Direct from Cleveland -Maazel/Cleveland Orch. Direct to Disc LP Ultrasonic Clean
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Description
Here is a really nice copy of the original Telarc Records live, direct to disc recording of Lorin Maazel conducting the Cleveland Orchestra, Direct From Cleveland, Telarc Records catalog No. 5020, featuring the music of de Falla, Bizet, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz. This record was produced by Telarc especially for the Dishwasher Group, originally exclusively for sale in high-end audio salons (remember those? If so, you are getting on in years, like me), to demonstrate the better quality audio equipment offered for sale in those establishments.
Selections include the Final Dance (Jota) from Manuel de Falla's The Three Cornered Hat ballet; Farandole from Georges Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2; the Polonaise from Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, Op. 24; and Hector Berlioz's Le Corsaire Overture, Op. 21, and Hungarian March (Rakoczy) from the Damnation of Faust, Op. 24.
According to Telarc, this was the first direct to disc recording of classical music, and the first time anyone had attempted to capture the sound of a full symphony orchestra, in this case, 106 musicians, by the direct to disc method. The results are pretty incredible. Telarc was aiming to reproduce the orchestra from the aural perspective of the conductor's podium. You can easily decide for yourself if they succeeded.
The vinyl itself is Near Mint (NM), but there is a discoloration of the record label on side one of this LP (please see photo), so I am assigning a grade of Near Mint Minus (NM-) to reflect that flaw. The discoloration does not extend to the vinyl, and does not affect playback in any way. The jacket, sadly, is Very Good Minus (VG-) at best, with extensive shelf wear, ring wear and corner wear.
This LP began with nice, shiny vinyl. This was enhanced by cleaning on a VPI 16.5 record cleaning machine, rinsing with distilled water, vacuuming a second time and then deep-cleaning on an ultrasonic record cleaning system to reduce the amount of groove noise to extremely low levels.
Cleaning a record on a vacuum record cleaning machine such as the VPI 16.5 will remove airborne debris, dirt, fingerprint residue and other environmental contaminants the LP surfaces have accumulated over the years since it was manufactured. You can hear an immediate improvement.
The ultrasonic cleaning goes even further, removing oils, microscopic bits of dirt and even pressing lubricants from the disc mastering process that may be trapped deep within the grooves. This is the sort of debris and junk that other record cleaning systems often fail to remove. Following the ultrasonic cleaning, the LP surfaces will be quieter, perhaps quieter than most other records in your collection.
Ultrasonic cleaning of a vinyl record, especially a near mint copy such as this, removes a lot of grunge and debris from deep in the record grooves, often resulting in cleaner sound, less distortion, greater dynamic range, blacker backgrounds between notes, quieter vinyl surfaces and a lower noise floor. With proper care (maybe an occasional light dusting with an Audioquest record brush) and really excellent playback gear, you will often hear musical details you never noticed before.
This record will ship in a new record mailer, protected by an antistatic record sleeve, a protective outer sleeve, and, where appropriate, cardboard stiffeners and bubble wrap. This LP ships only to U.S. addresses. Sorry, no exceptions. Thank you for viewing this listing, and good luck bidding!
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