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On American companies such as CBS for distribution. Launch their own label in the United States, HMV Angel, rather than rely The early 1950s, Legge and EMI faced a problem. What they had together achieved (the letter worked: the producer and hisĪrt had begun as commerce, as is usual with the record business. That he realised how trivial their disagreements were in the face of The two had becomeĮstranged, and it was, wrote Legge, when he relistened to their Tosca Who was by now living in semi-retirement in Paris. To the artistic history of our time," he wrote to his heroine, Callas, They had "made immortal contributions through records Sixteen years after the sessions in Augustġ953, the Svengali-like Walter Legge listened again to the Tosca he had Of the finest recordings had participated in and one of bestĮxperiences of this kind". Her co-star, the great baritone Tito Gobbi, called it "one When the red recording light was on and when it was off.
This Tosca was always different headstrong and full-blooded both Recording indicates an original performance pitch of A=444.78Hz, whichĪRTICLE - Callas - The Tosca Sessions (excerpt) Finally, analysis of electrical hum buried in the original Stereo incarnation there's a real sense of space around the performersĪs well. The result of this process is truly astonishing to hear,Īnd the sound quality revealed is ravishing.
The sound quality familiar to so many for so long. The veil of nearly 60 years to bring a dramatic new life and clarity to Working from mintįrench LP pressings, Pristine's 32-bit XR remastering process has lifted Something to distinguish it clearly and dramatically from all that have Transfer unless something really special and new could be brought to it, Times and on so many labels that it seemed futile to begin another This recording has been issued and reissued so many Tremendous improvements in sound quality lift this landmark recording into a new realm The legendary 1953 Maria Callas recording of Puccini's Tosca
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