MAURICE d'OISLY - A Discography
by Charles A. Hooey (see note below)
ODEON
Title/author
Matrix/take, Date, 10 ¾ “, d/s nos
1. Songs that my mother taught me (Dvořák)
Lx 3334, August 1910, 66684, 0632
2. Down in the forest (Landon Ronald)
Lx 3317, August 1910, 66691, 0632, Ariel 6134
3. Acis and Galatea (Handel): Love in her eyes sits
playing
Lx 3354, September 1910, 66699, 0637
4. Semele (Handel): Where’er you walk
Lx 3355, September 1910, 66700, 0637
5. Robin Hood (de Koven): O, promise me
Lx 3333, October 1910, 66683, 0646
6. Eleanore (Coleridge Taylor)
Lx 3353, October 1910, 66727, 0646
7. For ever and for ever (Tosti)
Lx 3399, January 1911, 66740, 0674, Ariel 6134
8. Your dear brown eyes (Adams) w. orch. acc.
Lx 3400, January 1911, 66741, 0674
9. Mary of Argyle (Nelson)
Lx 3335 March 1911, 66685, 0698
10. Jocelyn (Godard): Angels guard thee (Berceuse)
Lx 3398-3 March 1911, 66768, 0698
11. The minstrel boy (Moore)
Lx -, April 1911, 66785, B-037
12. In sympathy (Franco Leoni)
Lx -, April 1911, 66786, B-037
13. My pretty Jane (Bishop) w. piano acc.
Lx -, May 1911, 66783, B-0115
14. Before the dawn (George Chadwick) w. piano acc.
Lx -, May 1911, 66784, B-0115
15. Madam Butterfly (Puccini); Act I duet Part 1 with
Jessie Reeve
Lx3424, July 1911, 66767, RB0297
16. Watchman, what of the night? with Ivor Foster
Lx -, September 1911, 57689, B-0412 (or B-0419)
17. Faust (Gounod): Be mine the delight with Ivor Foster
Lx -, September 1911, 57691, B-0412, (or B-0419)
18. Lohengrin (Wagner): Lohengrin's narration
Lx -, October 1911, 66868, R-0710
19. Die Walküre (Wagner): Spring song
Lx -, October 1911, 66873, R-0710
20. Doris (Cellier): So fare thee well
Lx -, November 1911, 66888, 0717
21. Serenade (Schubert)
Lx -, November 1911, 66889, 0717
22. Beyond (F. Lambert)
Lx 3598 December 1911, 113006, 0727
23. I hid my love (Guy d'Hardelot)
Lx 3599 December 1911, 113007, 0727
24. Lullaby (Brahms)
Lx-, February 1912, 113030, 0761
25. Judas Maccabaeus (Handel); Sound an alarm
Lx 3142-2 (or Lx 3104-2)
1922 cat., 113013
26. Only once more (Frank Muir)
Lx -, 1922 cat., 113032
27. Sweet, be not proud (Clutsam)
Lx -, February 1912, 113044, 0761
28. La Fanciulla del West (Puccini): Ch'ella mi creda
Lx 3387-2 March 1912, 66890, 0768
29. Maritana (Wallace): In happy moments
Lx -, April 1912, 66869, 0754
30. Till Death (Mascheroni)
Lx -, April 1912, 66870, 0754
31. The Maid of Malahar (Adams)
Lx -, July 1912, 113031
10”, d/s
32. O Flower of all the world (Woodford-Finden)
Lxg -, October 1912, 143034, 0792
33. Goodbye, sweetheart goodbye (Hatton)
Lxg -, October 1912, 143014, 0792
34. A farewell (S. Liddle)
Lxg -, November 1912, 143037, 0800
35. One more sleep and thy beaming eyes w. piano acc.
Lxg -, November 1912, 143038, 0800
36. When the world is fair (Bingham/Cowen)
Lxg -, May 1913, 143835, 0835
37. The garden I love (William Reid)
Lxg -, May 1913, 143836, 0835
38. Destiny (Hubert Bath) w. piano acc.
Lxg _, July 1913, 143052, 0847
39. Jephtha (Handel): Waft her angels to the skies w.
piano acc.
