[78-L] Our second phonograph

[David Lennick]

> Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 13:28:44 -0500
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> From: bratcher at pdq.net
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Our second phonograph
> 
> At 12:28 AM 5/1/2010, you wrote:
> 
> >Bob, it's wonderful to read of your ascendancy to the Cetra heights.One of
> >my treasured LP's is the early Cetra Soria LP of the great bass baritone
> >Cesare Siepi.
> > Must have bought it in NYC about 1948. The first complete operas were just
> >coming out on RCA Victor and Columbia. Great albums with extraordinary
> >singers from the Met but Cetra was right up there with great releases of its
> >own. I belive I played the Siepi on a Columbia LP phonograph which was run
> >through out TV set speaker. Then came the Klipsch.
> >
> >Al Simmons
> 
> I wonder who pressed the Centra Soria LP's plus what years did they 
> begin & end here in the USA? 
> 

Columbia, then Capitol. Some of those Cetra sets were truly awful, taken from Italian radio tapes..I tried 4 pressings of "Giannmi Schicchi" and couldn't get one that was listenable. The Capitols were less strident and cut at a lower level, but still terrible.

dl