RTM SM468 Tape on 10.5" Metal Reels 38cm/15IPS-CCIR-1/4inch-2 Track-510nWb George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" and "An American in Paris", together here on one of the legendary recordings from 1958 - 1960 (released on Columbia Records, Sony). On the podium for both interpretations is the grandmaster Leonard Bernstein. "Rhapsody In Blue" is played by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra with the luminary...

2 RTM SM468 Tapes on 10.5" Metal Reels 38cm/15IPS-CCIR-1/4inch-2 Track-510nWb Refurbished by Christoph Stickel RCA's "golden age" was more like a "golden minute" - in a scant period, roughly from 1958 to 1963, the beginning of the stereo era - pure vacuum tube amplification helped produce recordings demonstrating unparalleled fidelity and warmth, lifelike presence and midband illumination. Yet another...

2 RTM SM468 Tapes on 10.5" Metal Reels 38cm/15IPS-CCIR-1/4inch-2 Track-510nWb “When Martha Argerich walked into the studio it was her dark, smouldering looks which first struck me. As soon as she arrived she asked for coffee; when I offered her a cup she gulped it down in one go and asked for more. I sat her in the studio with a large pot of coffee and went int the control room. At first, her hands moved casually over the...

2 RTM SM468 Tapes on 10.5" Metal Reels 38cm/15IPS-CCIR-1/4inch-2 Track-510nWb    “He play Bach,” wrote a distinguished critic, Professor Heinrich Neuhaus, “as if he were on of the pupils of the Thomaskirche cantor, sharing his meals with him in the refectory and blowing the organ when his teacher played for his parishioners … The music seems to speak through his playing; the composer has been dead...

2 RTM SM468 Tapes on 10.5" Metal Reels 38cm/15IPS-CCIR-1/4inch-2 Track-510nWb Heroic, dramatic, reflective and joyous, Brahms’s Violin Concerto — written for the great Joseph Joachim, a close friend of the composer — is one of the monuments of the Romantic repertoire. In a performance of epic sweep, Itzhak Perlman and Carlo Maria Giulini do full justice to its ambitions. Johannes Brahms – composer Carlo...

2 RTM SM468 Tapes on 10.5" Metal Reels 38cm/15IPS-CCIR-1/4inch-2 Track-510nWb André Previn writes: The LSO (London Symphony Orchestra) and I have been playing this particular Symphony for a long time, and in a great many places. We‘ve given performances throughout Europe, the United States, the Far East, and in Russia, and no matter how otherwise disparate the local culture or history, Rachmaninov‘s passionate...