The Music Parlour
"The Closest Approach To The Original Sound"
23 March 2024
24/48: Tchaikovsky. Violin Concerto - Alfredo Campoli / LSO / Ataulfo Argenta - Decca 1956
Peter Tchaikovsky:
Violin Concerto in D major, op.35
I: Adagio moderato ~ II: Canzonetta (Andante) ~ III: Allegro vivacissimo
Alfredo Campoli, violin - London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ataulfo Argenta
London CS 6011 (Decca SXL 2029). 1958 pressing.. Recorded: 27-28 December 1956 - Kingsway Hall.
16 + 24-bit FLAC files @ https://pristineclassics.blogspot.com
04 March 2024
Puccini. La Boheme - Gigli, Albanese, La Scala / Berrettoni - HMV 1938
Giacomo Puccini: "La Boheme"
Rodolpho................. Beniamino Gigli (Tenor)
Marcello................. Afro Poli (Baritone)
Schaunard................. Aristide Baracchi (Baritone)
Colline................. Duilio Baronti (Bass)
Mimi................. Licia Albanese (Soprano)
Musetta................. Tatiana Menotti (Soprano)
Benoit / Alcindoro................. Carlo Scattola (Bass)
Parpignol................. Nello Palai (Tenor)
Chorus & Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Milan conducted by Umberto Berrettoni
EMI Music for Pleasure MFP 2076/7. 1967 LP's (1955 HMV Italiana transfer) from HMV DB3448-3460. Recorded: February (March) 1938.
16/44 FLAC files @ https://musicparlourhistorical.blogspot.com
29 January 2024
Columbia SAX 2359-2361 Callas - "La Gioconda"
So..Boys and Girls.....If Mr Rose charges <48 Euro for a FLAC transfer (from LP/CD ...??? )
..and you think it's gonna be worth that to you...( MusicWeb/Fanfare will soon tell you it sounds Absolutely Fabuloso (naturally..or "un-naturally"..)
Then how much do you think a brand-new/unplayed condition original 1960 boxed-set (undamaged box + all internal packaging) is gonna be worth...??? ( £750 ) ...!!!
And ..NO.. I'm not wet-cleaning the flawless'n'perfect discs....nor the original 33CX + SAX Lucia di Lammermoor... (£750 in Japan) ...to get not a single response !!!
https://www.pristineclassical.com/products/paco208
"Comments" include a Deranged (and ill-mannered) Diatribe from Senor "MMusicbox Record Club" - from Portugal (where the Nuts come from). Ludicrously repeats his June 2023 complaint (Liszt Via Crucis) where he was told the LP only had 2 tracks...not 14 (or 16..). These blogs are not intended as a dropping-off zone for Malcontents &/or Dementia Patients. Thank You!
I comment that I receive goddam few responses! BUT MrM Musicbox was virtually the only one from mid-last year... Now this: (9Feb) under the Pristine Szell/Walton post:- "Now
I'm telling you that I'm not interested in your gioconda edition
because I have an identical one (exactly the same, and just like the one
you say you have, without having been touched), purchased through
Discogs for €352 and a few more cents. Stupid asshole".
STUPID ARSEHOLE, WHO? - mine cost under 50 PENCE... LOL!!!
21 December 2023
24/48: Carmen Dragon - Capitol SO - Orientale - Capitol 1958
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov: "Caucasian Sketches" - Procession of the Sardar
Fritz Kreisler/arr: Dragon: "Tambourin Chinois" (this is great..)
