Talk:RCA Red Seal Records

Living Stereo

Only some of the series is available. A careful perusal of in-print recordings, in contrast to the original series catalog will bear out the claim that only a limited number of the series' recordings are available. Dogru144 02:56, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

more composers, etc

david palmer, conductor, and the london symphony orchestra released "a classic case" playing jethro tull tunes on RCA red seal 72.189.47.138 (talk) 12:04, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Gold Seal

Perhaps mention should be made of Red Seal's sublabel, Gold Seal, which was for mid-priced recordings from Red Seal's back catalogue.THD3 (talk) 18:38, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Copyright claims

I've just been hit with a copyright claim on YouTube for using some public domain music. I don't know if this is worth adding to the page but it's clear that Sony is pulling a fast one here and trying to monetize work that has been recorded and then dedicated to the public domain with a CC0. 81.97.100.208 (talk) 19:01, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Uncited material in need of citations

I am moving the following uncited material here until it can be properly supported with inline citations of reliable, secondary sources, per WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:CS, WP:NOR, WP:IRS, WP:PSTS, et al. This diff shows where it was in the article. Nightscream (talk) 14:51, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

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History Early acoustical (non-electrical) recordings could be a surprisingly good medium for capturing the sound of singing voices, male voices especially, but while acceptable solo piano and violin recordings could be made, the acoustical process typically yielded only a flat, muffled, tinny echo of a symphony orchestra. The introduction of electrical recording (or "orthophonic recording", as Victor termed its version of the process) in 1925 allowed reproduction of instrumental and orchestral music with greatly improved fidelity. In 1929, the Radio Corporation of America purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, thereafter becoming RCA Victor and, in 1968, RCA Records. RCA Victor's Red Seal series continued as the pre-eminent classical music record label in America from 1903 through the 1960s due in large part to the recordings of three of the leading conductors of the time, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold Stokowski, and Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini began his recording career in 1920 and nearly all of his recordings were issued on the Red Seal label, most of them with the NBC Symphony Orchestra (NBC was an RCA subsidiary until 1986). Conductor Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra spent nearly 35 years with RCA Victor and made many best-selling Red Seal recordings. Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra made Red Seal records exclusively from 1917 until 1940. Stokowski would continue to make many other Red Seal recordings with various orchestras, sporadically until 1975. Eugene Ormandy made his first recordings with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in 1934 and with the Philadelphia Orchestra beginning in 1936. Ormandy and the Philadelphians returned to RCA Victor in 1968, after spending 23 years (1944–67) with Columbia Records. Though best-known for his many recordings for Columbia and Deutsche Grammophon, Leonard Bernstein made his first recordings for RCA Victor. In 1954, RCA Victor began experimenting with stereophonic recording. The first RCA Victor "Stereo Orthophonic" reel to reel tapes were issued in 1955. When stereo LP records first appeared in 1958, RCA Victor introduced their highly regarded "Living Stereo" recordings. During this period RCA was consistently seen as producing some of the finest-sounding recordings then available. In 1968, RCA introduced a modern logo, de-emphasized the Victor name and "His Master's Voice" trademarks, and the label was now known as "RCA Red Seal". In 1976, RCA restored the "His Master's Voice" trademark to most of its record labels, including the Red Seal label. After