Thread: Pentatone announces DGG re-releases

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Post by rammiepie October 1, 2014 (51 of 105)
wolfE said:

Rammiepie, thanks for your hint! Listened to some tracks, nice music, great sound, but really no "Porgy". - For the future I would be glad about a Pentatone-series with great recordings of the stereo era, for example the "Porgy and Bess" with Maazel and the Cleveland Orchestra. There are so many great recordings in the Universal archives (Decca, DGG), better "stereo only" than middle-rate music. Maybe the problem is also the price of the licensing ?

Would LOVE a complete Maazel Porgy & Bess on one single layered SHM~SACD DSD mastered from the original masters.

Post by Ubertrout October 1, 2014 (52 of 105)
wolfE said:

...There are so many great recordings in the Universal archives (Decca, DGG), better "stereo only" than middle-rate music. Maybe the problem is also the price of the licensing ?

I doubt the stereo-only stuff is more expensive to license per se, although I have no evidence of that. I suspect it's more a question that Pentatone (a) feels strongly about MCH, and (b) feels that their discs need to be attractive to both the audiophiles and the multichannel enthusiasts.

But who knows. I don't think many of these DGG recordings are even in circulation on CD except maybe in box sets, and maybe the fact that they are unlikely to harm single-disc issues is the reason Universal was willing to license them. For Philips a number of the RQR releases were in print as single discs (thinking mainly of the Davis Berlioz recordings, but likely others too). But I always had the impression that Pentatone access to the Philips catalog was a case of a special relationship.

Post by fotodan October 9, 2014 (53 of 105)
I'm hoping the Debussy chamber music release (scheduled for October 2015) will be the splendid Boston Symphony Chamber Players recording made in Symphony Hall in 1970. And, of course, we'll need Ozawa's Ravel volume 2 and 3 as well. Please.

Post by Lute October 9, 2014 (54 of 105)
fotodan said:

I'm hoping the Debussy chamber music release (scheduled for October 2015) will be the splendid Boston Symphony Chamber Players recording made in Symphony Hall in 1970. And, of course, we'll need Ozawa's Ravel volume 2 and 3 as well. Please.

+1

About the Debussy sonata, I recently picked up Trio Leandro. Recorded in 2005, it's a lovely performance in beautiful Mch sound.

Post by Vaan October 9, 2014 (55 of 105)
The covers are horribly ugly. How on earth could anyone find this a good idea? And yes, it matters!
But I look forward to hearing the Beethoven third piano concerto with Eschenbach and Henze again as I remember it to be the worst performance ever.

Post by Links October 10, 2014 (56 of 105)
Vaan said:

The covers are horribly ugly. How on earth could anyone find this a good idea? And yes, it matters!
But I look forward to hearing the Beethoven third piano concerto with Eschenbach and Henze again as I remember it to be the worst performance ever.

Just looked at the first 5 of them, same design...and truly dreadful.
BTW the accompanying disc descriptions all mention MC tapes
are all these DG releases quad?

Post by ramesh October 10, 2014 (57 of 105)
Vaan said:
But I look forward to hearing the Beethoven third piano concerto with Eschenbach and Henze again as I remember it to be the worst performance ever.

Heh.
I've bought on SACD for Opus 37 [ and Sudbin's which is very fine, so is Brautigam ], the Japanese live Weissenberg/Karajan, MichelangeliGiulini, both of which have long sections where the pianist appears disengaged.

Post by Ubertrout October 21, 2014 (58 of 105)
FYI, the Pentatone "Release Planning" page now confirms much of this information regarding the artists playing on the later releases planned.

Post by rammiepie October 21, 2014 (59 of 105)
Ubertrout said:

FYI, the Pentatone "Release Planning" page now confirms much of this information regarding the artists playing on the later releases planned.

All told, roughly 20 DGG Quad remasters released from November 2014~November 2015. Is this the full extent of the Quad DGG remasters, I wonder?

Post by Luukas February 10, 2015 (60 of 105)
Here are my own wishes to Pentatone's REMASTERED CLASSICS series. Let's hope that they will release these outstanding recordings on multi-channel SACD.

1) GUSTAV MAHLER: Symphony No. 9 in D major
Berliner Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein (Recorded in 1979)
"Bernstein's Mahler-interpretations were world famous. This live recording is a classic in many ways. Penguin Guide wrote: 'quite an emotional experience' and Gramophone Magazine praised: 'The recording is really rather good [...] An extraordinary night. Warts and all, a collector's item.' This was the only time when Bernstein conducted Berliner Philharmoniker. Karajan gave a special permit".

2) GIACOMO PUCCINI: La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West)
Neblett · Domingo · Milnes, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Zubin Mehta (Recorded in 1977)
"The bandit Dick Johnson could have been a role tailor-made for Plácido Domingo, and although there are a couple of later recordings of him in the same part, this Fanciulla is perhaps the best of all his Puccini roles on disc": (Gramophone)

3) CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 3 "Organ", Bacchanale from "Simson and Delilah"
Gaston Litaize (organ), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim (Recorded 1975 & 1978)

4) BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN: Fidelio, Op. 72 (complete opera), Leonore Overture No. 3
Janowitz, Popp, Kollo, Sotin, Fischer-Dieskau, Jungwirth, Dallapozza, Terkal, Sramek, Wiener Staatsoperchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein (Recorded in 1978)
" Bernstein's 1978 recording of Beethoven's opera has always been accorded one of his finest achievements . . . it was a work that meant a tremendous amount to the conductor, and he brings to it a particular kind of intensity that the superb playing of the Vienna Philharmonic underlines . . . Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau offers spiritual presence as Don Fernando . . . " Opera Now, London (2003)

5) TCHAIKOVSKY, PJOTR ILYICH: The Queen of Spades, Op. 68
Gougaloff, Vishnevskaya, Resnik, Weikl, Iordachescu, Schwarz, Popp, Choeur Tchaikovsky, Maîtrise de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Mstislav Rostropovich (Recorded in 1977)
"This DG version is the finest of the opera sets conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich...Vishnevskaya was still at her peak, here providing a strong and vibrant Lisa, not young-sounding but with plenty of temperament...As the Countess Regina Resnik gives an aptly over-the-top performance, biting and incisive. Penguin Guide, 2010 edition ***"

6) FREDERIC CHOPIN: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Krystian Zimmermann (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (Recorded 1978 & 1979)

Of course there is Carlos Kleiber's recording of Weber's "Der Freishutz". Any comments? Do you agree?

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