Re-read the last three paragraphs of Mike Gray's message. The tapes could not be found. There is speculation that the Soviets "undoubtedly" took the tapes to the USSR and degaussed them to reuse the tape. Therefore, the recordings on them would be gone.

  Don Tait

 

 

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 Why,if indeed the Soviets took the tapes,would they not have later


 Why,if indeed the Soviets took the tapes,would they not have later been issued 
on MK/Akkord/Melodiya,etc,like the Furtwangler recordings were?

Roger




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Further on Columbia stereo ... 


The IS Agon was recorded at Goldwyn Stage 7 in Hollywood, June 17, 1957. 


From 1957 - 1959, Columbia often had both two- and three-track running at 
orchestral sessions. 


If we really want to be complete ref. stereo, we ought to credit the Dutch / 
Philips-Miller experiments recorded onto film in 1939 - 1940. To my knowledge, 
these recordings have never been published. 


On RRG - From the summary of Heinz H.K. Thiele's presentation on RRG stereo at 
AES in Berlin in 1993: 


'Approximately 200 recordings, mainly of classical music, were made at the RRG. 
Only five of these recordings remain in existence today -- the others could not 
be found after World War II.' 


The missing reels undoubtedly went to Moscow where they were degaussed and 
reused by the Russians on captured Magnetophone machines. 


Mike Gray