General Electric absorbed the RCA Corporation in 1986 and sold its interest in RCA Records to the Bertelsmann Music Group, the Victor name was revived so the label once again became "RCA Victor Red Seal" for several years before eventually de-emphasizing the Victor and "His Master's Voice" trademarks again, and reverting to "RCA Red Seal" in the early 2000s due to the worldwide fragmented ownership of the "His Master's Voice" trademark. Selected Red Seal recording artists The following instrumentalists, vocalists, conductors and orchestras have all made recordings issued on the Red Seal label. Several recordings were made for other overseas record companies but were distributed in the United States and Canada on the Red Seal label. Many of these artists have also recorded or may be currently recording for other record labels. Claudio Abbado, conductor Joaquin Achucarro, pianist Raymond Agoult, conductor Licia Albanese, soprano Christian Altenburger, violinist Marian Anderson, contralto Maurice André, trumpeter Martha Argerich, pianist Claudio Arrau, pianist Martina Arroyo, soprano Brian Asawa, countertenor Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist Emanuel Ax, pianist Andrea Bacchetti, pianist Gina Bachauer, pianist Rose Bampton, soprano Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano Daniel Barenboim, conductor Yuri Bashmet, violist Thomas Beecham, conductor Robert Russell Bennett, conductor Cathy Berberian, singer Carlo Bergonzi, tenor Luciano Berio, composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, conductor E. Power Biggs, organist Jussi Björling, tenor Leo Blech, conductor Judith Blegen, soprano Sebastian Bohren, violinist Jorge Bolet, pianist Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica Boston Pops Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra Pierre Boulez, conductor Adrian Boult, conductor Rosario Bourdon, conductor David Bowie, vocalist Benjamin Bowman, violinist Alexander Brailowsky, pianist Julian Bream, guitarist and lutenist John Browning, pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, pianist Igor Buketoff, conductor Josef Bulva, pianist Fritz Busch, conductor Busch Quartet Montserrat Caballé, soprano Canadian Brass, brass quintet Maria Caniglia, soprano Guido Cantelli, conductor Pablo Casals, cellist José Carreras, tenor Rosanna Carteri, soprano Jean Casadesus, pianist Enrico Caruso, tenor Renato Cellini, conductor Feodor Chaliapin, bass Carlos Chavez, conductor Fausto Cleva, conductor Cleveland Quartet Fernando Corena, bass Alfred Cortot, pianist Fiorenza Cossotto, mezzo-soprano Richard Crooks, tenor Chicago Symphony Orchestra Van Cliburn, pianist Phyllis Curtin, soprano Michel Dalberto, pianist Colin Davis, conductor Antonio de Almeida, conductor Alicia de Larrocha, pianist Giuseppe De Luca, baritone Victoria de los Ángeles, soprano Lisa Della Casa, soprano Vladimir de Pachmann, pianist Désiré Defauw, conductor Alfred Deller, countertenor Misha Dichter, pianist Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor Helen Donath, soprano Plácido Domingo, tenor Ania Dorfmann, pianist Barry Douglas, pianist Nelson Eddy, baritone Rosalind Elias, mezzo-soprano Mischa Elman, violinist Christoph Eschenbach, conductor Geraldine Farrar, soprano Eileen Farrell, soprano Franco Ferrara, conductor Emanuel Feuermann, cellist Janina Fialkowska, pianist Arthur Fiedler, conductor Edwin Fischer, pianist Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone Anatole Fistoulari, conductor Ezio Flagello, bass Kirsten Flagstad, soprano Renée Fleming, soprano Flonzaley Quartet Claus Peter Flor, conductor Eugene Fodor, violinist Maureen Forrester, contralto Pierre Fournier, cellist Virgil Fox, organist Sergio Franchi, tenor Claude Frank, pianist Erick Friedman, violinist Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor Sol Gabetta, cellist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor Amelita Galli-Curci, soprano James Galway, flautist Daniele Gatti, conductor Charles Gerhardt, conductor Bonaldo Giaiotti, bass Dusolina Giannini, soprano Alexander Gibson, conductor Beniamino Gigli, tenor Emil Gilels, pianist Evelyn Glennie, percussionist Alma Gluck, soprano Vladimir Golschmann, conductor Eugene Goossens, conductor Igor Gorin, baritone