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BRC-2551 – Schubert Impromptus opp 90 & 142 - Adrian Aescbacher, piano
"I listened to the Adrian Aeschbacher Schubert. From which LP label did you take the recording you sent me? [I ask] because of the extreme clarity & quality of your dubbing. [ ] The sound is simply incredible for that vintage recording [ ] very cohesive & solid." Dr. John Duffy, M.D., Walker IA
BRC-2565 – Berlioz Requiem, op.5 – Georges Jouatte, tenor, Chorus & Orchestra of Emil Passani, conducted by Jean Fournet (recorded 1943 in St. Eustache Cathedral)
"Just checked out your release of the Berlioz requiem - great job! I had the original 78s, which surely never sounded this good."
Bob Benson,Glen Burnie MD
"A major release in this series is the September 1943 recording of the Berlioz Requiem with Jean Fournet and the Emil Passani chorus and orchestra. This is one of the most impressive performances of the music ever recorded, the mono sound is incredible for the period, beautifully capturing rich acoustics of St. Eustache Church in Paris. Bearac's transfer is superb, infinitely superior to the Arkadia issue, long discontinued (Arkadia 785588)"
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BRC-1839 – Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 5 – M. Gould Spirituals for orchestra - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra / Antal Dorati
"I received your package this A.M. with the Tchaikovsky Fifth, etc Oh, how good it is! The bass is deep & tight, just as I remember it in Northrup Hall, for I went to St Thomas Aquinas College in St Paul nearby, while Antal Dorati was there, from 1949-1954. The sound is so excellent, so cohesive. It is a thrilling performance."
Dr. John Duffy M.D., Walker IA
"Antal Dorati's Minneapolis mono early '50s recordings of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 and Morton Gould's Spirituals for Orchestra are coupled on a single CD; these display the usual tight, unresonant mono sound of Mercury recordings of the era�not what I like to hear, but if it interests you, these transfers are excellent."
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"Before commenting on the 3 discs I really concentrated on may I compliment you on the sound picture you generated: clean, bass presence without being overly reverberant; truthful to the sound qualities of the original discs without manufacturing what "should have been"; and as a consequence, respectful of the original musical and sound qualities of the respective performances.
BRC-2424: The WAGENSEIL & HAYDN performances were a revelation. I would characterize them as "talkative", almost verging into conversation among colleagues. Tempi are comfortable, apparently with no virtuosic need to show off. I hope there will be more!
BRC-1813: Beinum is another favorite. I knew his LPO Creatures of Prometheus, but not the BEETHOVEN Overtures you remastered. I especially admired the masculinity and the focus of the Coriolan, sounding like a laser beam connected the beginning and end. The Concertgebouw SCHUBERTS are both wonderful, showing that, unlike Karajan, an orchestra can be homogeneous and still consist of great solo colorists.
BRC-1822: You did a remarkable job on the BRUCKNER 3rd, refusing to turn the piece into a Concerto for Orchestra. I especially admire how you kept sonorities which Andreae heard as background (parts of the Scherzo & Trio, for example) in the sonic distance, heightening the sense of a terraced performance. What civilized music-making. I've rarely been able to enjoy my LP of this performance, a crackly auction acquisition. Thank you very much."
Neil Raymond, Montreal, Canada
BRC-1792 – Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 4 - Robert Casadesus / Concertgebouw Orchestra / Eduard van Beinum
"A major issue offers Beethoven's Concertos 1 and 4 with Robert Casadesus recorded in stereo for Philips in March 1959 with Van Beinum and the Concertgebouw, a month before the conductor died from a heart attack. Apparently Philips had planned a complete cycle with this pianist and conductor; in February 1961 Casadesus recorded the Concerto No. 5 with Hans Rosbaud on the podium. These performances of Nos. 1 and 4 are stunning; no dawdling here in the total playing time for both is slightly over one hour."
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BRC-1837: Stokowski / NBC SO Sibelius Symph 2 & Liszt 3 Hungarian Rhapsodies
"I have to congratulate you. The Casadesus/Beinum Beethoven concertos are transferred masterly: I hadn't got such pleasure from my worn now Philips LP even when it was brand new. And the Stokowski/NBC Sibelius 2 is as good a transfer I think (the bass!) and cheaper than Cala's "official" reissue. Amazing to think you have been working from an LP source on that one. I will certainly get some more of your CDs very soon. Many thanks!"
