[78-L] Columbia classics

[David Lennick]

The Damrosch Ma Mere is a pretty feeble performance as well as recording. I 
can't remember what his Brahms sounds like but my memory tells me that an 
acoustical recording of one movement from it sounded better. One item that was 
added to the Modern Music Series was Gershwin's Concerto in F with Paul 
Whiteman. Hardly a Symphony Orchestra but also not a well balanced 
recording..the piano is in the distance.

Columbia was also recording a reduced NY Philharmonic under Henry Hadley for 
the Ginn Educational Series at this time. Those sound like typical early 
electricals (for that matter, the upper balcony of Edmonton's Jubilee 
Auditorium also sounded like an early electrical recording, even though the ESO 
was a pretty good band in the 80s).

dl

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> Checked card index and found that of first 200 classical alba, 20 are US:
> 
> 
> 32  Sonata 3 (Chopin)  Gringer
> 36  Brahms Son 2, Seidel & Loesser
> 37  Brahms  Piano son 3  Grainger
> 38  Beethoven  Cello son op.69  Salmond & Rumshisky
> 69  Haydn Qt op.54/2  Musical Art Qt
> 74  Ravel  Ma mere  Damrosch
> 78  Grieg Cello son  Saslmond/Rumshisky
> 82  Brahms Sym 2  Damrosch
> 86  Schubert Qt op.29  Musical Art  Qt
> 96  Schubert  Qt.op125/2
> 102 Schumann  works  Grainger
> 107 Smetana Trio  Malkin
> 127 Grieg Violin son 3  Seidel & Loesser
> 140 Brahms  Violin son 2  Zimbalist & Kauffmann
> 155 Brahms  Violin son 1  Seidel & Loesser
> 166 something perf by Grainger-can't read my notes
> 191 Harris  Sym 1933  Koussevitzky
> 198 Brahms Pno Qnt,op.60  Cumpson etal
> 200 Bach by Cumpson
> 
> Possibly there are also US recordings in the Modern Music series [quincy Porter comes to mind], also some of the 2disc rec's that later became X
> sets.  Idid not search these, so they might affect to percentage summat.
> 
> All these I've had or heard sound fine; it's only with the war and postwar rec's of Stoky, Mitropoulos, Rodzinsky and Reiner that DH goes on about the
> wretched sound.
> 
> Mike in Plovdiv
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> Of these, only three appear to be orchestral, (the main object of my criticism), and I haven't heard any of them.  dl has commented on the Koussevitzky but I would like to find the others.
> 
> db
> 
> P.S.  I may have missed some discussion on this or other postings which I made because digest number "78-L Digest, Vol 16, Issue 124" never reached me.
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