I have most of that material on 78s, so they came first..possibly dubbed from 
16" lacquers. It certainly sounds as if these were among the first in what came 
to be the "Living Presence" style, along with Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks 
Concerto (which was originally issued on Keynote, just as Mercury was taking 
the label over).

dl

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> I've come upon an early Mercury LP, dark red cover with gold-embossed  
> lettering:  MG10003, Mitchell Miller with the Saidenberg Little Symphony,  Daniel 
> Saidenberg conducting works by Cimarosa, Luis Milan and Vaughn  Williams.  It 
> was produced by Robert Fine at the Reeves Beaux Arts Studios  in NYC in 1947.  
> Notes are by David Hall.  The disc is in fine shape  and the grooves are 
> pristne.  Was this album, recorded in 1947, done to be  dubbed onto 78s?  Or was 
> there movement toward releasing the first LPs  before 1948?  A note says "A 
> single microphone was placed approximately 30  feet from the players."
>  
> Don Chichester
> 
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