[Clyde Slick]

On 5 Feb, 12:13, Herbert Hoover wrote:
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:03:29 -0800, Jenn wrote:
In article
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John Atkinson wrote:

http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrech...-NL-decca.html

Sad news, given the English company's pioneering work,
including the first and still in some ways the best complete Ring,
and the first Petrouchka on LP. Somewhere in my tape archive
I have a private recording of an orchestral piece the late Antal
Dorati wrote on the notes D.E.C.C.A.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile

Thanks, John. *I was going to post on this yesterday, but I hadn't
gotten to it. *It is sad news. *Such a great library, both in the most
important sense (the music) and the related way (the sound). *Ansermet,
D'Oyly Carte, et al. *The Speakers Corner and Classic Records reissues
are great too.

Sigh...

I had forgotten Ansermet and the L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romandes.
That brings back memories, indeed. I remember as a child receiving as
a Christmas gift a London (I'm in the US) recording of
Rimsky-Korsakoff's Scherherazade with Ansermet along with Bolero. I
thing Capriccio Espagnole was one one of thoe recordings as well.

I played it on a Zenith stereo console and was mesmerized. They were
the first classical recordings I ever liked, and I became smitten. I
insisted to all who would listen that Ansermet was the best conductor
ever.

Subsequently those recordings fell by the wayside, but I think his
work stands up more than most

Herbert-

luckily, the 'wayside' happens to be my lp bins.