Cesar Cui/arr: Dragon: "Orientale"
Ludwig van Beethoven: "The Ruins of Athens" - Turkish March
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov/arr: Dragon: "Sadko" - Song of India
Amy Woodforde-Finden/arr: Dragon: "Kashmiri Song"
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" - Arab Dance
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" - Chinese Dance
Alexander Luigini: "Ballet Egyptien" - Dance
Modest Moussorgsky: "Khovantchina" - Persian Dance
10 files 16/44 zip FLAC Mega Download 10 files 24/48 zip XR FLAC Mega Download
Capitol Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carmen Dragon
EMI Capitol SP 8453 1959 First Edition LP. Matrices: SP1-8453 -D6 / SP2-8453 -D8. Recorded: 28-30 March / 19-20 June 1958 - Samuel Goldwyn Studio, Hollywood. Sleeve-note >>>
08 October 2022
Otto Klemperer / Philharmonia - Beethoven. Symphony 7 - EMI stereo 1955
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no.7 in A major, op.92
I: Poco sostenuto -Vivace ~ II: Allegretto ~ III: Presto -Assai meno presto ~ IV: Allegro con brio
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Prometheus" overture, op.43*
5 files 16/44 zip FLAC Mega Download
Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Otto Klemperer
HMV ED 29 1341 1987 DMM pressing. CDRW transfer. Matrices: A-1 / B-3. Recorded: 3-7 October 1955 / *25 November 1957 - Kingsway Hall
Had intended including this with the original Columbia mono Symphonies 3/5/7 earlier this year. ( "Prometheus" not included in the 1977 2LP SXDW 3032 which has the 1969 sessions). Sleeve-note / 1988 Hi-Fi News review >>>
15 August 2020
Sir Thomas Beecham / BBC SO - Sibelius. Symphony 2 - BBC 1954
Symphony no.2 in D major, op.43
I: Allegretto ~ II: Tempo andante ma rubato ~ III: Vivacissimo ~ IV: Allegro moderato
2 files zip FLAC Mega Download
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
HMV ALP 1947 1964 pressing. Matrices: 2XEA2231/2 -1N. Recorded 'live' - 8 December 1954 - Royal Festival Hall (less than "Hi-Fi"...!!
Sleeve-note + The Times + EMG reviews >>>
(The 1959 RFH Dvorak Symphony 8 - HMV ALP 2003 - is on Pristine Classics )
23 February 2018
Balakirev. Russia, Tamara, 3 Russian themes - Gauk / Golovanov / Anosov - CCCP 1952
"Russia" - Second Overture on Russian Themes (1863–1864, rev: 1884) USSR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gauk
"Tamara" (1867–1882) Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nikolai Golovanov
Overture on 3 Russian themes (1858) USSR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nikolai Anosov
3 files zip FLAC Mega Download
SAGA XID 5101 1961 mono. ( MK D518, D0703, D923 ) 1.3 de-click + v.slight treble. Overtures +4dB amplification (a very low-level cut) and +2dB from c.6:30" for Tamara (seems under-recorded thereafter...). Sleeve-note >>>
07 January 2018
Mozart. Violin Concerto 5 - Oscar Shumsky ... Symphony 35 - Wallenstein - MAR 1956
Symphony no.35 in D major, K.385. "Haffner"
I: Allegro con spirito ~ II: Andante ~ III: Menuetto ~ IV: Presto
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alfred Wallenstein
Concerto no.5 in A major for Violin and Orchestra, K.219
I: Allegro aperto ~ II: Adagio ~ III: Rondo - Tempo di minuetto
Oscar Shumsky, violin - The Little Orchestra of New York conducted by Thomas Sherman
2 files 16/44 zip FLAC Mega Download
World Record Club T 21 1958 Oriole pressing/Philips UK matrices: W6558/9 -1. From: Music-Appreciation Records MAR5613.
Original surfaces/CD-RW transfer (Shure M95HE -1st time used for transfers) . Sleeve-note/label >>>
01 January 2018
Sir Ernest MacMillan / Toronto S.O. - Handel. Messiah - Beaver 1952
16/44 FLAC Sides 1/2/3 Mega Download Sides 4/5/6 Mega Download
Lois Marshall, Soprano - Mary Palmateer, Contralto - Jon Vickers, Tenor - James Milligan, Bass
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir & Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Ernest MacMillan
World Record Club TP 216-8 1962 pressings/matrices: W7596-7601 -2N,2N,2N,3N,2N,2N. Recorded: 5 January 1952 - Massey Hall, Toronto.
NOT ON CD CD-RW transfer (Illustration is from the SKIRA booklet for Beecham's 1959 set: DURER: "The Adoration of the Trinity" (1511)
A Thoroughly convincing performance. Track listing / info >>>
17 December 2017
A Journey Into Stereo Sound ...an introduction to ffss - Decca 1958
A Journey Into Stereo Sound ...an introduction to ffss
2 files zip FLAC Mega Download
Decca SKL 4001 1963 pressing. Matrices: ZAL3941 -6E / ZAL3942 -7E.
