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[David Lennick]

A footnote in Claude Arnold's "The Orchestra on Record" points out that this 
was the last acoustical recording of a symphony orchestra to be made and 
published by the Gramophone Company in France.

David Lennick wrote:
> February 18, 1925..Pasdeloup Symphony Orchestra, Gramophone W701. Composed 
> 1923, premiered by Koussevitzky in Paris in May 1924. The acoustical recording 
> is far superior to the electrical one he did for Odeon, which sounded like a 
> telephone line. That one remained in print for years on US Decca.
> 
> dl
> 
> joe at salerno.com wrote:
>> So it was recorded pretty soon after it was written, if it was recorded 
>> acoustically
>>
>> written in 19922 or 1923 IIRC
>>
>> joe salerno
>>
>>
>> David Lennick wrote:
>>> At least three times, two of them conducted by Honegger (acoustical and 
>>> electrical). The other was Coppola, all recorded in Paris before 1930.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> joe at salerno.com wrote:
>>>> Was Honegger's Pacific 231 ever released on a 78?
>>>>
>>>> joe salerno
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