H.Soeteman, Hilversum, The Netherlands
BRC-2756 (2-CD set) – Purcell: The Fairy Queen - Solists / The St. Anthony Singers / Boyd Neel CO / Anthony Lewis
"I find hard to believe you haven't been working on the master tapes here. I had to replace my original LPs with the electronic stereo reissue on OL during the 70s, which was sonically a disaster. Your transfer has given me back the original coherent sound of this lovely recording. Many thanks and keep up the good work."
John Hobbs, Lancs., United Kingdom
BRC-1813 BEETHOVEN: Consecration of the House Overture. Fidelio Overture. Coriolan Overture. SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 4 in C minor "Tragic." Symphony No. 5 in B flat. London Philharmonic Orch (Beethoven); Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orch (Schubert)/ Eduard van Beinum, cond.
"Any rare recordings by Eduard van Beinum are welcome, and here we have his early '50s recordings of five Beethoven overtures as listed above. Consecration of the House, Fidelio and Coriolan coupled with two Schubert symphonies. The Beethoven are with the London Philharmonic, the Schubert with the Concertgebouw. Previous LP transfers of the Beethoven overtures were thin; this is their first issue on CD,
and the transfer does justice to the originals which were recorded in London's Walthamstow Assembly Hall."
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BRC-1815 STRAVINSKY: Petrushka. LALO: Symphonie espagnole, Op.21 SAINT-SA�NS: Danse macabre. Zino Francescatti, violinist; New York Philharmonic/Dimitri Mitropoulos, cond.
Another treasure is the Mitropoulos CD containing his early '50s recordings of Stravinsky, Lalo and Saint-Saens. This is a dazzling, distinctive Petrushka, like no other I've heard, brilliantly played by the NYP. Zino Francescatti had recorded the Lalo about five years earlier for Columbia (available on Pearl 9250); this is his only other recording, and excellent it is. The CD is filled out with Danse macabre. Mitropoulos recorded three other symphonic poems of this composer; it's odd all four weren't included on the CD along with Petrushka, instead of the Lalo. Let us hope Bearac will issue more early recordings by Mitropoulos. There are treasures there!"
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BRC-1817 DVORAK: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104. MUSSORGSKY-RAVEL: Pictures at an Exhibition. Tibor de Machula, cellist: Vienna Symphony Orch/Rudolf Moralt, cond. (Dvorak); Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orch/Antal Dorati, cond.
Dorati never received the respect he so richly deserved, and reissue of his older recordings is always welcome. His recording of Pictures at an Exhibition made in February 1952 won the 1953 Gran Prix du Disque. It can be heard along with a splendid performance of Dvorak's Cello Concerto played by Tibor de Machula, who for years was principal cellist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
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BRC-1946 CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11. Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21. Berceuse, Op. 57. Tarantella, Op. 43. 3 Ecossaises, Op. 72. Julian Von Karolyi, pianist/Berlin Philharmonic Orch/Wilhelm Schuechter, cond.(concertos); Regina Smendzianka, pianist
"Bearac's interest in pianists is exemplified by the disk of the two Chopin concertos played by Julian von Karolyi with Wilhelm Schuechter and the Berlin Philharmonic. You won't hear more refined performances of these concertos than these."
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BRC-1834 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58. Rudolf Serkin, pianist; Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy, cond. BRC-1841 HINDEMITH: Mathis der Maler. Concert Music for Strings and Brass, Op. 50. STRAVINSKY : Firebird Suite. RAVEL: La valse. Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy, cond.
"Most of Eugene Ormandy's early mono recordings were never issued on CD and, if they were, have disappeared from the catalog, a situation Bearac is partially rectifying. Rudolf Serkin is the dynamic soloist in Beethoven's Concertos 3 and 4, recorded in the early '50s, superior to any of Serkin's later commercial recordings of this music, particularly the Telarc set with Ozawa/Boston Symphony. Ormandy at his best also can be heard in pre-stereo recordings of Hindemith's Mathis der Maler and Concert Music for Strings and Brass, Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and Ravel's La valse."
