[78-L] David Hall. Was: Mercury [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

I read somewhere, long ago, that he was born in 1915.  The Record Book and
TRB Internataion edition opened my ears to tons of beaustiful music to which I otherwise probably wouldn't have paid any attention....

Long may he wave, or RIP, whichever is appropriate!

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Sat, 9/26/09, DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com> wrote:

> From: DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com>
> Subject: [78-L] Mercury
> To: 78-L at 78online.com
> Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 10:17 AM
> Many thanks to MB for sharing that
> fine article about Mercury Living Presence and Wilma Fine.
> 
> I was disturbed by an early statement in the item - that
> the SACD releases from Mercury didn't use the same equipment
> as Wilma Cozart Fine did in her earlier CD masterings. 
> The purpose of the statement was not spelled out but the
> tacet implication is that these SACDs suffered as a
> consequence.  This is simply not true.  I don't
> care if they played the original tapes on a Seabreeze to
> make the SACDs, the results were stunning.  Each of the
> SACDs also had WCF's CD mastering included and if one had
> the facilities to do an A-B comparison, it was clear that
> the SACD version was far more focused and transparent than
> the CD layer.  Indeed, the Mercury SACDs are some of
> the finest I've ever heard, particularly the Suppé
> Overtures and the Chabrier disc.
> 
> I don't know if David Hall is still with us but I've had a
> life long desire to meet the man.  I've had the 1941
> "Record Book" since I was 5 years old and I read it so often
> in those days that I could quote from memory many of the
> statements made therein.  It's becoming less likely
> that this meeting will ever take place because if he's still
> around, he's well into his 90s and the last I heard - at the
> ARSC gathering in Cleveland a few years ago - he was in ill
> health.
> 
> db
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