Re: Munch's "Damnation" in stereo - is it or isn't it?

Spam Scone wrote:
> I just got the 'new' (yes I know most of it isn't new) Munch Berlioz
> box. The Damnation of Faust was recorded in 1954, and is allegedly a
> monophonic recording. Yet at times when listening to it I swear I
hear
> a slight stereo effect. I know parts of the recording were done in
> stereo; has RCA done a patch-job, or toyed with the remastering in
some
> way?

The story I read in an interview with Pfeiffer was that it was recorded
in stereo. The first issue was on mono and stereo discs. RCA were so
pleased with the recording that the March was used on a stereo
demonstration disc. Unfortunately the compliation master tape used the
original session tape and it was subsequently lost. As were backups. So
a  full stereo tape of Faust can't be reassembled.