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When I began my record collection in the late 1940s, there were only 78 rpm shellac records.
The first LPs became available here in the early 1950s.
Among the 78s I had were several with the Regensburger Domspatzen, recorded as far back as the 1930s.
I have a thick book of over 600 pages, "The Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia of recorded music" which was supposed to cover all the classical music then recorded!
I don't recall where I got this, most probably in New York City and what I have is the "Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged" by Crown Publishers, New York, 1948.
It does not give the dates of recording but since what I'm now posting is listed in that book, one can safely deduct that the recordings took place before 1948!
And probably a few years before that date because of the war that had ended just a couple of years before, and with the destruction in Germany that we know.
There have been some excellent CDs that were issued by a former Regensburg soloist who later became a sound engineer of renown, but I'm posting only what I had on these 78s that was NOT included in these archival CDs.One of those CDs include excerpts from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, but they are not exactly the same and they come from a later recording.
For those who have never come across any of those old 78s, let me just add that they were mostly sold individually, that is not in albums with few exceptions, and that of course there were no covers or tracklists.
So I took the liberty of making a sort of cover with tracklists (apologies to Thane!) to help out those who need some kind of image for their catalog.
A reminder and warning.
These being 78s, there are some surface noises.
I don't have the original 78s any more but I had previously taped them and it is this tape that I have ripped to a CD.
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