On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:29:16 GMT, forgetit@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Mitchell
Kaufman) wrote:
>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
Wasn't an excerpt from the only master on the tape Mrs.Sarnoff lost,
along with the end of the march from Toscanini's stereo pathetique?
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