[78-L] New 78 rpm re-issues - is there anything else but opera?

[David Lennick]

It was..I knew it was something neo-pretentious but couldn't think of it until 
I looked through the record reviews in an ARSC Journal where I knew I'd seen 
one listed.

dl

Christopher Steward wrote:
> Was it Symposium?
>  
> Chris
> 
> --- On Mon, 23/11/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] New 78 rpm re-issues - is there anything else but opera?
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Monday, 23 November, 2009, 3:59
> 
> 
> Some time in the 90s, new vinyl pressings were made of instrumental classical 
> recordings from the EMI vaults. I'm thinking there was only one brief series of 
> single discs by Bela Bartok, Elgar conducting, and a few others..my brain 
> refuses to dredge up the name of the label, which still does a lot of 
> historical reissuing on CD. And I think Historic Masters was considering doing 
> jazz at one point but I don't know if anything came of the idea.
> 
> dl
> 
> Milan P Milovanovic wrote:
>> Hello to all,
>>
>> while reading one of my favorite sites dedicated to newest 78 rpm reissues on vinyl:
>>
>>   http://www.historicmasters.org/
>>
>> I always wonder if anything besides opera ever saw the light of the day, recently, in vinyl - pressed directly from original metal parts? 
>>
>> I mean jazz, pop music, classical symphony pieces or solo works etc. It will be real pleasure to listen i.e. Goodman, Ellington, Basie on newly processed 78 rpm record in quiet (virgin) vinyl. Or 16" transcriptions, also.
>>
>> If not - any plans for such records you "know" something about? 
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Milan
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