This volume is the second of a series of three Naxos discs containing all the known recordings Melba made for the Victor Talking Machine in Camden, New Jersey and New York. Although these 1909–1910 sessions offer improved repeats of the Lucia and Hamlet Mad Scenes (also recorded in 1907, Naxos 8.110334), and examples of her newly-assumed rôle of Desdemona, the bias has shifted markedly towards art song. These include compelling renderings of Debussy’s En sourdine and Reynaldo Hahn’s D’une prison and three songs by her accompanist and arranger Landon Ronald (1873–1938), O Lovely Night and originally unpublished versions of Down In The Forest and White Sea Mist.