--- On Tue, 12/7/10, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Rachmaninoff Concerto #2 recording by the composer
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Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 3:13 PM
Factual information on the following questions much appreciated.
1. The date listed for the Rachmaninoff-Stokowski recording on the 1992 CD reissue is 1924. So this is originally an acoustic recording? Any information on how this was done, for instance were multiple horns used? Where was it done?
2. Any information on the source material and the transfer methods used for the 1992 CD reissue?
3. Any information on the source material and the transfer methods used for the RCA reissue LP LCT 1014?
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I will look up the exact information when I get home, but for starters, he recorded the Second Concerto acoustically and then electrically. There is an interesting story about the first (to the best of my knowledge) LP issue of the acoustic recording. It was part of a multi disc set of the "Complete" Rachmaninoff. Yet, it did not include the piano rolls. When they issued the acoustic recording on LP they "could not find" the last disc of the first movement. That was because they were looking in the file of 12 inch records and the last part of the first movement was recorded on a 10 inch disc, or so I was told. I think my source of that information was Harry Anderson....So, to fill in the "missing" part of the first movement, they spliced in the electric recording. It makes for curious listening.
Subsequent issues, the CD set in particular, included the "lost" side. I also have a vague recollection that the original shellac issue of the acoustic recording was limited to the second and third movements, (all single sided) but I will need to check.
Since you have the CD, is the producer listed?
You might also like to look at
http://victor.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/28362/
Karl
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