The Vocal Record Collectors’ Society (hereafter, the VRCS) is an organization consisting of record collectors who reside primarily in the New York City metropolitan area. Originally founded in 1956 as one of four competing groups, it was the only one to survive, due to its broad base of membership. In 1959, the VRCS issued its first annual record, an LP containing rare and unusual recordings not available to the general public. The Society has continued to grow (now numbering over 200 members world-wide) and so has the scope of the annual issue, which has been a CD since 1993. The VRCS finds itself with copies of back issues of its annual CDs and is now making them available to record collectors everywhere.

CDs costs $15.00 for VRCS Members and $20.00 for non-VRCS Members. For membership and special discount information, please contact Joseph Pearce at joe.pearce@verizon.net.

VRCS Annual Issue 2023
Dedicated to
LAWRENCE F. HOLDRIDGE

2023

featuring:

Luigi Colazza (Tenor), Charlotte Agussol (Soprano), Andrés Perellò De Segurola (Bass), Ottilie Metzger (Contraltoz), Louis Lestelly (Baritone), Bernice De Pasquali (Soprano), Suzanne Brohly (Mezzo-Soprano), Cesare Formichi (Baritone), Gertrude Foertel (Soprano), Francesco Battaglia (Tenor), Emmy Land (Soprano), Jeqn Vieuille (Bass-Baritone), Gertrud Pålson-Wettergren (Mezzo-Soprano), Rogelio Baldrich (Tenor), Wanda Achsel (Soprano), Armand Marçon (Bass), Hélène Sadoven (Mezzo-Soprano), Agostino Casavecchi (Tenor), Hélène Ludolph (Soprano), Edwin Steffe (Bass-Baritone)

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VRCS Annual Issue 2022
Dedicated to
LAWRENCE F. HOLDRIDGE

2022

featuring:

Karl Meister (Tenor), Susan Strong (Soprano), Francesco Maria Bonini(Baritone), Bianca Lavin de Casas (Contralto), Maurice Sens (Tenor), Ellen Back (Mezz-Soprano), Martha Winternitz-Dorda (Soprano), André Gresse (Bass), Laura del Lungo (Mezzo-Soprano), Max Lipmann (Tenor), Odette le Fontenay (Soprano), Basil Ruysdael (Bass), Anna Meitchik (Soprano), Angelo Minghetti (Tenor), Marcelle Ragon (Soprano), Giacomo Rimini (Baritone), Ilona Durigo (Contralto), Giovanni Chiaia (Tenor), Theodor Scheidl (Baritone), José Beckmans, Marie-Thérèse Gauley (Soprano), Gaston Micheletti (Tenor)

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VRCS Annual Issue 2021
In Memoriam
GEORGE ROBERT HENDERSON (1952 - 2020)
 EDWIN STEFFE (1907 - 1996)

2021

featuring:

Esperanza Clasenti (Soprano), Aristodemo Giorgini (Tenor), Nini Frascani (Mezzo-Soprano), Oskar Kamionsky (Baritone), Luisa Ardizzoni-Tosi (Soprano), August Bockmann (Tenor), Elisa Petri (Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano), Louis Goldsteen (Louis Dornay) (Tenor), Berthe César (Soprano), Maurice Sauvageot (Baritone), Mathilde Saiman (Mezzo-Soprano), Guy Cazenave (Tenor), Tina Poli-Randaccio (Soprano), Giovanno Inghilleri (Baritone), Maria Janowska (Soprano), Antonio Gelli (Bass-Baritone), Kerstin Thorborg (Contralto), Jozef Sterkens (Tenor), Yvonne Brothier (Soprano), José Soler (Tenor), Loretta Di Lelio (Soprano),
Edwin Steffe (Bass-Baritone)

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VRCS Annual Issue 2019 - 2020
Celebrating 60 Years of Vocal Record Collectors Society LP and CD issues

2019 - 2020

 

VRCS Annual Issue 2018
Dedicated to
LAWRENCE F. HOLDRIDGE

 

VRCS Annual Issue 2010

In Memoriam
DONALD R. HODGMAN (1926 - 2009),
GEORGE JELLINEK (1919 - 2010) &
TOM KAUFMAN (1930 - 2010)

2010

featuring:

