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It is part of the wiki [[Classical 'Society' Records by Nick Morgan]].
 
It is part of the wiki [[Classical 'Society' Records by Nick Morgan]].
  
It is best viewed on a large monitor, in landscape orientation. Unfortunately, it is not easy to consult on small screens.
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It is best viewed in landscape orientation, on a large monitor. Unfortunately, on small screens it will display poorly and be hard to consult.
  
 
In future, it is hoped to publish an additional page dedicated to each issue, with more information about its production, contents and reception.
 
In future, it is hoped to publish an additional page dedicated to each issue, with more information about its production, contents and reception.
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===Issue 1, October 1924===
 
===Issue 1, October 1924===
 
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven '''Beethoven''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.10,_Op.74_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van) String Quartet in Eb Op.74]</span> –<br />(i) Poco adagio; Allegro [part 1]||[[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]]<br />(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 541-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">30 July 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">A+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Analytical note, ''Title unknown'', by 'N.P.' ([[Robertson, Alec|Alec Robertson]]) issued with discs; no copy known
 
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven '''Beethoven''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.10,_Op.74_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van) String Quartet in Eb Op.74]</span> –<br />(i) Poco adagio; Allegro [part 1]||[[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]]<br />(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 541-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">30 July 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">A+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Analytical note, ''Title unknown'', by 'N.P.' ([[Robertson, Alec|Alec Robertson]]) issued with discs; no copy known
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===Extraordinary issue, January 1925===
 
===Extraordinary issue, January 1925===
 
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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> –<br />(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;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Both sides (and two others, see [[#Unissued matrices|below]]) recorded as 'tests', not originally destined for issue
 
|<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> –<br />(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;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Both sides (and two others, see [[#Unissued matrices|below]]) recorded as 'tests', not originally destined for issue
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===Issue 2, February/March 1925===
 
===Issue 2, February/March 1925===
 
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schubert '''Schubert''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Trio_in_E-flat_major%2C_D.929_(Schubert%2C_Franz) Piano Trio in Eb D.929]</span> –<br />(i) Allegro [part 1]||Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.craxtonmemorialtrust.org.uk/html/hcraxton.htm Craxton]</span>||<div style="text-align: center;">3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 667-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10 October 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">H+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Coupled with Schoenberg ''Verklärte Nacht'' as one set
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schubert '''Schubert''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Trio_in_E-flat_major%2C_D.929_(Schubert%2C_Franz) Piano Trio in Eb D.929]</span> –<br />(i) Allegro [part 1]||Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.craxtonmemorialtrust.org.uk/html/hcraxton.htm Craxton]</span>||<div style="text-align: center;">3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 667-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10 October 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">H+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Coupled with Schoenberg as one set
 
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|(i) Allegro [part 2]||Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.craxtonmemorialtrust.org.uk/html/hcraxton.htm Craxton]</span>||<div style="text-align: center;">3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 668-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10 October 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">H–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 
|(i) Allegro [part 2]||Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.craxtonmemorialtrust.org.uk/html/hcraxton.htm Craxton]</span>||<div style="text-align: center;">3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 668-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10 October 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">H–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
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|(iv) Allegro moderato [part 3]||Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.craxtonmemorialtrust.org.uk/html/hcraxton.htm Craxton]</span>||<div style="text-align: center;">3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 843-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">7 January 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">M+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 
|(iv) Allegro moderato [part 3]||Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.craxtonmemorialtrust.org.uk/html/hcraxton.htm Craxton]</span>||<div style="text-align: center;">3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 843-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">7 January 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">M+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg '''Schoenberg''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Verkl%C3%A4rte_Nacht,_Op.4_(Schoenberg,_Arnold) ''Verklärte Nacht'']</span>, sextet Op.4<br />[Part 1]||Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">6</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 663-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10 October 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">M–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Effectively performed by Spencer Dyke String Quartet, not credited as such on disc labels, plus supernumeraries. Coupled with Schubert Piano Trio D.929 as one set
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg '''Schoenberg''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Verkl%C3%A4rte_Nacht,_Op.4_(Schoenberg,_Arnold) ''Verklärte Nacht'']</span>, sextet Op.4<br />[Part 1]||Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">6</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 663-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10 October 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">M–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Effectively Spencer Dyke String Quartet, not billed as such on disc labels, plus supernumeraries<br />Coupled with Schubert as one set
 
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|[Part 2]||Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">6</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 664-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10 October 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">N+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 
|[Part 2]||Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">6</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">AX 664-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10 October 1924</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Columbia||Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">N+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
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===Issue 3, July/August 1925===
 
===Issue 3, July/August 1925===
 
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven '''Beethoven''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.7%2C_Op.59_No.1_(Beethoven%2C_Ludwig_van) String Quartet in F Op.59 No.1]</span> –<br />(i) Allegro [part 1]||[[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]]<br />(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 7<sup>3</sup></div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. June 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">T+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||'[...] unusual difficulties have been encountered, and re-recordings have been necessary'<ref>'National Gramophonic Society Notes', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.III No.2, July 1925, p.80</ref>
 
