The \"King of Baritones\" Mattia Battistini sings \"Urna fatale del mio destino\" (from act III of Verdi's La Forza del Destino) on His Master's Voice record A.B.H.B. 4 (CK 1418), played on an EMG Mark IX gramophone with a Meltrope III soundbox and a Burmese thorn needle. Acoustically recorded February 22, 1924 - when Battistini was 68 years old.