Can you recommend any of the Barbirolli Society discs?
Phillip
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From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Mercury co-founder Irving Green passes
> Hi Roger:
>
> I don't know about the whole Pye catalog. The recordings made by the
> Mercury crew were originally issued on Mercury and, I think, Pye, at the
> same time. Interestingly, the Pye records are different because they took
> only the right and left mic feeds and not the center mic. So the Mercury
> LP sounds different from the Pye/EMI reissue CD and, I assume, the
> original Pye LP. Other Halle recordings were apparently made by other
> labels, but I don't know anything about them. The current Barbirolli
> Society compilation CD's sometimes combine Mercury/Pye recordings with
> others, sometimes not.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
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