Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti – Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, Dance Suite (1981-1989/2022)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:18:54 minutes | 3,17 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Decca / Esoteric – ESSD-90262
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Vladimir Ashkenazy, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5, Piano Sonata No. 29 Op. 106 (2020) [3x SACD]
SACD Rip | 3xSACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 03:40:15 min | Scans incl. | 8,83 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Decca – UCGD-9079/81
【シングルレイヤーSA-CD～SHM仕様】【生産限定】
昨年演奏活動からの引退を表明したアシュケナージによるベートーヴェンのピアノ協奏曲全集を初DSDマスタリング。
ショルティ指揮シカゴ交響楽団とのこの演奏は、1974年度のレコード・アカデミー賞協奏曲部門賞を受賞しました。英『グラモフォン』誌は「アシュケナージの音の幅には並外れたものがあり、サー・ゲオルグ・ショルティはそれにぴったりと寄り添い、シカゴ交響楽団の深く美しい音色で録音されている」と、この録音を評しました。3枚目の余白には、アシュケナージにとって初めてのベートーヴェン・ピアノ・ソナタ録音となった「ハンマークラヴィーア」ソナタを収録。30代前半のアシュケナージによる、ベートーヴェン演奏の原点ともいえる録音が、ベートーヴェン・イヤーに甦ります。オリジナル・マスターから英Classic Soundで2020年に制作したDSDマスターを使用しています。
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Lang Lang, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim – Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn: First Piano Concertos (2003)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 59:17 minutes | Front, Scans NOT included | 4,36 GB
or DSD64 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front, Scans NOT included | 1,63 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Front, Scans NOT included | 1,09 GB
DSD Recording | Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Deutsche Grammophon # 474637-2
Lang Lang’s debut recording for Deutsche Grammophon showcased the young pianist’s extraordinary gifts in celebrated recordings of Tchaikovsky’s and Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concertos. Mentor Daniel Barenboim led the forces of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. This disc is guaranteed to make any serious music-lover pause. Here is youth, freshness, force and agility, with no hint of the routine.
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Emil Gilels; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner – Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1, 1812 Overture (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:34 minutes | 1,84 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © High Definition Tape Transfers
Gilels recorded this work several times, and the dierence to the other stereo recording in print is evident instantly. Just play the rst 10 seconds from the Gilels/Maazel recording and then this one: RCA in 1955 captured a cleaner, better, richer sound than EMI engineers 20 years later. So you are instantly captivated by the sound alone; and then follows a performance with tremendous sweep and boldness. Reiner is denitely instrumental in helping this along: he was a far better conductor than Maazel could ever aspire to. In a word: don’t worry too much about niggling imperfections. This is a performance for the ages. It will stand as a beacon to the possibilities of transmitting a sense of greatness via recordings that had few equals in the 100 years that we have been making records. I might add, lest you think I’m just carried away by it, that I have been living with this recording (on LP) since about 1960 and had something like 22 rival version in my collection at one time. None of the others conveys that same aura of agnicence.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Mussorgsky: A Night on Bare Mountain (1969/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:12 minutes | 2,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
He is “one of those rarities, a natural conductor”, exclaimed one reviewer after Seiji Ozawa’s Chicago Symphony debut on July 16, 1963 at the orchestra’s Ravinia Festival. “His technical facility is phenomenal, his sense of rhythm both solid and subtle, and his knowledge of scores… detailed and intimate.” Another Chicago critic concurred: “His conducting technique reminds you of his teacher, Herbert von Karajan, in that it lays the score in the lap of the orchestra with transparency of gesture and human communication, then commands acceptance.” At the end of the season, the 27-year-old podium sensation was appointed the festival’s first-ever music director, and in the years that followed Ozawa also became a regular CSO guest at Orchestra Hall, its downtown home.