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven '''Beethoven''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.7%2C_Op.59_No.1_(Beethoven%2C_Ludwig_van) String Quartet in F Op.59 No.1]</span> –<br />(i) Allegro [part 1]||[[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]]<br />(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 7<sup>3</sup></div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. June 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">T+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||'[...] unusual difficulties have been encountered, and re-recordings have been necessary'<ref>'National Gramophonic Society Notes', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.III No.2, July 1925, p.80</ref>
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===Issue 4, October/November 1925===
 
===Issue 4, October/November 1925===
 
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms '''Brahms''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Sextet_No.1,_Op.18_(Brahms,_Johannes) String Sextet in Bb Op.18]</span> –<br />(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 1]||Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">6</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 22</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">Z+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Effectively performed by Spencer Dyke String Quartet, not credited as such on disc labels, plus supernumeraries
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms '''Brahms''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Sextet_No.1,_Op.18_(Brahms,_Johannes) String Sextet in Bb Op.18]</span> –<br />(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 1]||Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">6</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 22</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">Z+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Effectively Spencer Dyke String Quartet, not billed as such on disc labels, plus supernumeraries
 
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|(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 2]||Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">6</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 23</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">Z–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 
|(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 2]||Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)||<div style="text-align: center;">6</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 23</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">Z–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
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===Issue 5, October/November 1925 (held over from 1924-25 season)===
 
===Issue 5, October/November 1925 (held over from 1924-25 season)===
 
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart '''Mozart''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Oboe_Quartet_in_F_major,_K.370/368b_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus) Quartet for oboe and strings in F K.370 (368b)]</span> – (i) Allegro [part 1]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Goossens Goossens]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 1<sup>4</sup></div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. June 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">Q+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||'[...] unusual difficulties have been encountered, and re-recordings have been necessary'<ref>'National Gramophonic Society Notes', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.III No.2, July 1925, p.80</ref>
 
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart '''Mozart''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Oboe_Quartet_in_F_major,_K.370/368b_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus) Quartet for oboe and strings in F K.370 (368b)]</span> – (i) Allegro [part 1]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Goossens Goossens]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 1<sup>4</sup></div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. June 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">Q+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||'[...] unusual difficulties have been encountered, and re-recordings have been necessary'<ref>'National Gramophonic Society Notes', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.III No.2, July 1925, p.80</ref>
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|(i) Allegro [part 2]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Goossens Goossens]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 2<sup>3</sup></div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. June 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">Q–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||Main recording session held shortly before 24 April 1925 board meeting of Gramophone (Publications) Limited<ref>Minutes of 24 April 1925 board meeting of Gramophone (Publications) Limited, undated</ref>
 
|(i) Allegro [part 2]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Goossens Goossens]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 2<sup>3</sup></div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. June 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">Q–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||Main recording session held shortly before 24 April 1925 board meeting of Gramophone (Publications) Limited<ref>Minutes of 24 April 1925 board meeting of Gramophone (Publications) Limited, undated</ref>
 
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|(ii) Adagio||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Goossens Goossens]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||Spencer Dyke String Quartet credited on disc labels but members not named
+
|(ii) Adagio||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Goossens Goossens]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||Members of Spencer Dyke String Quartet, not billed as such on disc labels
 
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|(iii) Rondeau. Allegro [part 1]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Goossens Goossens]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>
 
|(iii) Rondeau. Allegro [part 1]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Goossens Goossens]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>
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===Issue 6, January/February 1926===
 
===Issue 6, January/February 1926===
 
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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;">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;">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;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Ensemble effectively final formation of Cobbett Quartet, although not credited as such on disc labels, plus supernumerary
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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;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Effectively final formation of Cobbett Quartet, 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;">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;">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;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 
|(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;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 
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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;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Catalogue letters II not used
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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;">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;">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;">12" / 30 cm</div>
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===Issue 7, February/March 1926===
 
===Issue 7, February/March 1926===
 
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|[[Tomlinson, Ernest (viola)|'''Tomlinson''', Ernest]]<ref>Ernest Tomlinson (1877-1957), well-known teacher and viola player in several distinguished quartets including the [[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]], is not to be confused with the composer and conductor <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Tomlinson Ernest Tomlinson]</span> (1924-2015)</ref> ''A Lament''||[[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]]<br />(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 21</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">EE+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Coupled by mistake, against wishes of André Mangeot<ref>'[...] would it be possible to get the Lament of Tomlinson on 12 inch put together[?] with the Brahms 6<sup>tet</sup> of Spencer Dyke and get our Goossens By the Tarn go on the back of Gibbons 3,9'<br />Annotation in André Mangeot's hand on MS letter from Robert Gathorne-Hardy to Mangeot, dated 23 December 1925, André Mangeot Collection, Royal College of Music, London</ref>
 
