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[HighlandDougie]

The first digital recording I remember on LP was Images and L'apres midi d'une faune conducted by Previn. I think this was the first official classical digital release.

From memory, that was the first EMI digital release. In the UK, this preceded it:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strauss-Ziehrer-Suppe-Years-Concert/dp/B00000428H/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1464974294&sr=1-1&keywords=new+year%27s+day+concert+1979+boskovsky

which I remember my father proudly showing me on its release (being snooty about JS at the time, I failed to be impressed - silly me). Telarc may have been first overall?

The use of LPs as hipster deco is interesting - the hotel I often stay in in London (in on-trend Shoreditch) has bins of them artistically placed both in the areas outside the lefts on each floor and sometimes in the bedrooms. I always flick through them, wondering if anyone would notice if I nicked the DGG ones.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The first digital recording I remember on LP was Images and L'apres midi d'une faune conducted by Previn. I think this was the first official classical digital release.

That was EMI's first digital release (and a very fine performance & recording) but IIRC, Decca's 1979 "New Year's Concert" was first in the Record Shops.

... erm ... as HighDoug has just said

[Bryn]

That was EMI's first digital release (and a very fine performance & recording) but IIRC, Decca's 1979 "New Year's Concert" was first in the Record Shops.

... erm ... as HighDoug has just said

The first LP made using Denon's 13 bit resolution, 47.25kHz sampling rate system was Nippon Columbia (Denon) NCC-8501, Mozart: String Quartets K. 458 and K. 421 by the Smetana Quartet. This album was recorded 24-26 April 1972, at Aoyama Tower, Tokyo, and released in October 1972. However, they had issued more primitive digital recordings of non-classical material on vinyl earlier that same year. The earliest digital recording on vinyl that I have was also from Denon, Cage's Sonatas and Interludes played by Yuji Takahashi, recorded in December 1975 and released, IIRC, the following year.

[Dave2002]

That was EMI's first digital release (and a very fine performance & recording) but IIRC, Decca's 1979 "New Year's Concert" was first in the Record Shops.

... erm ... as HighDoug has just said

Wasn't the first UK digital vinyl release of Mendelssohn's Hebrides overture, coupled with the Italian and Scottish symphonies on Decca? VPO with Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting. I should still have that somewhere.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Wasn't the first UK digital vinyl release of Mendelssohn's Hebrides overture, coupled with the Italian and Scottish symphonies on Decca? VPO with Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting. I should still have that somewhere.

This one:

https://www.discogs.com/Mendelssohn-Vienna-Philharmonic-Christoph-von-Dohn%C3%A1nyi-Symphony-No-4-Italian-Overtures-Fingals-Cave/master/520892

... the same year as the New Year's Concert (1979) so might well have preceded it, Dave. But I "remember" more fuss being made of the Strauss LP as the first example of the new technology; with much excitement about the quality of sound of the audience applause on Record Review at the time it was released.

[Petrushka]

Wasn't the first UK digital vinyl release of Mendelssohn's Hebrides overture, coupled with the Italian and Scottish symphonies on Decca? VPO with Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting. I should still have that somewhere.

Not as far as I know. HighlandDougie is correct in saying that it was the 1979 New Year's Day Concert and I remember it well as I bought it as soon as it came out.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The first LP made using Denon's 13 bit resolution, 47.25kHz sampling rate system was Nippon Columbia (Denon) NCC-8501, Mozart: String Quartets K. 458 and K. 421 by the Smetana Quartet. This album was recorded 24-26 April 1972, at Aoyama Tower, Tokyo, and released in October 1972. However, they had issued more primitive digital recordings of non-classical material on vinyl earlier that same year. The earliest digital recording on vinyl that I have was also from Denon, Cage's Sonatas and Interludes played by Yuji Takahashi, recorded in December 1975 and released, IIRC, the following year.

Yes - you've mentioned the Mozza 4tets LP before, Bryn (an early digital release was hovering on the fringes of my memory, but I couldn't remember details). As DENON then wasn't as "big" as DECCA, it didn't get the publicity of the releases from seven years later.

[Dave2002]

re msg 1341

Perhaps the Mendelssohn LP was the first one which had music which I wanted to listen to then. It certainly was one of the earliest. Although the Previn Debussy LP for EMI was digital, most critics still preferred the Haitink version IIRC, and indeed that analogue recording was very good.

[teamsaint]

Interesting article on early digital developments and releases.

http://www.aes.org/aeshc/pdf/fine_dawn-of-digital.pdf

Regarding UK recordings,there was definitely some hype (?) around in 1980, regarding " I just Can't stop it" by The Beat. I definitely remember it being touted as the first British digitally recorded album.
Some other folk remember this too....

http://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17807

[Bryn]

The first digital on vinyl release I bought was an RCA of Ormandy conducting Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. The quality of the pressing was dreadful. The vinyl was red.



I did not buy the Cage disc until a month or so later.

[Stanfordian]

The first digital on vinyl release I bought was an RCA of Ormandy conducting Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. The quality of the pressing was dreadful. The vinyl was red.



I did not buy the Cage disc until a month or so later.

Hiya Bryn,

My first red vinyl LP was Judas Priest 'Killing Machine'. I hated the look of those pressings and still do.

[Pulcinella]

Spotted a new recording of Threni advertised in July's BBCMM:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/PHI/LPH020

Interesting couplings: Requiem Canticles, The dove descending, Da pacem Domine (why not all three of the Tres Sacrae Cantiones, I wonder?), but I fear that they will use European Latin pronunciation, as in their Symphony of Psalms, which is not to my taste.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Spotted a new recording of Threni advertised in July's BBCMM:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/PHI/LPH020

Interesting couplings: Requiem Canticles, The dove descending, Da pacem Domine (why not all three of the Tres Sacrae Cantiones, I wonder?)

- an unmissable release for me, this.

[EdgeleyRob]

Got very excited when I saw the words Viola Concerto



It's actually Rebecca Clarke,Viola Concerto(1918-19)(Sonata orch. Ruth Lomon, 2007)
Still quite excited

[Stanfordian]

Got very excited when I saw the words Viola Concerto



It's actually Rebecca Clarke,Viola Concerto(1918-19)(Sonata orch. Ruth Lomon, 2007)
Still quite excited

Hiya EdgeleyRob,

It's an interesting recording as I don't know of any other recordings of Waldo Warner. He was a prize winner in a couple Walter Willson Cobbett’s Phantasy competitions.

Fifth with Phantasy in F Major - 1905 Cobbett Competition for Phantasy String Quartet
First with Folksong Phantasy in G minor - 1917 Cobbett Competition for a Folksong Phantasy (Quartet section)