[78-L] Gaite Parisienne on SACD

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 09:57 AM 8/6/2009, you wrote:
>DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> > For some reason, when RCA issued the Super-audio version of this 
> a few years ago, they used the 1954 version rather than the 1958, 
> even though on regular CD, the 1958 version is sonically far superior.
> >
> > db
>
>Nothing new about using a "wrong version"..Universal reissued the Leroy
>Anderson Christmas album a few years ago. In mono. From the 1959 
>version. Noit
>the 1955 mono original, not the 1959 stereo remake.
>
>I've heard that some folk prefer the 1954 Fiedler performance. I can take
>Fiedler or leave him doing this stuff..Efrem Kurtz was a million times better
>and he conducted it in the first place, but he only recorded about 2/5 of the
>score.
>
>dl

I have the Kurts 78's on Columbia & prefer the Fiedler 1954 version 
over it.....