Between 1965 and 1968, he and the orchestra made a series of remarkable albums for RCA. Selected releases are now remastered form the original master tapes and releases for the first time on HighResAudio. They represent an early high-point — perhaps unsurpassed — in the Japanese maestro’s long and distinguished recording career. Featured among these dynamic Ozawa/Chicago performances are three cornerstones of the symphonic repertoire: the Beethoven and Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphonies and the Schubert “Unfinished”, all remastered from the original analogue tapes for this edition.
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Gaston Litaize, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim – Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 “Organ”; Bacchanale from “Samson et Dalila”; Prélude from “Le Déluge”; Danse macabre (1976/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:22 minutes | 994 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
This celebrated recording of Saint-Saëns’ Third stands as one of the very few performances to challenge the acclaimed Munch/Boston version on RCA. It features playing of great panache (with a truly high-voltage finale), and if the strings in the first-movement allegro aren’t as tidy as some, Barenboim more than compensates by taking the movement gratifyingly up to speed. The big question for most collectors concerns the remastering, and here I have to say that it strikes me as an unqualified success.
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Peter Serkin, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa – Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Op. 42; 5 Piano Pieces, Op. 23 & Phantasy, Op. 47 (1968/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 48:11 minutes | 1,73 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
He is “one of those rarities, a natural conductor”, exclaimed one reviewer after Seiji Ozawa’s Chicago Symphony debut on July 16, 1963 at the orchestra’s Ravinia Festival. “His technical facility is phenomenal, his sense of rhythm both solid and subtle, and his knowledge of scores… detailed and intimate.” Another Chicago critic concurred: “His conducting technique reminds you of his teacher, Herbert von Karajan, in that it lays the score in the lap of the orchestra with transparency of gesture and human communication, then commands acceptance.” At the end of the season, the 27-year-old podium sensation was appointed the festival’s first-ever music director, and in the years that followed Ozawa also became a regular CSO guest at Orchestra Hall, its downtown home.
Between 1965 and 1968, he and the orchestra made a series of remarkable albums for RCA. Selected releases are now remastered form the original master tapes and releases for the first time on HighResAudio. They represent an early high-point — perhaps unsurpassed — in the Japanese maestro’s long and distinguished recording career. Featured among these dynamic Ozawa/Chicago performances are three cornerstones of the symphonic repertoire: the Beethoven and Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphonies and the Schubert “Unfinished”, all remastered from the original analogue tapes for this edition.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (1981/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:26 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
As with just about all the Mahler symphonies, Abbado has made multiple recordings of the Fifth, but this, his first, remains his finest, and an exceptional performance by any standard. It has all of the famed Chicago virtuosity but also a welcome attention to detail and willingness to savor a phrase that you almost never find with Solti’s Chicago Mahler. It’s great to hear a coda to the second movement that for once does not sound anti-climactic. We expect the horn playing in the scherzo to be stunning, and so it is, but the music also has grace, charm, and plenty of atmosphere at an appropriately relaxed basic tempo that, as you can hear, leaves plenty of space for the big moments to expand.
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Artur Rubinstein, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner – Brahms: Piano concerto No. 1 (1955/2005)
SACD ISO (2.0): 765 MB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 840 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: RCA Red Seal “Living Stereo” # 82876-66378-2 RE1 | Country/Year: US 2005, 1955
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic
Artur Rubinstein’s elegant 1954 recording of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor with Fritz Reiner & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is a bona fide classic from the earliest days of stereo; this sumptuous album has been available for decades & has earned a permanent place in RCA’s catalog. It reappears here in the SACD format & sounds cleaner & more detailed than ever before; yet the advanced technology only goes so far & this disc may disappoint audiophiles. Because RCA has carefully preserved its Living Stereo master tapes, it is relatively easy to reproduce them through DSD & render a terrific ADD version. However, the original 2-channel tracks have not been altered for multichannel systems, so the sound comes only from the front channels on the left & right. In essence, this is glorified stereo with remarkable presence — one feels quite close to Rubinstein, & the CSO seems only feet away — but there is no additional surround sound depth. For the sake of authenticity, this is just as well, & Rubinstein & Reiner at least are not misrepresented through creative engineering. One may regret, however, that this SACD has no bonus tracks & find that it offers less value than other titles in the line.
