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I understand that the Pristine ramastered version sounds great.

socfan12 said:
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 4-6, Mravinsky, Leningrad Philharmonic

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Bachtoven said:
I understand that the Pristine ramastered version sounds great.
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Yes, that's why I played this piece again. I haven't played in years, but remember falling in love with it when I first got it about 10 years go. Wanted to see if I should buy the new remastered edition.


Bachtoven, the only new edition I am aware of is this one:


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Are you aware of any other version or format?


cheers
 
socfan12 said:
Yes, that's why I played this piece again. I haven't played in years, but remember falling in love with it when I first got it about 10 years go. Wanted to see if I should buy the new remastered edition.


Bachtoven, the only new edition I am aware of is this one:


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Are you aware of any other version or format?


cheers
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This is the one that gets rave reviews:

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MRAVINSKY conducts Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4-6 - PASC396
 
For the last few days I've been catching up on the music of Paul Hindemith, (1995=1963), an under appreciated composer, IMO. His music is often rather sombre but beautifully crafted and interesting.

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I like this one. Just curious if you've heard and how you feel it compares to others you may have also heard.
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Feanor said:
I haven't heard that one. My Hindemith collection is quite small, I'm afraid.
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Thanks for the quick response...if you get a chance to hear it on amazon, and decide to get it, would appreciate your comments...you've got a lot of experience in classical clearly.
 
The Espana album is one of the greatest of the Decca recordings, a TAS Super Disc in its original and Speaker's Corners vinyl versions. Interestingly, the recording was done in the mono era (1956) and the first team at Decca (Kenneth "Wilkie" Wilkinson") engineered the mono version, while, at the time newcomer Gordon Parry engineered the stereo, which wasn't released until two years later. In researching my Decca book, one of the veteran engineers told me that the two versions, mono and stereo, although both taken from the same sessions, were separately edited, so had different edit points, even different takes, depending on the choices of the producer and engineers for each version. I have an original Decca ED1 pressing, which is now mucho bucks, as well as the SC reissue. I found a decent mono copy for a buck at our local Amoeba records a few years ago. If you want an original vinyl copy for cheap, the mono is as spectacular as the stereo, maybe better. IMHO opinion, the best digital version are the excerpts (complete Capriccio Espagnole and Espana) included in the CD's that come my Decca book, recently published by FIM. There is also a 45rpm reissue which has the London cover (shown above in the previous post).

Larry Toy
 
astrotoy said:
The Espana album is one of the greatest of the Decca recordings, a TAS Super Disc in its original and Speaker's Corners vinyl versions. Interestingly, the recording was done in the mono era (1956) and the first team at Decca (Kenneth "Wilkie" Wilkinson") engineered the mono version, while, at the time newcomer Gordon Parry engineered the stereo, which wasn't released until two years later. In researching my Decca book, one of the veteran engineers told me that the two versions, mono and stereo, although both taken from the same sessions, were separately edited, so had different edit points, even different takes, depending on the choices of the producer and engineers for each version. I have an original Decca ED1 pressing, which is now mucho bucks, as well as the SC reissue. I found a decent mono copy for a buck at our local Amoeba records a few years ago. If you want an original vinyl copy for cheap, the mono is as spectacular as the stereo, maybe better. IMHO opinion, the best digital version are the excerpts (complete Capriccio Espagnole and Espana) included in the CD's that come my Decca book, recently published by FIM. There is also a 45rpm reissue which has the London cover (shown above in the previous post).

Larry Toy
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First, welcome to AS, Larry! And thank you for sharing your insights into the Espana album, one of my favorite go to classical CDs. Is the Decca book actually out now? I thought it was just available for pre-order still. Have to check it out.

Yes, strongly considering the 45rpm re-issue before it runs out. It's currently on my wishlist on Acoustic Sounds...


thanks and welcome to AS again!
 
socfan12 said:
First, welcome to AS, Larry! And thank you for sharing your insights into the Espana album, one of my favorite go to classical CDs. Is the Decca book actually out now? I thought it was just available for pre-order still. Have to check it out.

Yes, strongly considering the 45rpm re-issue before it runs out. It's currently on my wishlist on Acoustic Sounds.
thanks and welcome to AS again!
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Thanks, at this point Elusive Disc has it in limited quantities. One of my friends had ordered it from them and got the word on Friday that it was in stock and shipping to him.

Winston had great success with it at the Hong Kong Audio Show last week and the entire production sold out there and to a few other dealers. He just got his first copy and mine is being sent to me this week.

Larry
 
Larry, did not realize who you were until I saw an earlier post of yours. Thank you for joining, AS! I look forward to the book and especially the CDs! Please ask Winston to join as well! ;) Would love for him to produce something from Yo Yo Ma's The Silk Road Ensemble!:audiophile::heart:
 
Odyssey said:
Enjoying the Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 this evening. This piece was written during WW II.
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We saw the Eroica Trio last year, performing in the San Francisco Chamber Music series, which does several of their concerts in Walnut Creek, close to where we live. They are fine performers and quite tall and attractive. They have always dressed up to perform and were known earlier in their career as the 'Erotica Trio.'

Last Saturday, we heard the great Academy of Ancient Music (based in London) playing the four Bach Suites on original instruments. This includes the famous Suite 2 which features the flute - made famous in the '70's by James Galway. The most well known is the 3rd Suite, which features the 'Air' aka "Air on a G String". On Sunday we get to hear the St. Lawrence String Quartet playing one of the great, late Beethoven Quartets - Opus 131 and one of the Haydn late quartets Op76 No.3. Yesterday I was listening to one of my mch files - Pieter Wispelwey playing the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto, the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations and the Bruch Kol Nidrei, all ripped from a Channel Classics SACD.

Larry
 
Ha, I have a CD of the Eroica Trio from the period when they were known as the Erotica Trio. Haven't ripped it yet. I believe a Beethoven piece IIRC.

Tonight I hear Mozart's Violin and Viola Concerto and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8 at Lincoln Center. Earlier this month we heard Copland's El Salon Mexicon which was quite fun, and a transcription of Ravel's piano work to orchestra (not the other way around) of Gaspard de la nuit. Before the actual piece started, Slatkin had a piano rolled out and played sections of the piece on piano and then had the orchestra play the same section as transcribed to orchestra. Fascinating.
 
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