Bach on the Biggest-Robert Elmore at the Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ, 1955 (STEREO) скачать в хорошем качестве

Bach on the Biggest-Robert Elmore at the Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ, 1955 (STEREO)

This is the STEREO version of the 1956 Mercury Living Presence LP "Bach on the Biggest", performed by Robert Elmore on Boardwalk Hall's Midmer-Losh pipe organ-the largest and loudest musical instrument ever created. AFAIK, this is the only commercial recording of this instrument made when it was anywhere near fully operational. I'm happy to report that in the last 4 or 5 years since I uploaded the mono LP, the Right Stage chamber has been brought back online, bringing the organ to almost 50% functionality. Hopefully plans for modern recordings are also in the works. Those 8 chambers would be killer for Dolby Atmos, doncha think? I certainly wouldn't say no to any stereo LP's either! The sound quality is totally different from the mono LP that I'm accustomed to. It's much darker and more rolled off, and the massive acoustics are much more apparent. The mixing is curious-it almost seems as if the right channel mic is pointed square at the organ, and the left channel mic is pointed towards the back of the hall, getting all the reflections and ambience. The Living Presence team was very much all about creating a realistic-sounding recording (the "living presence", if you will), with no gimmickry or compression and only using 3 microphones. Certainly quite the challenge with a giant instrument in a giant space playing such complex music. The highs on the record were very likely lopped off due to a rather high level of tape hiss (which I long mistook for the record just being extremely worn, even though it is in almost mint condition). The tape technology of the day just couldn't handle the massive dynamic range without any compression or leveling. Dolby and DBX noise reduction were a decade away, digital another two or three. While a small amount of tape hiss or background noise is killable, it is immensely hard to remove/reduce that much noise without sucking the life out of the sound, and that's likely why this album was left out of the Living Presence re-releases. I would have boosted the highs before encoding the video, but I decided against it since the hiss would not have played nicely with Youtube's compression, and everyone's ears are a bit different. Definitely recommend boosting your treble knob to taste to get a better listening experience. Ripped using a Pioneer PL-L1000 Linear Tracking Turntable with an ADC QLM36 mk III Cartridge, and a Pioneer SX3700 Receiver into an iGrabber capture card. Quite a step above the signal chain from the old upload, which was done on a Sony PSLX300USB turntable-a respectable turntable, but definitely not the best tool for the task. Side 1: 1-Toccata in D Minor BWV 565 0:00 2-Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 2:29 3-Wachet Auf! BWV 140 7:39 4-In Dulce Jubilo, BWV 608 11:49 Side 2: 1-Toccata in C Major, BWV 564 14:01 2-Adagio in C Major, BWV 564 20:05 3-Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 25:46 Pictures sourced from around the internet, all credited to their original owners.