GladDiscs is the new record
label for recordings issued by Neil Gladd Publications!
In 2022, a change in the U.S. Copyright law made it possible for the first time to reissue early sound recordings, that were first published before 1923. The beginnings of the recording industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries coincided with the "Golden Age" of the mandolin, so many of the early soloists made at least some recordings on cylinders or 78s, some of them quite a lot! I considered publishing a sampler CD, with one recording each by many different soloists, but decided, instead, to use my YouTube channel for that, and focus on early Italian mandolin soloists for the first CD.
GladDiscs
GD-001 - Early Italian Mandolin Soloists (2022) [CD
and digital release]
70 minutes of music on 26 tracks, of which 24 have NEVER been reissued, before! They were all recorded between 1899 and 1917, and the artists include:
Angelo Alfieri (1864-1925)
Gennaro Volpe (b. 1866, active until 1910)
Eduardo Mezzacapo (1870-1942)
Salvator Leonardi (1872-1938)
Stellario Cambria (1874-1929)
Raffaele Calace (1863-1934)
In addition to hearing 6 different soloists playing their own music, you will also hear 3 different types of instruments. Most of the soloists were playing the Neapolitan mandolin with 4 pairs of strings, but Alfieri played the Milanese mandolin, with 6 single strings, and Leonardi recorded on a banjolin, a 4 string mandolin-banjo. (!)
All recordings are from the personal collection of Neil Gladd, who wrote the liner notes on the recordings, but the liner notes for the performers were written by mandolin soloist and musicologist, Ugo Orlandi.
The digital album with digital booklet will be $20.00, the CD will be $20.00 plus shipping. I may be accepting pre-orders, soon, and this page will be updated as news become available!
GladDiscs
GD-002 - Mandolin Night EP (2022) $5.00 [digital
release on BandCamp]
Neil Gladd, mandolin, and Teri Lazar, violin.
These tracks had originally been released on the 1998 compilation CD, Mandolin X 4.
Johann Hoffman: Duetto in D, Op.1, no.3 (1799)
I. Allegro moderato
II. Poco Adagio
III. Rondo. Allegro moderato
GladDiscs GD-003 - America's First Mandolin Recording Star: Samuel Siegel (2023) [digital release]
Samuel Siegel (1875-1948) was the most recorded mandolinist in the first decade of the 20th century, and from 1900 to 1910, he had recorded discs for Berliner, Victor, Columbia, Climax, and Zonophone, and cylinders on Edison, Indestructible and Amberola. He often recorded the same titles for more than one label, which gives us the opportunity to to choose the best performance from multiple recordings of each piece. This will be a digital release so that it can include more music than would fit on a CD!
Future Releases:
I am still considering other future projects. I have the complete recordings of both Valentine Abt (1873-1942) and William Place, Jr. (1889-1959). Players such as Bernardo de Pace (1881-1966) and Mario de Pietro (1896-1945) each deserve to have an entire CD devoted to them, but many of their recordings will still be under copyright for a few more years. In 2028, MANY great mandolin orchestra recordings from Italy and Germany will become available!
In 2005 I began recording a CD of contemporary American mandolin music. It was never completed, but I still have the unedited raw recordings, and will start to edit them next year. I will also be making some new recordings of my own, primarily my own compositions, works that were written for me by other composers, and some historical works that have never been previously recorded.
Older Releases:
I have a few boxes of the first two releases on the Plucked String Discs label (New old stock, still sealed.). These are available on LP, only, and once they are gone, they will not be reissued.
PSD
001 - Howard Frye: A Memorial Album 1920-1967
(1984) [LP, only]
Howard Frye, mandolin, and David Levine, piano
Carlo Munier (1858-1911): Bizzaria Caprice
Boris Goltz (1913-1942): Two Pieces for Balalaika
Luigi Paparello (1884-1979): Bells of Night
Enrico Marucelli (1873-1901): Valzer Fantastico
Raffaele Calace (1863-1934): Mandolin Concerto No. 1, Op. 113: I. Marziale
Eastern European Doina
Carlo Munier: Capriccio Spagnuolo
The sheet music for Luigi Paparello's Bells of Night is included in the collection, Four Centuries of Solo Mandolin Music.
