{"product_id":"hertz-complete-san-francisco-recordings-volume-2-1925-28-pasc195","title":"HERTZ Complete San Francisco Recordings, Volume 2 (1925-28) - PASC195","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eLISZT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eLes Préludes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWAGNER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eParsifal: Prelude to Act I, Good Friday Spell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWAGNER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eTristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act I, Liebestod\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRAHMS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eHungarian Dances Nos. 5 \u0026amp; 6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eecorded 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e925-28\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 61:46 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eSan Francisco Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eAlfred Hertz \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC195.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eOne of the most important conductors of the early C20\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bodybig\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cem class=\"bodymid\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSecond of four volumes comprising the complete San Francisco recordings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eThe present collection offers a good example of the rapid development of recording technology during the 1920s, as well as Hertz’s misfortune to have been at the tail-end of obsolescent methods. When the Victor Talking Machine Company’s mobile recording unit arrived in San Francisco in January, 1925, acoustic recording was just on the verge of being replaced. By March, Victor would begin using the new electrical method for all its sessions. Indeed, their first electrically recorded Red Seal release (Cortot performing Schubert and Chopin) was Victor 6502, just two catalog numbers after the final disc of Hertz’s \u003cem\u003eParsifal\u003c\/em\u003e excerpts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eFor their next visit (April, 1926), the Victor engineers brought electrical equipment, but continued to use a small studio and what appears to be acoustic-style tuba reinforcement of the bass line for Hertz’s \u003cem\u003eTristan \u003c\/em\u003erecordings. Coupled with the fuzzy sound of the loud passages, the overall result is more comparable to the 1925 electric orchestrals Victor had been producing than the more open, natural sound afforded Stokowski the Philadelphia Orchestra in a session held two months later in the Academy of Music (two Strauss waltzes on Victor 6584). The brief passage linking the end of the Prelude with the beginning of the \u003cem\u003eLiebestod\u003c\/em\u003e is omitted in this version, probably due to timing issues related to Victor’s decision to issue them separately on one 12-inch and one 10-inch disc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eBy the time of the April, 1927 San Francisco sessions, the recordings had been moved to a larger hall, and a warm, full acoustic was provided for the Hungarian Dances, which Hertz dispatches with tremendous vitality and élan. The recording of \u003cem\u003eLes Préludes\u003c\/em\u003e from the following February, however, is hobbled by an acoustically-compromised dubbing on the first side, (which was, unfortunately, the only way it was released). The performance itself rivals Mengelberg’s more famous Concertgebouw version from the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eThe sources for the present transfers were the original arch-label discs for the \u003cem\u003eParsifal\u003c\/em\u003e sides (their only form of issue); pre-war “Gold” label pressings for the \u003cem\u003eTristan\u003c\/em\u003e and Hungarian Dances; and scroll-label “Z” pressings for \u003cem\u003eLes Préludes\u003c\/em\u003e. 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