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In Reply to: RE: Listening Boxers: With regard to supporting living musicians, I fell off the wagon big time posted by jdaniel@jps.net on November 26, 2016 at 14:05:19
Let's not forget that almost all of these recordings were recorded on analog tape. HDTT masters from 2-track 15 ips or 7½ ips tapes or 4-track 7½ ips tapes.
I have the Bruno Walter 2-track 7½ ips of Dvorak's New World Symphony. Was this tape issue used for the transfer? It's a very good sounding recording for Columbia with the qualities that people admire in Walter's conducting. For me is sounds more Germanic than Czech.
I also have Bernstein's 2-track 7½ ips tape issue of Rhapsody in Blue. This is the 50+ year old Columbia recording. It's a winning performance in very good sound. I listened to it last week. I hadn't heard it in a long time. I was a little put off by the way he exaggerated some of the tempo changes. Yet the overall performance convinces because of its jazzy American style is all there. Another success from Columbia. And it's good that HDTT is bringing these recordings back in excellent transfers.
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Frankly the Bruch was a bit of a disappointment: a little dead in the treble dept and violin too up-front for tastes, a lot of delicious orchestral passages murky. Maybe the tape?
That said, the Hindemith has a fall-off-your-seat stunning sound in every respect, typical of Decca recording at its best: huge wide and deep soundstage and better balance between soloist and orchestra. Night and day!
The Oistrakh/Bruch/Hindemith was issued in a deluxe 15 ips 2-track tape by The Tape Project folks. I haven't heard it, but it got a good reception. I own a few of the other Tape Project titles, and they are superb.
Everything depends on the quality of the original recording, and then secondarily on the source used for the transfer to digital. HDTT issued a single title from the early EMI (Columbia and His Masters Voice) stereo recordings that were released on 2-track tapes in the UK. I had an email exchange with the person who supplied the tape used in the transfer. He sent me a one-off CD of experimental stereo recordings done in 1954. Most are snippets, but a complete Till Eulenspiegel with Norman Del Mar and the LSO is included with impressive sound. There's also the 3rd movement of the Brahms Violin Concerto with Endre Wolf, Walter Goehr and the LSO. I'm hoping to get a tape to tape transfer of these experimental recordings, but I would settle for a hi-rez transfer from HDTT. :-)
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