Here's a cool
NPR story about a guy who tracked down a set of wax cylinders from the dawn of recorded sound. Mostly Russian, they feature the only known recordings of a number of people, the earliest surviving recordings of a number of others, and just plain interesting recordings of even other cool cats in the ~1890s. For instance, Rachmaninov playing Rachmaninov, Jascha Heifetz on violin at age 11, and voice recordings of Tolstoy.
Apparently, they cylinders were thought destroyed in Germany in WWII, but actually ended up in St. Petersburg. They languished there unnoticed for 60 years until someone stumbled upon them, and now they're
available on CD for all of us to enjoy.
Neat.
Reminds me of
this story a few months ago about some recently rediscovered Hank Williams recordings of a radio program from 1951. Extra neat.
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