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By the way, the Victrolas I have DON'T include Siegfried's Rhine Journey. Did that appear on Victrola? (Not the 1941 live version, I have that.) David Lennick wrote: > I just went to the shelf and pulled the three Toscanini Wagner > compilations on Victrola reissues (70s) and those dates are the same. > Hadn't thought to look there previously. by the way, the sound on LM > 6020 is atrocious..too much compression or something, overcutting to > squeeze 29 minutes onto each side resulting in distortion on loud > passages (and these are mint pressings, with various styli tried). Very > tedious listening. > > dl > > Jim Long wrote: >> The booklet that came with my Toscanini Collection CD set (RCA Victor >> Gold Seal 09026-60250-2, booklet copyright 1992) says, though of >> course I don't know how accurate the information is: >> >> TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: PRELUDE and LIEBESTOD: January 7, 1952, Carnegie >> Hall, 18:32. >> >> DIE GOTTERDAMMERUNG: PROLOGUE; SIEGFRIED'S RHINE JOURNEY: December 22, >> 1949, Carnegie Hall, 11:00, what is titled "Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine >> Journey." Thus the preceding is something of a guess for me (not a >> Wagner naming expert). But the only other close title is the same, >> recorded in 1941. LM-6020 being one of RCA Victor's 1950's "hi-fi" >> releases, I doubt that a 1941 recording would have been used. >> >> DIE GOTTERDAMMERUNG, ACT III: SIEGFRIED'S FUNERAL MUSIC: January 3, >> 1952, Carnegie Hall, 13:20, as "Siegfried's Death & Funeral Music." A >> similar situation to the one above. >> >> DIE MEISTERSINGER: ACT I, PRELUDE: March 11, 1946, Carnegie Hall, >> 8:57. I guess this wouldn't be tape. No other alternative to choose >> from. >> >> DIE MEISTERSINGER: ACT III, PRELUDE: November 26, 1951, Carnegie Hall, >> 7:01. >> >> SIEGFRIED IDYLL: July 29, 1952, Carnegie Hall, 17:37. Other choices >> are far earlier. >> >> LOHENGRIN: ACT I, PRELUDE: October 22, 1951, Carnegie Hall, 8:41. >> Other choices far earlier. >> >> LOHENGRIN: ACT III, PRELUDE: October 22, 1951, Carnegie Hall, 3:05. >> Other choice far earlier. >> >> PARSIFAL: PRELUDE and GOOD FRIDAY SPELL: December 22, 1949, Carnegie >> Hall, 15:24 and 10:38, respectively. >> >> In a message dated 1/19/2008 12:03:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, >> [log in to unmask] writes: >> >> >>> Anyone have a Toscanini discography handy? Specifically, I'd like the >>> dates for the contents of the TOSCANINI PLAYS WAGNER album (RCA LM >>> 6020). >>> >>> TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: PRELUDE and LIEBESTOD....PRELUDE >>> PARSIFAL: PRELUDE and GOOD FRIDAY SPELL >> >> >> Jim Long >> Baroda, MI </HTML> >> >> > >