 2013 PhD thesis on the National Gramophonic Society<ref>Morgan, Nick ''The National Gramophonic Society'' [PhD thesis], University of Sheffield, 2013</ref> and revised for publication in 2016.<ref>Morgan, Nick ''The National Gramophonic Society'', Sheffield: <span class="plainlinks">[https://crqeditions.co.uk/ CRQ Editions]</span>, 2016<br />NB This publication is temporarily unavailable; it is being revised and extended and will be republished in due course</ref>
+This discography is considerably expanded from an earlier version which was included in a 2013 PhD thesis on the National Gramophonic Society<ref>Morgan, Nick ''The National Gramophonic Society'' [PhD thesis], University of Sheffield, 2013</ref> and slightly revised for publication in 2016.<ref>Morgan, Nick ''The National Gramophonic Society'', Sheffield: <span class="plainlinks">[https://crqeditions.co.uk/ CRQ Editions]</span>, 2016<br />NB This publication is temporarily unavailable; it is being revised and extended and will be republished in due course</ref>
-All issued NGS recordings have been auditioned directly from original discs held by the British Library, or from digital transfers made by the British Library, <span class="plainlinks">[https://charm.kcl.ac.uk/index.html CHARM]</span>, Pristine Audio (now <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.pristineclassical.com/ Pristine Classical]</span>), <span class="plainlinks">[http://shellackophile.blogspot.com/2011/10/national-gramophonic-society-part-1.html Bryan Bishop]</span>, <span class="plainlinks">[http://fluffontheneedle.blogspot.com/2012/04/oh-dear-another-blog.html Jolyon Hudson]</span> and other private collectors. All NGS discs have also been inspected for matrix information and label copy.
+Information about the planning, production, promotion and publication of NGS issues was gathered from original NGS documents, from printed or scanned issues of ''The Gramophone'', from unpublished correspondence and from other contemporary or later sources, cited where relevant.
-Information about the planning, production, promotion and publication of NGS issues was gathered from original NGS documents and original copies of ''The Gramophone'', or scans, from unpublished correspondence and from other contemporary or later sources, cited where relevant.
+Additional information about recordings produced for the NGS by Columbia, including matrix details and recording dates, was obtained from Columbia manufacturing cards.<ref>Original Columbia manufacturing cards are held by the <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.emiarchivetrust.org/about/about-emi/ EMI Archive Trust]</span> at <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes,_Hillingdon Hayes]</span>, Middlesex, in a purpose-built facility near the former HMV (later EMI) factory. For this discography, the cards were consulted from microfilm copies made for the British Institute of Recorded Sound, now held by the British Library, and available at its St. Pancras site, in Humanities 2 Reading Room; in this form, the cards' contents cannot always be seen in full (the backs of the cards, containing additional details of contents, artists etc., were not microfilmed) or fully deciphered (due to poor capture and reproduction)</ref> One unissued side recorded by Columbia (an aria from Handel's opera ''Deidamia'', see [[#Unissued matrices|below]]) was first identified from discographical research carried out by Michael Gray,<ref>Over several years Michael Gray gathered discographical data from original sources about unissued recordings made by the British branch of Columbia, and in 2006 he made it available to the CHARM project; some years later, the ''Deidamia'' side was noticed there by the author and investigated further<span class="plainlinks">[https://charm.kcl.ac.uk/discography/disco.html CHARM]</span> and since republished on Mr. Gray's own site <span class="plainlinks">[https://classical-discography.org/ A Classical Discography]</span></ref> and further documented from its Columbia matrix card.
