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24 March 2016

24/48: Leopold Stokowski / Philadelphia Orchestra - Stravinsky. Rite of Spring - RCA Victor 1930

Igor Stravinsky:  "Le Sacre du Printemps"
First Tableau:  L'Adoration de la Terre   ~   Second Tableau:  Le Sacrifice   

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The Philadelphia Orchestra  conducted by  Leopold Stokowski

HMV  D.7802-5  Auto  (D.1919-2)   Album no.124.   RCA matrices: A37471-3, A47975-9 (4,4a,3a,1a..3,4,5a,7a).
Recorded: 24-25 September 1929 / 12 March 1930 - Academy of Music (Philadelphia).    New 1939 set
2 different microphone balances: some sides are very vivid - others are recessed/lacking impact  (4th disc, pt.1):  very quiet passages are hardly suited to shellac - probably due in part to the original processing - as limited the frequency-range to 12kHz - sufficient for piccolo outbursts.

19 October 2015

24/48: Leopold Stokowski / Philadelphia Orchestra - Stravinsky. Petrushka - RCA Victor 1937

Igor Stravinsky:  "Petrouchka" - Ballet Suite  (1911)
First Tableau - The Mid-Lent Fair   /   Second Tableau - In Petrouchka's Room   /   Third Tableau - The Moor's Room   /
Fourth Tableau - The Fair, Towards Evening
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The Philadelphia Orchestra  conducted by  Leopold Stokowski  
HMV  DB.8633-36  Auto  (DB.3511-14)  Album no.328    1940 pressings/RCA Matrices  (originally: CS 07588/90-1, 07591-3, 07592/4-1, 07595-2)   Recorded: 19 April / 7 November 1937   - Academy of Music (Philadelphia)
Side 1 +2dB, Sides 2,3 +1dB transferred compared to Sides 4-8  (the latter were also somewhat superior recording sessions). 
Surface-noise is mostly quite innocuous thanks to the high-level sound/RCA's HF EQ...plus some decent EMI shellac.