Original surface / CD-RW transfer. NOT ON CD
12 June 2017
Ketelbey. "In a Persian Market" - Vienna State Opera / Armando Aliberti - Westminster 1958
In a Chinese Temple Garden / Bank Holiday / In the Mystic Land of Egypt / Jungle Drums
In a Persian Market / In a Monastery Garden / Bells across the Meadows / With Honour Crowned
8 files 16/44 zip FLAC Mega Download
Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Armando Aliberti
EMI World Records STP 359 (Westminster WST 15005). 1966 pressing/matrices: SW7938 -4 / SW7939 -3. Recorded: June 1957 - Vienna.
NOT ON CD Sleeve-note >>>
03 May 2017
Liszt. Via Crucis - Francis Jackson / BBC Northern Singers / Gordon Thorne - Saga 1961
Side One: I: Jesus is condemned to death (organ solo) ~ II: Jesus bears His Cross (organ solo) ~ III: Jesus falls for the first time ~ IV: Jesus meets His Blessed Mother (organ solo) ~ V: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross (organ solo) ~ VI: St. Veronica wipes Jesus' feet with her veil ~ VII: Jesus falls for the second time ~ VIII: The women of Jerusalem weep for Jesus (organ solo) ~ IX: Jesus falls for the third time.
Side Two: X: Jesus is stripped of His clothing (organ solo) ~ XI: Jesus is nailed to the Cross ~ XII: Jesus died on the Cross ~ XIII: Jesus is taken down from the Cross (organ solo) ~ XIV: Jesus is laid in the tomb.
2 files 16/44 zip FLAC Mega Download
Francis Jackson, organ - BBC Northern Singers conducted by Gordon Thorne
Saga STXID 5079 1965 stereo release/pressing. Recorded: 1959. Town Hall, Birmingham (1.3 de-click). Sleeve-note / SRG5 review >>>
27 March 2017
Jan Hus Tichy / Prague National - Tchaikovsky. Mazeppa, Eugene Onegin, Joan of Arc, Pique Dame - Supraphon 1962
"Eugene Onegin" Acts Two & Three - Ivo Zidek / Eduard Haken / Milada Subrtova & Premsyl Koci
"Joan of Arc" Act One - Eva Zikmundova
"Pique Dame" Act One - Beno Blachut, Drahomira Tikalova, Vera Krilova
"Pique Dame" Act Two - Vera Krilova / Jindrach Jindrak
8 files zip FLAC Mega Download
Prague National Theatre Orchestra conducted by Jan Hus Tichy
Supraphon SUAST 50469 c.1964 LP/matrices: E159 -A / E160 -A Recorded: c.1961 NOT ON CD EMG review / sleeve-notes >>>
Excellent clean sound ....mildly 'tickly' surfaces.
06 February 2017
Clemens Krauss / Vienna Philharmonic - Richard Strauss. Salome - Decca 1954
Salome....................... Christel Goltz, Soprano
Jochanaan.................... Hans Braun, Baritone
Herodes........................ Julius Patzak, Tenor
Herodias......................... Margareta Kenney, Mezzo-Soprano
Narraboth......................... Anton Dermota, Tenor
Ein Page............................. Else Schurhoff, Soprano
Erster Nazarener.................... Ludwig Weber, Bass
Zweiter Nazarener.................... Harald Proglhoff, Bass
Erster Soldat............................ Walter Berry, Bass
Zweiter Soldat............................ Herbert Alsen, Bass
Ein Cappadocier............................ Ljubomir Pantscheff, Bass
Ein Sklave..................................... Hermann Gallos, Tenor
Erster Jude..................................... Rudolf Christ, Tenor
Zweiter Jude...................................... Hugo Meyer-Welfing, Tenor
Dritter Jude......................................... Kurt Preger, Baritone
Vierter Jude.......................................... Murray Dickie, Tenor
Funfter Jude............................................ Franz Bierbach, Bass
Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Clemens Krauss
