Youri EGOROV

In conversation with recording engineer Allan Tucker. On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Allan Tucker <deleted@deleded.com> wrote: Dear Wim, To my knowledge, there are no remaining materials from that Carnegie recording. The outtakes would have been taken by the album producer for storage. As to why material was left off the LP, I can only conjecture that either the performance was deemed unacceptable by the artist, or it didn't fit on the LP. With best regards, Tucker On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:24 AM Allan Tucker <deleted@deleted.com> wrote: Dear Wim, Congratulations on locating the tapes! I'll reply to your questions in-line: The Kaleb Sounds Inc. does not exist anymore. Kaleb Sounds was the remote recording company owned by my dear friend, colleague and mentor, Malcolm Addey, who supplied the gear for the date. I'm happy to report that he is alive and well and lives not far from me. We've spoken a number of times about Youri, this album, and your questions. Malcolm remembers even less than I do about the likely reasons and whereabouts of the unreleased material. Not only did I record and edit this project, but it is my handwriting on the boxes that have survived so beautifully all these years! So I am curious what happened between concert / editing and these tapes as in attachment. We haven't a clue. An Outtakes reel was definitely kept. Professional protocol dictated that. The question is what happened to it. Your information from a friend of Youri's is on-target. Youri had serious concerns about much of the show. You may not know, for example, that the day after the recording, we recorded fixes of certain passages in the basement of the Baldwin showroom, on the same piano used the previous night at Carnegie Hall. And that I had to make those inserts sound enough like the original Carnegie sound, that no one would ever know? Ha! That is the bottom line of classical recordings. The artist always has final approval. What we could recover made the album. The rest, well .......... So -- In addition to searching for the Outtakes reel, it would be extraordinary to find the editing scores -- Youri's, Klaas's, and my own. No, I cannot find mine, though it may well exist somewhere in my personal storage vault, where about 45 years of material is in boxes. I'll continue to rethink the whole thing. If anything new dawns, you will be the first to know. With warmest regards, Tucker Weblink: www.tuckersound.com

Mastertape Schumann - Fantasy in C minor, Op. 17 Peters PLE 122 release