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Re: [ARSCLIST] Pirated Mengelberg 78s



Just looked at his site.He does not list any symphonic music, nor does he classify it by genre.Roger

Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:  I recall Christobal Diaz mentioning those Firestone Cuban Philharmonic 
records during a conversation at ARSC.  I've not seen his Cuban Music 
discography but, knowing him, I betcha it was accounted for in there 
somehow.

Steve Smolian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" 
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Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pirated Mengelberg 78s


> Don Tait wrote:
>
>>   This software doesn't seem to enable me to quote anyone's messages, so
>> after saying that I've enjoyed the discussion I'll say about Obie, 
>> pirates, et.al.
>> that Mengelberg's Concertgebouw recording of Beethoven's Pastoral 
>> Symphony
>> (Telefunken SK 2424/9) was pirated on the "Music Appreciation Recordings 
>> of the
>> World's Greatest Music" 78 series. The labels say "World's Greatest
>> Symphonies," the disc numbers are X-40/44, and they are in a flimsy album 
>> with a leaflet
>> of notes. The labels say "Copyright 1941 Music Appreciation Projects, 
>> Inc."
>>
>>   I used to also have a set of Dvorak's New World in this series but was
>> never able to identify what the souce recording might have been. It 
>> wasn't the
>> Mengelberg Telefunken; Mengelberg is always unmistakable.
>>
>>   Don Tait
>
> I recently found the Beethoven Eroica on "World's Greatest Symphonies", in 
> two 3-disc
> albums, and I'd bet it's the Mengelberg although I haven't made a direct 
> comparison yet. The
> transfer is actually half-decent, from the little I sampled. But some of 
> those Obie dubs are
> really horrible, full of wow, running onto the label, you name it.
>
> I have the New World on a couple of labels..Philharmonic, Masterpiece. 
> Isn't that the one
> that was issued as "Havana Symphony Orchestra" in one incarnation?
>
> dl
>
>
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