Worst recording ever ?

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rowuk
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#16 Re: Worst recording ever ?

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Mahler8 on DeccaB0001498-19/Royal Concertgebouw/Riccardo Chailly
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The performance is OK, the recording is truly the worst in my entire collection of LPs/CDs and raw digital sources. If it hadn't been a gift, I would have returned it.
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#17 Re: Worst recording ever ?

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Not the worst but possibly the oddest.

In the early ‘80s I bought an LP of Handel’s Coronation Anthems on Decca which had been cut at the wrong speed. Zadoc the Priest would have had George III galloping up the aisle of Westminster Abbey like Usain Bolt to the accompaniment of a choir of the Chipmunks.

I returned it to Decca and received a replacement about two months later cut at the correct speed, which is a beautiful recording, and have wondered how that could have happened ever since. Mine can’t have been the only one, and replacing it must have meant cutting a new master and making new stampers. I wonder if there’s any others still out there?

Bizarre!
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#18 Re: Worst recording ever ?

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That record would probably be worth a fortune as a miss press these days
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