Joel Lazar wrote:

>I think that there were very few live performances ever released on 78rpm
>records of anything -- Stokowski's Gurrelieder, Ormandy's Mahler 2 and the
>two Bruno Walter/Vienna Philharmonic Mahler above are the exceptions.

Another notable exception on 78rpm was the 1941 Koussevitzky/BSO Beethoven
Missa Solemnis.  And Toscanini and the NBC sometimes recorded in Studio
8H before a live audience.  These 78rpm recordings were described by RCA
Victor as "actual performances," and came complete with audible coughs from
the audience.  Two such releases stand out in my memory: a Beethoven 3rd
Piano Concerto with Rubinstein and a Beethoven Eroica.  There were perhaps
others.

John Dalmas
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