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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... 

Original masters of recordings made in the early 1900s by Dame Nellie Melba, the biggest singing star of her day, have been discovered. Roger Neill, of Historic Masters – who discovered the recordings – discusses the significance of the uncovered... 

The University of Melbourne has written an article featuring the Australian release of Historic Masters Melba Issue.  The article, featured in the The University of Melbourne Voice Vol. 3, No. 10 8 December – 12 January 2009 stated: The first... 

Historic Masters has already released boxed sets of recordings by Adelina Patti and Francesco Tamagno. The third of the ‘big three’ whom the Gramophone Company was so anxious to entice to record was the great Australian soprano, Nellie Melba;... 

The Historic Masters Melba issue was released in Australia on December 3rd 2008. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has prepared a number of news articles relating to this issue. Melissa Maddison writes in her online article titled, New life...