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In Reply to: RE: No Dogs Allowed posted by kitch29 on March 04, 2017 at 04:41:04
Yeah....the UK connection with RCA was very active during the Shaded Dog era and much earlier. In jolly England the Nipper's copy right was owned by EMI. No American labels allowed with the doggie.
Like I said previously, the vinyl quality is vastly superior. Many of my shaded dog finds have some kind of groove damage and other anomalies. Before people got hip to this fact, I routinely purchased UK Victrola of the original American Shaded Dog series. They sound outstanding and the cover art for the covers are drop dead gorgeous.
A fellow by the of James Mitchell wrote all about this stuff. His work was God sent. He gathered all of this fantastic job of revealing a great deal about the glory days for RCA. All of this done during his retirement!
Phil Reese published two great little booklets, one of which turned me on to the UK Victrola counter parts to the American alternative.
Many of those RCA's were recorded by UK Decca as well.
Someone help me out......who was that engineering genius that seem to record most every Decca/RCA collaboration.....Williamson ?????
I love collecting this stuff. Most of my collection is all classical and over the years I ended up going for as many UK alternatives to American products. All of my American pressed Angels were all replaced with their UK EMI ASD or UK Columbia kin. All of these recordings are audibly superior. I have my share of UK Deccas (other than RCAs), but their American Londons are damn good pressings as well. I love the art work on those old Blue Backs!
Forgive me bro for going on for so long, but collecting for me is my chosen addiction.
Regards, Tom B.
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Some of the stuff I have.......mostly boxed up still.
Tom B.
who continued to record into the CD era, if i recall.
He did records for other than RCA.
Many of my LP's are of good to near mint condition. The pic shows a shaded dog with 5S and ?S, very clean, despite paper sleeve. Some noise, but mostly good and very spectacular sound, as the cover states. Very good music.
He also did most of the Lyritas
Alan
" who continued to record into the CD era, if i recall.
He did records for other than RCA. "
Wilkie retired (1980) just before the advent of CD and never recorded subsequently. He wasn't a recording engineer for RCA but a staff engineer for Decca. Back in the day Decca and RCA had a licensing agreement and he certainly recorded in Chicago but whether on loan for RCA sessions I don't know. Most of his admired work was for sessions in London at Walthamstow Town Hall and Kingsway Hall.
He also made records for Reader's Digest ( I think the Charles Gerhardt ones) and Lyrita although these were really by arrangement with Decca, a company he joined before WWII.
I envy you that record.
Decca let him do the Lyritas but insisted his name not appear on the recordings.
Alan
"....He also made records for Reader's Digest ( I think the Charles Gerhardt ones...."
I love his work on those Reader Digest releases. I always like to turn people onto his story with an article I found about 15 years ago.
http://classicalcdreview.com/cgrebweb.html
This got me the article as the first listing on my search. Hope it works. Grrr.....I used to have all this Classical info at my finger tips. The four year absence from spinning seems to have had a negative effect on my grasp on a great deal.
Tom B.
Thanks' Doc......all of my books and such on this info is packed up with my still boxed vinyl.....grrrrr
Tom B.
I have read somewhere that the British engineer was Decca's Kenneth Wilkinson, but cannot recall the citation. To me, it sounds like his work. He was one of the best.
Unearthed this article read long ago looking for the name of the church north of London Wilkinson routinely used. Good stuff in the article.
There was Kingsway Hall but it seems to me there was a Church used a lot by either EMI or Decca.
The only North London church I can think of that was regularly used for the recording of smaller ensembles ( particularly HIP) was St Jude on the Hill, Hampstead.
Of course the most regularly used recording venue in North London at the time of Kenneth Wilkinson was Walthamstow Town Hall but obviously that isn't a church.
Our Uk guys are going to tease me as to my ignorance of British town/place names.....but there was a church in Maltings ?? Snape????
Ben Britten recorded there all the time. The original building was destroyed by a fire at a latter date. Lol.....now days all you have to do is a google search IF you know what you're looking for!
Regards, Tom B.
Heavens!!Fancy not knowing the details of every building in small English villages and hamlets :-)
I'll explain. The building is called The Maltings. It is not a church but is what it says - a building constructed so that barley grain could be spread out over the floor until it started to germinate. This process is called malting and converts the raw grain into something that can be used to brew beer (or make whisky futher north in Scotland).
The Maltings is situated in the hamlet of Snape which is close to Aldeburgh (pronouned Aldburra), the home of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears who converted The Maltings when it ceased to be used for for brewing purposes into a concert hall (opened 1967) mainly to provide a venue for part of the Aldburgh Festival which up until then had mainly used local churches. It turned out to have some of the finest acoustics in Europe.
As you say the hall promptly burned down (1969) and had to be reconstructed (in time for the next festival). Fortunately the acoustics more or less remained intact and The Maltings has been used ever since for concerts and recording. More recent recordings include the wonderful Beethoven quartet cycle by the Belcea String Quartet and many piano recordings e.g. by Dame Mitsuko Uchida and Alfred Brendel.
I also have to say that it and its situation amongst Suffolk reed beds is incredibly beautiful to my eyes.
".....Dame Mitsuko Uchida ...."
I didn't realize she'd been so honored. I sure love most all her Mozart recording/performances. I have Anda on DGG vinyl doing all of the piano concertos and Dame Uchida doing them all on disc/HD.
Regards, Tom B.
Yes indeed. It's Sir Andras Schiff as well these days in case you missed that one. Both are naturalised Brits so can use the title.
Yours truly of course remains a humble subject of the Queen. Maybe they will honor me for services to indolence? :-)
Regards
Pete
Excellent post as always, Sr. PAR, and you got me to want a look at those Reed Beds. An unfamiliar landscape is usually a treat and this one doesn't disappoint.
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