Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Suite for solo cello in c minor BWV 1011
I. Prelude

Unidentified artist (cello)

Recorded: mid- to late 1920s, Salle Pleyel des quatuors (‘petite’ Salle Pleyel)(?), Paris
Format: coarse-groove, 78 rpm, 10” / 25 cm, electrical, test pressing
Matrices: 4502 / 4503
Issued: unknown
Catalogue number: unknown

Test pressing by Paris engineering and recording firm Bernard Roux, which devised its own electrical recording system from 1923 and made the first electrical recordings in France in early 1925

From at least late 1922, Bernard Roux made recordings in the then headquarters of musical instrument manufacturers Pleyel et C^ie. in Paris, probably in the smaller of two recital halls located there and closed in 1928

Pressing bears earlier of two known styles of Bernard Roux label, seen on acoustical tests recorded in early 1920s but also used for early electrical tests from mid-1920s

Physical characteristics of disc and matrix numbers close to those of Electrovox disc thought also to be Roux production, although any such attribution is currently conjectural

Transfer and restoration: Andrew Hallifax for DogintheManger
Editing and photographs: DogintheManger

Contemporary sources
None located to date

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