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This page presents a discography of the Chicago Gramophone Society.
It is part of the wiki Classical 'Society' Records by Nick Morgan.
For an account of the Society itself, please see Chicago Gramophone Society.
Dates of page creation and latest update: see 'Page information' in sidebar.
Catalogue numbers
Chicago Gramophone Society issues were recorded and pressed by Columbia's 'Personal Record' department, launched in 1915.[1] The catalogue numbers were not peculiar to the Society but were taken from Columbia's 'Personal' recording series, starting at 50001-P.
All issues were recorded using the Western Electric system, under licence to Columbia, as denoted by the logo Ⓦ preceding matrix numbers. This symbol cannot be searched for in MediaWiki, and so is not used in the tables below.
For more details about each work, artist and issue (price, distribution, reception, transfers etc.), please follow the links in each table.
First Issue
| Selection | Artists | Format | Matrix | Recorded | Location | Issued | Label cat. no. | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franck Prelude, Chorale and Fugue Prelude. Moderato [part 1] |
Marion Roberts (piano) | 12" / 30 cm lateral disc |
W91729-2 |
11 April 1927 |
Columbia studio, New York City(?) |
c. May / June 1927 |
Chicago Gramophone Society 50016-P | USA |
| Prelude. Moderato [part 2] Chorale. Poco più lento [part 1] |
Marion Roberts (piano) | 12" / 30 cm lateral disc |
W91730-2 |
11 April 1927 |
Columbia studio, New York City(?) |
c. May / June 1927 |
Chicago Gramophone Society 50016-P | USA |
| Chorale. Poco più lento [part 2] (Fugue). Poco allegro [part 1] |
Marion Roberts (piano) | 12" / 30 cm lateral disc |
W91731-1 |
11 April 1927 |
Columbia studio, New York City(?) |
c. May / June 1927 |
Chicago Gramophone Society 50017-P | USA |
| (Fugue). Poco allegro [part 2] | Marion Roberts (piano) | 12" / 30 cm lateral disc |
W91732-2 |
11 April 1927 |
Columbia studio, New York City(?) |
c. May / June 1927 |
Chicago Gramophone Society 50017-P | USA |
Catalogue number 50018-P
There is no Chicago Gramophone Society disc with the catalogue number 50018-P. The disc in question was a Personal Record made by Columbia for another client (see discography).
Second Issue
| Selection | Artists | Format | Matrix | Recorded | Location | Issued | Label cat. no. | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carpenter Water-Colors (i) On a Screen (ii) The Odalisque |
Mina Hager (mezzo-soprano), John Alden Carpenter (piano) |
12" / 30 cm lateral disc |
W91733-2 |
5 December 1927 |
Columbia studio, New York City(?) |
c. January / February 1928 |
Chicago Gramophone Society 50019-P | USA |
| (iii) Highwaymen (iv) To a Young Gentleman |
Mina Hager (mezzo-soprano), John Alden Carpenter (piano) |
12" / 30 cm lateral disc |
W91734-2 |
5 December 1927 |
Columbia studio, New York City(?) |
c. January / February 1928 |
Chicago Gramophone Society 50019-P | USA |
| Wolf Auch kleine Dinge (E'en Little Things) Nimmersatte Liebe (Insatiable Love) |
Mina Hager (mezzo-soprano), Lora Orth Kimsey (piano) |
12" / 30 cm lateral disc |
W91735-4 |
12 December 1927 |
Columbia studio, New York City(?) |
c. January / February 1928 |
Chicago Gramophone Society 50020-P | USA |
| Strauss Blindenklage Op.56 No.2 (Lament of the Blind) |
Mina Hager (mezzo-soprano), Lora Orth Kimsey (piano) |
12" / 30 cm lateral disc |
W91736-4 |
12 December 1927 |
Columbia studio, New York City(?) |
c. January / February 1928 |
Chicago Gramophone Society 50020-P | USA |
Unissued Recordings
Columbia's 'Personal Record' series has not been documented in full, so it is possible that other recordings were made for the Chicago Gramophone Society but not issued. To date, none are known.
In November 1925, John Alden Carpenter recorded a piano reduction of his ballet Skyscrapers. The recording has apparently been thought to have been made for the Society,[2] but this is highly unlikely: it was recorded almost a year before the Society was first heard of and would have been neither suitable nor practical to issue. In fact, Carpenter's recording was almost certainly intended as an aid to the ballet's first ever staging, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in February 1926 (see provisional discography and discussion).
References
- ↑ Brooks, Tim 'Columbia Corporate History: Personal Recording', from Rust, Brian and Brooks, Tim The Columbia Master Book Discography, Volume I, U.S. matrix series 1 through 4999, 1901-1910 with a history of the Columbia Phonograph Company to 1934, Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press, 1999
- ↑ A copy of Carpenter's recording survives in private hands; the owner wishes to remain anonymous and is not known to the author of this wiki. A transfer of the discs was made in the 1990s and has circulated privately, ostensibly bearing a Chicago Gramophone Society label, but this is a mock-up.
I am grateful to Bill Anderson of Chicago for the above information and observation (private communications, 28 July and 7 August 2018)
