Re: [ARSCLIST] Pirated Mengelberg 78s

["eric@xxxxxxxxxx" <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Original Message:
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>From: David Lennick dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:18:53 -0500
>
>Don Tait wrote:
>
>> Mengelberg's Concertgebouw recording of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
>> (Telefunken SK 2424/9) was pirated on the "Music Appreciation Recordings
of the
>> World's Greatest Music" 78 series. The labels say "World's Greatest
>> Symphonies," the disc numbers are X-40/44, and they are in a flimsy
album with a leaflet
>> of notes. The labels say "Copyright 1941 Music Appreciation Projects,
Inc."
>
> I recently found the Beethoven Eroica on "World's Greatest Symphonies",
in two 3-disc
> albums, and I'd bet it's the Mengelberg although I haven't made a direct
comparison yet. 

The Eroica is Schuricht / Berlin Philharmonic (rec. September 1941). 

Up until this exchange I, and thus my website, confused "RCA" with "RCA
Victor", and had further assumed this was a licensed issue. It's a relief
to realize that they were pirated; the thought that someone in the states
was licensing from Polydor in 1941 is a bit nauseating. Yes, I know much
worse went on, but still.

Regards,
Eric Grunin
www.grunin.com/eroica


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