4 files zip FLAC Mega Download FLAC (Side 4 - Final scene + preceding 4mins) Mega Download
Decca ACL 207-8 (LXT 2863/4) 1965 set. c.1958 matrices: ARL2101-4 -2DR/-1DR/-2DR/-2DR. Recorded: 15-21 March 1954 - Musikvereinsaal, Vienna
CD-RW: original surfaces/no auto-declick.. ACL 208 cover/sleeve-note >>> Philips 1952 Salome - VSO/Moralt >>> Ljuba Welitsch - Final scene - 1949 + 1944/1948 >>>
13 January 2017
Maria Callas / Tullio Serafin - Donizetti. Lucia di Lammermoor - EMI 1953
Lucia............................ Maria Callas, Soprano
Edgardo.......................... Guiseppe di Stefano, Tenor
Enrico.............................. Tito Gobbi, Baritone
Raimondo............................ Rapphaele Arie, Bass
Arturo.............................. Valiano Natali, Tenor
Alisa................................. Anna Maria Canali, Mezzo-Soprano
Normanno............................ Gino Sarri, Tenor
Orchestra & Chorus of "Maggio Musicale Fiorentino" conducted by Tullio Serafin
16/44 FLAC: ACT ONE Mega Download ACT TWO Mega Download ACT THREE Mega Download
HMV SLS 5056 (2LP 1977 -1985 set). Matrices: XBX9127-30 -1/-1/-2/-4 (disc 2 c.1982 recut). Rec: Jan/Feb.1953 -Teatro Comunale, Florence.
Bought recently: CD-quiet surfaces/minimal editing needed. Wonderful performance (especially Act 3) - more idiomatic (esp. the chorus) than the 1960 SAX/33CX version/s.
The second LP appears slightly 'brighter'. The 'stereo' processing seems pretty good (by David Pickett). Somewhat unenthusiastic (...) EMG/Record Guide reviews >>>
06 January 2017
SXL 6040
Johann Strauss II: Rosen aus dem Suden - Waltz, op.388
Josef Strauss: Eingesendet - Polka schnell, op.240
Johann Strauss II: Du und Du - Waltz, op.367
Eduard Strauss: Bahn frei - Polka schnell, op.45
Josef Strauss: Brennende Liebe - Polka mazurka, op.129
Johann Strauss II: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald - Waltz, op.325
Johann Strauss II: Demolirer Polka, op.269
Johann Strauss I: Radetzky-Marsch, op.228
16/44 WAV Side One: Mega Download Side Two: Mega Download
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Willi Boskovsky
Decca SXL 6040 First edition 1963 LP/matrices: ZAL5716/7 -2E/1E. Recorded: 2-6 November 1962 - Sofiensaal, Vienna. Sleeve-note >>>
RAW files - un-edited CD-RW transfer: not going to slosh Water'n'Sudso over this BRAND NEW LP - nor edit it for Hours..it's fine ('noise-free') as it is...but may later edit-away the few minor ticks ...or you can do that...
12 December 2016
Owen Brannigan sings... Songs You Remember - Song of the Flea, Mandalay, Linden Lea, etc - HMV 1961
A2-4: Riding Down From Bangor, Leanin', Clementine
A5: On The Road To Mandalay
A6-9: My Bonny, Silent Worship, Vilikins And His Dinah, The Plough Boy
B1-4: Father O'Flynn, Mr. Maguire, Border Ballad, My Love She's But A Lassie Yet
B5: Ten Green Bottles
B6-10: Yorkshire Coortin' Song, Lancashire Slumber Song, Yarmouth Fair, Linden Lea, Drinking
7 files zip 16/44 FLAC Mega Download
Owen Brannigan, Bass - Ernest Lush, piano
HMV CSD 1350 First edition 1961 pressing/matrices: 2YEA529 -1 / 2YEA530 -3 Sleeve-note >>>
06 December 2016
Hugo Rignold / Covent Garden Orchestra - Chopin-Jacob. Les Sylphides - Parlophone 1952
Prelude in A major, op.28/7 ~ Nocturne in A flat major, op.32/2 ~ Valse in G flat major, op.70/1 ~ Mazurka in D major, op.33/2 ~
Mazurka in C major, op.67/3 ~ Valse in C sharp minor, op.64/2 ~ Prelude in A major, op.28/7 ~ Grande Valse Brillante in E flat major, op.18.
