Baritone Gino Bechi sings \"Era la notte\" (from act II of Otello by Giuseppe Verdi) on His Master's Voice record D.B. 6506, played on an EMG Mark IX gramophone with a Meltrope III soundbox and a Burmese Colour Needle. Recorded December 14, 1946, probably in Rome. Antonio Votto conducts the Symphony Orchestra of the Augusteo, Rome.