[78-L] Show Pan - Rachi's Prelude

[David Lennick]

As he's supposed to have said, "If the check is okay, the acoustics are okay." 
(Meaning the sound of the hall, not the pre-1925 records.)

dl

On 7/14/2012 6:14 PM, Rjholtin wrote:
> And in the process I - and perhaps a lot of others - think of the up-tempo renditions as correct and the slow ones as wrong.  Reckon Rocky was OK with that, too.
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> Sent from my iPod
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> On Jul 14, 2012, at 4:53 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
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> Look how many more they sold by putting it on ten inch! There were plenty of 12
> inch versions, most of which you've never owned..Lympany, Kapell, Rubinstein,
> Moiseiwitsch among them.
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> dl
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> On 7/14/2012 5:44 PM, Rjholtin wrote:
> But both the acoustic an electric were on 10" - which begs the question, why not move it up to 12" for increased playing time?
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> Sent from my iPod
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> On Jul 13, 2012, at 6:23 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>   wrote:
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> Rachmaninoff played the Prelude much faster on Victor/HMV because of the side
> length. Check it out on Edison if you can find a transfer or a link. And then
> for sheer decadence, check out a ten inch Brunswick by the Cleveland Orchestra
> conducted by Nicolai Sokoloff (I wonder if that one had the composer's
> approval? Sokoloff and Rachmaninoff worked out the cuts to be made in the
> Second Symphony).
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> dl
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> On 7/13/2012 6:18 PM, Matthew Duncan wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for the info in this thread.  I am familiar with Cortot already and will persue all the other names put forward.
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> I think the ''Revolutionary Study'' shows the style of classical music I have grown to like - very dramatic.  That's probably why I enjoy Rachmaninoff's "Prelude in C Sharp Minor'' which I have by Mark Hambourg on HMV and also an HMV of it being played by the composer himself.
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> Matt in the UK
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>   From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Sent: Friday, 13 July 2012, 20:27
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Show Pan
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> The first Chopin set I had was Earl Wild, on a Varsity lp (originally on
> Majestic and a few other 78 labels). Probably more surface noise than audible
> music on that lp.
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> dl
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> On 7/13/2012 3:22 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> One of my favourite Chopin sets on 78s is the Victor set by Moritz Rosenthal, but I would like to hear him playing more robust repertoire.  Rubinstein, while he did complete sets of the Nocturnes, Polonaises, Mazurkas, Sonatas, Ballades, etc, he seemed to eschew the Etudes for some reason.  I agree with the opinion that you won't likely go wrong with anything from Cortot's fingers.  Leopold Godowsky did his own arrangements of the Etudes but, as far as I know, he never recorded them.
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> db