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In Reply to: RE: Debussy really knew how to pay his delivery man posted by vinyl phanatic on December 16, 2014 at 14:56:36
But what he REALLY deserves is for Universal to shake the coal out of their own Lederhosen and DO SOMETHING with those Ericourt/Kapp tapes that they've got languishing in the vaults in Hanover!!! I just have a mental image of the oxide deteriorating away!
Great story about the piece BTW!
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Sadly, not available in the US but...
Streaming it on QOBUZ and it's not a bad transfer, at least to my ears. No tape hiss or evidence it's a vinyl transcription.
Link below:
I think that was the one I was referring to when I mentioned the Pristine Audio version below. (I've not heard it BTW.)So now, to try to untangle the confusion I've created:
There is NO Pristine Audio version of the Ericourt performances. There IS the one in your post (derived from LP copies) on the Naxos Classical Archives label which, at this time, is not available in the US.
Thanks for finding that, and I'm so sorry for creating the confusion!
EDIT: I've now deleted the misleading information from that earlier post.
Edits: 12/17/14
If so, it's pretty darn clean transcription.
So am I really streaming it at 16/44.1 or mp3?
QOBUZ says it's 16/44.1 BUT, they say that all the time as it's set to that in my app presets.
Have it playing on the 'big system' via AirPlay to the Marantz NA-7004 and it sounds pretty good on the big JBL Horns.
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Edits: 12/17/14
there is one snippet from them on the big DGG Debussy set (La Petit Negre). There was a short lived CD set issued on Ivory Classics, which was funded by the University of North Carolina. It was roundly praised for the performances and roundly denouced for the sound, with mentions of distorion and excessive tape hiss. They must have been made from umpteenth generation copies of the tapes, because the LPs sound great, with no hint of those problems. Maybe someday we'll have a good issue of them, if the tapes are still intact.
I used to have that Ivory Classics set: I have no doubt that it was made from what were evidently poor copies of the LP's (maybe owned by the Earl Wild estate?), with that blasting distortion characteristic of damaged grooves in some sections. I couldn't stand it anymore and finally got rid of it. Back in the late 60's, I acquired three of the LP's myself, although they were already out of print even by then, and kept them until the mid-80's.The big DG Debussy set contains quite a few more miscellaneous pieces than just "Le petit nègre", and the difference in SQ with the Ivory Classics set is night and day. It used to be (and maybe still is) available on Spotify - disc 18. That would be the best solution of all: a reissue of the whole Ericourt/Debussy set on the DG label, with the same care that was given to the miscellaneous pieces in the big DG Debussy set. Hope springs eternal.
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We had a little bit of a discussion about Ericourt's Debussy recordings on this board earlier this year (April I think). I don't think too much was discussed beyond what I've summarized above - [removed].
EDIT: I just removed the references to Andrew Rose and Pristine Audio per my later posts further up in this thread.
Edits: 12/17/14
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