Re: [ARSCLIST] discography of "direct-to-disk revival"?

[Peter Hirsch <punto@xxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

Not this one. Holst suites 1 and 2, Bach Fantasia in G major (Richard 
Franko Goldman, arr. <aside -- I have the pleasurable memory of  having 
played this arrangement under RFG a number of times as a member of his 
band in the mid 70s>) and Royal Fireworks make up the disc. I think 
there may have been a Volume 2 from the CSW and Fennell; the Grainger 
definitely rings a bell.

Regards,

Peter Hirsch

David Lennick wrote:
> Has "Lincolnshire Posy", doesn't it? I think I have a copy squirreled away. I
> also seem to remember an Earl Wild LP on one of those audiophile labels..was
> that D2D?
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> dl
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> Peter Hirsch wrote:
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> > I seem to recall a Cleveland Symphonic Winds LP with Louis Lane (I
> > think) that included the Royal Fireworks on Telarc that was either D to
> > D or one of the early digitally recorded efforts. Wait a minute; never
> > mind -- I just went and dug out a CD release of this and it has
> > Frederick Fennell conducting and it says "During the recording of the
> > digital masters and the subsequent transfer to disc, the signal was not
> > passed through any processing device at any step during production." The
> > recording date is April 1978 and I am sure that I heard the LP version
> > not too long after that and it made enough of an impression on me that,
> > almost thirty years later, I recalled it's exceptional presence.
> > Probably the first time I heard digital in any form and it was a pretty
> > ear-opening contrast to what I was used to. Of course, having the
> > Cleveland Orchestra's woodwinds and brass (not too many years
> > post-Szell) playing the gig under the great Windmeister may have been
> > part of why it was so effective.
> >
> > Anyone out there have the vinyl and care to share your impression of the
> > sound?
> >
> > Peter Hirsch
> >
> > Tom Fine wrote:
> >     
> > > There was Sheffield, Century, M&K Realtime (they did a couple of D2D
> > > before they were digital pioneers). I can't name any other specialty
> > > labels right off the bat. Didn't some of the majors experiment with
> > > this, maybe just for classical and jazz?
> > >
> > > Hmm, I wonder how one could compile a list and maybe cook up an ARSC
> > > Journal article. With 25-30 years of distance, the D2D fad was an
> > > interesting last hurrah for LPs. Some of the claims were pretty
> > > outrageous -- along the lines of "tape technology hasn't progressed
> > > but disc-cutting has vastly improved." Uh, not true. By the late 70's,
> > > the Ampex ATR-100 and then-current Studers had eliminated
> > > scrape-flutter as an issue and one COULD choose to record at 30IPS
> > > half-inch 2-track with no NR and get results that would rival even the
> > > best 44.1/16-bit digital systems. But the D2D records, the best of
> > > them, show just how hifi grooved disk recording could get.
> > >
> > > -- Tom Fine
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
> > > To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:47 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] discography of "direct-to-disk revival"?
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> > > > Tom Fine wrote:
> > > >         
> > > > > Hi All:
> > > > >
> > > > > Was there ever published a discography or listing of all of the
> > > > > direct-to-disk revival LPs? That was a short-lived fad but there
> > > > > were some great-sounding records made. I have just a handful but I
> > > > > imagine there were maybe a couple hundred made.
> > > > >
> > > > > I would argue that some of those recordings were as good as vinyl
> > > > > could get. It was an interesting time in the recording business
> > > > > because some of the great old-school engineers were still around in
> > > > > top form and there were still jazz and classical artists who could
> > > > > nail it live in the studio in one take, and the studios were past
> > > > > the early and mid 70's "dead coffin" acoustics. Plus that generation
> > > > > of mixing consoles sounded good again in most cases.
> > > > >
> > > > > Interesting -- in a couple of cases I later bought the CD, which was
> > > > > obviously made from a tape run at the time. You can really tell how
> > > > > Dolby A NR on the tape quashes the sound, even when a good CD
> > > > > mastering job was done.
> > > > >
> > > > > -- Tom Fine
> > > > >           
> > > > I've a dozen or so of the Sheffield D2D LPs and a couple of the
> > > > corresponding CDs. Some of the CDs are from digital master tapes,
> > > > though mine were from the analogue masters. The sonic difference is
> > > > easily recognized; my supposition is that it derives from phase shift
> > > > of overtones.
> > > >
> > > > I've some D2D efforts from other publishers, a few of which are
> > > > similar in quality to the Sheffield but most simply exploit the
> > > > 'gimmick'
> > > >
> > > > I know of no discography.
> > > >
> > > > Mike
> > > > --
> > > > mrichter@xxxxxxx
> > > > http://www.mrichter.com/
> > > >         
> > >
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