Arturo and Glen, both masters of their respective crafts. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@GlensAudioRestoration
6 ай бұрын
What is this madness??? Are we talking only 16 thumbs out of what 20??? What is our scale here?
@richh9450
6 ай бұрын
@@GlensAudioRestoration Zoltan Kodali always gets extra points. Restore a version of Psalmus Hungaricus and get 25 👍
@juaneurolo2439
6 ай бұрын
What really gives a lot of value to this performance of Toscanini is that he and Zoltan Kodaly were very close friends and Kodaly with his wife always enjoyed attending the public concerts where the maestro played his works, such as the Dances of Marosszék and Psalmus Hungaricus, apart from the present work
@GlensAudioRestoration
6 ай бұрын
I totally forgot that Toscanini did a Kodaly "Dances of Marosszek" which I have on a Naxos disc. I should listen to it again. I have several other Kodaly pieces that I should go revisit.
@steveluciani
6 ай бұрын
Yes, what a difference from the previous upload. Agree with Lee, it's one of the better sounding 8-H recordings. Perhaps no audience present to further dampen the sound? All in all, an enjoyable performance beautifully restored from LP.
@GlensAudioRestoration
6 ай бұрын
See my response to Lee. This a live broadcast performance from 1947 from which I have removed the coughs and other audience noises. And no, it was a horrid sounding recording that causes your ears to bleed. This is surprising since the featured art is for Hary which had never been previously issued whereas Feste was considered the reference recording of its era and I had surprisingly little to modify in its EQ, the improvement coming from removing hum and traffic noise. In 1947 NBC started recording some broadcasts to tape as well as making simultaneous transcription discs. My theory is that when RCA released this disc in 1956, they used the tape for the master and their “modern” tape machine had a different equalization curve than the original “primitive” one used for the recording and no one ever bothered to correct for the difference.
@javiergarciaflorez2103
6 ай бұрын
Ah.toscanini,ya😊
@leestamm3187
6 ай бұрын
Way better than the previous upload. I can almost forget it was done in 8H. Thanks, Glen.
@GlensAudioRestoration
6 ай бұрын
I restored a 1932 Philco floor standing radio and for extra nerd credit modified it to take an audio input so I could stream music to it. This would the sound that someone a with a similar quality radio would have heard when the first Studio 8-H broadcast was made on Christmas Day 1937. When I take the raw sound from the 78s of the Beethoven Symphony No. 5 recorded in 1939 in Studio 8-H, which you can find on my channel, and play it through the radio, it has a nice warm rich sound that fills the room. These recordings were NOT made to be played back on modern stereo speakers and electronics. The thin dry acoustics of 8-H enhanced the intelligibility of the broadcast sound when played on the equipment of the era. Unlike some who use software to try to overlay and mimic the reverb of other halls as well as take modern recordings made in other halls and then use software to mimic the tonal balance in that hall, I simply use my ears rebalance the sound so that it sounds better on modern equipment while attempting to retain the concept of the original engineering.
@steveluciani
6 ай бұрын
Your thoughts about 8-H being the preferred venue for radio playback makes perfect sense. It explains why the NBC execs turned down Toscanini's request to move all the broadcasts to Carnegie Hall.@@GlensAudioRestoration
@leestamm3187
6 ай бұрын
@@GlensAudioRestoration True, since they were aiming for the radios the mass audience had in those days. However, even then, there were a fair number of higher quality console and table radios around that had pretty good sound. We had an AM/FM table model when I was a kid in the 50's. It wasn't until FM later got more mainstream that I discovered how good that radio could sound. Incidentally, my great aunt had an old floor model similar to that Philco. It could rattle the windows when she cranked it up loud.
@GlensAudioRestoration
6 ай бұрын
@@leestamm3187 Mine is a Philco 91X. You can find pictures of them on the web. My understanding is that in the early days of AM radio, there were very few stations and so they could broadcast at high power with a large dynamic range and frequency response. Because of the way AM radio works though, as you got more channels they would bleed over on to each other so they had to keep decreasing the fidelity and dynamic range. FM radio with its much higher frequency carrier was designed to get around the problem. Again, if I stream a modern recording to it, well let's just say I don't, but I have a directory of original EQ 1930s recordings and my Centennial Oldies that I listen to on it.
@GlensAudioRestoration
6 ай бұрын
@@steveluciani As a musician, I am sure Toscanini much preferred the sound in Carnegie Hall. That said, 8-H was designed specifically for his radio orchestra and of course all sorts of other programs with a sound room and all the associated state of the art electronics and mixers and associated wiring that would not have been available in Carnegie Hall. But most importantly lets not forget you have to pay to use Carnegie Hall. Cool thing though, everyone who has ever gone to see "Saturday Night Live" gets to walk past a little "shrine" to Toscanini as they enter the hall. I should add that one of the things conductors do is adjust their tempo to the acoustic of the hall. The "drier" the hall the faster you tempo or it sounds very thin. The more reverberant, the slower the tempo or it is just a muddy mess.
@stefanrauch8933
6 ай бұрын
Gorgeous restoration as usal! Many thanks! But the performance lacks emotion and zeal! And the NBC Orchestra did not have the best day also-many times imprecise and the brass section is often inattentive! Lovro von Matcics version with the NHK from 14.12.1973 is still my favourite version!
@GlensAudioRestoration
6 ай бұрын
I just listened to the Matacic recording here on the 'Tube. I am not familiar with his work but that is indeed an excellent recording.
@johns.4708
6 ай бұрын
Intonation problems, sloppy entrances and many missed notes mar this performance for me as much as the 8H reverb. Meh. Clean restoration though.
@GlensAudioRestoration
6 ай бұрын
I spent a whole lot of time trying to make this listenable. See my responses to Lee and Steve.
@johns.4708
6 ай бұрын
Great restoration, Glen, and very listenable, but terrible performance none-the-less. Toscanini probably chewed them out but good. Just my opinion. @@GlensAudioRestoration
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