Living Stereo - The Remastered Collector's Edition

~ The ultimate “Living Stereo” Collector’s Edition – A celebration of high-fidelity analogue recording

~ All 60 CDs newly remastered from the original 2- and 3-track master tapes using 24 bit / 192 kHz technology

~ First ever release of 48 “Living Stereo” LPs on CD

~ Hardcover bound book with a new introduction by discographer Michael Gray, full discographical notes and content listing

~ All albums with facsimile LP sleeves and labels

 

About “Living Stereo”:

Early in the fall of 1958, the world of high-fidelity music reproduction changed forever. The promise of multi-channel reproduced sound, under development for decades in the laboratory, and previously heard only in specially equipped cinemas or by wealthy hi-fi aficionados, could now be enjoyed by anyone in their own home, thanks to the latest innovation in recorded sound, the stereophonic LP record.

Among the dozens of companies then offering these new records, one stood out from the rest: RCA Victor. With more than half a century of collaboration with the world’s greatest musical artists, from Caruso to Stokowski, Toscanini, Heifetz and Rubinstein, and drawing on its unequalled technical expertise, RCA proudly announced its own “Living Stereo” multi-channel disc, the newest and most advanced development of RCA’s venerable New Orthophonic High Fidelity.

Supporting the debut of “Living Stereo” were the technical skills of RCA Victor engineers, and the invaluable expertise of RCA’s corporate sound researchers. From the very first “binaural” experiments with Leopold Stokowski and his orchestra on October 6, 1953 in New York’s Manhattan Center, RCA’s team of producers and engineers rapidly developed the techniques and recording gear that culminated in the first “Living Stereo” sensation, Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony. These techniques were further developed in the months that followed, and within a year, recording in stereo had become the standard for documenting RCA’s incomparable classical artists.

RCA Victor built an unparalleled library of two-channel recordings on LP that have earned “Living Stereo” the esteem and affection of generations of musical lovers. Today, thanks to the digital revolution and to improvements everywhere in sound technology, the heritage of “Living Stereo” is introduced to new generations of music lovers, sounding better than ever, and reaffirming the slogan, “The World’s Greatest Artists are on RCA Victor Records”.

 

DISC 1: LSC-2147: Schubert — Trout Quintet ~ Festival Quartet ~ Sankey

DISC 2: LSC-2207: Schumann — Carnival ~ Fantasy Pieces ~ Dorfmann

DISC 3: LSC-2250: Encores by Kogan

DISC 4: LSC-2254: Victoria — Requiem Mass ~ Choir Of The Abbey Of Mount Angel ~ Portland Symphonic Choir

DISC 5: LSC-2261: Shostakovich — Symphony No. 5 ~ National Symphony Orchestra, Mitchell

DISC 6: LSC-2275: A Brahms-Schumann Recital ~ Maureen Forrester

DISC 7: LSC-2276: Brailowsky Encores

DISC 8: LSC-2280: The Art Of Song ~ Cesare Valletti

DISC 9: LSC-2293: Stravinsky — Suite Italienne ~ Debussy — Sonata For Cello and Piano ~ Piatigorsky ~ Foss

DISC 10: LSC-2294: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ~ Boston Pops ~ Fiedler

DISC 11: LSC-2303: Milanov Operatic Arias ~ Zinka Milanov ~ RCA Victor Orchestra, Basile

DISC 12: LSC-2312: J. S. Bach — Cantatas Nos. 56 And 82 ~ Harrell ~ Shaw ~ RCA Victor Orchestra And Chorus

DISC 13: LSC-2330: Brahms — Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60 ~ Festival Quartet

DISC 14: LSC-2345: Tchaikovsky — 1812 Overture ~ Ravel — Bolero ~ Morton Gould

DISC 15: LSC-2352: Blackwood — Symphony No. 1 ~ Haieff — Symphony No. 2 ~ Boston Symphony Orchestra, Munch

DISC 16: LSC-2353: Vivaldi — 4 Bassoon Concertos ~ Sherman Walt ~ Zimbler Sinfonietta

DISC 17: LSC-2354: Mozart — Fantasia, K. 475 ~ Sonatas K. 457 And K. 330 ~ André Tchaikowsky

DISC 18: LSC-2360: Chopin – Préludes · Barcarolle · Études · Mazurkas · Ballade No. 3 ~ André Tchaikowsky

DISC 19: LSC-2365: Boccherini ~ Vivaldi ~ Vivaldi-Bach — Concertos For Cello ~ Janigro ~ Solisti Di Zagreb

