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Music : Arturo Toscanini: The Complete Philadelphia Orchestra Recordings 1941-42In association with Amazon.comfrom: RCA  Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0886970233125 Format: Original recording remastered Label: RCA Manufacturer: RCA Number Of Discs: 3 Publisher: RCA Release Date: November 14, 2006 Studio: RCA Sales Rank: 83257 MPN: 702331 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Remastering not all that great.I don't understand the raves for the sound quality on this set. Compared to the Soria LP issue of Schubert's 9th, this CD has greater presence thanks to a treble boost, but also the strings get very screechy because of the same treble boost. The CD also has a disturbingly high continuous noise level. Overall, the old LP has a more "musical" sonic balance and a very respectably low noise level, and the LP remains my first choice for listening to this recording for pleasure. Since I wanted this set ... Read More Rating:  - A long time coming, and a revelationFor those of us who have grown impatient with the dry, boxy sonics of Studio 8-H and also with the tense, unyielding approach to music that increasingly became the norm for Toscanini after WW II, the recordings he made in Philadelphia have been a hope and a promise. The promise was that the orchestra sounded positively lush compared to the NBC Sym., the hope was that the corroded masters from that wartime era could be somehow salvaged. Up to now the hope was unfulfilled, but Sony/BMG ... Read More Rating: - Toscanini + Philadelphia = Must HaveArturo Toscanini and Leopold Stokowski briefly switched podiums in 1941. Stokowski's stint with the NBC Symphony Orchestra is largely forgotten, but Toscanini's recordings with the Philadelphia Orchestra were the stuff of legend even before they were released in 1963. The recordings were quite problematic, sonically. The initial 78rpm discs had defects (including off center pressings, which caused the pitch to waver) and were not stored in optimal conditions. It took recording engineers ... Read More Rating:  - Among the best classical recordings of all time. Essential. (Warning: May be addictive.)After living with this set for a few months, my main complaint is that I can't find more time to spend listening to it! The restoration is better than a few 30-second fragments on the internet led me to believe: The 78 rpm ticks and crackle I remember from the LP set, while tolerable, are gone, and only at intervals is there an odd noise or fuzzy passage to remind you when these performances were recorded. A fine restoration! Beautiful! And what performances they are! Anyone ... Read More Rating: - Stunning remastering, just a few glitchesThese recordings, made in 1941-42, have suffered for years from the worst sond imaginable. Though recorded with splendid natural balance at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, the original metal masters were somehow accidentally corroded using inferior wartime processing, which resulted in pressings that had ticks, pops, swishes and grinding noises. In 1963 an RCA Victor engineer spent about 1,000 hours de-ticking the Schubert 9th, which was issued on a Soria Series LP, but in 1976 RCA issued the complete ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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