Are there any worthwhile recordings on the soviet / russian Melodia label?
is it as good as pretty much anything a commie would do? or did they avoid bad habits of western labels?
Are there any worthwhile recordings on the soviet / russian Melodia label?
is it as good as pretty much anything a commie would do? or did they avoid bad habits of western labels?
I have their Winterreise with Richter on Piano which is superb
Hey Bonzo,
Is the Philips Digital Classics and Eterna version all the same recording (Dresden 1985)?
You totally lost me on the last line.
I wish there were more Harmonia Mundi's around, big time. They're consistently good to listen to so far that I've heard. But I don't see many at records stores and such (I like going to record stores and such). It's criminal! No shortage of budget discs of stuff I don't care about though where I live.
EMI had a very long time relationship with Melodiya, issuing hundreds of records, beginning in the mid-late '60's (IIRC), on their main ASD label. Lots of top artists, Oistrakh, Gilels, Richter, and conductors like Svetlanov, Rozhdestvensky (doing this from memory!), and even a few albums conducted by Mravinsky and his Leningrad Symphony. One or two made the Absolute Sound Super Disc List. There are are some operas also. I think I have a complete collection of all the analogue issues on vinyl - there were some digital ones that I don't have. EMI remastered all of the albums and pressed them in the UK. They all have a combined Melodiya/EMI logo. Not sure whether there was a reciprocal arrangement for Melodiya issuing EMI's in the Soviet Union. My experience with the EMI issued Melodiyas has been very positive, although not quite at the level of the best engineering by the two Christophers or Stuart Eltham of Previn and the LSO or Fremaux and the CBSO.
Larry
I bought Beethoven Symphonies under Paul Kletzki in early 80' , a box set of 8 vinyls . Czech or rather Czechoslovakian pressing by Suprahon. It was impossible to get western pressings under this time in normal shops , we had some Polish brands like Muza and Polskie Nagrania.
Supraphon vinyls were quite good, my sons grew up with this music, I still listen to them often.
https://www.discogs.com/Ludwig-van-...ra-Symphonies-Coriolan-Egmont/release/4773831
As I already mentioned we had Polish firms like Muza and Polskie Nagrania( Polish Recordings) .Hi Marslo, thanks for sharing. When Poland was a Soviet satellite state, where did most of the records come from? Were there many Russian Melodiyas or were there many other sources?
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