Re: STEREO or MONO - EMI CLASSICS CMS7 63302 2, Hoffnung Music Festivals 1956, 1958, and 1961

>>I wonder if EMI might be persuaded to "redo" this set once more, providing
>>STEREO editions wherever they existed before?
>
>The problem is that sometimes EMI no longer has the stereo master tapes for
>some items.  In an analogous situation, there were a couple of 1956 Mozart
>symphony recordings made by Klemperer and the Philharmonia which came out on
>stereo Angel LPs, but which were reissued by Testament on CD in mono because
>EMI could not locate the stereo masters anymore.
>
>Mark Obert-Thorn

Those were the 1956 Klemperer recordings of Nos. 38 and 39.  I have looked for
a copy of S 35408 for twenty five years.  I wish someone would put it on CD. 
Angel kept the companion disc, S35407 (Symphonies 25 and 40) in the catalog at
least through the 1970s, but must have pulled the other disc as soon as
Klemperer rerecorded 38 and 39 in 1962 or so.

Mark K.