![\"\"](\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/KHCD-2011-045-cover1.jpg\" "\\"Dorati")
<\/a><\/p>\nI have doing a rebuild on the Klassic Haus Restorations website, trying to make it more user-friendly, so I have been out od the loop for May. I promise to do more updates, and perhaps add more interesting info to the blog other than blatant advertising! I do want others to add comments to what I am posting, and engage in conversation regarding classic LPs and the people who performed on them, as well as those responsible for producing them.<\/p>\n
This entry features\u00a0two classic Mercury mono recordings from 1953 and 1954, both considered to be audiophile demonstration-class discs during the 50s and well into the 60s. The LPs I had for transcription were mid-50s pressings, as they retain the wide-range open soundstage not found on later remasterings. Both discs had the original parchment inner sleeves found in vintage Mercury LP covers. I cleaned them using\u00a0the Spin-Clean <\/a>record cleaning system (as I do all my LPs). The results are breathtaking, and I think the CD preserves the sound quite well.<\/p>\n Here are the comments I posted on Klassic Haus:<\/p>\n \u00a0KHCD-2011-045 (MONO) – Respighi: Roman Festivals (1926); Church Windows (1926) – 1954 mono; Debussy: Three Nocturnes – 1953 mono – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra\/Antal Dorati – <\/strong>The recordings on this disc were the ultimate audiophile demo LPs in the early 50s, and for some time after that. The Mercury\/Minneapolis Symphony series of recordings with Antal Dorati conducting were groundbreaking in many ways, and the vinyl discs are still coveted for their realistic, wide-range soundstage, not sounding “mono” at all! Two near-mint discs were used for this transfer, and this CD release preserves a sense of discovery in sheer music-making seldom found in present-day recordings.<\/p>\n I am adding more new titles as the month progresses, so please check in often! Cheers – Curt Timmons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 I have doing a rebuild on the Klassic Haus Restorations website, trying to make it more user-friendly, so I have been out od the loop for May. I promise to do more updates, and perhaps add more interesting info to the blog other than blatant advertising! I do want others to add comments to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}