Morton Gould, pianist and conductor Gary Graffman, pianist Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano Kathryn Grayson, soprano Reri Grist, soprano Guarneri Quartet Natalia Gutman, cellist Jerry Hadley, tenor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor Ofra Harnoy, cellist Lynn Harrell, cellist Mack Harrell, baritone Jascha Heifetz, violinist David Helfgott, pianist Walter Hendl, conductor Ben Heppner, tenor Victor Herbert, cellist Alfred Hertz, conductor Myra Hess, pianist Jerome Hines, bass Joseph Hollman, cellist Louise Homer, contralto Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano Vladimir Horowitz, pianist Andrej Hoteev,<ref name=hoteev/> pianist Steven Isserlis, cellist José Iturbi, pianist and conductor Antonio Janigro, cellist Byron Janis, pianist Paavo Järvi, conductor Dylana Jenson, violinist Helen Jepson, soprano Edward Johnson, tenor Allan Jones, tenor Juilliard String Quartet Joseph Kalichstein, pianist Mayuko Kamio, violinist William Kapell, pianist Herbert Von Karajan, conductor Vesselina Kasarova, mezzo-soprano Rudolf Kempe, conductor James King, tenor Alexander Kipnis, bass Evgeny Kissin, pianist Leonid Kogan, violinist René Kollo, tenor Kirill Kondrashin, conductor Florence Kopleff, contralto Miliza Korjus, soprano Serge Koussevitzky, double-bassist and conductor Lili Kraus, pianist Fritz Kreisler, violinist Josef Krips, conductor Jan Kubelik, violinist Yoon Kwon, violinist Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist Mario Lanza, tenor Jaime Laredo, violinist Marjorie Lawrence, soprano Lotte Lehmann, soprano René Leibowitz, conductor Erich Leinsdorf, conductor James Levine, conductor Josef Lhévinne, pianist Julian Lloyd Webber, cellist Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano Jean-Marc Luisada, pianist Peter Maag, conductor Lorin Maazel, violinist and conductor Jeanette MacDonald, soprano Ernest MacMillan, conductor Lucy Isabelle Marsh, soprano Kurt Masur, conductor Denis Matsuev, pianist Giovanni Martinelli, tenor Jean Martinon, conductor Eduardo Mata, conductor Jeanette MacDonald, soprano Charles Mackerras, conductor William Masselos, pianist Dorothy Maynor, soprano John McCormack, tenor Zubin Mehta, conductor Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano James Melton, tenor Willem Mengelberg, conductor Nellie Melba, soprano Lauritz Melchior, tenor James Melton, tenor Robert Merrill, baritone Anne Akiko Meyers, violinist Julia Migenes, mezzo-soprano Zinka Milanov, soprano Sherrill Milnes, baritone Nathan Milstein, violinist Howard Mitchell, conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Anna Moffo, soprano Grace Moore, soprano Lydia Mordkovitch, violinist Barry Morell, tenor Erika Morini, violinist Pierre Monteux, conductor Charles Münch, conductor Lambert Murphy, tenor Olli Mustonen, pianist NBC Symphony Orchestra Alice Nielsen, soprano John Jacob Niles, tenor Birgit Nilsson, soprano John Ogdon, pianist Gerhard Oppitz, pianist Eugene Ormandy, violinist and conductor Seiji Ozawa, conductor Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist Kun Woo Paik, pianist Josef Pasternack, conductor Luciano Pavarotti, tenor Jan Peerce, tenor Wilfrid Pelletier, conductor Leonard Pennario, pianist Jonel Perlea, conductor Itzhak Perlman, violinist Roberta Peters, soprano Philadelphia Orchestra Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist Michala Petri, recorder Ezio Pinza, bass Lily Pons, soprano Rosa Ponselle, soprano Maud Powell, violinist André Previn, pianist and conductor Leontyne Price, soprano Margaret Price, soprano William Primrose, violist Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone Florence Quivar, mezzo- soprano Sergei Rachmaninoff, pianist and conductor Ruggero Raimondi, bass-baritone Samuel Ramey, bass Jean-Pierre Rampal, flautist Judith Raskin, soprano Fritz Reiner, conductor Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano Katia Ricciarelli, soprano Sviatoslav Richter, pianist Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor Marisa Robles, harpist Artur Rodziński, conductor Angel Romero, guitarist Landon Ronald, conductor Arthur Rubinstein, pianist Titta Ruffo, baritone Leonie Rysanek, soprano Carlo Sabajno, conductor Éric Le Sage, pianist Olga Samaroff, pianist Nello