RCA Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called `` Adventures In Music '', which is an instructional record library for elementary schools.

The Hephzibah Menuhin-Amadeus Quartet ( Angel ) and Victor Babin-Festival Quartet ( RCA Victor ) editions give us superlative string playing ( both in symphonic style ) crippled by unimaginative piano playing.

As with the penultimate Giselle release ( Wolff's abridgment for RCA Victor ) I find the cleaner, less razor-edged monophonic version, for all its lack of big-stage spaciousness, the more aurally tolerable -- but this may be the result of processing defects in my SD copies.

It is a kind of justice, too, that it should originate in London's Royal Albert Hall, where, traditionally, the loudest, if not the greatest, performers have entertained the thousands it will accommodate ( RCA Victor LM 2454, $4.98 ).

The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra recorded the work for RCA Victor, including one of the first stereo recordings of the music.

While working with a Western band in Denver, Colorado, Atkins came to the attention of RCA Victor.

He made his first RCA Victor recordings in Chicago in 1947.

While he hadn't yet had a hit record on RCA Victor his stature was growing.

He began assisting Sholes as a Session Leader when the New York – based producer needed help organizing Nashville sessions for RCA Victor artists.

In 1967 a tribute song called " Chet's Tune " was produced for his birthday, with contributions by a long list of RCA / Victor artists including Eddy Arnold, Connie Smith, Jerry Reed, Willie Nelson, Hank Snow, and others.

Wagoner also convinced his label, RCA Victor, to sign Parton.

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Years later, Arturo Toscanini recorded the music for RCA Victor with the NBC Symphony Orchestra which complements the 1947 Toscanini performance of the complete opera.

RCA Victor began recording performances by several orchestras on optical sound around 1941, resulting in higher-fidelity masters for 78-rpm discs.

In 1954, RCA Victor asked Steiner to prepare and conduct an orchestral suite of music from Gone with the Wind for a special LP, which was later issued on CD .< ref >

In 1959, Bernie Green " with the Stereo Mad-Men " recorded the album Musically Mad for RCA Victor, featuring music inspired by Mad and an image of Alfred E. Neuman on the cover ; it has been reissued on CD.

In 1929, RCA purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the world's largest manufacturer of phonographs ( including the famous " Victrola ") and phonograph records.

With Victor, RCA acquired New World rights to the Nipper trademark.

RCA Victor produced many radio-phonographs and also created RCA Photophone, a sound-on-film system for sound films that competed with William Fox's sound-on-film Movietone and Warner Bros .' sound-on-disc Vitaphone.

In 1931, RCA Victor began selling 33⅓ rpm records.

) Also in the Thirties, RCA sold the modernistic RCA Victor M Special, a polished aluminum portable record player designed by John Vassos.

The first major artist to have his entire catalogue converted to CD was David Bowie, whose 15 studio albums were made available by RCA Records in February 1985, along with four Greatest Hits albums.

Atkins made his own records, which usually visited pop standards and jazz, in a sophisticated home studio, often recording the rhythm tracks at RCA but adding his solo parts at home, refining the tracks until the results satisfied him.

In 1966, Joel E. Goldmacher and Joseph A. Castellano, research chemists in Heilmeier group at RCA, discovered that mixtures made exclusively of nematic compounds that differed only in the number of carbon atoms in the terminal side chains could yield room-temperature nematic liquid crystals.

Horsting of the RCA Corporation published a paper which reported test results on the reliability of semiconductor devices in which the connections were made using aluminium wires bonded ultrasonically to gold plated posts.

One such, investment bank Dillon, Read made an offer of $ 7. 5 million, but Woods and RCA chief David Sarnoff held firm at $ 8 million.

Though it was not exactly known how to achieve their goal, engineers at Disney and RCA investigated many ideas and tests made with various equipment setups.

Although reference was made to a power increase, the station only had an RCA 250 kW transmitter.

A number of early companies making phonographs, radios, and other audio equipment in the early 20th century used the suffix "- ola ," the most famous being Victrola ; RCA made a " radiola "; there was also a company that made jukeboxes called Rock-Ola, and a film-editing device called a Moviola.

After signing with RCA on November 21, 1955, Presley accepted Axton's offer of a third of the royalties if he made the song his first single on his new label.

During Munch's tenure, Pierre Monteux made a series or records with the BSO for RCA Victor ( see Pierre Monteux for a complete list of commercial recordings with the BSO ).

Erich Leinsdorf, who had already made numerous recordings for RCA, continued his association with the company during his seven years in Boston.

As a guest conductor in the 1960s, Seiji Ozawa made several recordings with the BSO for RCA Victor.

Stokowski made a series of RCA Victor recordings with the orchestra in 1952 and 1953.

The orchestra has a long history of recordings, most notably those made with Pierre Monteux for RCA Victor, Herbert Blomstedt for Decca, and Michael Tilson Thomas for BMG and the orchestra's own label, SFS Media.

Monteux's recordings were made for RCA Victor in the War Memorial Opera House from 1941 to 1952, initially using a sound film process and then magnetic tape ; there was also a stereo session for RCA with Monteux in January 1960.

Enrique Jordá made several stereo recordings for RCA in 1957 and 1958, and an album for CRI in 1962.

Among the last notable recordings of older-style performances were Beecham's final, extravagantly reorchestrated version made for RCA in 1959 ; one conducted by Karl Richter for DG in 1973, though it used authentic orchestration ; and a third based on Prout's 1902 edition of the score, with a 325-voice choir and 90-piece orchestra conducted by Sir David Willcocks in 1995.

Stock and the CSO made numerous recordings for Columbia Records and the Victor Talking Machine Company, renamed RCA Victor in 1929.

In March 1954, Fritz Reiner made the first stereophonic recordings with the CSO, again in Orchestra Hall, for RCA Victor, including performances of two symphonic poems by Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben and Also sprach Zarathustra.

In addition to weekly broadcasts on the NBC Red and Blue networks, the NBC Symphony Orchestra made many recordings for RCA Victor of symphonies, choral music and operas.

In 1954, shortly after the orchestra's final concerts, Stokowski made stereo recordings for RCA of excerpts from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet and Menotti's ballet Sebastian.