[78-L] Capriccio Italien

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

I've got the 78 rpm set of Heart Of The Symphony & it's pretty good in my opinion. Heart Of The Concerto (or is it Heart Of The Piano Concerto) is good too btw. Both are all abridged of course. Honestly I prefer full length classical pieces whenever it's possible but still these 2 sets make some interesting listening for me....

 

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>From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 12:03 PM
>Subject: Re: [78-L] Capriccio Italien
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>And into the 40s we had "The Heart of The Symphony" (and Concerto and Opera 
>usw), but we still have those things..one of the "prizes" often offered by 
>public radio stations is a 5-disc set of Adagios. If you need 5 cds of adagios, 
>you need help. (The Buffalo station offers this, but it's also the only full 
>classical station worth listening to in the Toronto area, and I gladly pay far 
>too much to my cable company because they carry it as well.)
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>dl
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>On 3/10/2012 12:56 PM, Philip Carli wrote:
>> I still find it interesting, especially in the acoustical era, how cuts were arrived at - in other words, what the conductors deemed the most salient points of a piece in order to deal with limited space and still give some idea of a work. And as mentioned earlier, it went well into the electrical era. I have recordings of several versions of the standard Ricordi orchestral selection from MADAMA BUTTERFLY, ranging from Lacalle's Band on an Indestructible cylinder to the BBC Wireless Symph/Percy Pitt on Columbia, and none of them is cut remotely the same.  The most interesting ones in some ways are by conductors with operatic experience (Pasternack, Sodero, Pitt).  Also, all the 2-sided versions of Rossini's SEMIRAMIDE overture are cut very differently; the first "complete" recording of it I've encountered (and I use quotes because 1 repeat is omitted) is "Milan Symphony" (La Scala, otherwise)/Lorenzo Molajoli for Columbia on 3 sides, around 1927,
 released on Green Label he
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>>  and Blue Label in the UK.  (The 4th side is the CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA Intermezzo.) PC
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