Oreste Mieli (Tenor), Louis Lestelly (Baritone), Nini Frescani (Mezz0-Soprano), Wilhelm Hesch (Bass), Giulio Tincani (Tenor), Rosa Olitzka (Mezzo-Soprano), Leopold Demuth (Baritone), Tudor Davies (Tenor), Evelyn Scotney (Soprano), Ramon Blanchart (Baritone), Dora Labette (Soprano), Luigi Montesanto (Baritone), Elsa Respighi (Soprano), Luigi Pasinati (Tenor), Marguerite D'Alvarez (Soprano), Louis Dister (Tenor), Hubert Raidich (Bass), Enid Hewitt (Contralto), Jeanne Montfort (Mezzo-Soprano), Arthur Endreze (Baritone), Licia Albanese (Soprano), Kerstin Thorborg (Contralto), Blanche Thebom (Mezz0-Soprano), Richard Bonnelli (Baritone)

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VRCS Annual Issue 2009
50th Anniversary Commemorative Issue
1959 - 2009

In Memoriam
WILLIAM S. ASHBROOK (1922 - 2009)

2 CDs

2009

featuring:

CD 1
Isa Kremer (Soprano), Umberto Macnez (Tenor), Marie Rappold (Soprano), David Bispham (Baritone), Carolina White (Soprano), Romain (Leon) Carbelly (Bass-Baritone), Florence Hinkle (Sooprano), Karl Jörn (Tenor), Aurora Rettore (Soprano), Irma Mion (Soprano), Lucy Finkle (Soprano)/William (Willie) Robyn (Tenor), Louie Lerch (Brien) (Soprano), Mario Laurenti (Baritone), Adriana Perris (Soprano), Max Bloch (Tenor), Eva Leone (Soprano), Madeleine Sibille (Soprano), Louis Azéma (Bass), Lina Pagliughi (Soprano), Marcel Génio (Tenor), Rina Gigli (Soprano), Guy Cazenave (Tenor)

CD 2
Giuseppina Finzi-Magrini (Soprano), Ferruccio Giannini (Tenor), Susan String (Soprano), Gennaro de Tura (Tenor), Grete Dorst (Soprano), Desider Arányi (Tenor), Suzanne Brohly (Mezzo-Soprano), Vladimir Rosing (Tenor), Elena Katulskaya (Soprano), Agnes Kimball (Soprano), Lieb Glantz (Tenor), Eduard Kandl (Bass), Germaine Corney (Soprano), Arthur Fear (Baraitone), José Mossesgeld Santiago (Baritone), Mafalda Salvatini (Soprano), Louis Graveur (Tenor), Harold Williams (Baritone), Germaine Martinelli (Soprano), Jules Bledsoe (Baritone), Nicola Moscona (Baritone), Kathleen Ferrier (Contralto)

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VRCS Annual Issue 2008

In Memoriam
CHARLES "SAM" WEINFELD (1921 - 2007)

2008

featuring:

Irene Eden (Soprano), Anna Case (Soprano), Jean Noté (Baritone), Grete Forst (Soprano), Catherine Mastio (Soprano), Jenny Jungbauer (Soprano), Adolf Lieban (Bass), Marguerite Prinvot (Soprano), Jessica Köttrich (Mezzo-Soprano), Josif Solomonovich Vinogradov (Baritone), S. Arkadjewa (Soprano), Aleksandra Andreyevna Gvozdetskaya (Soprano), Alexander Griff (Bass), Jerzy Garda (Baritone), Deva-Dassy (Mezzo-Soprano), Arturs Frinbergs (Tenor), Charles Cambon (Baritone), Bernadette LeMichel du Roy (Soprano), Martin Kremer (Tenor), Thomas L.Thomas (Baritone), Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano), Calvin Marsh (Baritone), Kurt Baum (Tenor), Kathleen Ferrier (Mezzo-Soprano)

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VRCS Annual Issue 2007

In Memoriam
BARNETT M. MITZMAN (1930 - 2007)

2007

featuring:

Giulietta Wermez (Soprano), Carlo Ballint (Tenor), Henri Dangès (Baritone), Ottilie Metzger (Contralto), Bérthe Cesar (Soprano), Léon Campagnola (Tenor), Rosalia Chalia (Soprano), Joachim Serdan (Bass), Elvira Ceresoli (Mezzo-soprano), Maurice Capitaine (Tenor), Louis Lestrelly (Baritone), Bella Alten (Soprano), Louis Graveure (Baritone), Anita Patti Brown (Soprano), Victor Pujol (Tenor), Essie Ackland (Contralto), Tudor Davies (Tenor), Hélène Bouvier (Mezzo-soprano), Pierre Dupré (Bass-baritone), Margarete Slezak (Soprano), Herbert Ernst Groh (Tenor), Pierre Fleta (Tenor), Wilma Lipp (Colorature Soprano), Jussi Björling (Tenor)

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50th Anniversary

VRCS Annual Issue 2006

Special 2-CD Set

2006

featuring:

Jane Cros (Soprano), Forrest Lamont (Tenor), Laura Del Lungo (Mezzo-Soprano), Alexis Boyer (Baritone), Bertha Kalich ((Mezzo-Soprano), Johannes Sembach (Tenor), Ebe Boccolini (Soprano), Erich Bye (Baritone), Lily Dupré (Soprano), Kapiton Denisovich Zaporozhets (Bass), Jane Bourgignon (Mezzo-Soprano), Lambert Murphy (Tenor), Livine Mertens (Mezzo-Soprano), Carlo Morelli (Baritone), Helen Gahagan Douglas (Soprano), Fernando Autori (Bass), Margherita Carosio (Soprano), Elsa Alsen (Soprano), Maria De Macchi (Soprano), Ellison van Hoose (Tenor), Regiona Pinkert (Soprano), Mario Luarenti (Baritone), Evgenia Ivanova Zbruyeva (Mezzo-Soprano), Jean Vallier (Bass), Tina Desana (Soprano), Fernando Carpi (Tenor), Jeanne Korolewicz-Wayda (Soprano), Herbert Witherspoon (Bass), Marie Delna (Mezzo-Soprano), Rosina Buckman (Soprano), Walter Hyde (Tenor), Virgilio Lazzari (Bass), Magda Spiegel (Mezzo-Soprano), Hipolito Lázaro (Tenor), Yvonne Brothier (Soprano), Theo Beets (Tenor), Vera Schwarz (Soprano), Charles Soix (Bass), Hjödis Schymberg (Soprano), Reinald Werrenrath (Baritone)

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VRCS Annual Issue 2005

 

2005

featuring:

Rita Fornia (Soprano), Franz Navál (Tenor), Oreste Luppi (Bass), Rosa Olitzka (Contralto), Jacques Bilk (Baritone), Linda Cannetti (Soprano), Paul Reimers (Tenor), Salvatore Pollicino (Tenor), Grete Stückgold (Soprano), Loius Nucelly (Baritone), Ottokar Maÿák (Tenor), Giuseppina Baldassari-Tedeschi (Soprano), Luigi Abrate (Tenor), Icilio Calleja (Tenor), Marcelle Denya (Soprano), Luigi Rossi-Morelli (Baritone), Hélène Cals (Soprano), Ines Maria Ferraris (Soprano), Nicolai S. Fokin (Tenor), Elfrida Pakul (Soprano), Madelaine Sibille (Soprano), Todd Duncan (Bass), Vivian Della Chiesa (Soprano)

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VRCS Annual Issue 2004

In Memoriam
DR. JOHN C. POWERS, JR.
(1931 - 2004)

2004

featuring:

John McCormack (Tenor), Frieda Hempel (Soprano), Giovanni Polese (Baritone), Marguerite Mèrentié (Soprano), Vladimir Kastorsky (Bass), Eugenia Mantelli (Mezzo-Soprano), Florencio Constantino (Tenor), Stella Power (Soprano), Nicola Geisse-Winkel (Baritone), Jeanne Gordon (Contralto), Konstantin Isachenko (Tenor), Emmy Bettendorf (Soprano), Wilhelm Tisch (Bass), Margarita Salvi (Soprano), Maggie Teyte (Soprano), Stefán Islandí (Tenor), Magda László (Soprano), Friedel Beckmann (Mezzo-Soprano), Georges Jouatte (Tenor), Irmgard Seefried (Soprano), Albert Huberty (Bass)

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VRCS Annual Issue 2003

Dedicated to LAURITZ MELCHIOR, Tenor
In Memoriam - 30th Anniversary
(1973-2003)

2003

featuring:

Francesco Viñas (Tenor), Amelia Talexis (Soprano), Oskar Kamionsky (Baritone), Helene Jung (Contralto), Mario Gilion (Tenor), Rosalia Chalia (Soprano), André Gresse (Bass), Milly Stephan (Soprano), Francesco Signorini (Tenor), Marcelle Bunlet (Soprano), Edward Lankow (Bass), Sophie Braslau (Contralto), Fernand Francell (Tenor), Claire Hansen-Schulthess (soprano), Lucien Muratore (tenor), Muriel Brunskill (Contralto), Carl Braun (Bass), Clara Cséry (Contralto), Waclaw Brzezinski (Baritone), Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi (Soprano), Lauritz Melchior (Tenor)

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VRCS Annual Issue 2002

In Memoriam
DR. JOSEPH GREENE (1949-2002)

2002

featuring:

Jan Peerce (Tenor), Gertrude Förstel (Soprano), Inocencio Navarro (Baritone), Miracle (Baritone), Edmond Rambaud (Tenor), Claudine Boons (Soprano), Arthur Middleton (Bass-Baritone), Vasili P. Damayev (Tenor), Viola Philo (Soprano), Pierre Fouchy (Tenor), Paul Knüpfer (Bass), Tina Desana (Soprano), Jozef Sterkens (Tenor), Jules Baldous (Bass-Baritone), Alice Marturell (Soprano), Léon Campagnola (Tenor), Eugeniusz Moussakowski (Baritone), Hélène Regelly (Soprano), Harry Plunkett Greene (Bass-Baritone), Antonio Pini-Corsi (Baritone), Hendrik Appels (Tenor), Antonietta Castelli (Soprano), Charles Soix (Bass), Gerson Sirota (Tenor/Cantor)

NO LONGER AVAILABLE

2001

featuring:

George Granal (Tenor), Maria Gay (Mezzo-Soprano), Sir George Henschel (Baritone), Maire-Luise Schilp (Alto), Rodolphe Plamondon (Tenor), Jacques Bilk (Baritone), Adolf Schöpflin (Bass), Georgette Frozier-Marrot (Mezzo-Soprano), Theo Karle (Tenor), Editha Fleischer (Soprano), Étienne Billot (Bass-Baritone), Maria Zamboni (Soprano), Odette Turba-Rabier (Soprano), André Pernet (Bass-Baritone), Jacques Urlus (Tenor), Cléontine de Méo (Soprano), Wilhelm Hesch (Bass), Edmée Favart (Soprano), Frank Mullings (Tenor), Henriette Gorrlieb (Soprano), Heinz Arensen (Tenor), Paul Hansen (Tenor), Jussi Björling (Tenor)

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VRCS Annual Issue 2000

In Memoriam:
ROBERT H. REID (1918-2000),
HENRY PLEASANTS (1910-2000) &
GEORGE BENNETTE (1929-1999)

2000

featuring:

Jussi Björling (Tenor), Germaine Féraldy (Soprano), Mark Reizen (Bass), Elsa Alsen (Soprano), Alexis Boyer (Baritone), Bianca Scacciati (Soprano), Augusto Beuf (Baritone), George Meader (Tenor), Paul Lanteri (Baritone), Josefina Huguet (Soprano), Max Lipmann (Tenor), Malcolm McEachern (Bass), Gwen Catley (Soprano), Niels Hansen (Tenor), Albert Høeberg (Baritone), Arthur Hackett (Tenor), Rosina Torri (Soprano), Fritz Schrödter (Tenor), Suzanne Cesbron-Viseur (Soprano), Kim Borg (Bass), Marta Fuchs (Soprano), Elsa Wieber (Soprano), Giuseppina Corbelli (Soprano) Blanche Marchesi (Soprano)

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VRCS Annual Issue 1999

In Memoriam:
WILLIAM VIOLI (1914-1989) &
RICHARD PORTER (1923-1984)

1999

featuring:
Abby Richardson (Mezzo-Soprano), Pierre Deldi (Baritone), Lina Abarbanell (Soprano), Albert Alvarez (Tenor), B.S. Veprinsky (Bass), Giannina Russ (Soprano), Francesco Maria Benini (Baritone), Aurelia Révy (Soprano), Fausto Castellani (Tenor), Adolf Lieban (Bass), Clémentine de Vèra-Sapio (Soprano), André Allard (Bass-Baritone), Florence Macbeth (Soprano), Giulio Crimi (Tenor), Einar Nørby (Bass), Else Gentner-Fischer (Soprano), Antonio Cortis (Tenor), Joseph Winogradoff (Baritone), Suzanne Juyol (Mezzo-Soprano), Alexandr M Davidov (Tenore), Edith Oldrup (Soprano), Gérard Souzay (Baritone), Rosa Ponselle (Soprano), Giovanni Zenatello (Tenor)

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VRCS Annual Issue 1998

In Memoriam
JULIAN MORTON MOSES
October 28, 1911 - October 16. 1997

1998

featuring:

Konstantin Isachenko (Tenor), Lydia Lindgren (Soprano), George Baklanoff (Baritone), Eliette Schenneberg (Mezzo-Soprano), Thomas L. Thomas (Baritone), Deva-Dassy (Mezzo-Soprano), Licinio Francardi (Tenor), Marie Kaiser (Soprano), Edmond Rambaud (Tenor), Rosetta Pampanini (Soprano), Paul Knüpfer (Bass), Zara Dolukhanova (Mezzo-Soprano), Ivan Kozlovsky (Tenor), Susanne Dessoir (Soprano), Lorenz Fehenberger (Tenor), Rita Fornia (Soprano), César Vezzani (Tenor), Sophie Braslau (Contralto), José Beckmans (Baritone), Sofia Preobrazhenskaya (Contralto), Ferruccio Corradetti (Baritone), Suzanne Cesbron-Viseur (Soprano), Aaron Lebedeff (Tenor)