-Production information about issued and unissued NGS recordings made by Columbia, including matrix details and recording dates, was obtained from Columbia manufacturing cards.<ref>Original Columbia manufacturing cards are held by the <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.emiarchivetrust.org/about/about-emi/ EMI Archive Trust]</span> at <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes,_Hillingdon Hayes]</span>, Middlesex, in a purpose-built facility near the former HMV (later EMI) factory. For this discography, they were consulted from microfilm copies made for the British Institute of Recorded Sound, now held by the British Library, and available at its St. Pancras site, in Humanities 2 Reading Room; in this form, the cards' contents cannot always be seen in full (the backs of the cards, containing additional details of contents, artists etc., were not microfilmed) or fully deciphered (due to poor capture and reproduction)</ref> One unissued side was identified from discographical research by Michael Gray, first published by <span class="plainlinks">[https://charm.kcl.ac.uk/discography/disco.html CHARM]</span> and since republished on Mr. Gray's own site <span class="plainlinks">[https://classical-discography.org/ A Classical Discography]</span>.
+Recordings produced for the NGS by Parlophone and Vocalion are less well documented in original sources. Matrix details were obtained from original discs. Recording dates were either estimated from NGS notices or were obtained from unpublished discographies by Malcolm Walker<ref>Walker, Malcolm 'NGS numerical compiled … from copies of discs in ''The Gramophone'' Library: 1969 & 1980 & Columbia Day books held by EMI: 1977'; 2007 photocopy of manuscript, kindly furnished by Mr. Walker</ref> and Frank Andrews,<ref>Andrews, Frank 'The National Gramophonic Society's Records', 2005; 2008 print-out of word-processor document, kindly furnished by Mr. Andrews</ref> cited where relevant. Unissued NGS recordings made by Vocalion were documented from ''The Gramophone'' and Mr. Walker's discography, which also supplied the exact location of many Columbia electrical recordings for the Society.
-Matrix details of NGS recordings made by Parlophone and Vocalion were obtained from original discs. Recording dates were either estimated from NGS announcements, or were obtained from unpublished discographies by Malcolm Walker<ref>Walker, Malcolm 'NGS numerical compiled … from copies of discs in ''The Gramophone'' Library: 1969 & 1980 & Columbia Day books held by EMI: 1977'; 2007 photocopy of manuscript, kindly furnished by Mr. Walker</ref> and Frank Andrews,<ref>Andrews, Frank 'The National Gramophonic Society's Records', 2005; 2008 print-out of word-processor document, kindly furnished by Mr. Andrews</ref> cited where relevant. Unissued NGS recordings made by Vocalion were documented from ''The Gramophone'' and Mr. Walker's discography, which also supplied the exact location of many Columbia electrical recordings for the Society.
+All issued NGS recordings have been auditioned directly from original discs held by the British Library, or from digital transfers made by the British Library, <span class="plainlinks">[https://charm.kcl.ac.uk/index.html CHARM]</span>, Pristine Audio (now <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.pristineclassical.com/ Pristine Classical]</span>), <span class="plainlinks">[http://shellackophile.blogspot.com/2011/10/national-gramophonic-society-part-1.html Bryan Bishop]</span>, <span class="plainlinks">[http://fluffontheneedle.blogspot.com/2012/04/oh-dear-another-blog.html Jolyon Hudson]</span> and other private collectors. All NGS discs have also been inspected for matrix information and label copy.