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BRC-2792 BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No.2 op.83 - Elly Ney - Berliner Philharmoniker - Max Fiedler (MONO, 1939)
BRC-1830: Beethoven 6 String Quartets op.18 - Endres String Quartet (STEREO, 2-CD set)
"Your marvelous discs were received by me and I am enjoying them thoroughly! The Elly Ney Brahms Second Concerto is the best transfer of that noble recording I have ever heard, and I am especially grateful to have the Endres Quartet performing Beethoven's Op. 18. I look forward to placing additional orders with you in the future."
Tom Beers, Arlington VA
BRC-1894: Brahms: Piano Concerto 2, op.83 - Wilhelm Backhaus / Saechsische Staatskapelle, Dresden / Karl Bohm (MONO, rec.1939)
"...the overall quality of sound on the Backhaus/Brahms 2 is stunning .... other commercial CD transfers pale in comparison with yours. I also own the Electrola Lp of that performance and I can't imagine how you worked your magic to make Herrn Backhaus, Boehm and the Dresdeners sound so marvelously three- dimensional!"
BRC-1831: Jonel Perlea / Bamberg SO: Schubert Symphony no. 9 "the Great" - Mozart Symphony no. 40 - Glinka Russlan & Ludmila Overture (STEREO)
BRC-2862 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no 1 in B flat op.23 / Piano Concerto no 2 in G op.44 - Edith Farnadi - Vienna State Opera Orchestra / Hermann Scherchen (MONO, rec. 1954)
Two additional bravos for the Perlea/Schubert and Farnadi/Scherchen/Tchaikovsky discs. You are right about Perlea's Schubert, which is a very persuasive performance in the Furtwaengler manner and with the 1950s Bambergers sounding very much their former identity as the German Philharmonic of Prague .... lovely Czech woodwind sounds and beautifully cultured string playing. I am so very glad to have this sadly underappreciated recording of what is probably my favorite classical symphony.
Farnadi/Scherchen is an even greater discovery ..... yes, Scherchen's 'hell for leather' speeds quite often come very close to throwing himself, Ms Farnadi and the Wiener Symphoniker into the proverbial ditch by the side of the road, but what excitement! Plus there are moments of almost heart-rending tenderness. I have known Ms Farnadi primarily as a Liszt and Bartok player, but she demonstrates here a very keen
appreciation for Tchaikovsky. She may not be in the same league as any number of other pianists who have recorded these works, but while she and Scherchen are performing them they sound like the greatest concertos that have ever been written .... no small accomplishment that!
BRC-2084: Scriabin The Piano Sonatas & Fantasy (complete) – Igor Zhukov, piano (STEREO – 2-CD set)
The Zhukov Skryabin sonata recordings (I've heard three of the ten) sound much better than my old (USA) Melodiya/Angel Lps and I particularly thank you for rescuing these inimitable performances from that limbo to which they have been consigned (at least in the USA) for the past thirty or more years. I do not believe any other pianist has so completely mastered these works as a corpus ..... certainly Zhukov presents the perfect balance between lyric flow and firm projection of structure. It's rather odd, but I always considered his piano tone rather 'thin,' but not unattractive. I now learn from your handsome packaging that Comrade Zhukov used a Bechstein piano for these recordings and that explains the piano tone which, in retrospect, must be an almost ideal recreation of that late 19th/early 20th century piano tone Skryabin had 'in mind' while composing. Molto bravo!
