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MICHAEL H GRAY
''Having spent more years than I care to remember working on papers from the EMI Music Archive, I would not like to think that after my death or incapacity all this work would simply be discarded as worthless rubbish.'' Thus, Alan Kelly begins the General Introduction that appears on each of the CD-ROMs under consideration here. One could not disagree more with an author -- these discs and those promised are certain to take their places among the great accomplishments of discography.
The Catalogue Series ''Working Files''HMV -- The Russian Catalogue -- Amour. CAT2 (Draft) / Prepared 26 July 2003
HMV -- The French Catalogue -- La Voix de son Maitre. CAT3 (2nd Edition) / Prepared 26 July 2003
HMV -- The Italian Catalogue -- La Voce del Padrone. CAT5 (2nd Edition) / Prepared 14 May 2003
HMV -- The Dutch Catalogue -- De Stem van jijn Meester. CAT9 / Prepared 26 July 2003
The CDs above cover four of the ten branches into which the Gramophone Company was organized at its foundation. Each disc contains a General Introduction to the Company's catalogue, matrix series and organization, plus an individual introduction to the specific activities of the Recording Experts active in or for each Branch, the Catalogue and Coupling numbers assigned to that particular branch, and an...