Re: [ARSCLIST] anonymous recordings

[david gideon <david.rediscovery@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Webster Library was a production of Remington, and the recordings  
in it were drawn from the Remington/Masterseal/etc catalog. I don't  
believe any of them were conducted by Swarowsky. The Webster library  
was sold in a big, thick binder, with packaging that was almost a  
duplicate of the Standard Treasury of the World's Greatest Music  
(which used entirely different recordings from a different source).

Now there were quite a few Swarowsky performances in the Philharmonic  
Family Library, which came in individual red boxes (very similar to  
the green boxes of the Basic Library, though that, again, used  
different recordings). The Philharmonic Family Library got its  
performances from the old Music Treasures of the World mail order  
series, apparently a production of the American Recording Society,  
for whom Swarowsky made a number of recordings. (Other releases in  
the series were picked up from German sources, perhaps via Urania.)  
Some of those Swarowsky performances would later show up on Audio  
Fidelity in true, if primitive, stereo, and a few of those have even  
made it to compact disc in Argentina.

dg

On Sep 17, 2007, at 12:00 AM, ARSCLIST automatic digest system wrote:

> > The infuriating one was the Webster Library, where each disc
> > contained half of a work that was continued on the next week's disc.
> > I actually have a complete set, in its binder. Don't ask me why.
> >
> > dl
>
>
> I think that many of those were conducted by Hans Swarowsky. I would
> like confirmation if anyone knows.


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