BRC-2855: Beethoven: Symphonies 1 - 9 & Leonore 3 Overture - Ella Lee, soprano - Joanna Simon, mezzo - Richard Kness, tenor - Thomas Paul, bass - The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh / Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / William Steinberg, conducting (STEREO, rec. mid-late 1960s)(5-CD set, nas)
I applaud your decision to release an Integrale of the Command Steinberg/Pittsburgh Beethoven cycle, and can only wonder that DGG/Polygram have not earmarked this wonderful set for official re-release. [ ] I have listened to Steinberg's Beethoven 1, 2, and 4 and am most impressed with the quality of your transfers .... very full and warm, but with plenty of detail. [ ] Moreover, it is a great pleasure to hear these wonderful performances presented on a soundstage that provides consistent imaging throughout all nine symphonies. Over the past couple of years I have managed to obtain some of these performances from other private issuers in the USA, all of which have provided superior transfers. But they have used different sources to engineer and produce their CDs, including commercial reel-to-reel tapes and Lps. As a result, the sound imaging reflects those disparate sources and the choices made by the individual engineers and (inevitably)
varies from transfer to transfer. You have, on the evidence, used very good quality Lp sources throughout and the results are very satisfying. In a few cases (Symphonies 2, 4 & 7), I was able to compare your work with commercial CDs issued by MCA (USA) in the late 1980s .... the only commercial issue of any part of the Steinberg Beethoven cycle issued to date, to my knowledge. Although the sound on these commercial CDs
has more detail, your CDs present a warmer, more natural-sounding perspective that does not skimp detail and is truer to my memory of the wonderfully natural sound of the original Lps. (Come to think of it, your transfers improve on those Lps in one significant respect. Command recordings were always bass-shy and top-heavy. Your CDs cannot change that original engineering, but you have managed to redress the odd
imbalance between treble highs and shallow bass that generally afflicted the Command Lps. Bravo!) In short, I think you have bested engineers who have been able to work from the master tapes!
The performances themselves are magnificent. As your editor 'Harry Lime' points out (amazing he can write so well perched high atop a Viennese Ferris Wheel!), Steinberg's heroes were Klemperer and Toscanini, and these performances manage an almost uncanny synthesis of the Beethoven produced by those two great objectivist giants. Not that Steinberg is a mere synthesizer, by any means. But it is fair to point out that his performances recall Klemperer's great virtues of contrapuntal clarity and organizational coherence while injecting the same with more than a modicum of Toscanini's rhythmic zest and dramatic force. It is simply unbelievable that this set has not been made available from a commercial source, an omission that represents a gross failure in my humble opinion. Thank you for redressing this great injustice and doing Steinberg -- and Beethoven --proud!
Tom Beers, Arlington VA
BRC-1990 Liszt Piano Sonata in b – Gondoliera – Le Rossignol – Liebestraum no.3 – Mephisto Waltz no.1 – Eva Bernathova / Paganini Etudes nos 5 “La Chasse”, 2 “Octaves” & 3 “La Campanella” – Alexander Uninsky / Funerailles (no.5 fm “Harmonies Poetiques”) – Cor de Groot (MONO)
The CD is perfect!!, I love that version of Liszt's Sonate, I listened Mr Uninsky in Argentine, my country, where I was born. The transfer if PERFECT...I can't believe you have all those LP in so very good conditions!!!... is a perfect ADD transfer.
BRC-1854:Uninsky / Hague PO / Otterloo Chopin Piano Cto 1 – Liszt Piano Sonata in b & Soneto del Petrarca 104 (MONO)
I received THIS morning the CD!!...wow!!!, nice, very nice and interesting version that one of Bernathova's Liszt Sonate. I find itfull of character!! I love, really the Liszt studies played by Uninsky... I'm waiting now for the sonate.
Jose Angel Lepore, Paia a Mare, Italy
BRC-2864 Mozart: Piano Concertos nos 17 in G K 453 & 27 in B flat K 595 - Hans Henkemans, piano - Wiener Symphoniker / John Pritchard (MONO, rec. mid-1950s)
BRC-2825 : Ravel Daphnis et Chloe, complete ballet - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra / Antal Dorati (MONO, 1954)
[ ]...the sound of the Henkemans is really very fine. So I think your work was a relly great job !
I took the Ravel Daphnis with me on vacation to make the tracking: I used the Munch/Boston from 1955 to compare tracks. There are certainly on some places in the Boston Orchestra "better" players, but as a whole the Munch sounds nearly dull compared to Dorati. His performance has so much more tension !!
Bas van Westerup, Zoetermeer Netherlands
I recently ordered the reissue of Dorati's Minneapolis Symphony recording of Daphnis and Chloe; it's wonderful.
