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Aren't most of the classical sides dubs? In fact wasn't the Beethoven Fifth with Stokowski and the Philadelphia orchestra the only orchestral classical issue that WASN'T a dub? It was the one the company played at the press reception where the records were introduced.

Jim

I may have been considered too expensive to go about recording brand new masters.

Still, pushing long playing discs of things that were already in the catalog, or were just a few years earlier, wasn't very enticing. Especially if they were dubbed from noisy scrolls.

Wolfe wrote:Still, pushing long playing discs of things that were already in the catalog, or were just a few years earlier, wasn't very enticing. Especially if they were dubbed from noisy scrolls.

Mm-m, does anybody see an analogy here between LPs and their CD reissues?

Not an LP, but Tully Potter's notes for the Busch Quartet Beethoven recordings (EMI - Great Recordings of the Century) notes that, "At the very first sessions, the HMV team put themselves out to help [Busch] realize his vision of Op. 95 in F minor, achieving a side of six minutes 18 seconds [my italics] so that the slow movement could be heard uninterrupted."

I didn't realize a 78 rpm "take"that long was possible!

(Op 95 is best heard on the Dutton reissue; it's not included in the EMI set, above.)

Nat