[Jenn[_3_]]

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Does anyone here have experience with Everest's original recordings or
with the Classic reissues? I picked up three of them on a very brief
trip to San Francisco this week, but I won't get to hear them until
later today. The only two recordings from that trip that I've heard so
far are yet another volume of Bach Cantatas by Gardiner/English Baroque
Soloists, which are really fine sounding CDs (not to mention FAB
performances), and a Classic Records LP reissue of Walter doing Brahms
4, originally a Columbia recording. Mixed results there. I had
forgotten how good some early Columbia recordings were, before John
McClure made all of those bad sounding Bernstein recordings. The highs
are kind of dry, but the mids and bass are really good. The playing is
mixed; the conducting is fantastic.

Are you referring to the ones that were done on a special "movie stock"
sprocketed machine and recently retransferred?

Bob Morein
(310) 237-6511

The Everests were recorded on 35mm film.

OK, yes, I do have a pile of those. It was actually not film, but 35mm "mag
stock", which is sprocketed mag tape.

These recordings have been critically acclaimed. The review I read mentioned
the presence of occasional wow (as in wow& flutter), but discounted the
significance. I regret that, for me personally, it does detract from my
enjoyment. They put a lot of effort into restoring/enhancing a machine in
order to play the tapes, but the mass of the the platters is so large that,
apparently, they were unable to achieve inaudible wow.

You should try at least one. It may not bother you. Jenn, you're into vinyl,
and vinyl does not have the inherent crystal locked stability of a modern
project, so it may simply not hit you the way it hit me. In every other way,
these are exceptional recordings.

Bob Morein
(310) 237-6511

I got to the Sibelius record today, but will listen to the other two
tomorrow. The Sibelius is really good, for sure a keeper; just not one
of my favorites, at least not yet.

Wow does bother me on piano and guitar, and I hear it on really every LP
of those instruments played solo. So I just don't collect those LPs,
except where I really want a specific performance that isn't available
on CD. Just about all of the other instruments play with vibrato, so
the wow doesn't bother me much.

Thanks for the info.