|[[Tomlinson, Ernest (viola)|'''Tomlinson''', Ernest]]<ref>Ernest Tomlinson (1877-1957), well-known teacher and viola player in several distinguished quartets including the [[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]], is not to be confused with the composer and conductor <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Tomlinson Ernest Tomlinson]</span> (1924-2015)</ref> ''A Lament''||[[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]]<br />(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 21</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. July 1925</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">EE+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Coupled by mistake, against wishes of André Mangeot<ref>'[...] would it be possible to get the Lament of Tomlinson on 12 inch put together[?] with the Brahms 6<sup>tet</sup> of Spencer Dyke and get our Goossens By the Tarn go on the back of Gibbons 3,9'<br />Annotation in André Mangeot's hand on MS letter from Robert Gathorne-Hardy to Mangeot, dated 23 December 1925, André Mangeot Collection, Royal College of Music, London</ref>
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Gibbons '''Gibbons''']</span> arr. Fellowes(?)<ref>Gibbons' 3-part fantasies probably performed in the arrangement for modern string trio by <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Fellowes Edmund Fellowes]</span>, published by Stainer & Bell, London, 1924</ref><br /><span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Fantasia_in_G_minor%2C_VdGS_2.3_(Gibbons%2C_Orlando) Fantasia à 3 VdGS 3]</span><br /><span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Fantasia_in_D_minor%2C_VdGS_2.9_(Gibbons%2C_Orlando) Fantasia à 3 VdGS 9]</span>||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Mangeot, Pecker, Berly, Barbirolli)||<div style="text-align: center;">3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 18</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May-25</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">EE–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Fantasia No.3 played by violin, viola and 'cello<br />Fantasia No.9 played by two violins and 'cello
 
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Gibbons '''Gibbons''']</span> arr. Fellowes(?)<ref>Gibbons' 3-part fantasies probably performed in the arrangement for modern string trio by <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Fellowes Edmund Fellowes]</span>, published by Stainer & Bell, London, 1924</ref><br /><span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Fantasia_in_G_minor%2C_VdGS_2.3_(Gibbons%2C_Orlando) Fantasia à 3 VdGS 3]</span><br /><span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Fantasia_in_D_minor%2C_VdGS_2.9_(Gibbons%2C_Orlando) Fantasia à 3 VdGS 9]</span>||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Mangeot, Pecker, Berly, Barbirolli)||<div style="text-align: center;">3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 18</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May-25</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">EE–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Fantasia No.3 played by violin, viola and 'cello<br />Fantasia No.9 played by two violins and 'cello
 
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Gibbons '''Gibbons''']</span> arr. Fellowes(?)<br /><span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Fantasia_in_D_minor%2C_VdGS_2.6_(Gibbons%2C_Orlando) Fantasia à 3 VdGS 6]</span><br /><span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Fantasia_in_D_minor%2C_VdGS_2.8_(Gibbons%2C_Orlando) Fantasia à 3 VdGS 8]</span>||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Mangeot, Pecker, [Berly,] Barbirolli)||<div style="text-align: center;">3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 19</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May-25</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">FF+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||Fantasias both played by two violins and 'cello but four players credited on disc label
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Gibbons '''Gibbons''']</span> arr. Fellowes(?)<br /><span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Fantasia_in_D_minor%2C_VdGS_2.6_(Gibbons%2C_Orlando) Fantasia à 3 VdGS 6]</span><br /><span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Fantasia_in_D_minor%2C_VdGS_2.8_(Gibbons%2C_Orlando) Fantasia à 3 VdGS 8]</span>||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Mangeot, Pecker, [Berly,] Barbirolli)||<div style="text-align: center;">3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 19</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May-25</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">FF+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||Fantasias both played by two violins and 'cello but four players billed on disc label
 
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Aynsley_Goossens '''Goossens''', Eugene]</span> [III] <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/2_Sketches,_Op.15_(Goossens,_Eugene) ''Two Sketches'' Op.15]</span> –<br />(ii) ''Jack o' Lantern''||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Mangeot, Pecker, Berly, Barbirolli)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 20<sup>3</sup></div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May-25</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">FF–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>
 
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Aynsley_Goossens '''Goossens''', Eugene]</span> [III] <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/2_Sketches,_Op.15_(Goossens,_Eugene) ''Two Sketches'' Op.15]</span> –<br />(ii) ''Jack o' Lantern''||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Mangeot, Pecker, Berly, Barbirolli)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 20<sup>3</sup></div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May-25</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">FF–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>
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===Issue 8, May 1926===
 
===Issue 8, May 1926===
 
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|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar '''Elgar''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Quintet,_Op.84_(Elgar,_Edward) Quintet for piano and strings in a Op.84]</span> –<br />(i) Moderato; Allegro [part 1]||Hobday, [[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]]||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 1X</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. February/March 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">NN+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Quartet members not named on disc labels; presumed to be Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
 
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar '''Elgar''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Quintet,_Op.84_(Elgar,_Edward) Quintet for piano and strings in a Op.84]</span> –<br />(i) Moderato; Allegro [part 1]||Hobday, [[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]]||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 1X</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. February/March 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">NN+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Quartet members not named on disc labels; presumed to be Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
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===Issue 9, June 1926===
 
===Issue 9, June 1926===
 
{|class="wikitable" style="width: 125%"
 
