Dennis,
Documents at Sony Archive and Library indicate that a stereo matrix was
prepared for the Ormandy/PO Schubert "Unfinished," recorded Nov. 25, 1956, and
that a stereo issue number (MS 6042) was assigned to this and the
Mendelssohn MSND excerpts, but it was never issued thus. I also believe a stereo
issue number was assigned for the Gliere Ilya Murometz recorded on the same
date.
Rich Kaplan
In a message dated 9/25/2012 10:57:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
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I found no reference to the MAR items in my archival research on Szell's
Columbia/Epic recordings. It's entirely possible that RCA recorded them.
There was great resistance to stereo from Fred Plaut and others. and I
never found any evidence of experimental binaural setups that preceded
the*Messiah
* of Dec. 1956. However, when inspecting the tapes at IMAR, I came across
an Ormandy/PO recording (I no longer remember the repertoire) recorded
c1955 in 3-track, 1/4-inch format. The contents were never released.
DDR
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Jon Samuels
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Tom,
> You're most welcome.
> Here's an oddity that might interest you. George Szell and the Cleveland
> Orchestra (under the name Music Appreciation Orchestra and His Symphony
> Orchestra) made a number of recordings for Music Appreciation Records
> between 1954 and 1955. As I understand it, they were actually recorded by
> Columbia Records, due to a joint arrangement between
Book-of-the-Month-Club
> and Columbia House Record Club. Szell's first stereo recordings for MAR
> were made October 19, 20 and 21, 1955. He recorded Brahms Academic
> Festival Overture and Haydn Variations, Mozart Symphony No. 39, Schumann
> Symphony No. 4 and Stravinsky Firebird Suite. (I'm not certain the
Brahms
> and Mozart were released in stereo on LP, but the Schumann and Stravinsky
> were.) Yet he didn't record in stereo for Epic/Columbia until February
22
> and 23, 1957 for Columbia, making only mono recordings for them in 1955
and
> 1956. (Columbia's first acknowledged stereo recording was Leonard
Bernstein
> conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra in Handel's
> Messiah on December 31, 1956.)
> This raises some interesting questions. Did Columbia indeed record the
> MAR Szell recordings? If so, why did they not use their stereo recording
> capability again until December, 1956? If not, then who did?
> By any chance, do you know, Dennis (Rooney)?
> Jon Samuels
>
> --- On Tue, 9/25/12, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] early stereophony
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 6:37 AM
>
> Jon, thanks for all this information. Fascinating and educational.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Samuels"
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> >
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 12:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] early stereophony
>
>
> Ironically, the only surviving RCA document that mentions the existence
of
> binaural recording is the October 1953 Stokowski session I mentioned in
an
> earlier post, which is labelled "binaural experiment". Naturally, none of
> those tapes have been located to date.
>
> Jon Samuels
>
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