Comments on On An Overgrown Path: LPs were like the force of gravity

Are we really doomed to hear nothing but MP3 files...

2007-12-01T20:15:00.000Z

Are we really doomed to hear nothing but MP3 files for ever? I would have thought that by now, as more people are on high bandwidth, we could at least have full CD quality. Really in the 21st century, they should be selling nothing less that SACD quality._____I would never pay for an MP3 file. (I don't like LP clicks either.)

Thanks for that Michael. The first track on the Mu...

2007-11-29T07:40:00.000Z

Thanks for that Michael.

The first track on the Munrow programme I mentioned above is the madrigal, Hark all ye. Our source was reel to reel tape!

No clicks and pops on that. Although I have to say that the LP transfer we made of Munrow and John Turner playing sopranino recorders in the third movement of the fourth Brandenburg with Sir Adrian Boult and the LPO is clean and very sweet.

As above, I choose them all.

Email received:Dear Pliable,Talk about nostalgia: ...

2007-11-29T07:29:00.000Z

Email received:

Dear Pliable,

Talk about nostalgia: I've downloaded Bohm's studio recording of Der Rosenkavalier from the DG site. A bit expensive at 33.99 Euros, but the convenience is huge. And the sound quality is amazing (especially as this is a 1959 recording). I've always wanted to have this again, even though I've got EMI's GRotC Karajan version on CD. Bohm doesn't have Schwatzkopf, of course, but everyone else is amazing: Rita Striech, Imgard Seefried, Fischer-Diskau, and above all Kurt Bohme (who can get all the low notes, unlike Edlemann who had sing some of the alternate higher notes -- check out Ochs' Act 1 exit!). And the booklet and cover artwork (including the original LP artwork) is in high-res PDF, so I can gaze at the front and back as much as I want!

But here's the point: I miss the original format in which I had this recording: 7 1/2 IPS reel-to-reel from Ampex! Ha!

Best Regards,

Michael Richards

Not all of Munrow's music has been released on CD....

2007-11-28T22:41:00.000Z

Not all of Munrow's music has been released on CD. So we had LP tracks transferred to CD, which were then encoded as WAV files, which will become an audio stream. We hope to have a podcast so this will mean porting the WAV files to MP3.

I will also do an article about the programme, so the LP sleeves are being scanned as JPGs for uploading On An Overgrown Path.

Interesting. I have a fair bit of Munrow, almost all on LP (and much in big boxes). A very remarkable musician, and I look forward to reading more about this project.

About 2 years ago, I was at a concert in Toronto with Daniel Taylor and James Bowman. Lots of Purcell and such. I asked Bowman to sign a CD which I'd bought at intermission, and commented to him that I'd seen him in Toronto in the early 70's as part of the Early Music Consort (Munrow, Bowman, Oliver Brookes, and James Tyler on that occasion). A good memory, and a pleasure to be able to speak to Bowman 30-some years later about it.

Scott, I came to your comment from working on a do...

2007-11-28T21:48:00.000Z

Scott, I came to your comment from working on a documentary about David Munrow at Future Radio.

Not all of Munrow's music has been released on CD. So we had LP tracks transferred to CD, which were then encoded as WAV files, which will become an audio stream. We hope to have a podcast so this will mean porting the WAV files to MP3.

I will also do an article about the programme, so the LP sleeves are being scanned as JPGs for uploading On An Overgrown Path.

Wasn't it Olivier Messiaen, who when asked which colour of the rainbow he would choose, said he would choose them all?

HindenburgChecked, but not corrected, earlier.Sorr...

2007-11-28T21:09:00.000Z

Hindenburg

Checked, but not corrected, earlier.

Sorry.

I just reread your important Siegfried Lauterwasse...

2007-11-28T20:46:00.000Z

I just reread your important Siegfried Lauterwasser posts.

They made me recall the odd-angled, undercover photojournalist photos that Hungarian-Jewish photographer Martin Munkacsi made in Potsdam-Berlin, in January of 1933, when the Nazis staged a ‘High Prussian’ ceremony showing Hindenberg appointing Hitler as Chancellor.

These powerful, inexplicable photos were on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this past September; and, before that, at the new photography museum in Hamburg, Germany.

I wasn’t able to find any of Munkacsi’s Potsdam 1933 ‘Coronation’ photos
on the Web, which struck me as somewhat sad given their importance and mystery.

I hope that a photo researcher can rectify this.

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Less seriously:

http://www.philipglass.com/images/recordings/symphony-no8.jpg

LP Retro?

You could certainly stare at the LP sleeve above. ...

2007-11-28T17:57:00.000Z

You could certainly stare at the LP sleeve above. or the record label here, for hours.

Well ... speak for yourself. :-)

I still play LP's, but I have little nostalgia for them. The larger covers did give scope for some lovely stuff, and also for some dreck. And I have no nostalgia for ticks and pops.

I am a customer of several download sites, and my major complaint so far is that it's just too easy and potentially ruinously expensive.