Re: [ARSCLIST] Living Stereo? Don't make me laugh

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Just compared three copies of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto with Emil Gilels
> > and Fritz Reiner conducting: original mono LP (LM 1969), "Living Stereo" CD,
> > and 1970s English pressing on "Camden Classics" CCV 5016 from Victrola master
> > (VICS 1039). Interesting results. The CD is muddy, distant, over-reverbed and
> > very unpleasant. The Camden Classics/Victrola is running slow, horribly
> > distorted and full of dropouts. The original mono LP sounds .. bloody
> fabulous!
> When was the original recording made? Mono or stereo?

Late 1955, and they were doing a lot of stereo recording at that time.

dl