RCA Living Stereo - 60CD Collection, Part II (2012)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 6,39 Gb | Total time: 63:57:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88765414972 | Recorded: 1954-1963
On October 6, 1953, RCA held experimental stereophonic sessions in New York's Manhattan Center with Leopold Stokowski conducting a group of New York musicians in performances of Enesco's Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1 and the waltz from Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. There were additional stereo tests in December, again in the Manhattan Center, this time with Pierre Monteux conducting members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In February 1954, RCA made its first commercial stereophonic recordings, taping the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Münch, in a performance of The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz.