12 Etudes, Opus 8 (First Complete Recorded Performance)

First Complete Recorded Performance The recording was made with Sony C37A condenser microphones feeding into specially designed low-noise mixers and custom-built Ampex 350 tape recorders utilizing ½-inch tape operated at a speed of 30 inch/sec. on wide track two channel heads. The master disc was cut directly from a ½-inch, two track 30 inch/sec. master tape copy and no additional equalization, compression, or artificial reverberation was employed, assuring a virtually perfect match to the orig...