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Re: [ARSCLIST] MELODIYA DISCOGRAPHY - was Medtner playing his 3rd Piano Concerto
MK also pressed a number of Melodiya originals for the US market in the
1950s and '60s. For a while it was part of the Artia-Bruno-Colosseum group.
I always thought of it as a branch of the Melodiya tree.
-Larry
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> Piano Concerto
>
> MK stands for Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, which is the name of a large chain of
> bookstores in Russia. At one time they were probably part of Melodiya, but
at some
> point they became a separate concern. Some releases on the Czech
Multisonic label
> originated with recordings from MK.
>
> Uncle Dave Lewis
> AMG/Macrovision
> Ann Arbor, MI
>
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> Piano Concerto
>
> Does this include MK releases?
> What is the relationship of MK to Melodiya? (I've seen both labels, and
some
> others - possibly relating to where pressed, but assume they are all state
> owned and part of the same Soviet agency???)
> Thanks, Thomas.
>
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>
>
> There is "Melodiya: A Soviet Russian L.P. Discography" by John R. Bennett
> (1981, Greenwood Press), ISBN 0-313-22596-6. It is a wonderful source of
> information for all classical releases of this label. There are plenty of
> omissions and mistakes, but there is no other book like it, all 832 pages
of
> it. Unfortunately it is out of print, and prices for new copies go from
> US$145.51 to $220.38. Used copies are even more expensive, from $176.52 to
> $316.22.
>
> -Larry
>
>
>
>
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> > On Behalf Of Roger and Allison Kulp
> > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 3:21 PM
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> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Medtner playing his 3rd Piano Concerto
> >
> > Has anybody done a definitive discography and history,of classical Lps
in
> the Soviet
> > era ?
> >
> > In any language besides Russian/Cyrillic,that is.
> >
> > If so,I would like to know author,title,etc. so I could try and track
down
> a copy.I did
> > recently come across such a book for sale on the web,for Russian 78s,but
> it was in
> > Russian/Cyrillic.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Sat, 12/20/08, Michael Biel <mbiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Michael Biel <mbiel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Medtner playing his 3rd Piano Concerto
> > To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 10:58 PM
> >
> > joe@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > If you could send or post a scan someone could probably read it for
> you...
> > >
> > > joe salerno
> > >
> > >
> > > Punto wrote:
> > >> Apologies for the discographic question, but I have exhausted my
other
> > resources at hand.
> > >>
> > >> I have in hand an LP that is of Soviet origin, but not Melodiya/MK or
> > anything that I have seen previously. The acronym of the label name
> appears to
> > be something along the lines of BCT (with the "t" looking more like a
> > gibbet).
> >
> > Before 1964 when the Melodiya trademark was developed for nationwide
use,
> each
> > pressing plant had their own label and trademarks even though they were
> all
> > mainly pressing the same records. This one is a two-tone blue label,
> right?
> > BCG stands for Vsyesayuznaya Studya Gramzapese or All-Union Studio
Record
> > Factory, and I think it was the newly established Moscow plant around
1962
> which
> > later became known as Gramzapis. This factory seems to also be the
source
> of
> > the export pressings with the MK label around 1963 which were never
> available
> > inside the USSR since MK (International Books) was the export agency of
> books,
> > records, and postage stamps. Most pre-Melodiya LPs came from the
Aprelvsk
> > factory (sometimes the AZ torch logo or CCCP/USSR), Leningrad (sometimes
> Akkord
> > or LZ) in cyrillic), and Riga (sometimes Ligo).
> > >> The catalog number is 06501/06502. I have been able to decipher that
> > it is Medtner playing his Piano Concerto no. 3, but I can't convince
> myself
> > that the rest stands for "Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Issay
> > Dobrowen", which is the only version that I have turned up
> elsewhere.Anyone
> > out there (Mike Biel, maybe?) that can tell me what I've got. If this it
> > indeed a Russian pressing of the Abbey Road Philharmonia recording, it
has
> done
> > a pretty good job of overlaying it with a layer of acoustic
sludge/fudge.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks, Peter Hirsch
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> > All my Soviet books and guides are buried in disarray right now which is
> why I
> > haven't yet answered the Paul Robeson question over on 78-L from a few
> days
> > ago. It is possible it is that British recording because they did do
> things
> > like that. When I unearth the books and magazines, I'll look to see if
> > there are any indications of what this is.
> >
> > Mike Biel mbiel@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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