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Felix Ayo, violin.
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Trasnferencia realizada por Antonio de un disco Philips A 00301L. El mismo contiene el primer registro, monofónico, efectuado por I Musici en 1955 y publicado al año siguiente. Por alguna razón, Philips utilizó la misma portada para el registro estereo de 1959.
Thanks a lot Pablo for this reference recording.
ResponderEliminarI quite remember this cover in LP shops...historical indeed !
Let me ask you a precision: did Philips record again in 59 this work for stereo purpose with the same team?
This happened sometimes , such as the Ravel's under Ansermet for Decca...
Respondo en castellano, sí, mismo conjunto y solistas. El "Grand Prix du Disque" fué otorgado a este registro monoaural, y yo creo que Philips, por política comercial, siguió usando la misma portada (incluso con el galardón) para la edición estereofónica.
ResponderEliminarCenturi, nice to see you and thank you for visit. Yes, Philips recorded again in 1959 but AFAIK, the mono session was recorded on 1955 in Amsterdam, and the stereo session was recorded in Vienna on 1959. The problem was that only a few companies trust in stereo future in those days, RCA, Decca, Mercury and DGG have three tracks machines or 35MM film tape. RCA & Decca made two recordings at once, one for the mono LP production and another for the R2R tape market, that for 1955 started to be on stereo. To my ears, DGG and Mercury did stereo takes from 1956 and above, and when they made the LP master they simply downmix to mono, and then reissue between 1958-1960 all the original mono catalogue. EMI and Columbia where two companies that didn´t trust in anything, they don´t trust in tape, in stereo, EMI continue cutting 78 RPM matrices during the sessions at least to 1952. Columbia still made 16" quiet lacquer disc during sessions and for crossfades or sleep cues. That's why they call Bruno Walter and ask him to made Brahms 4 and Beethoven 9, and Walter answer was "why? I have already done!", "yes, but know we need it on stereo" and that's why he spend the last years of his life making all the well known work that he recorded several times, all again this time in stereo.
ResponderEliminarEMI also used to run mono and stereo recorders in parallel, as in the famous Klemperer 1955 Beethoven 7. Walter Legge did not care about stereo and, as the early stereo tape recorders were not as reliable, sometimes they would break down but the mono would keep going so they ended up without a stereo recording at all, they didn't stop and retake.
EliminarAntonio ¿como estas? muchas gracias por tu aporte, el disco estaba muy bien y le pude sacar el máximo partido, una vez más tu aporte es invalorable.
ResponderEliminarTodo bien por aquí Pablo. Y te estoy preparando cosas nuevas para que esto no decaiga :)
EliminarThanks so much for all these interesting precisions.
ResponderEliminarMuch appreciated !
I remember hearing this version on Epic Records when I was a teenager and thinking it would be a yardstick against which all subsequent recordings would be measured. Thank you for restoring this recording to my life and library. I am sure that even then the Philips was better mastered.
ResponderEliminarGracias :¬)
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