$10.00 PLEASE NOTE! Shipping for LPs within the United States is the same as for sheet music, but the cost of sending them internationally is more than twice the cost of the record, over $20. For international orders that include LPs, you will be sent an invoice for the cost of the additional postage.
PSD
002 - Neil Gladd: The Solo
Mandolin Baroque to Modern (1984) [LP, only]
J.S. Bach (1685-1750): Partita in d minor, BWV 1004
Gabriele Leone (c. 1735 – 1790): De Samodeste Mere
Neil Gladd (b. 1955): Partita a Dodici Toni (1982)
Aubrey Stauffer (1876-1952): Storm at Sea (1902)
Neil Gladd: Sonata for Solo Mandolin (1983)
I do not have the master tape, or I might have reissued the Bach Partita. I would prefer to make new recordings of my original compositions, but the Bach Partita is not something that I would record again, as I am now more interested in recording only original mandolin music.
The sheet music for Partita
a Dodici Toni (1982) and Sonata
for Solo Mandolin (1983) are both available from Neil Gladd
Publications.
Leone's De Samodeste Mere and Aubrey Stauffer's Storm at Sea are both included in the collection Four Centuries of Solo Mandolin Music.
$10.00 PLEASE NOTE! Shipping for LPs within the United States is the same as for sheet music, but the cost of sending them internationally is more than twice the cost of the record, over $20. For international orders that include LPs, you will be sent an invoice for the cost of the additional postage.
Return to Neil Gladd Publcations
Return to NeilGladd.com
In 2022, a change in the U.S. Copyright law made it possible for the first time to reissue early sound recordings, that were first published before 1923. The beginnings of the recording industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries coincided with the "Golden Age" of the mandolin, so many of the early soloists made at least some recordings on cylinders or 78s, some of them quite a lot! I considered publishing a sampler CD, with one recording each by many different soloists, but decided, instead, to use my YouTube channel for that, and focus on early Italian mandolin soloists for the first CD.
GladDiscs
GD-001 - Early Italian Mandolin Soloists (2022) [CD
and digital release]70 minutes of music on 26 tracks, of which 24 have NEVER been reissued, before! They were all recorded between 1899 and 1917, and the artists include:
Angelo Alfieri (1864-1925)
Gennaro Volpe (b. 1866, active until 1910)
Eduardo Mezzacapo (1870-1942)
Salvator Leonardi (1872-1938)
Stellario Cambria (1874-1929)
Raffaele Calace (1863-1934)
In addition to hearing 6 different soloists playing their own music, you will also hear 3 different types of instruments. Most of the soloists were playing the Neapolitan mandolin with 4 pairs of strings, but Alfieri played the Milanese mandolin, with 6 single strings, and Leonardi recorded on a banjolin, a 4 string mandolin-banjo. (!)
All recordings are from the personal collection of Neil Gladd, who wrote the liner notes on the recordings, but the liner notes for the performers were written by mandolin soloist and musicologist, Ugo Orlandi.
The digital album with digital booklet will be $20.00, the CD will be $20.00 plus shipping. I may be accepting pre-orders, soon, and this page will be updated as news become available!
GladDiscs
GD-002 - Mandolin Night EP (2022) $5.00 [digital
release on BandCamp]Neil Gladd, mandolin, and Teri Lazar, violin.
These tracks had originally been released on the 1998 compilation CD, Mandolin X 4.
