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In Reply to: RE: Here's an oddity - follow up posted by michael22 on December 16, 2016 at 18:42:27

Esoteric Sound Studios in New York with engineering by Jerry Newman is credited on PST-1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. For PST-6, 8, and 9 it is Peter Bartok. Yes, this is the son of Bela Bartok. Peter was well known for having an aversion to stereo recording and usually stuck to mono recording.

PST-7 (Schoenberg) and PST-10 (Music for Percussion) have no engineering credits. However, Jerry Newman is credited on the Urania percussion recording "Breaking the Sound Barrier" with the same conductor, but the ensemble has a different name. It's likely Newman also did the Period percussion recording. Maybe the Schoenberg too.

Period recordings were also issued on 2-track tapes by Realistic (Radio Shack). Only two titles were repeated.

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RE: Period 2-track tapes - michael22 10:39:56 12/26/16 (0)
I have a few Peter Bartok mono recordings on vinyl on the Unicorn label, I believe. They were recorded at MIT (probably in Saarinen's auditorium) and sound good.

The Urania percussion tape you mentioned - UST 1204 - is spectacular and absolutely worth listening to, if not owning. Urania tapes were duplicated at Audio Labs in NY under the direction of George Schowerer, a member of the Yahoo reeltoreel group. who recently described the duplication process.

There are also a couple of Urania stereo records of percussion music that are quite good. One of the pieces - Antheil's Ballet Mecanique, conducted by Robert Kraft - was issued on Omegatape ST 6009 and sounds good. There is no mention in the liner notes of the recording engineer.

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