Lxg -, July 1913, 143053, 0847
40. Phyllis has such charming graces (Anthony Young)
Lxg -, January 1914, 143833, 0886
41. I seek for thee in every flower (Enoch Ganz)
Lxg -, January 1914, 143834, 0886
42. Faust (Gounod): Finale w. Jessie Reeve & Ivor Foster
Lx -, 1915 cat., 57690, 0757
12”, d/s
43. Faust (Gounod): Salve dimora (Sung in Italian)
Lxx 3425 February 1911, 72584, X-68, Ariel 8668
44. The Meistersinger (Wagner): Prize song
Lxx 3426 February 1911, 72585, X-68, Ariel 8667
45. La Bohème (Puccini): Che gelida manina
Lxx 3588 March 1912, 72588, X-80, Ariel 8669
46. Lohengrin (Wagner): In distant lands
Lxx 3601 March 1912, 72598, X-80, Ariel 8668
47. Hiawatha's Wedding Feast (Coleridge Taylor):
Onaway, awake beloved
Lxx -, October 1912, 72608, X-85, Ariel 8669
48. The Meistersinger (Wagner): In snow bound hall
Lxx -, October 1912, 72610, X-85, Ariel 8667
COLUMBIA, s/s, d/s
49. Rigoletto (Verdi): Fairest daughter of the graces
with Rosina Buckman, Edith Clegg and Frederic Austin
6674-2, rec. pre-Mar. 1916, L-1025
50. Faust (Gounod): Prison Scene (Act 5)
with Rosina Buckman and Frederick Ranalow
6683-2, rec. pre-Mar. 1916, L-1025
51. Maritana (Wallace): Turn on old time
with Edith Clegg and Frederick Ranalow
rec. 1916, 35950, D.1336
52. Those azure eyes (Cox)
rec. Mar 1916, D.1338
53. In sympathy (Franco Leoni)
rec. Mar 1916, D.1338
54. The Gondoliers (Sullivan): Take a pair of sparkling
eyes
rec. pre- Mar 1916, 65163, D.65163
55. Doris (Cellier): So fare thee well
rec. Mar 1916, 65164, D. 2335
56. The Dream of Gerontius (Elgar):
My work is done, with Clara Butt
6771-1, pre-4/1916, 7128 7308 75005
57. The Dream of Gerontius (Elgar):
I see not those false spirits, with Clara Butt
6772-1, pre-4/1916, 7129, 7308 75006
58. The Dream of Gerontius (Elgar):
We have now passed the gate, with Clara Butt
6773-1, pre-4/1916, 7130 7309 75007
59. La Bohème (Puccini): Lovely maid in the moonlight
with Rosina Buckman
6927-1, October 1916, L-1076
60. Carmen (Bizet): We had quitted the church
with Rosina Buckman
6928-2, pre-3/1917, L-1062
61. Madam Butterfly (Puccini): Give me your darling
hands
with Rosina Buckman
6929-1, rec. pre-10/1916, L-1076
62. Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni): Stay, Turiddu
with Rosina Buckman
6935-2, rec. pre-1/1920, L-1332
63. La Traviata (Verdi): Far from the busy throng
with Rosina Buckman
6936-2, rec. pre-1/1921, L-1400
64. Roméo and Juliet (Gounod): O night of Hymen
with Rosina Buckman
6937-1, rec. pre-3/1917, L-1062
65. La Bohème (Puccini): Your tiny hand is frozen
6948-2, December 1917, L-1221
66. Tosca (Puccini): No eyes on earth with Rosina Buckman
6954-2, c. 1916, L-1174
67. L'Amico Fritz (Mascagni): The Cherry Duet
with Rosina Buckman
6982-4, pre-1/1921, L-1400
68. Tosca (Puccini): When stars were brightly shining
6988-1, c. 1916, L-1166
69. Tosca (Puccini); Strange harmony
6991-2, c. 1916, L-1774
70. La Bohème (Puccini): Lovely maid in the moonlight
with Rosina Buckman cond. by Eugène Goossens
Cc 1194, 5 April, 1922, unpublished
71. Madam Butterfly (Puccini): Give me your darling
hands
with Rosina Buckman
Cc 1195, 5 April, 1922, unpublished
Note
This discography, together with that of Rosina Buckman, was originally prepared by George Woolford to accompany
my article ‘Sing to me, Maurice Dear’ that
appeared in For The
Record,
No 4, Winter 2002/3. They are presented here in a revised form. William Main’s
discography for Rosina Buckman in The Record Collector Vol. 47, No 1 March 2002
was also consulted. This story is worth finding as it is a good read. I extend
my sincere thanks to him, his researchers and to George Woolford. Reference was
made as well to ‘British Odeons’ by Michael Langridge, published
by The City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society in August 2006 and ‘The
Gramophone Company Ltd.’ by Michael Smith, also published by the City of
London Phonograph and Gramophone Society in March 2004.
Anyone undertaking to develop a discography soon discovers how difficult a task
this is. At the end of his version of the discographies, George Woolford explained
a few of the problems so this useful backgrounder follows:
Matrix numbers do not always run consecutively due to ‘takes’ made
days or even weeks after the original session.
HMV often had to re-record items, due to volume levels and ‘wear test’ which
all recordings were subjected to. Thus a current session matrix number would
have a higher ‘take’ number added.
So the Butterfly session recorded on the 10th, 14th and
21st of March 1924, are appraised and a further remake session takes
place on the 4th and 16th of April 1924. Those listed with ‘-2’ or
above would be likely to be the 4th April. Cc4404-6 on D-906 would
be likely to have been made again on the 16th, obviously a problem!
Columbia conceals their matrix information and the recording ledgers that we
discographers would like to inspect have been lost.
Pathé, the face numbers, i.e. 93870, have an additional mastered number
written beneath the Trade Mark. This changes when the disc is re-recorded from
the master cylinder. Luckily for us after 1914 the abbreviated date is also given
for the year the re-mastering was made.
Catalogues also confirm existence of titles which must have been recorded before
the catalogue was produced. Unfortunately, many recordings had a very short life,
and since Pathé also suffered a factory fire in 1915, some of the masters
may have been lost.