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-|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Rubinstein '''Rubinstein, Anton''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.3%2C_Op.17_No.3_(Rubinstein%2C_Anton) String Quartet in F Op.17 No.3]</span> – (ii) Allegro||[[Cobbett Quartet]]<br />(Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Hann)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 540-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">28 July 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">G+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 4908</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Both sides probably made as test recordings, not originally destined for issue<ref>Cobbett's disc was never publicly acknowledged by the NGS as a test; this conclusion is based on unpublished correspondence between Compton Mackenzie and Christopher Stone, future NGS Secretary:
+|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Rubinstein '''Rubinstein, Anton''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.3%2C_Op.17_No.3_(Rubinstein%2C_Anton) String Quartet in F Op.17 No.3]</span> – (ii) Allegro||[[Cobbett Quartet]]<br />(Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Hann)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 540-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">28 July 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">G+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 4908</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Both sides probably made as test recordings, not originally destined for issue<ref>Cobbett's disc was never publicly acknowledged by the NGS as a test; this conclusion is based on unpublished correspondence between Compton Mackenzie and Christopher Stone, future NGS Secretary:
 *In June 1924, Arthur Liedtke (1873-1937), Columbia's general manager, wrote to Stone to the effect that, '"Before commencing work [recording for the NGS] it w<u><sup>d</sup></u> be well to have a test record made [...] early in July".' Stone, Christopher Draft or copy of letter to Compton Mackenzie, Thursday 26 June 1924
 *Three days earlier, Stone had reported, 'Old Cobbett (he's 77) came here to see Faith [Mackenzie] about the chamber music & is quite keen but evidently <s>wha</s> wants to do the recording with his own quartet.' Stone, Christopher Letter to Compton Mackenzie, Monday 23 June 1924
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 All correspondence quoted by kind permission of Anthony Pollard Esq.</ref> (two further sides unissued, see [[#Unissued matrices|below]])
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-|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Raff '''Raff''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.7%2C_Op.192_No.2_(Raff%2C_Joachim) String Quartet No.7 in D Op.192 No.2, ''Die schöne Müllerin'']</span> (as ''Maid of the Mill Suite'') –<br />(v) ''Erklärung'' (as ''The Declaration''). Andantino, quasi allegretto||[[Cobbett Quartet]]<br />(Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Hann)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 537-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">28 July 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">G–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 4911</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Disc distributed to NGS members gratis, in compensation for delay to next issue and as belated present for Christmas 1924<ref>'At the moment of going to press it is doubtful whether the [[#Issue 2, February/March 1925|Schönberg and Schubert records]] will be ready for distribution before the February number [of ''The Gramophone''] is out [...] But in the meantime we are, by great good fortune, able to offer a substantial compensation. Mr. W.W. Cobbett [...] has generously added to his other benefactions by undertaking to give a twelve-inch double-sided record to every member of the Society as a Christmas present. [...] though it cannot be denied that it comes under the category of "snippets," it is just the kind of record which in the past has formed a path for many a gramophone-lover from the pleasant lowlands to the higher fields of music.' 'National Gramophonic Society Notes', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.II No.8, January 1925, p.294</ref><br />Key of excerpt (G major) billed on label in place of that of source work<br />No analytical note known
+|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Raff '''Raff''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.7%2C_Op.192_No.2_(Raff%2C_Joachim) String Quartet No.7 in D Op.192 No.2, ''Die schöne Müllerin'']</span> (as ''Maid of the Mill Suite'') –<br />(v) ''Erklärung'' (as ''The Declaration''). Andantino, quasi allegretto||[[Cobbett Quartet]]<br />(Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Hann)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 537-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">28 July 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">G–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 4911</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Disc distributed to NGS members gratis, in compensation for delay to next issue and as belated present for Christmas 1924<ref>'At the moment of going to press it is doubtful whether the [[#Issue 2, February/March 1925|Schönberg and Schubert records]] will be ready for distribution before the February number [of ''The Gramophone''] is out [...] But in the meantime we are, by great good fortune, able to offer a substantial compensation. Mr. W.W. Cobbett [...] has generously added to his other benefactions by undertaking to give a twelve-inch double-sided record to every member of the Society as a Christmas present. [...] though it cannot be denied that it comes under the category of "snippets," it is just the kind of record which in the past has formed a path for many a gramophone-lover from the pleasant lowlands to the higher fields of music.' 'National Gramophonic Society Notes', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.II No.8, January 1925, p.294</ref><br />Key of excerpt (G major) billed on label in place of that of source work<br />No analytical note known
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-|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schubert '''Schubert''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quintet%2C_D.956_(Schubert%2C_Franz) String Quintet in C D.956]</span> –<br />(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 1]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1066-3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">16(?) July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">GG+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5526</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Columbia manufacturing card for first matrix shows no recording date; higher take suggests second day?
