tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post3219746093676208924..comments2024-03-19T07:26:41.137-04:00Comments on The Shellackophile: Shostakovich: Sixth Symphony (Reiner)Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501152469280142504noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post-46841145771168632892013-04-30T21:52:31.305-04:002013-04-30T21:52:31.305-04:00Steve - I only today saw this comment, as it had, ...Steve - I only today saw this comment, as it had, inexplicably, somehow ended up in my spam comments, which I check about twice a year. In any case, I am sorry to say I do not have that Steinberg DSCH 1, though I have a similar memory of it to yours; in fact, the same neighbor that I mention above (the one who had to give me the ride home) DID have it, and let me listen to it....Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00501152469280142504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post-88814852900642015292012-09-30T02:45:21.864-04:002012-09-30T02:45:21.864-04:00Thanks! I love everything about this post: the rec...Thanks! I love everything about this post: the recording, the album cover and the record store memories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post-20837333879436970862012-09-24T15:49:43.796-04:002012-09-24T15:49:43.796-04:00Bryan:
When I was about 13, I found a single disk...Bryan:<br /><br />When I was about 13, I found a single disk of the Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole by Stokowski on Victor 12" Red Seal (movements 1, 2) which I picked up, to my delight, for a quarter: brand new and unplayed, at an old radio repair store that, like you describe your adventure, had ORIGINAL untouched, unsold stock from the forties (and probably earlier.) For some years afterward, I couldn't get used to the idea that the piece had MORE music than this...<br /><br />Incidentally, I had asked a question about a DS Sym recording in an earlier thread, and you gave no answer--possibly you did not see it. I repeat it again, as it is relevant to this post of DS 6:<br /><br />Bryan:<br /><br />Well, I continue to be thrilled with your uploads of masterful performances. Do you by any chance have William Steinberg's Pittsburgh Sym. recording of Shostakovich's Sym 1 (Command Lp)? I used to think it was the wittiest and warmest one I'd ever heard, and I'd dearly like to experience it again. I am asking you FIRST since your blog offers, IMO, the most technically adept and scrupulous job of any I've investigated. I'm batting a thousand so far, as your uploads of Feuermann (Schelomo) and Dorati (Spirituals), requested by me, have been MAGNIFICENT.<br /><br />Yours admiringly,<br />Steve - retired recording engineer, SF bay areaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post-80485913368223787552012-09-24T07:54:15.776-04:002012-09-24T07:54:15.776-04:00Bryan, thank you very much from Russia!Bryan, thank you very much from Russia!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post-81549495981468146272012-09-23T23:25:04.265-04:002012-09-23T23:25:04.265-04:00Many thanks, Bryan.Many thanks, Bryan.Philliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11695978009050320418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post-20015479661257364682012-09-23T07:44:29.293-04:002012-09-23T07:44:29.293-04:00Edward, I'm sure you're right, at least in...Edward, I'm sure you're right, at least in the Northeast where a culture existed for buying classical records that wasn't so much the case here in the South. Come to think of it though, we did have another store in Atlanta, Jim Salle's Record Shop, which like Clark's had begun in 1945, but by the time I found it (early 80s), there were no 78s left, however he had several bins of classical 45s which had been unsalable for 30 years! (Clark's also had their share of these.)Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00501152469280142504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post-77514713536865497242012-09-22T20:45:53.368-04:002012-09-22T20:45:53.368-04:00Your account of Clark's is I think a common on...Your account of Clark's is I think a common one. When I began collecting during the late 1950s there were lots of strange little stores tucked away in the odd corners of Philadelphia with 78s that no one wanted - well, I'm glad YOU wanted them. Our good fortune. A store in Worcester, Mass, during the late 1970s had tons of black-label Mercury LPs. Oh, said the owner, no one wants them, I can't sell them. I bought about 75 of them for maybe $25. So many thanks for bringing these good things to us. I appreciate it.<br />Tx from EdwardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com