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Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Brahms: Violin Concerto (1955) [APO Remaster 2015]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 34:32 minutes | Scans NOT included | 1,38 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans NOT included | 716 MB
RCA Living Stereo Series from Analogue Productions. Another of the rare performances of violinist Jascha Heifetz and conductor Fritz Reiner together with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. This stunning recording of Brahms’ Violin Concerto is nothing short of breathtaking. The original 30 ips 2-track analog tape was used to master these LP and SACD reissues. Remastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, these new versions are clearer than the originals and warmer and richer than past reissues.
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Jacqueline Du Pre, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim – Dvorak: Cello Concerto & Silent Woods (1971) [Japan 2011]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 49:12 minutes | Basic Scans included | 1,97 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Basic Scans included | 1,05 GB
At a young age, cellist Jacqueline du Pre achieved mainstream popularity. She is regarded as one of the most distinctive cellists of the last half of the 20th century. Her career was cut short by a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis which stopped her performances at the age of 27. This release was recorded in November 1970 at the Medinah Temple in Chicago & contains Dvorak’s 3 movements: Allegro, Adagio ma non troppo & Finale: Allegro Moderato as well as the additional piece of music Silent Woods, Op. 68. This is a pure analogue tape recording re-mastered for SACD.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner – Vienna (2005)
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 3,20 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,40 GB | Full Artwork
Label/Cat#: RCA Red Seal “Living Stereo” # 82876-71615-2 | Country/Year: Europe 2005, 1957/1960
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Various, Orchestral, Waltz
This RCA Living Stereo release showcases the conducting talents of Fritz Reiner. It is a compilation of universal favourites linked to Vienna and ranging from Johann Strauss junior to Josef Strauss, from Richard Strauss to Weber. I doubt that the music of Old Vienna has ever sounded more entrancing than on this SACD from ‘stereo’s golden age’ performed as it is with unique style and panache.
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Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven: Symphonies & Overtures (Japan 2018)
PS3 Rip | 3x SACD ISO | DSD64 Stereo > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 210:40 minutes | Basic Scans | 8,48 GB
or FLAC Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Basic Scans included | 4,41 GB
Fritz Reiner, the famous Hungarian conductor who as the music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra brought the 1st golden age to the Symphony. Its achievements have dramatically improved the standards of orchestra performance in the 20th century. These outstanding performances were recorded by RCA’s state-of-the-art recording technology of “Living Stereo” & still retain the overwhelming freshness.
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Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 “New World” and other orchestral masterworks (2005)
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 2,43 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,15 GB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: RCA Red Seal “Living Stereo” # 82876663762 | Country/Year: US 2005, 1955-1957
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic
This performance exemplifies the magic that occurs when a perfect symbiosis is achieved between a music director and orchestra. Nothing sounds forced or contrived, and when Reiner takes some slightly unusual tempo liberties in the Largo the performers seem to innately understand his intent and everything flows and makes perfect sense. Reiner emphasizes the minor/major key changes in the Scherzo to brilliant effect, and the 4th movement dazzles with energy and virtuosity. The Carnival Overture, Smettena and Weinberger are lovely surprise ornaments to a must-have Symphony No. 9.
The multitrack transfer reflects the 3-mike original recording (left, center and right channels only) and does not add engineering to a splendid recording. This disc is like a time machine bringing the listener back to a main floor center seat a Orchestra Hall. The strings reveal their wooden resonance, and you can hear the buzz of string on frets during the bass pizzicato passages. That said, we are talking about 1950’s recording technology and I have heard more detailed SACDs. Still, the difference between the CD and SACD multichannel layers is not subtle.
I’ve known and loved the Solti/CSO “New World” recording for years; it is now relegated to the re-gifting pile. If you are a Dvorak fan, buy this disc. ~sa-cd.net
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