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Early hi-fi : Wide range and stereo recordings made by Bell Laboratories in the early 1930's / various composers.
LIBRA - Manuscripts Storage Ms. Coll. 636 Item 96
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977, conductor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orchestral music.
- Orchestral music, Arranged.
- Operas--Excerpts.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Orchestral music.
- Orchestral music, Arranged.
- Sound recordings.
- Excerpts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (55:39 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono and stereo ; 12 in.
- 12 in.
- Contained In:
- Stokowski-Gatewood Collection of Commercial Sound Recordings. Item 96
- Place of Publication:
- [Whippany, N.J.?] : Bell Laboratories, 1979.
- System Details:
- analog
- 33 1/3 rpm
- microgroove
- stereo
- mono
- Contents:
- Roman carnival (8:20) / Berlioz
- Invitation to the dance (8:24) / Weber
- A midsummer night's dream: Scherzo (4:46) / Mendelssohn
- Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod (7:40) / Wagner
- Prometheus: Excerpts (6:58) / Scriabin
- Pictures at an exhibition (19:31): Promenade, conclusion ; Gnomes ; The old castle, excerpt ; Bydlo, conclusion ; Promenade ; Ballet of the chicks in their shells ; Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle ; Catacombs, excerpt ; Hut on fowl's legs ; The great gate at Kiev / Mussorgsky.
- Participant:
- Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski, conductor.
- Notes:
- Recorded 1931-1932 at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA.
- Prometheus, Promenade, Gnomes, and The old castle are in stereo; the rest are mono.
- Program notes by H. Ward Marston IV on container.
- History of early hi-fi on container.
- This recording was Record 44 in Gatewood's collection of recordings.
- Contains:
- Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Carnaval romain.
- Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826. Aufforderung zum Tanze; arranged
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Sommernachtstraum. Scherzo
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Tristan und Isolde. 1. Aufzug. Einleitung
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Tristan und Isolde. Liebestod
- Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915. Prométhée. Selections
- Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881. Kartinki s vystavki. Selections; arranged.
- Publisher Number:
- BTL-7901 Bell Laboratories
- Access Restriction:
- Off-site storage: 24-hour retrieval.
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