[78-L] Symphonie Fantastique

[Damian R]

Ronald Taylor's English Columbia 12" discography lists it on L1708-13, 
matrices WAX (indicating electrical recording) 1111-2, 1112-2, 1113-2, 
1114-2, 1115-3, 1116-2, 1119-2, 1120-1, 1121-3, 1117-3, 1122-3, 1118-2. The 
first six sides were recorded on 29th October 1925 and the last six on 1st 
November 1925.

The discographies on the CHARM website show that the acoustic recording was 
made on 10th March 1925, matrices AX 920/3; 929/32; 940/2; 944/6

Damain Rogan

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From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 5:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Symphonie Fantastique

> 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..
>>
>> db
>
>
>
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