Best
Living Stereos?
March
14, 2023
Marc,
In
one of your reviews, you mentioned the RCA LP Gaîté Parisienne as one of the
great Living Stereos. I have the entire first 25 in a low-numbered set from Analogue
Productions, including this title. I plan to sell that set as I later picked up the entire
SACD set for a steal.
Still,
I'd like to get a few of the very best on LP, already owning the Scheherazade on
45rpm LPs, along with Beethoven's Violin Concerto, my favorite piece, and Bartok's Concerto
for Orchestra, which Bernie Grundman called the most important 20th-century work and
its best interpretation and recording.
Besides
the Offenbach work, can you tell me the of absolute best Living Stereos to get?
Jeff
Levine
My
knowledge of RCA Living Stereo LPs comes mostly from Harry Pearson's "The Super
Discs" list in The Absolute Sound and watching the titles that are most
often reissued. Among the latter are Gaîté Parisienne, Scheherazade, The
Pines of Rome, The Reiner Sound, Also sprach Zarathustra, and
Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. Probably the most desirable and expensive Living
Stereo recording is The Royal Ballet set from RCA's Soria Series, which can cost
over $2000, depending on pressing generation and condition. I believe Analogue Productions
reissued it, and even those bring hundreds of dollars now. -Marc Mickelson
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March
1, 2023
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Delaunay
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