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In Reply to: RE: An extremely important early milestone in Mahler's personal development posted by John Marks on January 18, 2015 at 13:06:59
Wow! what a combination of voices!
John: how do you feel about the conducting?
Jeremy
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I surmise or assume that FW wanted (a) to banish or at least add nuance to his image of a pretty boy who sang Mozart and sentimental German semi-pop songs of the Talkies movie era and (b) put all the chips down, in view of whom he was sharing the stage with.
Mission accomplished. Zo, the conducting is almost beside the point.
But I think that it is very good.
More info at the link.
jm
Thank you, John -- I just ordered it. I'll let you know!
Jeremy
Hi-
I mentioned that it was a radio tape. While it is NOT an off-the-air tape, back then, AFAIK there was no stereo radio broadcasting in Europe. So the radio archival tape, long since lost and forgotten, was a recording of the same mono mix that was broadcast.
In the run-up to the Centenary of Mahler's death, somehow the dubbed copy made for the conductor that was in the Krips family archives came to the attention of DG, hence this CD release.
Now, seeing as it was a ref for the conductor (who perhaps never actually listened to it) I am rather confident it was duped at 2X running speed, my guess would be 7.5 ips, duped at 15 ips.
So, it required restoration that DG claims to be quite proud of. I am listening via a streaming service, and it sounds good enough to me--for what it is and how important it is to me.
It appears that the only tape running was for the Austrian radio service, IOW, the Vienna Philharmonic did not archive it--perhaps their crew had the summer off... . So there was no VPO archive tape, which I assume by 1964 would have been stereo.
I think it was Aquinas who paraphrased Aristotle to the effect that the slenderest knowledge of divine things was preferable to certainty about mundane things.
That's my story and I am sticking to it.
jm
Fair enough, JM! Besides, I agree with you and Aquinas. Furthermore, mono doesn't bother me -- in fact, in the early 60s a mono version often sounded better than a stereo release of the same performance.
Thanks for your information. I eagerly await hearing the disc when it arrives.
Jeremy
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