DISC 20: LSC-2373: Presenting Jamie Laredo

DISC 21: LSC-2378: Schubert — “Death And The Maiden” (Quartet In D Minor) ~ Quartettsatz ~ Juilliard String Quartet

DISC 22: LSC-2379: Roberta Peters in Recital

DISC 23: LSC-2412: Schumann — Dichterliebe ~ Selected Songs ~ Cesare Valletti

DISC 24: LSC-2413: Debussy — Quartet In G Minor ~ Ravel — Quartet In F ~ Juilliard String Quartet

DISC 25: LSC-2414: Brahms — Sonata In D Minor ~ Bach — Partita In E ~ Jaime Laredo

DISC 26: LSC-2415: Debussy — Preludes, Book I ~ Jean Casadesus

DISC 27: LSC-2416: Operatic Choruses ~ Robert Shaw Chorale

DISC 28: LSC-2417: 176 Keys – Music for 2 Pianos ~ Vronsky And Babin

DISC 29: LSC-2420: Brahms — Trio In E-Flat ~ Beethoven — Sonata For Horn And Piano ~ Eger ~ Babin ~ Szeryng

DISC 30: LSC-2421: Henryk Szeryng In Recital

DISC 31: LSC-2424: Vivaldi — The Four Seasons ~ Societa Corelli

DISC 32: LSC-2456: Lalo — Symphonie Espagnole ~ Szeryng ~ Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Hendl

DISC 33: LSC-2460: J. S. Bach — Suite No. 2 ~ Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 ~ Janigro ~ Solisti Di Zagreb

DISC 34: LSC-2470: More Classical Music For People Who Hate Classical Music ~ Boston Pops ~ Fiedler

DISC 35: LSC-2472: Bruch — Concerto No. 1 ~ Mozart — Concerto No. 3 ~ Laredo ~ National Symphony

DISC 36: LSC-2473: Brahms — Piano Quartet In G Minor ~ Festival Quartet

DISC 37: LSC-2481: Carter — Second Quartet ~ Schuman — Quartet No. 3 ~ Juilliard String Quartet

DISC 38: LSC-2497: Galina Vishnevskaya Recital

DISC 39: LSC-2517: Brahms — Piano Quartet In A, Op. 26 ~ Festival Quartet

DISC 40: LSC-2524: Dvorák —String  Quartet, Op. 61 ~ Wolf — Italian Serenade ~ Juilliard String Quartet

DISC 41: LSC-2531: Berg — Lyric Suite ~ Webern — Five Pieces, Op. 5 / Six Bagatelles, Op. 9 ~ Juilliard String Quartet

DISC 42: LSC-2532: Gould — Ballet Music ~ Fall River Legend ~ Interplay ~ Latin American Symphonette ~ Gould

DISC 43: LSC-2553: Shostakovich — Cello Sonata ~ Schubert — “Arpeggione” Sonata ~ Shafran

DISC 44: LSC-2557: Bach Organ Music ~ Carl Weinrich

DISC 45: LSC-2567: Poulenc — Concerto For Organ, Strings And Timpani ~ Stravinsky — Jeu De Cartes ~ Zamkochian ~ Munch

DISC 46: LSC-2578: Birgit Nilsson ~ Songs By Schubert ~ Wagner ~ Strauss ~ Grieg ~ Sibelius

DISC 47: LSC-2610: Paganini ~ Saint-Saens ~ Friedman ~ Hendl ~ Chicago Symphony

DISC 48: LSC-2626: Beethoven Quartet op.131 ~ Julliard Quartet

DISC 49: LSC-2632: Beethoven Quartet op.95 & 135 ~ Julliard Quartet

DISC 50: LSC-2646: Liliane Garnier Recital

DISC 51: LSC-2647: Chausson - Symphony Franck - Le chasseur maudit ~ Boston Symphony Orchestra, Munch

DISC 52: LSC-2648: Rachmaninoff — Suites Nos. 1 And 2 For Two Pianos ~ Vronsky And Babin

DISC 53: LSC-2653: Music For Strings ~ Solisti Di Zagreb ~ Janigro

DISC 54: LSC-2666: Finlandia — Music Of Sibelius ~ Morton Gould

DISC 55: LSC-2671: Virtuoso Favorites ~ Erick Friedman

DISC 56: LSC-6068: Beethoven ~ Schumann — Quartets ~ Festival Quartet

DISC 57-59: LSC-6172: Handel — Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 ~ Alexander Schneider and His Chamber Orchestra

DISC 60: SPS-33-190: The Power Of The Organ ~ Robert Owen