[78-L] Count John McCormack Vol. VII, 1904-1906. "Produced to Pearl Quality Criteria"

[David Lennick]

The Naxos titles aren't available in the US thanks to copyright problems, but 
can be ordered from Canadian and European dealers.

dl

On 1/9/2013 3:56 PM, Don Cox wrote:
> On 09/01/2013, Ryan Wolfe wrote:
>
>> In my experience the transfers on Pearl are always varying quality.
>> One of the worst CD's of 78's I've ever heard was the Mary Garden one
>> they did, unbearable surface noise that sounds like when you play a
>> Dolby tape of a noisy 78 with the Dolby turned off. .
>>
>> Some McCormack ones I have on Pearl, like "Where The River Shannon
>> Flows" exhibit all the same types of problems you mention.
>>
>> Or "Music Of The Night" a collection of his late sides that was done
>> by the late, esteemed Roger Beardsley, which unfortuately has
>> artificial reverb and fake stereo-izing applied.
>>
>> I'm a big fan of McCormacks's late HMV sides and pick them up on 78's
>> when I can. But on my to do list is to acquire the complete set of
>> late recordings (on Pearl) that was transferred by Ward Marston. I'm
>> pretty confident that it will be good.
>
> How about the 9 CDs of acoustics on Naxos, also engineered by
> Ward Marston ?
>
> Regards