+|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schubert '''Schubert''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quintet%2C_D.956_(Schubert%2C_Franz) String Quintet in C D.956]</span> –<br />(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 1]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1066-3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">16(?) July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">GG+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5526</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Columbia manufacturing card for first matrix shows no recording date; higher take suggests second day?
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-|(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 2]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1067-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">15 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">GG–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5527</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Effectively final formation of Cobbett Quartet, although not billed as such on disc labels, plus supernumerary
+|(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 2]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1067-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">15 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">GG–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5527</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Effectively final formation of Cobbett Quartet, although not billed as such on disc labels, plus supernumerary
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-|(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 3]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1068-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">15 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">HH+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5528</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Recording paid for by Cobbett; six discs charged to NGS members as five
+|(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 3]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1068-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">15 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">HH+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5528</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Recording paid for by Cobbett; six discs charged to NGS members as five
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-|(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 4]<br />(ii) Adagio [part 1]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1069-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">15 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">HH–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5529</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Analytical note: W.W. Cobbett ''Schubert's String Quintet in C major''(?)<ref>''The National Gramophonic Society Catalogue of Records 1927'', p.11: 'A descriptive leaflet by Mr. Cobbett is included with the records.' No copy of note currently known; reprinted, with title shown above, in 'National Gramophonic Society Notes', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.III No.9, February 1926, p.433</ref>
+|(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 4]<br />(ii) Adagio [part 1]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1069-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">15 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">HH–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5529</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Work billed on labels as Op.163. Analytical note: W.W. Cobbett ''Schubert's String Quintet in C major''(?)<ref>''The National Gramophonic Society Catalogue of Records 1927'', p.11: 'A descriptive leaflet by Mr. Cobbett is included with the records.' No copy of leaflet currently known; analytical note reprinted, with title shown above, in 'National Gramophonic Society Notes', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.III No.9, February 1926, p.433</ref>
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-|(ii) Adagio [part 2]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1070-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">15 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">JJ+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5530</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Catalogue letters II not used
+|(ii) Adagio [part 2]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1070-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">15 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">JJ+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5530</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Catalogue letters II not used
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-|(ii) Adagio [part 3]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1071-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">15 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">JJ–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5531</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
+|(ii) Adagio [part 3]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1071-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">15 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">JJ–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5531</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
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-|(ii) Adagio [part 4]<br />(iii) [part 1] Scherzo. Presto||Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1072-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">15 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">KK+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5532</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
+|(ii) Adagio [part 4]<br />(iii) [part 1] Scherzo. Presto||Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1072-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">15 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">KK+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5532</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 |-
-|(iii) [part 2] Trio. Andante sostenuto||Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1073-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">16 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">KK–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5533</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
+|(iii) [part 2] Trio. Andante sostenuto||Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1073-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">16 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">KK–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5533</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
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-|(iii) [part 3] Scherzo. Presto, da capo||Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1074-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">16 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">LL+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5534(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Manufacturing card number cut off; extrapolated from highly regular sequence
+|(iii) [part 3] Scherzo. Presto, da capo||Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1074-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">16 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">LL+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5534(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Manufacturing card number cut off; extrapolated from highly regular sequence
 |-
-|(iv) Allegretto [part 1]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1075-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">16 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">LL–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5535</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
+|(iv) Allegretto [part 1]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1075-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">16 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">LL–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5535</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 |-
-|(iv) Allegretto [part 2]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1076-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">16 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">MM+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5536</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
+|(iv) Allegretto [part 2]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1076-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">16 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">MM+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5536</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
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-|(iv) Allegretto; Più allegro [part 3]||Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1077-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">16 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">MM–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5537</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
+|(iv) Allegretto [part 3]<br />Più allegro||Cobbett, Keady, Spain-Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 1077-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">16 July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">MM–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">H 5537</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
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	[[File:NGS_disc_M_in_NGS_sleeve.jpg\|center\|thumb\|500px\|NGS disc M in NGS sleeve (collection & photo: the author)]]<br />		[[File:NGS_disc_M_in_NGS_sleeve.jpg\|center\|thumb\|500px\|NGS disc M in NGS sleeve (collection & photo: the author)]]<br />
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		+	(Note: the bag in the above image has browned considerably with age.)

