Steve_Graham@ub.cc.umich.edu (11/08/90)
Wing releases tend to be phoney stereo (if not mono, that is). Some later pressings (which look like they came from the Columbia pressing plants to me) with stamped numbers were remastered by other cutting people and usually suffered. Sounds like some channel blending was done in some instances. That's all I know. Be wary of stamped matrix numbers.
hqyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (11/12/90)
Hi,
the phoney stereo Mercury X-Wings are designated as such
on the cover. there are a number of decent (not great, mind you)
recordings re-released on the Wing label. i even feel that the
Percy Grainger Country Gardens on the wing outdoes the mercury
version.
BTW, what is the general consensus on recordings made by
Marc Aubort for the Nonesuch label (i have George Crumb's Macrocosmos
Vol 1 and 3 and think it is great).
Any clues on what the next set of Mercury re-releases may be?
satish nairjdhill@BBN.COM (Jack D. Hill) (11/13/90)
In article <7582@uwm.edu> hqyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: > there are a number of decent (not great, mind you) >recordings re-released on the Wing label. i even feel that the >Percy Grainger Country Gardens on the wing outdoes the mercury >version. I've heard the Wing version but didn't buy becuase I didn't care enough for the music to shell out the $40 asking price. The most I've seen Wings go for is $15. The only reason this one was going for $40 was becuase it was on Harry Pearsons Super Disk list. Everyone I've talked to says the original SR 90219 is superior in every respect. The same goes for the Ravel "La Valse" SR 90313 which Harry lists as the Golden Imports re-issue. I think he's just too cheap to buy the real thing so he lists what he happens to have in his collection. Jack > Any clues on what the next set of Mercury re-releases may be? Cello Concertos by Schumann, Lalo & Saint-Saens Janos Starker London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (SR 90347/SR 90409) Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor Byron Janis Minneapolis Symphony, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1 Byron Janis London Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Menges (SR 90266/SR 90383) Stravinsky Fireworks: Firebird (Complete); Song of the Nightingale London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (SR 90226/SR 90387) Music of Leroy Anderson Eastman-Rochester "Pops", Frederick Fennell (SR 90009/SR 90043/SR 90400) French Opera Highlights Detroit Symphony, Paul Paray (SR 90318) Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies Enesco: Roumanian Rhapsody #1 London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (SR 90235/SR 90371) Barber: Medea Suite; Gould's Spirituals and Fall River Legend Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson (SR 90224/SR 90263) Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati Bartok: Dance Suite; Two Portraits for Orchestra Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Dorati (SR 90183/SR 90378) Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 Gina Bachauer London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 Gina Bachauer London Symphony Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (SR 90381/SR 90321) Screamers! (Circus Marches), and March Time Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell (SR 90314/SR 90170) (courtesy of Dave Lampson)
tarr-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (michael tarr) (11/27/90)
Could someone clarify a few things about he Mercury rereleases? 1. Are these on CD? If so where can they be mail ordered from? 2. Does anyone know if they plan to release Byron Janis's performance of Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto? Thanks, Mike Tarr tarr@cs.yale.edu -- * Mike Tarr The Human Neuron Project * * tarr@cs.yale.edu Department of Psychology * * "My opinions are always my own." Yale University * **************************************************************************