Leopold Stokowski Rhapsodies

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RCA Living Stereo 180 Gram Vinyl LP!
Remastered and Cut at 33 1/3rpm by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound!
Cut from Original Session Tapes!
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings & Plated by Gary Salstrom!
RCA Living Stereo classical LPs - the gold standard for top quality orchestral performance and sound!
Under the baton of Maestro Leopold Stokowski, the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra recorded the "Rhapsodies" by Liszt, Enesco and Smetana at the Manhattan Center in New York City on February 7 & 18, 1960. Sound engineer legend Bob Simpson, who has recorded several hundred albums for RCA, Impulse and other labels in his career, captured this musical event with a 3-track Ampex machine. RCA's studio orchestra of the late 50s and early 60s plays more with power than brilliance and more expressively than controlled, which only benefits the spectacle and was probably exactly what Stokowski was looking for. The recording set new standards at the time and still sounds overwhelming today.
Maestro Stokowski is at the podium and Bob Simpson is at the 3-track Ampex recorder to capture the Rhapsodies from Liszt, Enesco and Smetana that give this issue its title. This is titanic sound that will sink most speakers and amps for that matter. A must have. The original 3-track session tapes were used in mastering this LP from the Analogue Production reissue series.
"These records are definitive." - Michael Fremer, Analog Planet

Features:

• 180g Vinyl
• 33 1/3rpm
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Plated by Gary Salstrom
• Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound
• Cut from Original 3-Track Session Tapes

Musicians:

• Leopold Stokowski, conductor
• RCA Victor Symphony

Selections:

Side A
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
1. Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, in C-Sharp Minor
George Enescu (1881-1955)
2. Romanian Rhapsodies No.1 in A, Op.11
Side B
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
1. The Vltava
2. The Bartered Bride: Overture