{|class="wikitable" style="width: 125%"
! style="width: 12%;"|Selection(s)
+
! style="width: 12%;" | Selection(s)
! style="width: 12%;"|Artist(s)
+
! style="width: 12%;" | Artist(s)
! style="width: 2%;"|# Art.
+
! style="width: 2%;" | # Art.
! style="width: 3%;"|Matrix
+
! style="width: 3%;" | Matrix
! style="width: 5%;"|Rec. date
+
! style="width: 5%;" | Rec. date
! style="width: 2%;"|Sys.
+
! style="width: 2%;" | Sys.
! style="width: 4%;"|Producer
+
! style="width: 4%;" | Producer
! style="width: 6%;"|Location
+
! style="width: 6%;" | Location
! style="width: 2%;"|Cat. ID
+
! style="width: 2%;" | Cat. ID
! style="width: 5%;"|Diam.
+
! style="width: 5%;" | Diam.
! style="width: 15%;"|Notes
+
! style="width: 15%;" | Notes
 
|-
 
|-
 
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms '''Brahms''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Clarinet_Quintet,_Op.115_(Brahms,_Johannes)Quintet for clarinet and strings in b Op.115]</span> –<br />(i) Allegro [part 1]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Thurston Thurston]</span>, [[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]]||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 11X</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May/June 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">SS+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Quartet members named on label of filler only (see below); presumed to be Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
 
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms '''Brahms''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Clarinet_Quintet,_Op.115_(Brahms,_Johannes)Quintet for clarinet and strings in b Op.115]</span> –<br />(i) Allegro [part 1]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Thurston Thurston]</span>, [[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]]||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 11X</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May/June 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">SS+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Quartet members named on label of filler only (see below); presumed to be Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
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|-
 
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Gli%C3%A8re '''Glière''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.1,_Op.2_(Gli%C3%A8re,_Reinhold)String Quartet in A Op.2]</span> –<br />(ii) Scherzo. Allegro||[[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]]<br />(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 27</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May/June 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">WW–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Filler
 
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Gli%C3%A8re '''Glière''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.1,_Op.2_(Gli%C3%A8re,_Reinhold)String Quartet in A Op.2]</span> –<br />(ii) Scherzo. Allegro||[[Spencer Dyke String Quartet]]<br />(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 27</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May/June 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">WW–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Filler
 +
|}
 +
 +
===Issue 10, September 1926===
 +
{|class="wikitable" style="width: 125%"
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! style="width: 12%;" | Selection(s)
 +
! style="width: 12%;" | Artist(s)
 +
! style="width: 2%;" | # Art.
 +
! style="width: 3%;" | Matrix
 +
! style="width: 5%;" | Rec. date
 +
! style="width: 2%;" | Sys.
 +
! style="width: 4%;" | Producer
 +
! style="width: 6%;" | Location
 +
! style="width: 2%;" | Cat. ID
 +
! style="width: 5%;" | Diam.
 +
! style="width: 15%;" | Notes
 +
|-
 +
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart '''Mozart''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Clarinet_Quintet_in_A_major%2C_K.581_(Mozart%2C_Wolfgang_Amadeus)Quintet for clarinet and strings in A K.581]</span> –<br />(i) Allegro [part 1]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Draper_(musician) Draper]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 20</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May to August 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">XX+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Members of Spencer Dyke String Quartet, not billed as such on disc labels
 +
|-
 +
|(i) Allegro [part 2]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Draper_(musician) Draper]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 21X</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May to August 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">XX–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 +
|-
 +
|(i) Allegro [part 2]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Draper_(musician) Draper]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 22X</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May to August 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">YY+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 +
|-
 +
|(i) Allegro [part 2]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Draper_(musician) Draper]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 23</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May to August 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">YY–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 +
|-
 +
|(i) Allegro [part 2]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Draper_(musician) Draper]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 24X</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May to August 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">ZZ+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 +
|-
 +
|(i) Allegro [part 2]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Draper_(musician) Draper]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 25X</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May to August 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">ZZ–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 +
|-
 +
|(i) Allegro [part 2]||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Draper_(musician) Draper]</span>, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker||<div style="text-align: center;">5</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 26X</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May to August 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">AAA+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>
 +
|-
 +
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart '''Mozart''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Duo_for_Violin_and_Viola%2C_K.423_(Mozart%2C_Wolfgang_Amadeus) Duo for violin and viola in G K.423]</span> –<br />(ii) Adagio||Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson||<div style="text-align: center;">2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">NGS 28</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May to August 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">AAA–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Filler
 +
|-
 +
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell '''Purcell''']</span> arr. Mangeot<ref>Purcell's Fantasias for viols were transcribed from the composer's autograph MS in 1925 by <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Warlock Peter Warlock]</span> and then arranged by André Mangeot for modern strings, in which form they were published by J. Curwen & Sons, London, in 1927</ref> <span class="plainlinks">[https://musescore.com/bartok_forever/z_738 Fantasia à 4 Z.738]</span><br />[part 1]||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Mangeot, Pecker, Berly, Barbirolli)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 33||<div style="text-align: center;">February 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">BBB+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||Recording date from Malcolm Walker
 +
|-
 +
|[part 2]||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Mangeot, Pecker, Berly, Barbirolli)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 34<sup>4</sup>||<div style="text-align: center;">April(?) 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">BBB–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||Original matrix, recorded in February, apparently damaged; re-recorded some weeks later
 +
|-
 +
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell '''Purcell''']</span> arr. Mangeot <span class="plainlinks">[https://musescore.com/bartok_forever/z_734 Fantasia à 3 Z.734]</span>||Mangeot, Berly, Barbirolli||<div style="text-align: center;">3</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 36</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">February 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">CCC+</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Recording date from Malcolm Walker<br />Members of Music Society String Quartet, not billed as such on disc label
 +
|-
 +
|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blackwood_McEwen '''McEwen''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Nugae_(McEwen%2C_John_Blackwood) String Quartet No.5 ''Nugae'']</span> –<br />(iii) ''Peat Reek''||[[Music Society String Quartet]]<br />(Pecker, Mangeot, Berly, Barbirolli)||<div style="text-align: center;">4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">GS 35<sup>3</sup></div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April(?) 1926</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Parlophone||Parlophone studio,<br />City Road, London||<div style="text-align: center;">CCC–</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||Mangeot billed first on disc label, but Pecker reported as leading this side
 