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VRCS Annual Edition 1997

In Memoriam
PHILIP LIESON MILLER
(1906 - 1997)

1997

featuring:

Inocencio Navarro (Baritone), Jean Planel (Tenor), Vera Petrova-Zantseva (Mezzo-Soprano), George Hamlin (Tenor), Sim-Viva (Soprano), Waclaw Brzezinski (Baritone), Lise Landouzy (Soprano), Todd Duncan (Baritone), Nevada Van der Veer (Contralto), Albert Huberty (Bass), Allessandro Dolci (Tenor), Francesca Solari (Soprano), Sergei Shaposhnikov (Baritone), Riza Eibenschütz-Malata (Soprano), Vincente Ballester (Baritone), Lucille Marcel (Soprano), Guido Ciccolini (Tenor), Hedwig Francillo-Kaufmann (Soprano), Dennis Noble (Baritone), Cantor Mordechay Hershmann (Tenor)

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VRCS Fortieth Anniversary Issue 1996

In Memoriam
EDWIN STEFFE
(1907-1996)

1996

Fortieth Anniversary Issue

featuring:
Edwin Steffe (Baritone), José Delaquerriere (Tenor), Onelia Fineschi (Soprano), Gennady Pashaev (Tenor), Maurice Decléry (Baritone), Richard Crooks (Tenor), Graziella Valle (Soprano), Alexander M. Bragin (Baritone), Edmond Tirmont (Tenor), Eidé Norena (Soprano), Charles Soix (Bass), Salvatore Pollicino (Tenor), Maria A. Michailowa (Soprano), Paul Knüpfer (Bass), Augusto Scampini (Tenor), Mascia Predit (Soprano), Louis Morturier (Bass-Baritone), Folke Andersson (Tenor), Yvonne Brothier (Soprano), Louis Izar (Tenor), Marthe Nespoulous (Soprano), Cantor Savel Kwartin (Baritone), Caterina Mancini (Soprano), Antonio Salvarezza (Tenor), Rolando Panerai (Baritone)

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VRCS Christmas CD 1995

1995

featuring:
Giovanni Voyer (Tenor), Louis Lestelly (Baritone), Elisabeth Reichelt (Soprano), Evan Williams (Tenor), François Audiger (Bass), Ebe Stignani, Max Altglass (Tenor), Pierre Nougaro (Tenor), Germaine Corney (Soprano), Max de Rieux (Tenor), Georges Jouatte (Tenor), Georgette Frozier-Marrot (Mezzo-Soprano), Willy Tubiana (Bass), Clementine De Vere (Soprano), Lambert Murphy (Tenor), Joel Bergkund (Baritone), Debora Pantofel-Nechetskaya (Soprano), Giovanni Consiglio (Tenor)

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VRCS Christmas CD 1994

1994

featuring:

Moshe Kousevitsky (Tenor), Gil Valeriano (Tenor), Anna Tariol-Baugé (Soprano) , Adolfs Kaktins (Baritone), Ines Maria Ferraris (Soprano), Behumil Benoni (Baritone), Florence Quartararo (Soprano), Oscar Natzke (Bass), Marimi del Pozo (Soprano), Gaston Micheletti (Tenor), Rosa Olitzka (Contralto), Germaine Féraldy (Soprano), Hendrik Appels (Tenor), Germaine Pape (Mezzo-Soprano), Vladimir I. Kastorsky Bass), Maria Nemeth (Soprano), Charles Friant (Tenor), Berthe de Montalant (Mezzo-Soprano), Afro Poli (Baritone), Marcel Wittrisch (Tenor), Maggie Teyte (Soprano)

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VRCS Christmas CD 1993

1993

featuring:

Grete Frost (Soprano), Hector Dupreyon (Tenor), Ester Mazzoleni (Soprano), Tudor Davies (Tenor), Elisabeth Rethberg (Soprano), Hector Dufranne (Baritone), Berthe César (Soprano), Léon Campagnola (Tenor), Luigi Simonetta (Tenor), André Balbon (Baritone), Conrad Thibault (Baritone), Germaine Corney (Soprano), Robert Couzinou (Baritone), Paul Payan (Bass), Germaine Cerney (Mezzo-Soprano), Gennadi Pischaev (Tenor), Dennis Noble (Baritone), José Luccioni (Tenor), Giuseppe Manacchini (Baritone), Luigi Rossi-Morelli (Baritone)

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