I agree with Dennis about the Ginn Henry Hadley-conducted 78s. They're not
"insanely rare" in my experience either. I also own a lot of them. Sorry,
but my judgment has been that they are of negligible musical quality and/or
value. They're just curios.
Don Tait
Roger,
As to what Mary Howard recorded of Toscanini, you would have to ask an
expert in the Toscanini discography like Seth Winner.
Columbia, indeed. entered the custom record business early, certainly
by 1910. Are the Ginn & Co. Music Appreciation Records with the NYPO
and Henry Hadley really "insanely rare" now? I have most of them. As
you may know, the first ones were recorded by Gennett before Columbia
took over. If they are that rare, I'll have to put them up on eBay.
Thanks for letting me know!
DDR
On 1/22/12, Don Tait ([log in to unmask]) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Toscanini conducted exactly one performance of Shostakovich's Symphony no.
> 7: July 19, 1942. A broadcast with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. He never
> conducted it again, including with any other orchestra. Your lacquers might
> be dated 1947, but they can therefore only be of the 1942 broadcast with
> the
> NBC Symphony. Lacquers dubbed by someone five years later. That is the
> orchestra on your discs. We've discussed this before elsewhere.
> Good-sounding
> official transfers from the NBC sources were first issued on RCA Victor in
> 1967.
>
> Don Tait
>
>
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