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Artist:Belgian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Franz Andre
Title:Borodin: Polovtsian Dances From Prince Igor / In The Steppes Of Central Asia - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos. 3 & 6 - Enesco: Roumanian Rhapsody No.1
Format:Vinyl Album
Label:  Telefunken
Country:UK
Date:Apr 1960
Catalogue:SMA 14
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Community: 1 Owns
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Performers
ComposerAlexander Borodin
Orchestra / EnsembleBelgian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
ConductorFranz Andre


TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
SIDE 1
01Belgian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Franz Andre Polovstian Dances From Prince Igor (Band 1)Alexander BorodinRate
02Belgian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Franz AndrePolovstian Dances From Prince Igor (Band 2)Alexander BorodinRate
03Belgian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Franz AndreIn The Steppes Of Central AsiaAlexander BorodinRate
SIDE 2
04Belgian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Franz Andre Hungarian Rhapsody No.3Franz LisztRate
05Belgian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Franz AndreHungarian Rhapsody No.6Franz LisztRate
06Belgian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Franz AndreRoumanian Rhapsody No.1, Op. 11EnescoRate


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Stereo Album.

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Magic Marmalade
22nd Feb 2016
 Review
Fantastic recording...

Weight, power, detail ex-set-er-aah.

It's all here, but............................

It's a very quiet disc!

That is to say, it's all on the disc, but you have to crank your levels way up to unlock all of that, and make it sound like any other disc.

Like many, I have settled on a standard volume level that I can expect most discs to be comfortable to listen to, and if I want a little extra, I can push it a little... but all within an established range.
If I were to take a meat and potatoes disc as a standard, like a Deutsche Grammophon, it goes straight on the turntable, and no further adjustment is required to sound levels. Alternatively, an HMV may need taking down a mite, as these are quite loud by this standard.... and as for the Columbias, well they threaten to remove the back wall and sonically re-model the house for you, and without any loss of detail or distortion.

This required as much as a third extra on my levels to bring it into the Deutsche Grammophon range.

It's great when you get it there, as I say, because this is a fantastic, and finely detailed press of a great recording, with all the stereo worked out very well, as you'd want... but these being full sounding symphonic pieces of music packed with exotic drama, it should be louder than it is...

And this is the real concern of this quiet disc, as to enjoy the benefit of it, you'd have to get an absolutely mint copy -

- fortunately mine is (even though my sleeve looks like it was used to mop up a full English breakfast from the floor of a greasy spoon) -

- because any clicks or pops come through at normal volume, over and above the volume of the music, and as I encountered a couple of dust particles when playing, they came through like gun shots at this volume.

So very high maintenance disc in prospect.

I'm going to try to find a couple more Telefunken discs in the series, to see if it's just this particular disc, it's recording level, or whatever, but at the moment, I'd put the VOX discs above this as a preference.

<<As a footnote, on the back of the sleeve, is a list of others in the series which shows that the cat prefix: GMA is mono, and SMA is stereo for these, and that not all of them have stereo releases:

GMA / SMA 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 available as both stereo and mono.
GMA (mono only): 5, 6, 7, 12, and 15

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Magic Marmalade
19th Feb 2016
 Just the labels uploaded as my sleeve is, um.... brown (when it ought to be white).

And it looks like it was delivered by Royal Mail

(Jammed through the letterbox vertically- laminate peeling all over etc.)
 
 
Magic Marmalade
19th Feb 2016
 Now I have this to hand, I see in the bottom left of the back cover: "Printed In England J. P.60.3"

...So that squares with what you say.

(Shall submit a correction)
 
 
Magic Marmalade
19th Feb 2016
 I'd be happy to change it... this is the "made in Britain" issue, so that makes sense.
 
 
PhilMH
19th Feb 2016
 Decca's 1974 catalogue gives release date as April 1960; presumably 1959 is when it was first released by Telefunken in Germany.
 
 
Magic Marmalade
19th Feb 2016
 There is an additional credit for Polovtsian Dances on the label alongside Borodin: Rimsky Korsakov and Glazounov.
 

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