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  • Report of noise reduction problem in the Ormandy 11CD Minneapolis set

    From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 19 18:13:22 2023
    I'm not reviewing it but am quoting the American Record
    Guide from the Jan/Feb 2023 issue pages 114-115:

    "The sound is as good as can be expected from the period, and the
    engineers have done their best to reduce the groove noise of the
    source material. But the type of noise reduction used on the
    transcribed 78s takes away the hiss from between the notes but
    leaves it in when there is music playing; this actually makes it
    more prominent, at least to my ears. This is audible in such
    moments as when alto Anne O'Malley Gallogly begins to sing after
    a pause in the music in the 4th movement of Mahler's Resurrection
    Symphony."

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  • From drh8h@21:1/5 to Pluted Pup on Thu Jan 19 18:39:46 2023
    On Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 9:13:31 PM UTC-5, Pluted Pup wrote:
    I'm not reviewing it but am quoting the American Record
    Guide from the Jan/Feb 2023 issue pages 114-115:

    "The sound is as good as can be expected from the period, and the
    engineers have done their best to reduce the groove noise of the
    source material. But the type of noise reduction used on the
    transcribed 78s takes away the hiss from between the notes but
    leaves it in when there is music playing; this actually makes it
    more prominent, at least to my ears. This is audible in such
    moments as when alto Anne O'Malley Gallogly begins to sing after
    a pause in the music in the 4th movement of Mahler's Resurrection
    Symphony."

    There is an alternative if one is willing to pay for it: Pristine Classical offers 4 cds worth so far of some of the same recordings available by mail on CD-R or download, transferred by Mark Obert-Thorn. Mark has said he plans to continue the series,
    but of course no time line given. Presumably he will wait awhile to pick it up where he left off. He's also working his way through Ormandy's RCA 78s. Six discs so far. His enormous number of first-rate transfers for Pristine is a treasure trove, esp. of
    early electric orchestral 78s, a genre that only recently seems to have interested the major labels. One of many reasons my wallet is empty most of the time.

    DH

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  • From Oscar@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 19 19:57:53 2023
    Just read this review last night, Mr. Pup! Such a 'gating' effect is very, very distracting indeed.

    Also of note in this review in the new ARG issue:

    << Rachmaninoff: Symphony No.2
    Ormandy's performance of this symphony was moving. I found myself in tears at the end. The sound is old, the orchestra is what it is, but they all played their hearts out. This was another high point of the album. There is a note in the booklet that the
    cuts were authorized by the composer. I checked the performance length of this with Ormandy's 1950s monaural recording and his 1960s stereo recording; they are all 46 to 47 minutes. Leonard Slatkin, by comparison, takes 58 minutes in a performance that
    claims to have no cuts. >>

    Reviewer: Cary Bellow-Renfro (a new reviewer, for sure, just by the fact that VROON is listing his Christian name and not merely his surname).

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  • From Dan Koren@21:1/5 to Oscar on Thu Jan 19 20:36:45 2023
    On Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 7:57:56 PM UTC-8, Oscar wrote:
    Just read this review last night, Mr. Pup! Such a 'gating' effect is very, very distracting indeed.
    Also of note in this review in the new ARG issue:
    << Rachmaninoff: Symphony No.2
    Ormandy's performance of this symphony was moving.

    Forget Ormandy. Here is the real deal:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvuitFzDxDg

    dk

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