Jon Butler, Hamden, CT, USA
[ ] Finally the Dorati/Minneapolis SO/Mercury Ravel Daphnis et Chloe .... I grew up in Minneapolis during the 1950s, but almost all mono Dorati/Mercury Lps were out of print by the time I started amassing an Lp collection as a teenager. I'm sure you have added some magic of your own to achieve such an astonishingly impactful CD transfer, but I am simply overwhelmed by what Mercury could achieve in the mono format while recording in the University of Minnesota's notoriously problematic Northrop Auditorium. By the time I attended that University, the Minneapolis Symphony (rechristened "the Minnesota Orchestra") had moved to a new and more acoustically satisfying venue. But I heard the orchestra return to Northrop for a single concert, ca. 1971, and I was shocked by how the hall's acoustics dampened the orchestra's sound. Clearly, Mercury achieved a triumph recording Daphnis under such conditions, and your CD transfer does Mercury's achievement proud!
Tom Beers, Arlington, VA, USA
BRC-1845: Fricsay / BPO Beethoven Symph 5* / Egmont Overture - Otterloo / Hague PO Beethoven Symph 8* (*STEREO)
BRC-1849: Fricsay / BPO Beethoven Symph 3* & 8 (*STEREO)
BRC-2836: Beethoven: Symphony No.2 in D, op.36 - Concertgebouw Orchestra / Eduard van Beinum -
Cherubini: Symphony in D - Vienna Symphony / Carlo Zecchi (MONO, mid-1950s)
BRC-1874: Smetana: Ma Vlast (complete cycle) - Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam / Antal Dorati (MONO)
Fricsay's Beethoven is very interesting, unlike any other that I generally listen to. The Berlin Phil plays superbly. Fricsay's tempi in 5 and 7 are uncommonly broad and slow, but they are effective because he and the orchestra seem to agree on how to imbue the performances with energy, although I think the 7th is more successful than the 5th. Still, both are wonderful to hear. His 3rd is a bit closer to the commonly accepted tempi and I shall listen to it often. And his 9th, still available on DG, is perhaps one of the best ever recorded, I think.
It is a great delight once again to hear van Beinum's studio recording of the Beethoven 2nd and to have a reunion with Bohm's 1956 Mozart Symphonies. And the Dorati Concertgebouw Ma Vlast is everything I hoped for: excellent in every way. It certainly matches or surpasses the three different recordings and much beloved recordings I have by Kubelik with the Chicago, the Boston, and the Vienna. [ ] I am very, very happy with the CDs and hope to be in touch with you again soon.
Robert Stiefel, Dover, NH, USA
BRC-2839: Grieg: Holberg Suite - Arensky: Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky - Bartok: Music for strings, percussion & celesta - Harold Byrns / Harold Byrns Chamber Orchestra (a, b) / Los Angeles Chamber SO (c)(MONO, Rec. early 1950s)
I just received the Harold Byrns CD yesterday (BRC-2839). Thank you so much for doing such beautiful transfers and for packaging them so attractively. I will definitely be ordering more items from you in the near future.
Stephen Hillyer, Evanston, IL, USA
BRC-2656 Bruckner SYmphony no.1 "Linz" - Vienna Symphony Orchestra / Volkmar Andreae (MONO)
A note to tell you that your disks just arrived. They were contained in the best-wrapped package I have ever seen! The disks themselves are stylishly and sturdily packaged (even a picture!), but, moreover, the sound, at least on the Bruckner Symphony #1 that I am listening to now, is superb. Congratulations on a very fine product!
Larry Friedman, Lake Clarke Shores, FL, United States
BRC-2875 Chopin: The Four Ballades / Andante Spianato & Polonaise Brillante op.22 - Gary Graffman, piano (STEREO, rec. 1959)
[ ] You have remastered Graffman's Chopin Ballades superbly .... the sound is much more nuanced and three-dimensional than that on the original Lp (USA RCA Victrola Plum Label), an Lp that I owned back in the 1960s. As you used that very same Lp as your source, I can only express astonishment at how much better your CD sounds!
Tom Beers, Arlington, VA, USA
BRC-1852: F.Busch / Tonkuenstler. Niederoesterr. Beethoven Symph 3 - Fricsay Beethoven Symph 1 - Lehmann / Bamberg SO Bellini Norma Ovt.
