[78-L] Electronic stereo and Schwann

[David Lennick]

The feature article on Toscanini in Stereo is in High Fidelity, March 1961, and 
the discs are reviewed in the same issue. They like the Dvorak New World (LME 
2408), hate the Respighi (LME 2409) and find changes in tonal coloring in 
Pictures At An Exhibition (LME 2410). Apparently these were priced at $4.98, 
same as mono LPs.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
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> 
>  > >Those first Toscanini albums got a rave review in High Fidelity at 
> the time.  I've still never seen a single one of them.  dl
> 
> I've always known those were rare, but am surprised to hear that David 
> has never seen them.  I found two of them in 66 or 67 when I worked at a 
> rack jobber which had a HUGE stock of cut-outs.  My boss didn't even 
> charge me the minimal 30 cents because he said they were unsalable.  I 
> forget where I found the third one, but it was only about ten years 
> ago.  It might have been at Pops in Lexington. 
> 
> I'll have to pull them out, but I think that the article was the R.D. 
> Darrell inserted liner notes, so there might have been a conflict of 
> interest.  They aren't bad, but they are not mixable to mono, and I 
> recall the monos did have more sparkling sound.  They are not anywhere 
> as interesting as the real stereo which exists of Toscanini's last 
> concert.  There you can clearly hear the problem that is just a jumble 
> in the mono.  The two sides of the orchestra were not in sync with each 
> other in some places.  His beat must have been hard to see.  It also 
> proves that the orchestra never did stop playing.  If you play it in 
> sync with the broadcast, where the announcer cuts in and plays the 
> recording of Brahams 1st, when they resume the concert it is still in 
> sync with the stereo where you hear that the orchestra had continued -- 
> confused, but it continued.