	No discs were distributed by the NGS in albums. (From early 1928, NGS sets were marketed in North America in albums made up by one of the Society's agents, the Gramophone Shop of New York. Numbers were assigned to these albums which bear no relation to NGS catalogue numbers and are not given in this discography.<ref><span class="plainlinks">[https://archive.org/details/PMR_2_7/page/n23/mode/1up 'The Gramophone Shop']</span> (advertisement), ''Music Lovers' Phonograph Monthly Review'', Vol.II No.7, April 1928, p.262</ref>)		No discs were distributed by the NGS in albums. (From early 1928, NGS sets were marketed in North America in albums made up by one of the Society's agents, the Gramophone Shop of New York. Numbers were assigned to these albums which bear no relation to NGS catalogue numbers and are not given in this discography.<ref><span class="plainlinks">[https://archive.org/details/PMR_2_7/page/n23/mode/1up 'The Gramophone Shop']</span> (advertisement), ''Music Lovers' Phonograph Monthly Review'', Vol.II No.7, April 1928, p.262</ref>)

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 The design of NGS labels did not change over the Society's lifetime, only minor details of the placing and content of label copy. Both it and the first front cover of ''The Gramophone'' were surely the work of the same artist, whose name is not known, and who must also have designed one of the Society's sleeves. NGS issues were initially distributed in 'flimsy paper bags' of unknown design, but from mid-1925 in 'stout cardboard "bags"' whose design mirrored the discs' labels.<ref>'National Gramophonic Society Notes', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.II No.12, May 1925, p.480</ref> As far as is known, these sleeves were uniform for all issues, carrying no copy other than the Society's name, and also did not change over the Society's lifetime:
-[[File:NGS disc M in NGS sleeve.jpg|center|thumb|500px|NGS disc M in NGS sleeve (collection & photo: the author)]]<br />
+[[File:NGS_disc_M_in_NGS_sleeve.jpg|center|thumb|500px|NGS disc M in NGS sleeve (collection & photo: the author)]]<br />
 No discs were distributed by the NGS in albums. (From early 1928, NGS sets were marketed in North America in albums made up by one of the Society's agents, the Gramophone Shop of New York. Numbers were assigned to these albums which bear no relation to NGS catalogue numbers and are not given in this discography.<ref><span class="plainlinks">[https://archive.org/details/PMR_2_7/page/n23/mode/1up 'The Gramophone Shop']</span> (advertisement), ''Music Lovers' Phonograph Monthly Review'', Vol.II No.7, April 1928, p.262</ref>)

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 ==Labels, sleeves and albums==
-National Gramophonic Society disc labels shared elements of their design with the original front cover of ''The Gramophone''.
+National Gramophonic Society disc labels shared elements of their design with the original front cover of ''The Gramophone'': on the magazine, two columns supporting an arch framed its title and the issue's contents, while on NGS disc labels they framed the Society's name and the label copy. The same lettering was used for the magazine's title and NGS's name:
-NGS discs were distributed initially in paper 'bags' of unknown design, and from mid-1925 in card sleeves whose design mirrored the discs' labels. These were uniform and carried no copy other than the Society's name.
+[[File:NGS_M-_label.jpg|center|thumb|500px|NGS disc M label (collection & photo: the author)]]<br />
-No discs were distributed by the NGS in albums. (From mid-1928, NGS sets were marketed in North America in albums made up by one of the Society's agents, the Gramophone Shop of New York. These albums were assigned numbers which bear no relation to NGS catalogue numbers and are not given in this discography.)
+(Note: in the above image, the legend 'C1' to the left of the spindle hole is not part of the design or label copy but was added, probably by a previous owner.)
 ==Analytical notes==