Johann Hoffman: Duetto in D, Op.1, no.3 (1799)
I. Allegro moderato
II. Poco Adagio
III. Rondo. Allegro moderato
Pamela J. Marshall: Mandolin Night (1985)
Two original compositions for the mandolin, written 186 years apart! Johann Hoffman wrote a concerto and a number of chamber pieces for the mandolin. This duet for mandolin and violin was published in 1799, and was recorded from copies of the original parts in the British Library. Mandolin Night was written in 1985 by Pamela J. Marshall, and was one of the first pieces to be written for Neil Gladd. It incorporates duo-style (playing some notes with tremolo and other notes without tremolo, at the same time), plucking the strings with a finger, and scordatura. At the beginning of the piece, one of the E strings is tuned down to a C#, then WHILE PLAYING, one of the G strings is tuned down a quarter tone, for a short quarter tone passage, then it is tuned down further to an E flat for the remainder of the piece.credits
released October 11,
2022
GladDiscs GD-003 - America's First Mandolin Recording Star: Samuel Siegel (2023) [digital release]
Samuel Siegel (1875-1948) was the most recorded mandolinist in the first decade of the 20th century, and from 1900 to 1910, he had recorded discs for Berliner, Victor, Columbia, Climax, and Zonophone, and cylinders on Edison, Indestructible and Amberola. He often recorded the same titles for more than one label, which gives us the opportunity to to choose the best performance from multiple recordings of each piece. This will be a digital release so that it can include more music than would fit on a CD!
Future Releases:
I am still considering other future projects. I have the complete recordings of both Valentine Abt (1873-1942) and William Place, Jr. (1889-1959). Players such as Bernardo de Pace (1881-1966) and Mario de Pietro (1896-1945) each deserve to have an entire CD devoted to them, but many of their recordings will still be under copyright for a few more years. In 2028, MANY great mandolin orchestra recordings from Italy and Germany will become available!
In 2005 I began recording a CD of contemporary American mandolin music. It was never completed, but I still have the unedited raw recordings, and will start to edit them next year. I will also be making some new recordings of my own, primarily my own compositions, works that were written for me by other composers, and some historical works that have never been previously recorded.
Older Releases:
I have a few boxes of the first two releases on the Plucked String Discs label (New old stock, still sealed.). These are available on LP, only, and once they are gone, they will not be reissued.
PSD
001 - Howard Frye: A Memorial Album 1920-1967
(1984) [LP, only]Howard Frye, mandolin, and David Levine, piano
Carlo Munier (1858-1911): Bizzaria Caprice
Boris Goltz (1913-1942): Two Pieces for Balalaika
Luigi Paparello (1884-1979): Bells of Night
Enrico Marucelli (1873-1901): Valzer Fantastico
Raffaele Calace (1863-1934): Mandolin Concerto No. 1, Op. 113: I. Marziale
Eastern European Doina
Carlo Munier: Capriccio Spagnuolo
The sheet music for Luigi Paparello's Bells of Night is included in the collection, Four Centuries of Solo Mandolin Music.
$10.00 PLEASE NOTE! Shipping for LPs within the United States is the same as for sheet music, but the cost of sending them internationally is more than twice the cost of the record, over $20. For international orders that include LPs, you will be sent an invoice for the cost of the additional postage.
PSD
002 - Neil Gladd: The Solo
Mandolin Baroque to Modern (1984) [LP, only]J.S. Bach (1685-1750): Partita in d minor, BWV 1004
Gabriele Leone (c. 1735 – 1790): De Samodeste Mere
Neil Gladd (b. 1955): Partita a Dodici Toni (1982)
Aubrey Stauffer (1876-1952): Storm at Sea (1902)
Neil Gladd: Sonata for Solo Mandolin (1983)
I do not have the master tape, or I might have reissued the Bach Partita. I would prefer to make new recordings of my original compositions, but the Bach Partita is not something that I would record again, as I am now more interested in recording only original mandolin music.
Leone's De Samodeste Mere and Aubrey Stauffer's Storm at Sea are both included in the collection Four Centuries of Solo Mandolin Music.
$10.00 PLEASE NOTE! Shipping for LPs within the United States is the same as for sheet music, but the cost of sending them internationally is more than twice the cost of the record, over $20. For international orders that include LPs, you will be sent an invoice for the cost of the additional postage.
Return to Neil Gladd Publcations
Return to NeilGladd.com