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In Reply to: RE: For John Marks and other Oistrakh sleuths posted by rbolaw on May 31, 2015 at 13:26:41
The 1969 Oistrakh Cleveland Szell Brahms Concerto master tape is still missing.
So my 9 months of research and my column were just sound and fury, signifying nothing.
And the only reason I have not yet failed at chinchilla ranching is that I have not tried it yet.
Which I doubt I will. I'd grow too fond of them.
Give them names and such.
JM
PS: Thanks, but I doubt I will have time to look into it.
I underscore AM underscore surprised that Everest put out simulated stereo... . That must have been after the founders gave up.
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Paul Geffen suggested the soloist in the Beethoven concerto on the Everest LP might be Leonid Kogan rather than Oistrakh, and indeed, Kogan recorded the Beethoven concerto with Kondrashin and the USSR State Symphony in 1958.But that recording was recently reissued, and to me is clearly not what is on the Everest LP. Kogan has his own distinctive style and approach to the work, and uses different cadenzas. The soloist on Everest really does sound like Oistrakh and not Kogan. IMO, it is Oistrakh, though vastly edited down to 23:15 from 42 minutes, and is taken from a 1965 performance with Kondrashin and the Moscow Philharmonic in London that was recorded and broadcast by the BBC. Eventually the BBC released that performance on DVD and CD, but I know of other BBC broadcasts that were pirated, and that may well be what happened here.
The 1965 BBC performance can be seen and heard on youtube, so you may judge for yourself.
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Harry D. Belock, a self-taught electrical engineering genius who became a major contractor for the Defense Department in the 50s, decided he could make LPs superior to those of the then-major labels, and started Everest as a cut-no-corners, cost-no-object label in 1958. Cost was an object, though, and he lost money and left the business in 1960.
Everest then became one of the lowest-quality budget labels, and that was how I knew it as a kid in the 70s. This is an example of their later, low quality work.
Many of the original 1958-60 LPs are superb, though.
Belock had those 35 MM tape decks custom made for Everest, IIRC (35 mmm wide analog sprocket driven tape). These later got sold to Mercury and Bob Fine for their famous Living Presence Series (or at least some of them). I believe Philips now own them and has restored them for their reissues.
Although not so great sonically, later Everest actually took many Melodiya, recordings IIRC, and issued them for US consumption. A few other US companies also did so, an it gave US listeners their first exposure to artists behind the iron curtain
mostly from the secondary European labels, including Melodiya, Supraphon and Erato (which was eventually bought by RCA). But the pressings were usually not first quality.
Always thought their masters were problematic as even the originals were not quite so good.
I had a stereo Goosens LSO Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Everest SDBR 3037 up on eBay for the community library--from a donated collection of 1,200 LPs--NOT a former library holding.
I had it up at $13.33 +$4 shipping in a real box. It does not make sense to put it up at a reduced price. If anyone wants it at $15 and free US shipping, email me privately.
This is not an offer to make a personal transaction, it is for a community library unit.
ATB,
John
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