[78-L] Our second phonograph

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 01:39 PM 5/1/2010, you wrote:


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> > 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

Thanks.