The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.

Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

Mischa Elman (1919 -1922) Vol. 5


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Judaic
Catalogue NumberJSA 1081
Matrix Number N/A
Record Label JSA
Record FormatCD
Shelf Number100880
Number of TracksN/A
Date RecordedN/A
Album Artists
Notes This album was digitized and compiled by the Judaica Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University Libraries in 2010. It features the recordings of Micha Elman produced on 78rpm discs produced in 1919. It includes a soul-stirring rendition of Kol Nidre as well as classical favorites such as Humoresque, Turkish March, Scotch Pastorale and Air for G String.

Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like. These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.

If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
1 - Hymn to the Sun
Composer(s) : Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakow
2 - Nocturne in D Flat
Composer(s) : Composer: Frédéric Chopin; Arranger: August Wilhelmj
3 - Turkish March
Composer(s) : Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven; Transcription by Leopold Auer
4 - Serenade
Composer(s) : Riccardo Drigo
5 - Caprice Basque
Composer(s) : Pablo de Sarasate
6 - Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
Composer(s) : Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
7 - Kol Nidrei
Composer(s) : Max Bruch
8 - The Dew is Sparkling
Composer(s) : Composer: Anton Rubinstein; Arranger: Mischa Elman
9 - Scotch Pastorale
Composer(s) : Gustav Saenger
10 - Mélodie
Composer(s) : Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
11 - Humoresque
Composer(s) : Antonín Dvořák
12 - Air for G String
Composer(s) : Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach; Arranger: August Wilhelmj
13 - Fantasie from Garden Scene
Composer(s) : Composer: Charles Gounod; Arranger: Henri Wieniawski
14 - Traumerei (Reverie)
Composer(s) : Robert Schumann
15 - Song Without Words - Op. 67 No. 6 - Cradle Song
Composer(s) : Composer: Felix Mendelssohn; Arranger: Mischa Elman arr.
16 - Thais - Meditation
Composer(s) : Jules Massenet
17 - Passepied
Composer(s) : Composer: Léo Delibes; Arranger: Mischa Elman