Stereo Accidents and Experiments II
By Ralph Graves
Wednesday, Feb. 19 “Analog Masters’ will continue its exploration of early stereo. Host Tom Godell shares three of the earliest stereo recordings. Leopold Stokowski conducts Wagner, Walter Gieseking scales nearly impossible heights in his wartime performance of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, and Arturo Toscanini retires in a blaze of stereophonic glory.
Analog Masters
Wednesdays at 9:00 am and 4:00 pm
exclusively on CharlottesvilleClassical.org
Featured recordings:
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
Leopold Stokowski/Philadelphia Orchestra
Early Hi Fi. – Bell Labs (1931)
Beethoven Piano Concerto 5, “Emperor”
Walter Gieseking, piano
PASC 390 – Pristine (1944)
Wagner Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symphony
PASC 119 – Pristine (1954)
