I hadn't even heard of it until I bought the box. Speaking of the box...I might have mentioned this before...28 Marriner/Argo CDs??? It could could have easily contained 100 CDs and I still would have bought it.
England comes to America... Going on the turntable this afternoon, 20th century American works by Barber, Ives, Copland, Cowell, and Creston. Neville Marriner leading the Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Argo/Decca, 1976. Recorded October 1975 in St. John's, Smith Square, London. Cover art: Threshing by Joe Jones (1909-1963) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
So, it's really a screwup on the cover and it's Reiner conducting the 4the and Leibowitz conducting the Beethoven, yes? If not, I'm friggin confused.
Great group portrait for members of the ASMIF during its golden era. I wonder if Iona Brown is the second person from the right on the top of the stair ...
Now playing the following Telefunken LP from my Telemann collection ... @DeepFloyd11, Do you have an evil twin?
Seriously? It's not that bad at all. Sound quality on my German pressing is quite acceptable on my little setup. I will be keeping mine. I will play it tonight, we have company over for dinner. Good music while we eat the Picadillo Cubano I will be cooking in a little while...
Hahaha...not anymore. I gave it away, to the owner of the Audio Store where my husband bought his TT recently. He got the Elizabeth Schwarzkopf LPs too...and a few doubles of symphonic works, so they can use them to showcase their systems. They have no classical music - and that's so important in my opinion.
Yes. The cover of my CD makes it clear. It was also issued on a Quintessence LP, which might sound better than the RCA. Most of my Quintessence LPs sound pretty good. Something called High Definition Tape Transfers (HDTT) is offering a DSD download from a 15 ips tape for $26.
This new 3 SACD set arrived today from Japan. Since it includes 2 "fillers" (Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll" and Bruckner's "Te Deum"), I was afraid some of the movements might be spread across two discs, but nope, that's not the case. Each disc plays for well over 80 minutes. Symphony 7 is paired with the Wagner on disc 1, Symphony 8 is by itself on disc 2, and disc 3 contains Symphony 9 plus "Te Deum." The DSD remastering from the original analog tapes sounds fantastic, and the playing is phenomenal.
I need to get that SACD. Maybe next month since I am over my budget for this month. Anyway, that 8th is unreal. His later one with the VPO is great as well.
