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In Reply to: Attention RCA Living Stereo fans posted by Doktor Brahms on April 10, 2007 at 06:00:08:
The Reiner DLVDE has been a favorite of mine for years and has never been remastered/reissued beyond the initial (and crappy) Red Seal RBCD release. It'll also be good to have Munch's 'Harold in Italy', too!
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Nothing to do with SACD, but a cherished memory nonetheless: years ago, I received a notice of new releases from a mail-order record store in which "Das Lied von der Erde" was translated "The Good Earth." Music by Gustav Mahler; texts by Pearl S. Buck??
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Russell:Can you post some more info about the Reiner Das Lied. It certainly looks good on paper, but it's strange that it has been OOP so long.
Reiner's recording of DLVDE (on an old RCA Victrola LP) was the one I cut my teeth on, and so it has sentimental value to me. (I had to write a short analysis of the work in college, so I used this one and got to know it very well.) It's been a little while since I last heard it, though, so it will be interesting to see how it holds up against the current competition. I think that its OOP status is due to the fact that not many Mahlerians rank it high on their list of favorite DLVDE recordings, nor does it have any kind of 'classic' status in the way that the Klemperer/EMI, Walter (all of them), Bernstein/VP, and others do. That said, I do remember thinking that Forrester was wonderful in this recording, but that Lewis was stylisically at odds with the music, sounding more like he's doing a Handel oratorio. Reiner's usual no-nonsense way with the score does cast a different light on it (admittedly unidiomatic and perhaps a bit more austere than most). Nevertheless, I'm really looking forward to re-hearing this performance in improved sonics!
Das Lied von der Erde was originally issued by RCA in 1960 as a two-record box set LSC-6087, with Haydn Sym. No. 88 on the fourth side. It was reissued on Victrola VICS-1390 as a single LP in 1968. The work is one of those pieces of music that is a bit too long to get on a single LP without compromising the sound quality.The recording has a lot a competition, both in conductors and singers. It will be interesting to hear how the sound quality comes up. I will certainly be buying it, along with the R. Strauss Symphonia Domestica. We are getting into the second rank Reiner recordings in terms of sound. But Reiner's conducting and RCA's engineering is always worth hearing. When are we going to get Reiner's recording of Lieberman Concerto for Jazz Band and David Oistrakh's recording of Chausson Poeme and Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with Munch? Both were issued on 2-track tape and have outstanding sonics.
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