FLAC Mega Download
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden conducted by Hugo Rignold
Parlophone PMD 1003 (10") 1956/7 pressing. 1952 matrices: XE25 -1N / XE26 -1N. Recorded: 29/30 March 1951
This is a contributors request. The LP was considerably less than 'Hi-Fi' and required much editing/re-EQ to make it sound presentable!
NOT ON CD EMG + Record Year-2 reviews / Sleeve-note >>> Rignold Prokofiev Cinderella 1957 >>> 1950 Desormiere Sylphides >>>
27 November 2016
Robert Irving / Royal Opera House - Sadler's Wells Ballet Silver Jubilee - HMV 1956
Boyce arr.Lambert: "Prospect Before Us" - Fugue in D major
Couperin orch.Jacob: "Harlequin in the Street" - Allegro
Mendelssohn orch.Jacob: "Lord of Burleigh" - Agitato & Allegro vivace
Auber arr.Lambert: "Les Rendezvous" - Allegro non troppo & Allegro
Gavin Gordon: "The Rake's Progress" - Sarabande & Orgy
Liszt orch.Jacob: "Apparitions" - Consolation & Galop
Lambert: "Horoscope" - Valse for the Gemini
Berners: "Wedding Bouquet" - Tango & Waltz
Bliss: "Adam Zero" - Dance of Summer
Prokofiev: "Cinderella" - Waltz & Midnight
11 files zip FLAC Mega Download 11 files zip FLAC (1.2 de-click) Mega Download (This scarce LP was 'mint'..)
17 November 2016
Sir Malcolm Sargent / BBC Symphony Orchestra - Rachmaninov. Symphony 3 - HMV 1954
I: Allegro moderato ~ II: Adagio ma non troppo ~ III: Allegro
FLAC Mega Download (groove 'fizzle' necessitated a NOS Shure M97G 'nude' spherical /SME III arm)
EMI Music for Pleasure MFP 2078 (HMV ALP 1118) 1968 LP/matrices: 2XEA402 -5 / 2XEA403 -3. Recorded: 5 May 1953 - EMI Studio 1 Abbey Road.
NOT ON CD. ('Guild' 2014 dub) CD-RW transfer. Sleeve-note / EMG reviews >>>
20 August 2016
Bliss. Piano Concerto / Mewton-Wood ... Tippett. Double Strings Concerto / Walter Goehr - Concert Hall / HMV 1952
The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr
EMI Music for Pleasure MFP 2069 1967 LP/matrix: XEA642 -2. Recorded: 3 March 1952 - EMI Studio 1, Abbey Road.
Arthur Bliss: Piano Concerto in B flat major (1939) FLAC Mega Download
I: Allegro con brio ~ II: Adagietto ~ III: Andante maestoso - Molto vivace
Noel Mewton-Wood, piano - Utrecht Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr
Nixa CLP 1167 (Concert Hall CHS 1167) 1953 LP/RCA Matrices: E2KP 6991-1C / E2KP 6992-1B. 'A2' Recorded: 1952.
NOT ON CD. Nixa + MFP sleeve-note / EMG + RG2 reviews >>> Solomon Cutner's 1943 recording >>>
The Bliss is a stunningly fine performance and in This transfer sounds absolutely splendid. Previously had 2 LP>CD transfers (same matrices) by Bryan Crimp & Mr.Pristine - who mentions a 'swish' on side 2; actually it's on both groove-walls to virtually the same degree: an unavoidable & very infrequent faint 'rustling' is anyway far preferable to Mr.Pee's "SUPERB" muffled/muddled nasality....absolute Pants, by comparison!
14 June 2016
Alexander Gauk / Moscow Radio - Shostakovich. Symphony 6 - MK/Artia 1959
I: Largo ~ II: Allegro ~ III: Presto (the last 2 mvts are the best..)
