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Vox Recordings from the SLUB Vol. 1 (Sänger – Wagner)

The SLUB (Sächsische Landes- und Universitäts-Bibliothek in Dresden) was one of the first institutions, who made up a public sound archive on the internet with shellack recordings. As the digitalization began early, there are some parameter which do not reach the standard of archive.org. All recordings are only given as MP3 with 160 kB/s, not all can be heard in full lenght, and the pictures of the labels are often poor. But – they have a lot of rare records which can not be found elsewhere in the web. Everyone can listen to the records on the SLUB website and download them.

In 2016 I have looked through the whole catalogue of SLUB and have downloaded a few thousand recordings. They all are public domain. I present here on my archive.org-account some recordings I have collected from SLUB. You are free to explore the website of SLUB for yourself:

[http://mediathek.slub-dresden.de](http://mediathek.slub-dresden.de)/  (go to: Archiv der Stimmen)

The record maker Vox started recording at the end of 1921 or beginning of 1922 and went bankrupt in 1929. In the meantime they built an impressive repertoire of own recordings. They recorded popular music, but also many opera singers of the time. Some oft them did not record otherwise. Many recordings, especially of the lesser known artists, are rare today (as most of the late acoustic recordings before the invention of the electric recording process in 1925/26).

I have left the SLUB recordings unchanged with 160 kB/s MP3 files (mostly mono), but added my own MP3-tags with discographical annotations. The names of the original files are still left, but I have added an own number which indicates the place in the playlist. The (often poor) pictures given by SLUB for the single recordings of this playlist can be found here:

[https://archive.org/details/vox\_pictures\_1](https://archive.org/details/vox\_pictures\_1)

Vox Recordings from the SLUB Vol. 1 (Sänger – Wagner)

1 Lohengrins Herkunft - Gralserzählung (44 A, *3016) - Johannes SEMBACH - Tenor

2 Meistersinger- Preislied (47 A, *3016) - Johannes SEMBACH - Tenor

3 Flieder-Monolog (84 A, *03039) - Walter SOOMER - Bariton

4 Verachtet mir die Meister nicht (85 A, *03039) - Walter SOOMER - Bariton

5 Meistersinger - Taufspruch des Hans Sachs (86 A, *3032) - Walter SOOMER - Bariton

6 Meistersinger- Schusterlied (87 A, *03032) - Walter SOOMER - Bariton

7 Parsifal - Karfreitagszauber (88 A, *0303S) - Walter SOOMER - Bariton

8 Tannhäuser- O kehr zurück, du kühner Sanger (104 A, *030S2)- Hermann WEIL - Bariton

9 Tannhäuser-Wohl wusste ich hier (105 A, *03032) - Hermann WEIL - Bariton

10 Tannhäuser- Lied an den Abendstern (303 A, *03096) - Carl RENNER - Bariton

11 Tannhäuser - Blick ich umher (304 A, *03096) - Carl RENNER - Bariton

12 Am stillen Herd (407 A, *03141)- Caspar KOCH - Tenor

13 Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater (410 A,*03140) - Caspar KOCH - Tenor

14 Preislied (411 A,*03041) - Caspar KOCH - Tenor

15 Holländer - Steuermannslied (413 A, *3140) Caspar KOCH - Tenor

16 Wotans Abschied Teil 1 (490 A,*3137) - Hans BAHLING - Bariton

17 Wotans Abschied Teil 2 (491 A, *3137) - Hans BAHLING - Bariton

18 Parsifal – Nur eine Waffe taugt (501 A, *3156) - Fritz VOGELSTROM - Tenor

19 Lohengrins Abschied (504A, *3156) - Fritz VOGELSTROM - Tenor

20 Lohengrin-Nun sei bedankt (547 A,*03173) - Björn TALEN - Tenor

21 Gralserzählung (544 1/2 A, T33173) - Björn TALEN - Tenor

22 Tannhäuser Romerzählung (769 A, *03601) - Carl CLEWING - Tenor

23 Fliedermonolog (858 A,*03273) Jan MERGELKAMP - Bariton

24 Pogners Ansprache (859 A,*03273) Jan MERGELKAMP - Bariton

25 Lohengrins Abschied (1026A, *3024) Carl GÜNTHER-Tenor

26 Walküre - Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond (1060 A,*03407) Hendrik APPELS - Tenor

27 Gralserzählung (1061 A, *03315) - Hendrik APPELS - Tenor

23 Lohengrins Abschied (1062 A, *03315) - Hendrik APPELS - Tenor

29 Romerzählung Teil 1 (1063 A, *03314) - Hendrik APPELS - Tenor

30 Romerzählung Teil 2 (1064 A,*03314) - Hendrik APPELS - Tenor

31 Am stillen Herd (1073 A,*03336) Alfred FÄRBACH - Tenor

32 Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond (1074 A, *03336) Alfred FÄRBACH - Tenor

33 Lohengrin - Höchstes Vertrau‘n (1075A, *03601) Alfred FÄRBACH - Tenor

34 Parsifal-Charfreitagszauber (1172 A, *03342) Egon FUCHS – Bass

35 Meistersinger - Fliedermonolog (1174 A, *03342) Egon FUCHS – Bass

36 Holländer - Arie des Daland (1227 A, *03364) ANFANG FEHLT - Carl BRAUN - Bariton

37 Gebet aus Lohengrin (1223 A*03364) Carl BRAUN - Bariton

38 Gebet aus Rienzi (1292 A, *03351) Rudolf RITTER - Tenor

39 Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater (1402 A, *03407) - Hendrik APPELS - Tenor

40 Siegfried - Schmiedelied (1706 1/2 A, *03026) - Björn TALEN - Tenor

41 Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond (1707 A, *03026) - Björn TALEN - Tenor

42 Götterdämmerung: Hier sitz ich zur Wacht (1736 AA, 03664) – Emanuel LIST - Bass

43 Parsifal - Titurel, der fromme Held (1735 AA, 03664)  – Emanuel LIST - Bass

Note: To emphasize a few recordings:  Jan Mergelkamp and Caspar Koch only recorded for Vox. Recordings of Egon Fuchs are rather rare. And Carl Clewing (22), who also worked as an actor, left us a lot of photos of him, but only a few recordings.

Johannes SEMBACH – Tenor, Walter SOOMER – Bariton, Hermann WEIL – Bariton, Carl RENNER – Bariton, Caspar KOCH – Tenor, Hans BAHLING – Bariton, Fritz VOGELSTROM – Tenor, Björn TALEN – Tenor, Carl CLEWING – Tenor, Jan MERGELKAMP – Bariton, Hendrik APPELS – Tenor, Alfred FÄRBACH – Tenor, Egon FUCHS – Bass, Carl BRAUN – Bariton, Rudolf RITTER – Tenor, Emanuel LIST – Bass