[78-L] Melba Issue Historic Masters

[Thomas Stern]

I've just looked at the HM website - what a busy confusing mess!!
NO contact information,
If one tries to order, there is no US shipping option for TAMAGNO, nor ISSUE
30 (there is for MELBA).
Trying to setup account information, there is no option for different
billing and shipping addresses.
ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RESOLVE THESE PROBLEMS???
Thanks, Thomas.

-----Original Message-----
From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of Chris Zwarg
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:03 AM
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: Re: [78-L] Melba Issue Historic Masters


At 10:22 07.01.2009, you wrote:
>Does anybody already got this...?
>
>I am curious about the sound quality of this issue...
>
>Erwin

Yes I have it, and am very happy with it! The 14 master-pressed sides are
really splendid - I have NEVER heard e.g. "Nymphes et sylvains" or "Se saran
rose" that vividly, neither on apparently mint 1904 G&T pressings nor on
Marston's CD nor from any other source. They all play excellently with a
standard 2.8 mil stylus.

The "bonus" disc containing two titles for which the original shells
("fathers") have disappeared, and is pressed from old duplicate "CO."
matrices, is rather more difficult to play and illustrates rather
drastically the loss in fidelity through the early matrix-duplicating
process. However, one of these two sides is unpublished on 78 and the
other - Melba's very first G&T recording - not that easy to find as an
original pressing (which then probably wouldn't sound better than this
reissue; it's just that you don't have the obvious improvement over earlier
forms of issue with these two sides that you find with the other 14 sides).

BTW: The other recent Historic Masters issues ("set 30") are also excellent;
the pressing quality is much improved compared with what they put out in the
1990s - heavier vinyl less prone to warping, and mostly well-centered. The
Supervia Gennai songs have never sounded that good!

Chris Zwarg

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