The Spirit of Christmas Past 1908-1944

The end of Scrooge's adventure with the Spirit of Christmas Past was 'that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge'. What bad luck for him, though, that he lived before the invention of the gramophone. Featuring John McCormack, Emmy Destinn, Enrico Caruso, Alma Gluck, Charles Laughton, Celebrity Quartet, Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley, John McHugh, Harold Williams, Richard Crooks, Lotte Lehmann, Giovanni Martinelli, Paul Planel, Elisabeth Schumann, Karl Erb, Sigrid Onegin, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Claudia Muzio, John Charles Thomas, Lawrence Tibbett, Basil Rathbone, Ernestine Schumann-Heink