I'm not sold on her interpretation of "Pictures" overall (it has some great moments), but the other works are hair-raising! Excellent sound.
NP Schumann - Fantasy in C Stupendous. A great set that shows a side of Backhaus we don't encounter so much in his later recordings. Transfer from 78s and audio restoration by Mark Obert-Thorn.
While this is mixed I'd hardly call it a slagging. Curious to hear: RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3 | gramophone.co.uk
First listen to CD 5 from "Die Grossen Minnesanger" on Christophorus. Oswald von Wolkenstein - Der letzte Minnesanger performed by the Ensemble Fur Fruhe Musik Augsburg
First listen to CD 2 of 2 from "Thomas Tallis - Latin Church Music / Spem In Alium" performed by the Taverner Consort & Choir directed by Andrew Parrott on Warner.
DVD Audio is not necessarily the same thing as DVD-A the defunct multichannel competitor to SACD. The DVD Video specs allowed for 2 channels of 96k - 24 bit audio and Chesky released a few albums in DVD (Video) Audio in the late 90s. I only saw that Handel Theodora issued on CDs so I am not sure why someone would I guess later issue it on DVD Audio. But I suspect it is the DVD 2 channel Audio format playable on a standard DVD player rather than DVD-A which expired I believe in 2008 or so.
Listening to "Zemlinsky - The Mermaid / Sinfonietta Op. 23" performed by the Gurzenich-Orchester and the Kolner Philharmoniker led by James Conlon on EMI.
First listen to CD 6 from "Deutsche Harmonia Mundi: 100 Great Recordings" Bach - Brandenburg Concertos BWV 1046-1048 performed by La Petite Bande led by Sigiswald Kuijken
Listening to CD 8 from "Marcelle Meyer - Ses Enregistrements 1925 - 1957" on EMI. Bach: Suite Anglaise No 4 En Fa Majeur BWV 809 Toccata En Fa Diese Mineur BWV 910 Toccata En Ut Mineur BWV 911 Toccata En Re Majeur BWV 904 Partita No 6 En Mi Mineur, BWV 830
This is Karajan's 1960s Brahms cycle, which was never released as a set on CD outside of the big Karajan boxes as far as I know.
How do you know it’s all-analogue. Does it say that on the packaging? I’m just asking because of: a) Universal’s track record of using high-resolution transfers for their LPs; b) DG having just recently released a high-resolution version of this very set; c) the usual sticker they put on their packaging saying “from the original sources” does not imply all-analogue. Having said all of that, I am firmly in the camp that believes that having a digital step involved in mastering LPs does not necessarily mean that they sound worse, or that the sound is affected at all. EDIT: Just saw the Discogs entry for this, which contains the words “high fidelity pure analogue (AA)”, which probably are also on the packaging. I guess I was wrong in my having doubts, so kudos to Universal.
Correct. No. 1 appeared on an “Originals” CD, Nos. 2 & 3 appeared in the “Master Recordings” 10-CD set (which were also available individually, I believe), while No. 4 only appeared on a late ‘80s cheapo “Resonance” series CD, afaik. But never together as a set, unless they were part of bigger sets.
Thank you, I suspect this won't be to my taste, but I will listen to some of the 9th. I listened to Ivan Fischer with the RCO's recording of the 9th to see if I changed my mind on that, a serviceable performance but sadly still not up to the high standards he set with Mahler and his good performances of Bruckner.
Isn't a universal player supposed to play DVD-Audio as well? I have one though I only use it to play SACD's and CD's ...
There was a sticker on the cellophane that also contained the phrase “high fidelity pure analogue (AA)."