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This page presents a discography of the National Gramophonic Society.

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1924-25 Season

Issue 1, October 1924

Selection(s) Artist(s) # Art. Matrix Rec. date Sys. Producer Location Cat. ID Diam. Notes
Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op.74
(i) Poco adagio; Allegro [part 1]
Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
AX 541-1
30 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
A+
12" / 30 cm
Analytical note, Title unknown, by 'N.P.' (Alec Robertson) issued with discs; no copy known
(i) Allegro [part 2] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
AX 542-1
30 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
A–
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Adagio ma non troppo [part 1] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
AX 543-1
30 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
B+
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Adagio ma non troppo [part 2] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
AX 544-1
30 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
B–
12" / 30 cm
(iii) Presto Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
AX 545-1
30 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
C+
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Allegretto con variazioni Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
AX 546-1
30 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
C–
12" / 30 cm
Debussy String Quartet in g Op.10
(i) Animé et très décidé [part 1]
Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
AX 547-1
30 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
D+
12" / 30 cm
Analytical note, Title unknown, by 'N.P.' (Alec Robertson) issued with discs; no copy known
(i) Animé et très décidé [part 2]
(iii) Andantino [part 1]
Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
AX 548-1
30 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
D–
12" / 30 cm
Movements recorded in order (i), (iii), (ii), (iv), probably to reduce number of discs
(iii) Andantino [part 2] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
AX 549-2
30 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
E+
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Assez vif et bien rythmé Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
AX 550-1
30 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
E–
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Très modéré [part 1] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
AX 551-1
30 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
F+
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Très modéré [part 2] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
AX 552-1
30 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
F–
12" / 30 cm

Extraordinary issue, January 1925

Selection(s) Artist(s) # Art. Matrix Rec. date Sys. Producer Location Cat. ID Diam. Notes
Rubinstein, Anton String Quartet in F Op.17 No.3
(ii) Allegro
Cobbett Quartet
(Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Hann
4
AX 540-1
28 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
G+
12" / 30 cm
Both sides (and two others, see below) recorded as 'tests', not originally destined for issue
Raff String Quartet No.7 in D Op.192 No.2, Die schöne Müllerin [as 'Maid of the Mill Suite'] –
(v) Erklärung [as 'The Declaration']. Andantino, quasi allegretto
Cobbett Quartet
(Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Hann)
4
AX 537-1
28 July 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
G–
12" / 30 cm
Disc distributed gratis to members as present for Christmas 1924, in compensation for delay to Society's next issue

Issue 2, February/March 1925

Selection(s) Artist(s) # Art. Matrix Rec. date Sys. Producer Location Cat. ID Diam. Notes
Schubert Piano Trio in Eb D.929
(i) Allegro [part 1]
Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, Craxton
3
AX 667-1
10 October 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
H+
12" / 30 cm
Coupled with Schoenberg as one set
(i) Allegro [part 2] Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, Craxton
3
AX 668-1
10 October 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
H–
12" / 30 cm
(i) Allegro [part 3] Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, Craxton
3
AX 669-1
10 October 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
I+
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Andante con moto [part 1] Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, Craxton
3
AX 670-1
10 October 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
I–
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Andante con moto [part 2] Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, Craxton
3
AX 671-1
10 October 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
K+
12" / 30 cm
Catalogue letter J not used
(iii) Scherzando. Allegro moderato Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, Craxton
3
AX 840-1
7 January 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
K–
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Allegro moderato [part 1] Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, Craxton
3
AX 841-1
7 January 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
L+
12" / 30 cm
Recording date of this side stated on Columbia manufacturing card, erroneously, as '7th Jan 1924'
(iv) Allegro moderato [part 2] Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, Craxton
3
AX 842-1
7 January 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
L–
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Allegro moderato [part 3] Spencer Dyke, Patterson Parker, Craxton
3
AX 843-1
7 January 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
M+
12" / 30 cm
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, sextet Op.4
[Part 1]
Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
AX 663-1
10 October 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
M–
12" / 30 cm
Effectively Spencer Dyke String Quartet, not billed as such on disc labels, plus supernumeraries
Coupled with Schubert as one set
[Part 2] Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
AX 664-1
10 October 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
N+
12" / 30 cm
[Part 3] Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
AX 665-1
10 October 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
N–
12" / 30 cm
[Part 4] Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
AX 666-1
10 October 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
O+
12" / 30 cm
[Part 5] Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
AX 829-1
30 December 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
O–
12" / 30 cm
[Part 6] Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
AX 830-1
30 December 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
P+
12" / 30 cm
[Part 7] Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
AX 831-1
30 December 1924
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
P–
12" / 30 cm

