Tony Duggan wrote:

>John Hayward-Warburton wrote:
>
>>...and between two of the tracks of the 'Enigma' you'll clearly hear
>>Menuhin whispering "one...two..." to the orchestra as he raises his arms.
>>Mind your ears (and loudspeakers) though.
>>
>>Nearly as good as the telephone ringing in the Du Pre/EMI Elgar Cello
>>Concerto.
>
>Or the London underground trains on many Kingsway Hall recordings, or
>the prop driven aircraft in the Furtwangler Bruckner 8th.  ...

Of course, for sheer drama none of these can compete with the faint
pounding of anti-aircraft guns heard near the end of the 1st movement of
Gieseking's 1944 recording of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with the Berlin
Reichsender Orchestra.  Listening to this recording is a truly odd and
disturbing experience -- as an evil regime is collapsing in a fiery
apocalypse, these performers and technicians are perfecting...  stereo
magnetic recording (this is apparently the earliest complete stereo tape
extant).

Zack
the STATES OF CONTROL site
www.echonyc.com/~impulse