Herold: Zampa Overture (Toscanini)
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- Arturo Toscanini: NBC Symphony
Date: 5 August 1952
Location: Carnegie Hall
Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833)
Zampa Overture (1831)
Restored from RCA "Shaded Dog" LP LM-1834 "Toscanini Plays Your Favorites
Original EQ
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Lo splendore degli ottoni della NBC e il ritmo contagioso ed eccitante di Toscanini sono degnamente esaltati da un suono magnifico .Grazie!
It is indeed magnificently played. I wish orchestras would go back to playing these type of overtures occasionally. If only most of the other Toscanini recordings from the early '50s had sounded this good. Clearly their tape recorder and a properly chosen and placed mic could work wonders.
Toscanini was the best!
He was a fanatical perfectionist, but his tempos were always a bit rushed. However, hearing these old restorations of his work brings back very pleasant memories of long ago.
@@notmyworld44There is a Toscanini quote. "If you want to please only the critics, never play to fast, to slow, too loud, or too quiet." Actually if you look at reviews of the time I don't remember any none of them actually complaining that he played things too fast. That was something that came about in the 1970's and later when everybody started playing adagios as a funeral dirge and largos, well you couldn't even find a pulse in them.
I haven't heard this piece since I worked at KLEF-FM in Houston 5 decades ago. Nice! Really nice!
Orchestras just don't seem to play this sort of music any more. Too "pops", meaning people will actually really like it. And you wouldn't want that would you?
I am not a Classical music aficionado but I really enjoy hearing it. The sound quality is great. My main reason for commenting though is that the album cover artwork in the 1950s was so so much better than anything before it or afterward, both for Classical music and for Pop music.
1950s album covers were the BEST! Check out my albums with covers by Ben Rose. How you did stuff like this before Photoshop, I will never know.
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He also did a large number of popular albums. Here is a link to them on Discogs.
www.discogs.com/artist/1991508-Ben-Rose-2
Same for me! It's easily been 40-50 years since I last heard this. Phenomenal sound, for a Toscanini recording. That's one magic stylus you've got there, Glen! Thanks so much for this.
I am getting the best results for mono LPs from my Ortofon 2M Blue which is an elliptical stylus rather than from my fancy 2M Black "Shibata" shape which was marketed as "hyperelliptical" in the Shure V15 cartridges.
@@GlensAudioRestoration Glen, you are talking about things that I haven't heard discussed in more years than I can count. It sort of makes me misty-eyed. At KLEF in Houston I used to slip-cue those vinyls under the tone arm - zhoop, zhoop - zhoop, zhoop ... You can't do that with a CD.
@@notmyworld44I'm trying to run a "full service" channel here! I definitely do the slip-cue on 78's since they don't have the raised lip and the last thing I want is to have my cartridge slip off the disc and land on the strobe dots. Thankfully the Technics has so much torque it is up to speed and stable in a couple of rotations, even at 78rpm.
Curious which stylus you used for the Toscanini Organ Symphony recording. If not the Ortofon, I wonder if it could benefit from that stylus's transient response, which seems to be exceptional?@@GlensAudioRestoration
@@stevelucianiI always put in the Description the source I used. In the case of the S-S 3 it is the CD. At the time I only had the Black. I wonder how the Blue would play the disc? It could be the disc has defects and wear that made the choice to use the CD.
As I remember this is another one of those shrill nasty recordings on both the LP and CD and this is re-equalized. It was also a broadcast and I remember having to remove a lot of audience noise and banging around.
I should check my copy with the Blue or try to find another copy of the original pressing.