16/44 FLAC Mega Download
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gauk
ARTIA ALP-167 (MELODIYA D 4984-5 -10") 1961 US LP. US mastered: 20 October 1960. (slightly enhanced treble/'1.3' declick)
Contibutor requested... CD-RW transfer NOT ON CD an MK sleeve / EMG review >>>
08 July 2014
Carl Garaguly / Tivolis Koncertsals Symphoniorkester - Nielsen. Symphony 2, Little Suite - Fona 1963
Carl Nielsen:
Symphony no.2, op.16 "The Four Temperaments"
I: Allegro collerico ~ II: Allegro comodo e flemmatico ~ III: Andante malinconico ~ IV: Allegro sanguino
FLAC Mega Download
Little Suite for string orchestra, op.1
Prelude: Andante con moto ~ Intermezzo: Allegro moderato ~ Finale: Andante con moto - Piu mosso
FLAC Mega Download
Tivoli Concert Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carl Garaguly
Vox / Turnabout TVS 34049 1968 Decca release/matrices: S 2683 -1L / S 2684 -1L
Cleaner tape-to-disc transfer than the US Vox versions - though the recording is somewhat bright (so have marginally treble-enhanced the Suite) but which now sounds excellent and exciting; as also is the performance/orchestra... Recorded: c.1960 ?. Not on CD Sleeve-note >>>
05 June 2014
Richard Rodgers. Victory at Sea - RCA Victor Orchestra / Robert Russell Bennett - RCA 1959
"Victory at Sea"
Orchestral Suite from the NBC Television Production
Side One: The Song of the High Seas ~ The Pacific Boils Over ~ Guadalcanal (March) ~ D-Day ~ Hard Work and Horse-Play
Side Two: Theme of the Fast Carriers ~ Beneath the Southern Cross ~ Mare Nostrum ~ Victory at Sea
2 files zip FLAC Mega Download
The RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Russell Bennett
RCA SF 5092 STEREO Original 1960 Decca LP - Matrices: K2RY1076 -1D / K2RY1077 -1D Sleeve-note >>>
03 June 2014
Dmitri Shostakovich plays... Shostakovich. Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (French National / Cluytens) & 3 Fantastic Dances - EMI 1958
Piano Concerto no.1 in C major for Piano, Trumpet & Strings, op.35
Piano Concerto no.2 in F major, op.102
Three Fantastic Dances, op.5
3 files zip FLAC Mega Download
Dmitri Shostakovich, piano - Ludovic Vaillant, trumpet - French National Radio Orchestra conducted by Andre Cluytens
EMI/World Records SH 293 1979 LP (first UK release) Matrices: XLX 779 -2 / XLX 778 -2.
Recorded: 24-26/30 May / 12 September 1958 - Salle Wagram, Paris (mono only)
Transfer level is slightly lower than normal (although the recorder peaked @ 0dB) - and the LP sound wasn't exactly 'master-tape'; also with some tape compression/modulation.. Sleeve-note / 1962 EMG review >>>
10 May 2014
The Busch String Quartet: Beethoven Late String Quartets: and "The Case of The Missing Frequencies"....
Some of you may recall (long ago) that Andrew Rose stated my MD transfer of the BBC Radio 3
RPO-Sargent -Vaughan Williams Symphony 9 >>> only went up to 'about 13kHz' - when it demonstrably went to the cut-off frequency of 15kHz (the graph there proves it..)...not to mention the high-level 19kHz Pilot-Tone from the Leak Stereofetic FM Tuner...
Now, if you have nothing better to spend your money on, you can give him up to FORTY QUID for his copy of the German EMI DaCapo pressings: likely more compressed/filtered than Griffith's EMI
(assuming those tapes were the source) .... and which is missing over 1 minutes in a truncated version of the 2nd mvt of op.132.
Mr Pristine's Newletter - link
He's claiming these 'stunning' transfers of his (his? - he's merely copied someone else's efforts) go up to 18-19kHz...with a vague claim that some 'azimuth error' correction has 'revealed' those frequencies..
So here's a Competition for any MUGS who buy them: FIND THOSE EHF FREQUENCIES - as most files were cut-off/limited by Anthony Griffith / Keith Hardwick's transfers to about 9kHz at best - and only (SIDE GRAPH >>>) did I (quickly) find one above that: the last Qt from 1933 - on an energetic chord...and the PU Cartridges I used were CD-4 compatible - thus will trace frequencies @ 4 times that c.10kHz level.
