Historic Masters Ltd was established in 1983 to continue the series of historic reissues of vocal recordings initiated by the British Institute of Recorded Sound. Since then there have been thirty one regular issues containing five, six or seven records... 

Il Titanico Oricalco The above is the title of a book issued by the City of Turin to honour a favourite native son. A literal translation might be ‘The Trumpet- Toned Titan’. Tamagno was quite simply a phenomenon – for more than thirty years after... 

Historic Masters discovered some years back that all known shellac records of Tamagno had been made from copy shells rather than the originals. We were able to access the original shells which are held in the DG archive and used these to issue a set of... 

THE SEVEN RECORDS IN OUR 31st ISSUE – MAY 2009 (Prospectus by Alan Bilgora) HM 200A (and) HM 200B   Paul Franz, Tenor, (1876-1950) Rome Narration pts. 1-2 Tannhususer (Wagner) Matrix numbers; 02954/5v, issued on 2-032014/5. Sung in French with... 

It is now a quarter of a century since Historic Masters Ltd was formed to continue the series of historic reissues of vocal recordings initiated by the BIRS. During that time there have been twenty-nine regular issues containing five, six or seven records...