Issue 3, July/August 1925

Selection(s) Artist(s) # Art. Matrix Rec. date Sys. Producer Location Cat. ID Diam. Notes
Beethoven String Quartet in F Op.59 No.1
(i) Allegro [part 1]
Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
GS 73
c. June 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
T+
12" / 30 cm
'[...] unusual difficulties have been encountered, and re-recordings have been necessary'[1]
(i) Allegro [part 2] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
GS 8
April 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
T–
12" / 30 cm
Main recording session held shortly before 24 April 1925 board meeting of Gramophone (Publications) Limited[2]
(i) Allegro [part 3] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
GS 9
April 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
V+
12" / 30 cm
Catalogue letter U not used
(ii) Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando [part 1] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
GS 10
April 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
V–
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando [part 2] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
GS 11
April 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
W+
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando [part 3] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
GS 122
April 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
W–
12" / 30 cm
(iii) Adagio molto e mesto [part 1] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
GS 13
April 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
X+
12" / 30 cm
(iii) Adagio molto e mesto [part 2] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
GS 14
April 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
X–
12" / 30 cm
(iii) Adagio molto e mesto [part 3]
(iv) Thème russe. Allegro [part 1]
Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
GS 15
April 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
Y+
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Thème russe. Allegro [part 2] Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
GS 16
April 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
Y–
12" / 30 cm

Issue 4, October/November 1925

Selection(s) Artist(s) # Art. Matrix Rec. date Sys. Producer Location Cat. ID Diam. Notes
Brahms String Sextet in Bb Op.18
(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 1]
Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
GS 22
c. July 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
Z+
12" / 30 cm
Effectively Spencer Dyke String Quartet, not billed as such on disc labels, plus supernumeraries
(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 2] Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
GS 23
c. July 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
Z–
12" / 30 cm
(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 3] Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
GS 24
c. July 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
AA+
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Andante ma moderato [part 1] Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
GS 252
c. July 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
AA–
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Andante ma moderato [part 2] Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
GS 262
c. July 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
BB+
12" / 30 cm
(iii) Scherzo. Allegro molto Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
GS 272
c. July 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
BB–
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Rondo. Poco Allegretto e grazioso [part 1] Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
GS 282
c. July 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
CC+
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Rondo. Poco Allegretto e grazioso [part 2] Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
GS 294
c. September 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
CC–
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Rondo. Poco Allegretto e grazioso [part 3] Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Lockyer (viola II), Patterson Parker, Robinson (cello II)
6
GS 30
c. July 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
DD+
12" / 30 cm
Goossens, Eugene [III] Two Sketches Op.15
(i) By the Tarn
Music Society String Quartet
(Mangeot, Pecker, Berly, Barbirolli)
4
GS 172
c. May 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
DD–
12" / 30 cm
Filler. Coupled by mistake, against wishes of André Mangeot[3]

1925-26 Season

Issue 5, October/November 1925 (held over from 1924-25 season)

Selection(s) Artist(s) # Art. Matrix Rec. date Sys. Producer Location Cat. ID Diam. Notes
Mozart Quartet for oboe and strings in F K.370 (368b) – (i) Allegro [part 1] Goossens, Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
4
GS 14
c. June 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
Q+
10" / 25 cm
'[...] unusual difficulties have been encountered, and re-recordings have been necessary'[4]
(i) Allegro [part 2] Goossens, Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
4
GS 23
c. June 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
Q–
10" / 25 cm
Main recording session held shortly before 24 April 1925 board meeting of Gramophone (Publications) Limited[5]
(ii) Adagio Goossens, Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
4
GS 3
April 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
R+
10" / 25 cm
Members of Spencer Dyke String Quartet, not billed as such on disc labels
(iii) Rondeau. Allegro [part 1] Goossens, Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
4
GS 4
April 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
R–
10" / 25 cm
(iii) Rondeau. Allegro [part 2] Goossens, Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
4
GS 52
April 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
S+
10" / 25 cm
Bach, J.S. Ich steh' mit einem Fuß im Grabe BWV 156 – (i) Sinfonia Goossens, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
GS 6
April 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
S–
10" / 25 cm
Filler. Quartet members not named on disc labels; presumed to be Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker

