Carmen - Prelude To Act 1

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Album Info

Release Date: 1919-10

Label: Victrola

Recorded May 8, 1919 at Church Studio, Camden, New Jersey.

Published matrix & take number: B-22812- 4.
(Takes 1-2 recorded May 5, 1919; takes 3-4 recorded May 8. For takes 5-6, see BVE-22812 on Victrola 1356.)

Instrumentation: 6 first violins, 4 second violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos, 4 string basses, harp, 3 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, 2 tubas, 2 traps, and 3 flutes (Victor ledgers note, 5/5/1919: "2 librarians").

Subsequently issued on double-sided Victrola 796 "Carmen - Prelude to Act 1 / March of the Caucasian Chief."

Runouts are stamped