Trust Your Ears: The Mercury Living Presence story
Simon Barnett, dCS
4 episodes
9 months ago
Explore the fascinating story behind one of the world's most pioneering classical record labels in this three-part podcast series, produced by dCS in collaboration with Decca Records.
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Explore the fascinating story behind one of the world's most pioneering classical record labels in this three-part podcast series, produced by dCS in collaboration with Decca Records.
Trust Your Ears: The Mercury Living Presence story
33 minutes 54 seconds
4 years ago
Episode 2: A new era
In episode 2, we turn to the 1980s and the advent of digital audio to learn how the Mercury Living Presence catalogue was remastered for CD. Tom Fine explains how his mother, Wilma Cozart Fine, came to be working on the remastering project 25 years after retiring from the music industry, and mastering engineer Dennis Drake reveals how he and Wilma transferred Mercury’s vast collection of LPs to the digital domain.
We also examine the role that dCS played in the remastering process, and the pioneering technologies that allowed Wilma and Dennis to preserve the magic of the original LPs. Plus, Rob Cowan and Michael Gray reflect on the Mercury catalogue’s enduring influence and appeal.
Trust Your Ears: The Mercury Living Presence story
Explore the fascinating story behind one of the world's most pioneering classical record labels in this three-part podcast series, produced by dCS in collaboration with Decca Records.