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

Spam Scone <Spamscone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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?

Assuming it's the same as the original 8-CD box, it's mono. However, a
stereo excerpt was issued on the RCA Living Stereo Pfeiffer tribute CD,
and it was absolutely spectacular. The complete stereo tapes have been
lost, however.

MK