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In Reply to: RE: Dorati on Mercury posted by ahendler on March 23, 2015 at 12:52:34
Well, Mercury 416 496-2 doesn't sound as good as the LP, nor as good as several others I have, unless I turn town the Quad Tilt Control on my preamp down 2 or 3 notches (there are only 3 up and three down) it sounds harsh and tizzy. So whoever transferred the recording to CD didn't do a very good job, IMHO.
The CD and booklet do not mention anything about the recording save that it was done in 4/1958, nothing about who recorded it or who transferred it to CD or when that was done. The booklet also says it was printed and made in West Germany.
I don't have very many Mercury CD reissues. One outstanding one is Mercury Living Presence 434 309-2, Overtures by Suppe and Auber. The booklet here says clearly it was produced by Wilma Cozart Fine.
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Bob Fine was the engineer and Wilma Cozart Fine did the transfers
Alan
One Wilma and one pre-Wilma. On checking Amazon, I notice a CD reissue which does not have the original cover. I think the ones Wilma was involved with reproduced the original LP covers. Here's the non-Wilma one I'm talking about:
Notice this one doesn't have the "Mercury Living Presence" logo across the top. This one may have been derived from some other source than the original masters. I don't know where this cover would have come from, but it's not a reproduction of the "Mercury Golden Imports" cover either. Here's the one that Wilma would have done:
I also notice that these performances have been reissued yet again - this time on the Newton Classics label - with yet a different cover.
Edits: 03/24/15
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