Orchestra

AFra Diavolo Overture
Bpart 2

Label: Beka
Catalogue number: 12598
Genre: Orchestra
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #21518

An orchestra performs the Fra Diavolo Overture by Auber in two parts on Beka 12598. Beka was a German-origin label with British distribution active in the 1900s–1910s; overture recordings on early Beka pressings are period acoustic items of modest specialist interest.

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