Poor recordings - are they genre related?

[cloughie]

Possibly a typo for "1956"? Or the date when DECCA first coupled the two recordings? EDIT: No, it can't be that, as the DECCA Eclipse Job LP reissue didn't appear until 1973, and then it have the Wasps coupling.

(The DECCA Wasps was recorded in 1954, Job in 1954. There is an EVEREST Job from 1958 - but don't ELOQUENCE tend to have DECCA sources? The 1968 Wasps and 1970 Job are both for EMI /WARNER.)

They are fine Decca mono recordings from the fifties of Boult's great performances from the era - if you want Stereo get the EMI recordings from the sixties which are fine stereo recordings of Boult's performances from that era. All are good, and the Job better than the Everest. I would not want to be without any of them particularly the Decca, which also feature in the Decca 'must have' orange Mono box. 53CDs of joy!
Oh and rfg, avoid Eloquence recordings if you wish but in doing so you will be the loser!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

They are fine Decca mono recordings from the fifties of Boult's great performances from the era -

They are, indeed - I have them in various non-Eloquence reissues (though not, sadly, Job).

Oh and rfg, avoid Eloquence recordings if you wish but in doing so you will be the loser!

I have a few Eloquence reissues from the '60s and after (the Horst Stein Bruckners and the Monteux Beethoven set amongst them) which are in very fine sound - but I have heard poor reports of the sound on the Anthony Collins Sibelius cycle that they issued a few years back. I don't know these pressings (the performances are as fine as the Boult DECCA RVWs) but perhaps Eloquence had problems coping with Mono sound, or elderly recordings?

[cloughie]

They are, indeed - I have them in various non-Eloquence reissues (though not, sadly, Job).


I have a few Eloquence reissues from the '60s and after (the Horst Stein Bruckners and the Monteux Beethoven set amongst them) which are in very fine sound - but I have heard poor reports of the sound on the Anthony Collins Sibelius cycle that they issued a few years back. I don't know these pressings (the performances are as fine as the Boult DECCA RVWs) but perhaps Eloquence had problems coping with Mono sound, or elderly recordings?

I agree with you about the Collins performances - i had them on ACL LPs which were excellent, Eclipse Fake Stereo which actually were not too bad either, but I have them now ow on Beulah CDs are they are very good.