Pottstown mercury4/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Recording Location: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, USA, 23–24 April 1951 *FIRST RELEASE ON MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 38 in D major, KV 504 ‘Prague’ – excerpts (stereo)* Interview with Wilma Cozart Fine (Interviewer: Sedgwick Clark)Ĭoncerto Grosso – First reel of tape, 23 April 1951*īERT WHYTE – THE EXPERIMENTAL STEREO RECORDINGS PERSPECTIVE, THE FIRST REEL AND EXPERIMENTAL STEREO Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber 106Īllen Graham, Lionel Sayers, Thomas Glenecke, percussionĬoncerto Grosso for String Orchestra with Piano Obbligato* Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. Orchestrated by Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) Both are included here in new remasters by Mark Obert-Thorn. Experimental-stereo tapes – of Mozart’s ‘Prague’ Symphony and Tabor from Ma Vlast – were made by the engineer Bert Whyte. First takes of Bloch’s Concerto Grosso add up to an almost complete alternative performance, never previously published. Thomas Fine has also contributed ‘sessionography’ notes, detailing the equipment and techniques which made MLP recordings famous the world over for their unparalleled fidelity.ĬD10 includes unique material, beginning with an interview with Wilma Cozart Fine. Robert Fine and Wilma Cozart Fine, founders of Mercury. U sing the best original tape sources available, new high-resolution transfers have been made by Thomas Fine, son of C. Another eight albums followed, of Romantic and modern repertoire playing to the strengths of both orchestra and conductor, concluding in April 1953 with a sonic and artistic spectacular, the Five Pieces for Orchestra of Schoenberg coupled with Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses on themes of Weber. The conductor later recalled how ‘a very clever team from Mercury turned up and established that the best microphone positioning was just a single one above my head … the resulting sound was identical to what I heard during the playing and didn’t need to be altered’.Īs soon as they were issued – Pictures at an Exhibition was the first LP ever released by Mercury – the results won universal praise. Kubelí k’s arrival coincided with the lapsing of the CSO’s previous recording contract and the almost immediate appearance of the ambitious Mercury label. The city’s musical press had hung previous directors out to dry, including Rodzinski, but they subjected Kubelí k to intense and sustained criticism of his programming and performances until he resigned in 1953. When he arrived in Chicago in 1950 to replace Artur Rodzinski, the 36-year-old Kubelí k had impressive credentials and a fast-growing list of triumphs in Europe. The brief and turbulent tenure of Rafael Kubelí k as the CSO’s music director has become the stuff of legend for its intense partisan hostility. Booklet includes rare photographs from the Mercury archives.New booklet essay on the Chicago Symphony/ Kubelí k years by Jonathan Woolf.To mark the 70th anniversary of Mercury Living Presence, this limited-edition box presents the complete Chicago Symphony/Rafael Kubel í k recordings, newly remastered by Thomas Fine and including never-before-published material. Groundbreaking technology, dynamic musical leadership, world-class orchestral playing: a brief marriage of lasting impact for the history of recorded music. ![]()
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