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In Reply to: RE: Listening to the Sibelius now--sounds fabulous (and it's 'only' 24/44.1) (nt) posted by Russell on April 04, 2014 at 23:56:36
But interesting that the picture on the eClassical.com site would indicate that it's also been issued on SACD?
Can't find it on Amazon so I guess we wait and see.
Listening to it now on QOBUZ and it's luscious as one would expect from BIS and Vanska.
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In the eClassical e-mail, BIS Boss Robert von Bahr indicates that these are new recordings. Vanska's earlier 'Lemminkainen' was done in 1999 (and presumably is the one included in the box set you mentioned) while this new one was done in 2006/2007. (Why BIS waited until now to release it, I have no idea.) 'The Wood-Nymph' is also newly recorded.
Russell
at least based on the cover art.
However this is a quote from the last page of the SACD booklet:
"The Swan of Tuonela, Lemminkäinen’s Return and Skogsrået were previously
released on BIS-1645 SACD and have been remastered for the present release."
Along with this:
"RECORDING DATA
Recording: November 2006 and October 2007 at the Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland
Producer: Robert Suff
Sound engineer: Hans Kipfer
Equipment: BIS’s recording teams use microphones from Neumann and Schoeps, audio electronics from RME,
Lake People and DirectOut, MADI optical cabling technology, monitoring equipment from B&W,
STAX and Sennheiser, and Sequoia and Pyramix digital audio workstations
Original format: 24-bit / 44.1 kHz
Post-production: Editing: Nora Brandenburg, Elisabeth Kemper, Matthias Spitzbarth
Mixing and remastering: Matthias Spitzbarth"
So this will soon be sold as an SACD whose 'Original format' was 24-bit / 44.1 kHz?
Likely a good sounding one, at that!
It won't be first SACD released by BIS that was originally recorded at 24/44.1 (but we've been through all of that already).
Interesting about the 'remastering' done for those other pieces. I've got the download of BIS 1645 and I see that the 'Wood-Nymph' (Skogsraet) on that release is shorter by 16 seconds than the remastered one. Also the 'Swan of Tuonela' is longer by 11 seconds than the remastered one, while 'Lemminkainen's Return' is shorter by 7 seconds. I guess *something* was done to those recordings, but it's odd that the timings would change by that much.
Russell
My experience with DSD Discs is that Everything ( Digital ) sounds better presented in DSD Format.
I know others disagree…
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