BRC-2796: Albert Spalding plays Beethoven and Brahms Violin Concertos - The Austrian Symphony Orchestra / Wilhelm Loibner (MONO, rec. 1952)
[ ]I recently received the Remington reissues of the Busch Beethoven Eroica and the Albert Spalding violin concerti. My congratulations on the nice job in refurbishing these vintage discs.
Steve Slezak, Solon, Iowa, U.S.A.
BRC-2974: Carlo Zecchi / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam - Schumann Symphony No.3 op.97 "Rhenish" - Brahms Serenade No.2 op.16 (MONO, rec. 1954)
Bearac Reissues has provided a great service to collectors by restoring to the catalog Carlo Zecchi's performance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Schumann's Symphony No. 3 — in a splendid transfer taken from the original LP. Also included is Serenade No. 2 of Brahms[ ] The rich mono sound vividly captures the Concertgebouw acoustic. Highly recommended!
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BRC-3169: Beethoven: 5 Piano Concertos - Rudolf Serkin / Philadelphia / Eugene Ormandy - Violin Concerto & Two Romances for vln & orch - Zino Francescatti / Philadelphia / Eugene Ormandy - Columbia Symphony / Jean Morel (Romances) - Triple Concerto for piano violin and cello op.58 - John Corigliano / Leonard Rose / Walter Hendl - NY PSO / Bruno Walter (4-CD set MSE-Processed Ambient Stereo, recs.
1949-1954)
Once again (and in closing), let me congratulate you on the Beethoven Concerto set. I have now listened to each performance several times and your work is simply, breathtakingly superb .... masterful transfers that let the music making speak for itself. And your new technical process certainly contributes a most welcome spaciousness to the sound picture. I am very much looking forward to hearing that same techique applied to Herr Doktor Grischkat's Monteverdi!
Tom Beers, Arlington, VA
Again we are indebted to Bearac Reissues for reissuing many major recordings of the past, in splendid transfers. The Beethoven concertos always played an important part in Rudolf Serkin's career; he made his American debut February 23, 1936 playing Concerto No. 4 with Arturo Toscanini and the New York Philharmonic and in 1944 played it again with the same conductor and the NBC Symphony (both available
on Guild). There are many other commercial and live Serkin performances of the concertos including live1977 recordings of all five with the Bavarian Radio Symphony directed by Rafael Kubelik, and his last recording of the complete set, in 1982, with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony (Telarc). Now, thanks to Bearac we have Serkin's first commercial recordings made with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
To say these are lively performances is to put it mildly. The pianist was in his prime, and the accompaniments could not be bettered. Zino Francescatti also is captured relatively early in his career in the violin concerto. Another plus is inclusion of the Triple Concerto with three distinguised soloists conducted by Bruno Walter. Bearac has used "a custom process called MSE (Mono Spatial Enhancement)" that provides a highly successful updating of the original monophonic sound. This set is invaluable for collectors, and thank you, once again, BEARAC REISSUES.
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BRC-2455: Liszt: A Faust Symphony - Two Episodes fm Lenau's Faust: a. The Nocturnal Procession; b. The Dance in the Village Inn (Mephisto Waltz no 2) - Werner Krenn, tenor / Pro Arte Chorus, Lausanne / L' Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet - Berlioz: Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale - Vienna Kammerchor - Vienna State Opera Orchestra / Ernest Graf (STEREO, 2-CD set)
BRC-3128:Khachaturian: Piano Concerto - Bloch: Scherzo fantasque - Lorin Hollander, piano - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Andre Previn (STEREO, rec. 1965)
Having purchased a long time ago your transfer of Liszt Faust symphony with the OSR / Ansermet, I recently had the opportunity to buy the official reissue of it by Australian Decca (Eloquence series). I write to congratulate you because your transfer, though done using the 33 1/3 lps, is so much better I really am amazed by the difference. Even more puzzlingly, I found your transfer of the Hollander/Previn Khachaturian concerto far better than its official Japanese transfer (on RCA) - and I say this because the Japanese are known for making transfers usually far better than those made here or in the US. How you manage to get such results is a mystery. Still, thank you once more.
Dave Lloyd
London, England
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