SACD lovers, do you have Fennell conducts LEROY ANDERSON on Mercury Living Presence?

Thank you for your recommendation. I am going to have to look for this.

 

Thanks. I have the original CD release. Will have to look for the SACD. The catalog number for the SACD is 475 6942 according to SA-CD.net.

It's hard to listen to "The Typewriter" without thinking of Jerry Lewis...

 

It is one of my favorite Mercury LPS. IIRC the SACD is consisted of three MLPS albums.
From my experiences, it is not that easy to find an SACD copy cheap.
The RB CD is still fine.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxm0TN5WDQI

On the SACD, Fennell himself played the typewriter.

 

I do not have this one. I only have 5 Living Presence SACDs.

 

Better performance IMO

 

I have this SACD along with a few other of the Living Presence titles, and really enjoy it. Unfortunately these SACDs are getting harder to find.

 

Yes.

 

I'll have to look—know I have at least one Frederick Fennell 'Living Presence' LP. While I can't honestly recommend this one for the sound—I'll have to play this again later today and jog my memory—this is lovely music by Holst, Handel and Sousa, beautifully played by the Cleveland Symphonic Winds:

 

Yep, I own this one. I'm very annoyed that I didn't even discover the Mercury SACDs until after they were all out of print, so I only have a handful. I think that every single one of these that I have heard sounds better than the RCA living stereo SACDs.

 

Jaysus, a hundred quid on Amazon UK.

 

Re Fiedler/Boston v. Fennell/Eastman

I disagree, too. Fennell is much better, and redbook CD is totally fine if SACD can't be had. I wouldn't sweat it. I believe there was an old Abravnel recording on Vanguard, too, reissued on Analogue Productions 180g LP?? Haven't heard it, but don't expect it would be competitive, performance-wise.

Funny, just this week I bought for pennies another copy of Fennell Conducts Anderson, Vol. 2 on orig. Mercury LP. The music is better than the sound!

 

To my ears, BPO sounds too thick for the music of Anderson, after hearing the Fennell's renditions.

 

The SACD appears to be long OOP.

http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/1...ic_of_Leroy_Anderson-Hybrid_Multichannel_SACD

Ran an eBay search. There is one copy for sale.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fennell-Con...661?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4f9ff836b5

BIN - Price:US $163.41

Is the CD still in print, or easier to locate than the SACD?

 

Love this music, Frederick Fennell's recordings for Mercury are still my favorites. Still have the LP originals in mono and the SACD. Essential and should be in every audiophile library. Demo worthy material.

 

That title was part of the BMG Club offerings before it vanished; it seems like all the single discs were $6. I got that one and the 2 disc Mercury Nutcracker Suite SACD set as well.

 

There's one or two of the Mercury SACDs that are still available for a reasonable price, but the bulk are long OOP and pricey when they show up.

 

Got it! (On redbook) for a pittance. Blaring now.

 

It's way out of my price range now, for a recording I've never heard. Too bad, because the recs sound pretty great.

 

Had the pleasure of seeing and meeting Frederick Fennell at his last concert with the Eastman Wind Ensemble and RPO here in Rochester, NY at the Eastman Theatre, a few years back. What a lovely man he was. He was about 5'2 with long white hair, and very nostalgic about his recordings with Mercury, all done at the Eastman.