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The album entered the US Billboard top 200 at number seven, charted in UK (number 13), Netherlands (number 10), and Germany (number 15), and hit the iTunes top 10 in more than 20 countries. Influential classical music website Alto Riot named Mercury Classics its Label of the Year 2013.
May 25, 2013 · Background. Starting in 1951 Mercury began a series of LP record albums of classical music, the first album having catalog number MG-50000. Mercury already had experience marketing classical recordings, the MG-10000 and MG-15000 series of 12” and 10” LPs, respectively, having been initiated in 1949.
Jul 10, 2012 · A Fine Art: The Mercury Living Presence Recordings. Robert Baird | Jul 10, 2012. It is perhaps the most cherished tale from hi-fi's primordial past: In 1951—when music was first being recorded on magnetic tape, when the use of much-improved microphones became a mix of science and art, and when Stereophile 's founder, J. Gordon Holt, was still ...
50 Years Living Presence: 1951-2001. In Roman mythology Mercury is the god of commerce, manual skill, of travel and thievery. But he is also eloquent and is the bringer of tidings. CHOOSE ANOTHER SUBJECT. 1/2 Inch and 35 MM Sound Recording. CHOOSE ANOTHER SUBJECT. Everest, Command and Cameo. CHOOSE ANOTHER SUBJECT. More Questions.
Sep 25, 2009 · Wilma Cozart Fine, a record producer who, with her husband, C. Robert Fine, ran the classical division of Mercury Records in the 1950s and early ’60s, producing hundreds of recordings that...
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By 1949 Reeves was also recording sessions to the then-new magnetic tape. Hammond sold Keynote to Mercury Records in 1948 and headed Mercury's classical department. He and Fine continued to make albums of chamber-orchestra groups in New York, often using the single-mic technique.
