Post by mdt March 11, 2004 (21 of 27)
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Chris said:
Apart from the obviously not so good 24/48 PCM Decca Boheme,are there any operas released on SACD so far? I´m not necessarily looking for a new recording.Do we really need second-rate new interpretations of the standard works when here are so many, really good opera and symphonic recordings from the analogue age just waiting to be released on SACD.I see a trend from companies like Channel Classics who for example released the Schumann piano concerto in a recording that is so clearly inferior both as an interpretation and especially as a recording to old analogue masters that it is almost embarrasing.They would be much wiser licensing really good stuff from the big ones! Are we back in 1983 again,when everything had to be done again for CD with disastrous results soundwise. Yesterday I listened for the first time ever to Karajan's Tosca from 1980 on LP and was completely swept away. What a fantastic recording it is. Ok, it is multimiked and all, but still very, very good.If DGG went back to the masters here they would have winner that IMHO beats them all.Both recording and interpretation are absolutely first class IMHO.
IMO this recording together with many others from the early sixties through the 70s and early 80s stand as reminders of how good a recording could sound before PCM digital ruined it all.
Is there anywhere one could turn with ones prayers to make record companies realize what they already have in their vaults?
DG has just anounced several complete opera recordings for release on SA-CD :
Gluck "Orphée & Euridice", Minkowsky
Mozart "Don Giovanni", Abbado
Verdi "la Traviata", C.Kleiber
I certainly hope Universals other classical labels will follow this example alltough nothing can be found on the Decca/Philips web-site yet.
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I would like to draw everybody's attention to the new Pentatone release of Glinka's Ruslan And Lyudmilla. This is a pure DSD new live recording, last year recorded in the famous Bolshoi opera theatre in Moscow. In a semi staged production setting the singers and choir and stage banda in a perfect perspective and with an opportunity for the Polyhymnia team to hang the microphones in an ideal place the result is very 'lifelike' and involving, retaining the wonderful authentic sound characteristics of this wonderful theatre.
I am of course biased as I was part of the recording team. But in my more than 20 year old career, I have recorded numerous opera's with Marriner, Gardiner and in a more similar setting with Valery Gergiev in the Mariinksy theatre, and never have I been more enthousiastic of the combination of microphone placement, and stage and orchestra set up, combined with being able to record in stereo and MULTICHANNEL DSD. On top of that the performance is great using original brass instruments and a glass harmonica as used in the first performances. See for more information the Pentatone website.
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Post by mdt April 7, 2004 (23 of 27)
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GROOT GELUID said:
I would like to draw everybody's attention to the new Pentatone release of Glinka's Ruslan And Lyudmilla. This is a pure DSD new live recording, last year recorded in the famous Bolshoi opera theatre in Moscow. In a semi staged production setting the singers and choir and stage banda in a perfect perspective and with an opportunity for the Polyhymnia team to hang the microphones in an ideal place the result is very 'lifelike' and involving, retaining the wonderful authentic sound characteristics of this wonderful theatre.
I am of course biased as I was part of the recording team. But in my more than 20 year old career, I have recorded numerous opera's with Marriner, Gardiner and in a more similar setting with Valery Gergiev in the Mariinksy theatre, and never have I been more enthousiastic of the combination of microphone placement, and stage and orchestra set up, combined with being able to record in stereo and MULTICHANNEL DSD. On top of that the performance is great using original brass instruments and a glass harmonica as used in the first performances. See for more information the Pentatone website.
Looking forward to this recording since i know several of your recordings and they do have very good sound.
Will any of the recent recordings you and your coleagues have done for the Philips label be issued on SA-CD ? (Gergieves Operas, his Tchaykovsky 5'th from Salzburg, etc.)
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Post by Dinko April 7, 2004 (24 of 27)
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Ya know Mr. Groot, you're just making the wait that much harder. ;)
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Post by Johnno April 9, 2004 (25 of 27)
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I certainly agree with the comments about the sound quality of the Sutherland/Mehta "Turandot" on LP. Sensational! I'd really love to the Solti "Ring" on SACD too. I also agree about the best "Cosi", "Figaro" and "Don" being on EMI (Boehm and Guilini). Sadly, I don't expect the EMI Guilini Verdi Requiem will ever be made to sound first class!
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Johnno said:
I certainly agree with the comments about the sound quality of the Sutherland/Mehta "Turandot" on LP. Sensational! I'd really love to the Solti "Ring" on SACD too. I also agree about the best "Cosi", "Figaro" and "Don" being on EMI (Boehm and Guilini). Sadly, I don't expect the EMI Guilini Verdi Requiem will ever be made to sound first class!
johnno, i know what you mean about the Giulini Verdi, - EMI have done everthing they could with the sound on its various redbook manifestations and it still distorts. For another great EMI Mozart recording, you really have to add the Klemperer Flute. Magic!
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Post by tream April 9, 2004 (27 of 27)
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nucaleena said:
johnno, i know what you mean about the Giulini Verdi, - EMI have done everthing they could with the sound on its various redbook manifestations and it still distorts. For another great EMI Mozart recording, you really have to add the Klemperer Flute. Magic!
Nothing to do directly with SACD but my copy of the Klemperer Flute is on its way from Amazon.
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