In Reply to: RE: Solti's 5, 6, and 8 all sound very multi-miked to me posted by Chris from Lafayette on August 12, 2012 at 23:54:09:
Yes, there's a passage in the finale of the Fifth where it sounds like the levels on the brass were clumsily pulled back to avoid overload. And then, in the Eighth in the first movement, René Kollo sounds like he's been mixed in at another time, in mono. Everyone else sounds in the same space as the orchestra and chorus; Kollo comes through somewhere on the right, in mixed-in mono (yes, the reverb is in mono--it sounds like one of the stage effects in the Solti "Ring." Sticks out like a sore thumb through headphones. I still keep coming back to Solti in the Eighth for the sheer visceral excitement, though, even though I know others better explore the subtleties of this work.
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