Klarinet Archive - Posting 000426.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: One-take Recordings
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 01:51:24 -0400

Splicing has occurred since the 1940's and 1950's. This is not widely
known. The Marcellus recording and the Wright recording were spliced as
are all professionally edited recordings from the 1950's and 60's. You
might find some live recordings or some that were done direct to disc that
were done in one take. However, these are increasingly more rare and
difficult to find. Exception to the rule (or so I have been told by
several recording engineers) - the Toscannini recordings of the late 40's
early 50's with the NBC were, generally, done without splices. They did
several takes, but the printed recordings used complete runs. Corrections
to this?

Roger Garrett

On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Karl Krelove wrote:
> Splicing is much older than that - I sang in the chorus for a couple of
> Philadelphia Orchestra recordings in the late sixties that I can tell you
> first hand are not in any way straight through performances. One section of
> one of the recordings alone reached over twenty takes. True, however, they
> had to make the splices at pauses - it didn't take much of a silence, but
> they were still working with analog signals that couldn't be located on the
> tape with nearly the precision digital data can. Do you know firsthand of
> old clarinet recordings that you know were one-take (at least for entire
> movements)? I've always been curious about some of the old records I used
> to worship like Wright's Shepherd On the Rock or Marcellus's Mozart Concerto.
>
> Karl
>
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