Issue 6, January/February 1926

Selection(s) Artist(s) # Art. Matrix Rec. date Sys. Producer Location Cat. ID Diam. Notes
Schubert String Quintet in C D.956
(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 1]
Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)
5
AX 1066-3
16(?) July 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
GG+
12" / 30 cm
Columbia manufacturing card for first matrix shows no recording date; higher take suggests second day?
(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 2] Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)
5
AX 1067-2
15 July 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
GG–
12" / 30 cm
Effectively final formation of Cobbett Quartet, not billed as such on disc labels, plus supernumerary
(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 3] Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)
5
AX 1068-1
15 July 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
HH+
12" / 30 cm
Recording paid for by Cobbett; six discs charged to NGS members as five
(i) Allegro ma non troppo [part 4]
(ii) Adagio [part 1]
Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)
5
AX 1069-2
15 July 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
HH–
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Adagio [part 2] Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)
5
AX 1070-2
15 July 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
JJ+
12" / 30 cm
Catalogue letters II not used
(ii) Adagio [part 3] Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)
5
AX 1071-2
15 July 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
JJ–
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Adagio [part 4]
(iii) [part 1] Scherzo. Presto
Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)
5
AX 1072-2
15 July 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
KK+
12" / 30 cm
(iii) [part 2] Trio. Andante sostenuto Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)
5
AX 1073-2
16 July 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
KK–
12" / 30 cm
(iii) [part 3] 'Bridge passage leading to' Scherzo. Presto, da capo Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)
5
AX 1074-2
16 July 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
LL+
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Allegretto [part 1] Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)
5
AX 1075-2
16 July 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
LL–
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Allegretto [part 2] Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)
5
AX 1076-2
16 July 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
MM+
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Allegretto. Più allegro [part 3] Cobbett, Keady, Spain Dunk, Dare, Crabbe (cello II)
5
AX 1077-2
16 July 1925
ac
Columbia Columbia studio, Clerkenwell Road, London
MM–
12" / 30 cm

Issue 7, February/March 1926

Selection(s) Artist(s) # Art. Matrix Rec. date Sys. Producer Location Cat. ID Diam. Notes
Tomlinson, Ernest[6] A Lament Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
GS 21
c. July 1925
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
EE+
12" / 30 cm
Coupled by mistake, against wishes of André Mangeot[7]
Gibbons arr. Fellowes(?)[8]
Fantasia à 3 VdGS 3
Fantasia à 3 VdGS 9
Music Society String Quartet
(Mangeot, Pecker, Berly, Barbirolli)
3
GS 18
c. May-25
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
EE–
12" / 30 cm
Fantasia No.3 played by violin, viola and 'cello
Fantasia No.9 played by two violins and 'cello
Gibbons arr. Fellowes(?)
Fantasia à 3 VdGS 6
Fantasia à 3 VdGS 8
Music Society String Quartet
(Mangeot, Pecker, [Berly,] Barbirolli)
3
GS 19
c. May-25
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
FF+
10" / 25 cm
Fantasias both played by two violins and 'cello but four players billed on disc label
Goossens, Eugene [III] Two Sketches Op.15
(ii) Jack o' Lantern
Music Society String Quartet
(Mangeot, Pecker, Berly, Barbirolli)
4
GS 203
c. May-25
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
FF–
10" / 25 cm

Issue 8, May 1926

Selection(s) Artist(s) # Art. Matrix Rec. date Sys. Producer Location Cat. ID Diam. Notes
Elgar Quintet for piano and strings in a Op.84
(i) Moderato; Allegro [part 1]
Hobday, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 1X
c. February/March 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
NN+
12" / 30 cm
Quartet members not named on disc labels; presumed to be Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
(i) Allegro [part 2] Hobday, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 2X
c. February/March 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
NN–
12" / 30 cm
(i) Allegro [part 3] Hobday, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 3X
c. February/March 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
OO+
12" / 30 cm
(i) Allegro [part 4] Hobday, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 4X
c. February/March 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
OO–
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Adagio [part 1] Hobday, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 5
c. February/March 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
PP+
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Adagio [part 2] Hobday, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 6
c. February/March 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
PP–
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Adagio [part 3] Hobday, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 7
c. February/March 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
QQ+
12" / 30 cm
(iii) Andante. Allegro [part 1] Hobday, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 8X
c. February/March 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
QQ
12" / 30 cm
(iii) Allegro [part 2] Hobday, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 9
c. February/March 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
RR+
12" / 30 cm
(iii) Allegro [part 3] Hobday, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 10X
c. February/March 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
RR–
12" / 30 cm

Issue 9, June 1926

Selection(s) Artist(s) # Art. Matrix Rec. date Sys. Producer Location Cat. ID Diam. Notes
Brahms for clarinet and strings in b Op.115
(i) Allegro [part 1]
Thurston, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 11X
c. May/June 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
SS+
12" / 30 cm
Quartet members named on label of filler only (see below); presumed to be Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
(i) Allegro [part 2] Thurston, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 12X
c. May/June 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
SS–
12" / 30 cm
(i) Allegro [part 3] Thurston, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 13X
c. May/June 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
TT+
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Adagio [part 1] Thurston, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 14
c. May/June 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
TT–
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Adagio [part 2] Thurston, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 15
c. May/June 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
UU+
12" / 30 cm
(ii) Adagio [part 3] Thurston, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 16X
c. May/June 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
UU–
12" / 30 cm
(iii) Andantino Thurston, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 17X
c. May/June 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
VV+
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Con moto [part 1] Thurston, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 18X
c. May/June 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
VV–
12" / 30 cm
(iv) Con moto [part 2] Thurston, Spencer Dyke String Quartet
5
NGS 19X
c. May/June 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
WW+
12" / 30 cm
Glière Quartet in A Op.2
(ii) Scherzo. Allegro
Spencer Dyke String Quartet
(Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker)
4
NGS 27
c. May/June 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
WW–
12" / 30 cm
Filler

