RCA Victor Living Stereo LPs & CDs (book)

Description: This listing is mostly for informational purposes and an advertising presence on ebay. While the book is available for sale from me, if you order it on Amazon, you will get it quicker, and if you don't live in the USA, with much lowershipping costs. So please buy it there, though you are welcome to contact me through ebay if you have questions. Thank you. RCA Victor Living Stereo LPs & CDs (book) Free email Update available: If you have bought this book on Amazon or eBay or elsewhere, you can email Updates if you write to the author at the email address on the copyright page of the book. Through much of the history of recorded music, the Victor Company, later bought by the Radio Corporation of America and renamed RCA Victor, had on its roster of orchestras and musicians many of the world's most renowned artists. In late 1953 RCA started doing experimental recordings in stereophonic sound. In early 1954, these experiments intensified with most orchestral recordings being recorded in both mono, for early release, and in stereo to refine the stereo recording techniques and perhaps for eventual stereo release. Some early experiments were flawed, but many of them eventually were acclaimed as supreme examples of the art of recording music. In 1958, with the advent of stereo records, "Living Stereo" was born. With decades of recording experience and some of the world's finest artists on its roster, RCA became the leader in recorded stereo sound, though they had some vigorous competition from Mercury Records' Living Presence Stereo records and British Decca.A few years ago I published a CD-Rom of databases, and in 2016, I used those databases as the basis for a book, Mercury Living Presence LPs and CDs, a comprehensive reference to Mercury Living Presence recordings. RCA Victor Living Stereo LPs and CDs is a similar reference for the RCA Living Stereo. In addition to background, historical, and explanatory material, there are three main lists in the book : A list of all LPs for which I have been able to find evidence that they actually existed from LM/LSC 1806, Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's historic March, 1954 stereo recording of Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra up to the highest numbers in that series recorded in the December, 1970 issue of the Schwann Catalog. Also included are multi-record sets issued at the same time, and a few other LPs. These are arranged in numerical order; special recordings such as the LD/LDS Soria Series recordings are included in their proper numerical place. For most stereo instrumental and orchestral recordings and many mono recordings, complete contents of the albums are listed. The listings of contents for vocal recordings are more limited, often just the composer and title of the composition. The names of soloists, conductors and orchestras are included as are recording dates wherever possible. Schwann Catalog New Listings release dates are included for most stereo era releases and some earlier ones. Interest in Living Stereo recordings has been at a high point in recent years because of the series of Living Stereo CD and SACD releases and more recently the large box sets of "Living Stereo" recordings and box sets of individual artists like Rubinstein, Heifetz, Reiner with the Chicago Symphony, Munch with the Boston Symphony, and many others. In the lists, I have identified which LPs have been reissued on SACD or CD including the original Living Stereo CD and SACD releases, plus those that have been released in the 3 Living Stereo box sets. Using boldface artists names, I have also indicated artist collections where CD versions are available for over a dozen other individual artist box sets. However, earlier CD releases in the 1980s prior to the beginning of Living Stereo CD releases are not noted, as those releases are generally not reflective of the quality on the original master tapes. A second list is similar to the complete listing but eliminates numbers for records that very likely do not exist and virtually all recordings that were not made in stereo. It does, however, include all known and suspected recordings that were made in stereo even if they were only released in mono at the time of initial release. The third list is of the same stereo recordings arranged in alphabetical order by composer and title. So if you know the name of the composer and title of the composition, you can find it easily, if there was a stereo recording made and if the recording was released on RCA.I hope you find the book interesting and useful. Kim Weston has been a music lover from an early age, probably because he grew up in a household where there was always classical music on the radio, or coming from a record player. Three of his early favorites, even before entering High School, were Saint-Saens’ Piano Concerto #4, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto #2, and Delibes' Ballet Coppelia. He has been an audiophile since the 1970s, partly due to the influence of Harry Pearson and The Absolute Sound! It was TAS! that led to his realization of just how good several old Mercury Living Presence records and RCA Living Stereo records already in his collection were; and how they stood out from most other classical records, in terms of sound quality. Although he was too young to be buying Mercury and RCA records during their golden age, he has been buying and enjoying them and other music regularly since the late 1960s, although his interests in music are not exclusively classical. Kim earned a BA in Liberal Arts at Johns Hopkins University, and later, also at JHU, an MS in Education. He taught Physics and Chemistry for most of his career, and in retirement, still tutors both subjects at a local community college. He is also well known as a scholar of the work of Carl Barks and has written or contributed to a number of books and essays on the subject which are available on Amazon. He has also written a number of well-regarded reviews on a variety of topics on Amazon. The first two pictures are are the cover and back cover of the book. There are also pictures of the somewhat similar of the somewhat similar book about Mercury Living Presence LPs and CDs and a review of that book published in the March, 2018 issue of the magazine, The Absolute Sound! which is copyrighted by the magazine. SHIPPING: Media Mail shipping is $3 in the USA. With rising postage rates it is no longer feasible to offer free shipping. However, if you would like to buy a copy of both this and Mercury Living Presence LPs and CDs at the same time (or within about an hour of each other), I will invoice you for $38 for both books together, with free shipping in the USA. Or you can look up the combined listing RCA Living Stereo LPs & CDs, Mercury Living Presence LPs and CDs, $38 together, and buy it there. International shipping to Europe and elsewhere would be about $30 or possibly more so I would strongly recommend that Europeans and others interested in the book purchase it on European Amazon sites to take advantage of free or local shipping (but then send me an email at the email address on the copyright page with the book's printing date to let me know you have it and be put on a list for free email updates). The book is also available on Amazon in the USA. Payment by PayPal is expected within three days of purchase, but you should email me within 48 hours if you haven't paid within 48 hours. Any questions? 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Price: 19.95 USD

Location: Baltimore, Maryland

End Time: 2024-03-04T00:44:47.000Z

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