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Cape Town classical voices - from the Donald Graham Archive

  Draft 2/4/2026 - NOT FOR PUBLIC USE BEFORE -  10/4/2026 In the 1980s and '90s Cape Town classical music recording engineer and sound system enthusiast, the late Donald Graham, released several dozen records on vinyl and cassette tape, on his GSE Claremont Records label. One of his most popular releases was titled, Beautiful Cape Town - Fine Music, "Voices". The compilation set out to showcase Cape Town orchestras and artists from live recordings Donald had made as well as some he acquired the rights to from the 1970's. He was a specialist in live recordings and doing the editing on his analogue tapes and later his digital recordings.  The artist performances on this compilation are as he heard and captured on his microphones and are not enhanced, in other words completely analog acoustic recordings allowing for some wonderful dynamics. (c) SONGWRIGHTS PUBLISHERS There were fourteen tracks in all, featuring such performers by,  Joseph Gabriels,   Lyn...