John Lemmone (flute) - Il Vento (Wind Amongst the Trees) (Briccialdi) (1910)

John Lemmone, with Maurice Lafarge at the piano, plays &Amongst the Trees,&recorded by Victor at Camden on 7 November 1910. From Wikipedia: John Lemmone (22 June 1861–16 August 1949; also seen as John Lemmoné) was an Australian flute player and composer who was largely self-taught and who at the age of 12, paid for his first flute with gold he had panned himself on the gold fields at Ballarat. He had an international career as a soloist, and accompanied well-known singers such as Adelina Patti, Nellie Melba and Amy Sherwin, the pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, and the violinist Pablo de Sarasate. Later in his career he became Nellie Melba&manager. Lemmone was born in Ballarat to a Greek immigrant, John Lemon (originally Lamoni) and his English-born wife Mary. It was a musical family and the boy learned tin whistle before progressing to fife, playing in the local Golden City drum and fife band. By the age of 12 he had found enough gold on the Ballarat gold fields to buy his own flute. The next year, the family moved to Melbourne and as a teenager, Lemmone performed with a number of Melbourne theatre orchestras, including as principal flute with Lyster&Royal Italian Opera Company. In 1884 he made his debut as a soloist in a benefit concert for the local musician Carl Elsässer, who had suffered a stroke. A young singer by the name of Helen Mitchell (later Nellie Melba), who was later to form a close professional association with Lemmone, sang at the same concert. In 1887 and...