Is the above audio CD or LP? I find it as XRCD in Amazon for this album for $40. Not sure if XRCD plays on regular CD players. Thanks
I listened to it on Spotify as it started raining here. Wonderful. I will add to my permanent collection.
Ignore my question about the XRCD format. I found the answer online - should have checked before asking
A little puffing but I must admit, I have around a dozen of these XRCDs and 3/4 of them sound amazing.....very good remaster jobs. A couple are not so great. This one is a killer along with the Mehta Planets XRCD.
There are many recordings of his that are at the top of my list of favorites. I like his style most of the time. The Isle of the Dead on the XRCD is my favorite.
It's a cd from the Charles Munch Complete RCA collection; I believe they used the XRCD remastering for that particular album
Listened to my tape of Nos. 53 & 69 from this CD. Recorded 6/12-14/90, Casino Zogernitz, Vienna. Forceful, but lacking a bit it the Haydn sparkle.
And I have yet another... It must have been a good seller for Philips to keep re-releasing it like this.
I've always been curious about DG's casual mixing of English and German on their albums, as it often seems to be done without any standard of uniformity. For example, I have this same Planets album, but with all-English on the cover: So why create a this one when the double-language version would suffice? Because some English-speaking buyers would be confused seeing German text? Then consider this... I bought DG's "Winter Dreams" album new in 1972 (the year after it was first released) from a U.S. record shop with a cover title that is all-English: Yet the record label has very little English on it: And every copy of this album I've ever looked at has this same mostly-German-text label. I'm not complaining... I would just like to understand the reasoning behind it.
I've always thought this Turnabout /Rachmaninoff album sounded great. Turnabout had some surprisingly good releases back in the day, even if the artwork is sometimes a little comical. I picked up many Turnabout albums in the '70s because it was a budget label and my finances were thin when I began collecting classical records. As there seems to be some interest here in Thomas Mowrey's recordings, here's a shot of the technical data that is printed on the back of the jacket: (I've tried to enlarge it to make it more readable.)
I fully agree with that! I'm not sure how much the "XRCD" process had to do with it, but this is one of the best-sounding "Planets" out there.
Now listening to "Handel - Italian Cantatas" performed by the lovely and talented Emma Kirkby with The Academy Of Ancient Music led by Christopher Hogwood on L'Oiseau-Lyre.
Followed Harnoncourt's Haydn with some by Adam Fischer conducting the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra in Nos 96 & 102 and an Overture. Nimbus recordings from the late 80s. Some of the sparkle returns.
Different genre, but I have a couple of Doug MacLeod XRCD's which sound fantasic.. Here's one : Not sure about new technology though. Isn't XRCD 'old" technology now. Time moves so fast !