My (free...) 2012 transfers of all the 1985 EMI Germany DMM box-set SQ recordings + CBS op.130 @
http://musicparlourhistorical.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-busch-quartet-play-beethoven-late.html
Of course..there are plenty of CRETINS around: Here's one: http://musicke.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-busch-quartet-and-late-beethoven.html
"The GROC transfers from EMI were not bad, but Andrew Rose's are better, with more “air” around the slightly warmer sound. It is excellent to have these really great performances from the 1930s (with a couple of early 1940s) in the best possible transfers".
So there you have it: 'best possible' means 'reduced resolution and boosted treble'. No need for me to bother, is there?? The Adulatory "Fanfare" puff duly appeared! >>>
NB: I very rarely use 'de-click' (same software as mentioned), and then only at the lowest levels possible - as sound-quality quickly becomes degraded... 'de-noiser' - never.
16 April 2014
Louis de Froment conducts... Mozart. Clarinet Concerto -&- Sinfonia Concertante - Lancelot, Pierlot, Coursier, Hongne - L'Oiseau-Lyre 1953
Concerto in A major for Clarinet & Orchestra, K.622 Allegro ~ Adagio ~ Rondo (Jacques Lancelot, clarinet)
Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, K.297b Allegro ~ Adagio ~ Andantino con variazioni
(Pierre Pierlot, oboe - Jacques Lancelot, clarinet - Gilbert Coursier, horn - Paul Hongne, bassoon)
2 files zip FLAC Mega Download
L'Ensemble Orchestral de L'Oiseau-Lyre conducted by Louis de Froment
L'Oiseau-Lyre OL 50006 First Edition 1953 LP/matrices: TT139 -1B / TT140 -1B Recorded c.1952 - Paris.
Required lengthy editing (surfaces were full of huge clicks/pops). Slightly de-clicked @ 1.3 + re-equalized (some 'edits' audible in the Clarinet C.).
Performances are superb. NOT ON CD Sleeve-note / EMG review >>>
10 April 2014
Jeanne Demessieux plays... Cesar Franck. Trois Chorals, Trois pieces, Six pieces - Decca 1959
4 files zip FLAC Mega Download
Vol.2: Choral no.2 in B minor (1890) // Six pieces: (1860-1862) - Fantasie in C major, op.16 / Grande piece Symphonique, op.17
3 files zip FLAC Mega Download
Vol.3: Choral no.3 in A minor (1890) // Six pieces: (1860-1862) - Priere, op.20 / Prelude, Fugue et Variation, op.18 / Pastorale, op.19 / Final, op.21
5 files zip FLAC Mega Download
Cavaille-Coll organ (1845) at L’Eglise de La Madeleine, Paris - Jeanne Demessieux, organist
Decca SDD 202-204 STEREO Recorded: 1959 - UK issued: 1969 - 1972 pressings/matrices: ZAL 8792-8797 -1K/-1K/-1K/-1K/-1K/-2K
New discs with minimal de-click plus slight treble enhancement . Sleeve-notes + EMG review / SRG Vol.7 review >>>
19 March 2014
Aeolian String Quartet / Leonard Cassini play... Elgar. Piano Quintet ... Bax. Legend - Delta/Revolution 1963
Sir Edward Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, op.84
I: Moderato - Allegro ~ II: Adagio ~ III: Moderato - Allegro
Sir Arnold Bax: Legend (for Viola and Piano)
2 files zip FLAC Mega Download
The Aeolian String Quartet with Leonard Cassini, piano
(Sydney Humphreys & Raymond Keenlyside, violins - Watson Forbes, viola - Derek Simpson, 'cello)
Revolution RCB 8 STEREO 1970 CBS UK pressing/matrices: REVB 8x -3E / REVB 8y -2E. Originally: mono Delta DEL 12024 NOT ON CD
Slight de-click (1.4) + slight added treble. The performance of the Quintet is mostly quite gentle/subdued...the Bax(music) is pretty ghastly!!
The sound is very 'dead' and rather 'smoothed'.... not to the standard of these original 1960's stereo LP's >>> Sleeve-note / Hi-Fi News + EMG reviews >>>
Aeolian Quartet play Vaughan Williams / Elgar Quartets (Summit 1965) >>> Aeolian Qt / Loveday / Cassini - Elgar String Qt & Violin Sonata (Concert Artist 1966) >>>