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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: So I see you are a conservative... (Outside Asylum-related joke) posted by Luciano,IT on March 18, 2004 at 02:13:44:
Technically speaking, the most acceptable sound of Toscanini is (IMO) to be found in early 33 rpm RCA pressings of the LM series. LM 6026 (a presumably rare issue including two discs celebrating the Maestro late in his career) is particularly good. Especially the disc including i.a. the Forza del destino overture (IMO best recording ever), Carmen Suite No.1, and the Don Pasquale overture is a full bodied mono that reasonably compares with state of the art recordings of the same period.I deeply regret learning from another post that the Naxos Toscanini series are not available in the U.S..
I am saying seri-- es in the plural since ther are in fact two.
The former includes five (?) CDs with dark red covers presumably derived from Victor pressings (I am saying this from memory), including the much celebrated (IMO rightly) first Beethoven 7th with NY.
The latter includes some thirty CDs (graciously distributed by Naxos in a totally chaotic way in the EU, whereby to get the whole series one has to purchase the different items in at least three different countries) and is much a mixed bad. These are mostly radio airchecks or similar recordings made at radio studios by the Maestro's assistants. Some of these are hardly listenable. Others (including the late '30s early '40s Beethoven cycle) are in more passable sound and include some quite notable performances.
L.
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