Santi, conductor Jesús Maria Sanromá, pianist Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor Malcolm Sargent, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor Olga Scheps, pianist Tito Schipa, tenor Thomas Schippers, conductor Alexander Schneider, conductor Oliver Schnyder, pianist Friedrich Schorr, bass-baritone Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Contralto Renata Scotto, soprano Andrés Segovia, guitarist José Serebrier, conductor Peter Serkin, pianist Giulio Setti, conductor Robert Shaw, conductor Robert Shaw Chorale Nathaniel Shilkret, conductor Tullio Serafin, conductor Fabien Sevitzky, conductor Anja Silja, soprano Leonard Slatkin, conductor Georg Solti, conductor Frederica Von Stade, soprano Vesselin Stanev, pianist János Starker, cellist Eleanor Steber, soprano William Steinberg, conductor Risë Stevens, mezzo-soprano Frederick Stock, conductor Leopold Stokowski, conductor Richard Stoltzman, clarinetist Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto Gladys Swarthout, contralto Ruth Ann Swenson, soprano Henryk Szeryng, violinist Armand Tokatyan, tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini, tenor Kyoko Takezawa, violinist André Tchaikowsky, pianist Yuri Temirkanov, conductor Maggie Teyte, soprano John Charles Thomas, baritone Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Thomas L. Thomas, baritone Isao Tomita, electronic composer Toronto Symphony Orchestra Tokyo Quartet Arturo Toscanini, conductor Giorgio Tozzi, bass Lawrence Tibbett, baritone Walter Trampler, violist Helen Traubel, soprano Margaret Truman, soprano Richard Tucker, tenor Ronald Turini, pianist Uto Ughi, violinist Cesare Valletti, tenor Carol Vaness, soprano Ramón Vargas, tenor Denis Vaughan, conductor, harpsichordist, clavichordist Richard Verreau, tenor Shirley Verrett, mezzo-soprano Jon Vickers, tenor Vienna Choir Boys Lev Vinocour, pianist Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano Vronsky and Babin, piano duo Alfred Wallenstein. conductor Bruno Walter, conductor Günter Wand, conductor Leonard Warren, baritone William Warfield, bass-baritone Carl Weinrich, organist Alexis Weissenberg, pianist Evan Williams, tenor Albert Wolff, conductor Roger Woodward, pianist Kazuhito Yamashita, guitarist Frances Yeend, soprano Efrem Zimbalist, violinist David Zinman, conductor Nikolaj Znaider, violinist Pinchas Zukerman, violinist, violist, and conductor Gold Seal The RCA Gold Seal mid-priced label was launched in 1975 and initially consisted mainly of reissues of RCA Victor's celebrated "Living Stereo" recordings from the late 1950s and 1960s previously issued on the Red Seal label. Beginning in the early 1980s, several older monophonic Red Seal recordings from the 78 RPM and early LP era were reissued on the Gold Seal label. Included were recordings by Arturo Toscanini, Leopold Stokowski, Serge Koussevitzky, Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein, William Kapell and Wanda Landowska. In the compact disc era, the RCA Victor Gold Seal mid-priced label superseded the RCA Victrola label for reissuing historic Red Seal recordings. Many collections by "Golden Age" opera stars such as Enrico Caruso, Amelita Galli-Curci, Rosa Ponselle, Nellie Melba, Beniamino Gigli, and Ezio Pinza were issued on the Gold Seal label. The RCA Victrola label issued a new low-priced series of stereo recordings on CD and cassette of mostly standard classical works drawn from former Red Seal issues. RCA Victor Gold Seal also released several complete or comprehensive boxed sets of recordings by Arturo Toscanini, Enrico Caruso, Fritz Kreisler, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Pierre Monteux, and others. Silver Seal In 1990, another budget reissue label, RCA Victor Silver Seal was launched. Similar to CD reissues on the RCA Victrola label, several of these former Red Seal recordings were by lesser known performers, but the series also included some popular long-time Red Seal artists, including conductors Charles Munch, Eugene Ormandy, Erich Leinsdorf and Georges Prêtre; pianists Peter Serkin, Alexis Weissenberg and Emmanuel Ax; the Guarneri Quartet and guitarist Julian Bream. Recordings in this series were available only on CD and cassette and did not contain liner notes.