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In Reply to: RE: Debussy really knew how to pay his delivery man posted by garrod on December 17, 2014 at 03:31:23
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as far as I can tell. There are only two discs, I don't know exactly what's on them. It's certainly curious that Decca would not have issued them in stereo, but I would still be interested to hear what they sound like. Stereo vs. mono is not that big of a deal with a solo piano.
Ace of Clubs as far as I'm aware was a mono only label. I am a great admirer of mono recordings so this does not bother me at all. I am pretty certain that you are correct in that there were two volumes in the Decca LP release. My copy, volume 2 is as follows - Preludes: Book 1, no. 5,8,10,11,12. Book 2, 3&12. Images: Reflets dans l'eau, Mouvement, Poissons d'or. Estamps: Soiree dans Grenade, Jardins sous la pluie.
Thinking the original KAPP Records were 'High Fidelity' Mono as well.
although the stereo Kapps are very hard to find. I have only one, the one with the Etudes.
NAXOS list the Preludes books 1&2 as 1960.
Love to know when they were recorded.
Link below:
The QOBUZ version of the below linked offering seems to be Mono but I can't tell as it's just a piano.
Not sure for solo piano that I much care. ;-)
(Of course, after my boo-boo from yesterday, you may want to take that statement with a grain of salt!)EDIT: Just wanted to add that the three single volumes I owned on LP were all mono. However, there are a couple of images of the stereo Kapp LP's in this series on the internet, e.g.:
Edits: 12/17/14
and in Mono. That would explain the ebay seller as stating the 1957 date on the 2 LP set (see copywrite date on the record label picture above).
That said, I see references for it as KDX-6501S with the 'DX' meaning double album and the 'S' being for stereo, so who knows?
as you can see from the announcement/review in Billboard. I think this was the first of Ericourt's Debussy recordings to be issued. The recordings could easily go back as far as 1957, I don't know. All of the Ericourt recordings are very scarce in stereo, and the two disc set of the Preludes is particularly hard to find. This could be for a couple of reasons. Right around this time, Kapp raised the prices on their classical titles, so a two record set in stereo would have been pretty expensive and a lot of people would not have thought it worthwhile to spring for a stereo recording of a solo instrument.
Maybe I've posted this before, but here's a link to some PDF's of vintage issues of Audio and other magazines. (I think I got it from one of the other forums here at AA.)
Link below: Kapp KDX-6501-S where the 'DX' is a double album and the 'S' is Stereo.
Yet to find an image of the LP in Stereo so I assume most were sold as mono.
Hard to say: Stereo tapes start in in 1954, although many companies recorded in stereo many such recordings were not released till much later. IIRC RCA was one such company and some of their stereo recordings made in the 50's were not released till the mid 60's.
No reference on the jacket but IIRC some Kapps were recorded by the Mercury recording team, but may be I'm just getting old and forgetful.
Mercury in that time period was pretty good!
But see post below, I think it was recorded in 1960 and release in both mono and stereo.
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