[78-L] Karajan Brahms ^

[David Lennick]

It would originally have appeared on RCA since that label and Decca were in 
partnership and distribution deals in the 50s and early 60s. Other Stereo 
Treasury lps that were originally on London include Monteux conducting Swan 
Lake (or some other Tchaikovsky) and Bliss conducting Welcome The Queen and the 
Pomp and Circumstance Marches. There are others. If you run across English RCA 
lps from this period, they're pressed by English Decca.

dl

On 10/13/2011 3:44 AM, Christopher Steward wrote:
> According to John Hunt's Karajan discography there is only one VPO recording of Brahms 1, with both Decca and RCA issues, made in March 1959.
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> Chris
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> --- On Thu, 13/10/11, DAVID BURNHAM<burnhamd at rogers.com>  wrote:
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> From: DAVID BURNHAM<burnhamd at rogers.com>
> Subject: [78-L] Karajan Brahms ^
> To: "78-L at 78online.com"<78-L at 78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, 13 October, 2011, 8:01
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> This has nothing to do with 78s but I know some 78Lers will know the answer.
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> Is the recording of Brahms' First Symphony by Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic that came out on RCA's Soria series and the same group's recording on English Decca the same recording?  The Decca version I have is the "Stereo Treasury" release and has a date of 1960;  the RCA recording has no date.  They certainly sound similar and I've listened in vain for any noise or flub which would identify the recording, but I don't understand why both companies would have the same recording in the same markets at the same time, (although the RCA isn't dated, the Soria series came out around 1960 as I recall).
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> Thanks!
> db