Beginning in the 1890s, a Russian businessman named Julius Block made a series of recordings on wax cylinders. They included performances by violinist Jascha Heifetz (at age 11) and composer Anton Arensky.
The recordings were given up for lost. But when John Maltese and his father heard about them, they embarked on a 30-year quest to track down the rare, wax cylinders. Maltese, a government professor at the University of Georgia, finally found the recordings in St. Petersburg, Russia, and traveled there with record producer Ward Marston. The fruit of the long, careful process of restoring the recordings, The Dawn of Recording , is now available in a new 3-CD set.
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