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Dear Richard, It seems thst Columbia Masterworks Division took their time actually putting their toe in the stero waters. I never found binaural parts for Ilya Mourometz when I was considering what Ormandy to reissue on MASTERWORKS HERITAGE. Frankly I did not investigate either the Schubert or Mendelssohn but think I would have noticed binaural parts for those, too. Thanks for sharing what you discovered. DDR On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:07 PM, [Richard A Kaplan] <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > 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, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > 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" > <[log in to unmask] > > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Dennis D. Rooney > 303 W. 66th Street, 9HE > New York, NY 10023 > 212.874.9626 > -- Dennis D. Rooney 303 W. 66th Street, 9HE New York, NY 10023 212.874.9626