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Agreed on the Beecham Rimsky. I've not heard the Ormandy in ages. Sadly Columbia engineers weren't kind.

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In Reply to: RE: Ahhh... ORMANDY and his PHILADELPHIANS! posted by Tone! on September 29, 2014 at 20:51:04

All involved had a good day with Ormandy's Verdi Requiem though. Can even hear deep bass drum!

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SONY ESSENTIAL CLASSICS... - Tone! 20:11:21 09/30/14 (4)
I should confess that whilst I'm passionate about orchestral classics, I have precious few vocal outings in my collection.

I have tried to love OPERA and the like... But I'm not there yet. (Don't give up on me)

Regarding the COLUMBIA Engineers, I have found that these recordings are simply excellent - except on US-pressed vinyl!

A good example is SZELL/CO/RASKIN Mahler 4... Simply fabulous on English-pressed vinyl. (...and ESSENTIAL CLASSICS Compact Disc, dare I mention it here!)

In my view, it was the US-pressings - and probably the poor quality vinyl - that let the side down; not the recording engineers.

Be encouraged to hunt out some of the old Euro pressings of the (now) SONY Classical catalog... Dutch pressings are also first class!
- Szell engineers had their good days...and bad. My fav Don Quixote is Szell's and the recording is very decent - jdaniel@jps.net 20:35:31 09/30/14 (3)
  Szell's Wagner as well.
  
  I hope a special place is reserved in hell for the guys that recorded the Szell/Fleisher Brahms and Beethoven concerti. Not to mention his Brahms Symphonies. Sizzling strings! Ouch.
  - Is the SZELL/CO/FLEISHER Beethoven 5th really that bad? - Tone! 21:00:40 09/30/14 (2)
    Musically, I consider it the pinnacle of Emperors. But despite a fair bit of expected tape-hiss, I find the sonics quite acceptable.
    Or was it the tape hiss downside you were referring to?
    (My mind tends to filter it out after a few minutes...)
    Have you heard this reading on a non-US vinyl pressing?
    (Or the SONY ESSENTIAL CLASSICS Compact Disc?)
    The sound is pretty good for the era IMHO.
    I could be wrong, but I wonder if this is another example of poor US vinyl pressing...?
    
    Edits: 09/30/14 09/30/14
    - I generally do not buy Columbia records, but that is more of a hold-over from my 78 days... - J. S. Bach 13:12:51 10/01/14 (0)
      ...where acoustic Columbias had poorer sound quality and did not "hold up" to multiple playings as well as acoustic Victors. That seemed to follow through in the early electrical era, too. Later (late 30s through the end of production of 78s) Columbias seemed to have improved; I have a few early 50s discs that really are impressive.
      
      Later Gator,
      Dave
    - IMHO Columbia string sound can be a bit tizzy or "hot." nt - jdaniel@jps.net 21:17:54 09/30/14 (0)
      .

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