Славянский музыковед выходец из России Иван Алексеевич Гарднер (1898-1984) утверждал, что существуют грамзаписи Mосковского Cиноидального Хора. Он их лично слышал во времена своей юности. Возможно, речь идёт о годах с 1905 по 1917. Кто-нибудь в курсе об этих записях? (перевод с английского)

Ссылка на источник: Johann von Gardner: Diskographie des Russischen Kirchengesangs. Verein für ostkirchliche Musik. Gersau (Switzerland). P. 3

This code looks very intersting. But what does it mean? Where recordings planned or made? Are there recordings? What is the label? Does anybody know more about these recordings? And is the text of Allan Kelly published?

I am sorry that I did not explain what does it mean and how to read the "code". It features the Gramophone Company records transcribed from either Gramophone Company registration books currently stored in EMI Archive in Hayes, Gramophone and Zonophone catalogs or actual records.

Let's start from the top line:

SINODALNIY KHOR (A D KASTALSKY) (Moscow)

It translated as "Synodal Chorus conducted by A.D.Kastalsky", recorded in Moscow, so I assumed it is Moscow Synodal Chorus.

Next, there is the list of records separated by empty line. All of them recorded by Gramophone Company and have size 25 cm (grand)

Let's take a look at the first one:

24965 6686L -08 X-64889 X-2-64758
Tebe poyom (Lvov)
We sing to Thee

Following is explanation of each element:

24965 - Catalog number of Gramophone label. The exact label name is unknown. It can be "Gramophone Concert", "Concert (Cupid)" or "Amour Gramophone". On the label itself, the number will be shown as this: G.C.-24965

6686L - Matrix number. On the record mirror it will be shown as 6686l (Alan uses capital "L" instead of low case "l" because the later one looks like digit "1" and can be easily confused with it)

-08 means that recording was made in the year of 1908

X-64889 - The record was also issued on Zonophone label, and it is the Zonophone catalog number.

X-2-64758 -The record was issued on Zonophone label for the second time, and it is another Zonophone catalog number.

Tebe poyom - Transliteration of the Russian title "Тебе поём"

(Lvov) - The name of composer (Do not confuse with Ukrainian city of Lvov)

We sing to Thee - English translation of the title.

Alan also uses some keywords:

not traced - My understanding is that such records were only found in Gramophone Company registration book, but not in catalogs nor as actual records.

[title] - The Title is not translated in English

[check] - There is some problem, it will be required to come back and resolve.

Serge Jaroff was a member of the Moscow Synodal Choir in the European tour of 1911, and it is known that he sang with the choir in 1910 as soloist in the original performance of Sergey Rachmaninov's liturgy. Probably he sang already in the choir when these songs where recorded 1908 as he entered the Synodal School 1906 (and finished 1917). So the singing of this choir must have influenced him as conductor of the Don Cossack Chorus Serge Jaroff. It would be most interesting to hear recordings of the Synodal Choir therefore. From Johann von Gardner we know that such records existed. And from an extract of Allan Kelly, explained by Yuri Bernikov, numbers and titles of songs recorded. May I call the members of Russian-Records to look through their collections and to present such records here?