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In Reply to: What are your "reference" recordings, when you compare equipment? posted by Dick Schneiders on December 15, 2005 at 12:30:02:
Oh, and Belafonte at Carnegie Hall - Original LSO Living Stereo
Strauss: Zarathustra/LAPO/Mehta
Mussorgsky: Pictures/Cherkassky/Nimbus 45rpm
Prokofiev: Peter und der "Gnomex Fred"/LPO/Malko.
(Decca Ace of Clubs ACL30 matrix -4D (1959) recorded early 1950...wonderful recording quality (authentic 'Wolf' sounds...on Wisconsin editions...)["Sparky" on PYE Golden Guinea GGL0297]
Highly recommended
- http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000026MU0/stertime/203-5794258-9579147 (Open in New Window)
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I like that one a lot! Mehta looked like a college student in 1968!I haven't yet done a back-and-forth listen with my "other" Zarathustra (Berlin/Bohm--grand prix du disque winner). But it's one of the things I want to do soon.
I'll add the Classic reissue of Firebird (Dorati) to this list. It's incredible, even better-sounding than the original Mercury pressing (which I also have, pristine).
Didn't you mean "Gnomex Ferd" ? ;)
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