Issue 10, September 1926

Selection(s) Artist(s) # Art. Matrix Rec. date Sys. Producer Location Cat. ID Diam. Notes
Mozart for clarinet and strings in A K.581
(i) Allegro [part 1]
Draper, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
5
NGS 20
c. May to August 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
XX+
12" / 30 cm
Members of Spencer Dyke String Quartet, not billed as such on disc labels
(i) Allegro [part 2] Draper, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
5
NGS 21X
c. May to August 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
XX–
12" / 30 cm
(i) Allegro [part 2] Draper, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
5
NGS 22X
c. May to August 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
YY+
12" / 30 cm
(i) Allegro [part 2] Draper, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
5
NGS 23
c. May to August 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
YY–
12" / 30 cm
(i) Allegro [part 2] Draper, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
5
NGS 24X
c. May to August 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
ZZ+
12" / 30 cm
(i) Allegro [part 2] Draper, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
5
NGS 25X
c. May to August 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
ZZ–
12" / 30 cm
(i) Allegro [part 2] Draper, Spencer Dyke, Quaife, Tomlinson, Patterson Parker
5
NGS 26X
c. May to August 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
AAA+
12" / 30 cm
Mozart Duo for violin and viola in G K.423
(ii) Adagio
Spencer Dyke, Tomlinson
2
NGS 28
c. May to August 1926
ac
Vocalion Vocalion studio,
Duncan Avenue, London
AAA–
12" / 30 cm
Filler
Purcell arr. Mangeot[9] Fantasia à 4 Z.738
[part 1]
Music Society String Quartet
(Mangeot, Pecker, Berly, Barbirolli)
4
GS 33
February 1926
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
BBB+
10" / 25 cm
Recording date from Malcolm Walker
[part 2] Music Society String Quartet
(Mangeot, Pecker, Berly, Barbirolli)
4
GS 344
April(?) 1926
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
BBB–
10" / 25 cm
Original matrix, recorded in February, apparently damaged; re-recorded some weeks later
Purcell arr. Mangeot Fantasia à 3 Z.734 Mangeot, Berly, Barbirolli
3
GS 36
February 1926
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
CCC+
12" / 30 cm
Recording date from Malcolm Walker
Members of Music Society String Quartet, not billed as such on disc label
McEwen String Quartet No.5 Nugae
(iii) Peat Reek
Music Society String Quartet
(Pecker, Mangeot, Berly, Barbirolli)
4
GS 353
April(?) 1926
ac
Parlophone Parlophone studio,
City Road, London
CCC–
12" / 30 cm
Mangeot billed first on disc label, but Pecker reported as leading this side

References

  1. 'National Gramophonic Society Notes', The Gramophone, Vol.III No.2, July 1925, p.80
  2. Minutes of 24 April 1925 board meeting of Gramophone (Publications) Limited, undated
  3. '[...] would it be possible to get the Lament of Tomlinson on 12 inch put together[?] with the Brahms 6tet of Spencer Dyke and get our Goossens By the Tarn go on the back of Gibbons 3,9'
    Annotation in André Mangeot's hand on MS letter from Robert Gathorne-Hardy to Mangeot, dated 23 December 1925, André Mangeot Collection, Royal College of Music, London
  4. 'National Gramophonic Society Notes', The Gramophone, Vol.III No.2, July 1925, p.80
  5. Minutes of 24 April 1925 board meeting of Gramophone (Publications) Limited, undated
  6. Ernest Tomlinson (1877-1957), well-known teacher and viola player in several distinguished quartets including the Spencer Dyke String Quartet, is not to be confused with the composer and conductor Ernest Tomlinson (1924-2015)
  7. '[...] would it be possible to get the Lament of Tomlinson on 12 inch put together[?] with the Brahms 6tet of Spencer Dyke and get our Goossens By the Tarn go on the back of Gibbons 3,9'
    Annotation in André Mangeot's hand on MS letter from Robert Gathorne-Hardy to Mangeot, dated 23 December 1925, André Mangeot Collection, Royal College of Music, London
  8. Gibbons' 3-part fantasies probably performed in the arrangement for modern string trio by Edmund Fellowes, published by Stainer & Bell, London, 1924
  9. Purcell's Fantasias for viols were transcribed from the composer's autograph MS in 1925 by Peter Warlock and then arranged by André Mangeot for modern strings, in which form they were published by J. Curwen & Sons, London, in 1927