[78-L] Symphonie Fantastique

[David Lennick]

If it's November 1925 it definitely should be electrical..English Columbia 
bought the US operation specifically to get the rights to Western Electric's 
system. Weingartner DID make an acoustical recording of it in March 1925 which 
was never published..they likely used the same matrix numbers for a remake.

dl

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> Weingartner's recording of "Symphonie Fantastique" was recorded in November of 1925, according to my information.  This, according to a correspondant of mine, is an accoustic recording.  I have the recording, although I haven't listened to it for many years, I was never very impressed with the sound but I always thought it was very early electric.  I have other records with the Viva~Tonal designation and the "VE" symbol which sound accoustic although they are supposed to be electrical.  The Berlioz  discs have the Viva~Tonal looking lable but they don't have that designation.  It seems strange to me that such a dynamic work would have been recorded accoustically when electrical recording technology was already well established..
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> db