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