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In Reply to: RE: Daphnis et Chloe fans: Slatkin's Naxos Version Just Released posted by jdaniel@jps.net on January 13, 2017 at 08:39:11
I just listened. Very s-l-o-w and c-a-r-e-f-u-l. For a ballet work there is little real sense of drama or of the theatre. I cannot imagine anyone being actually able to dance to these tempi. Decent SQ though. Some thinning at climaxes here and there but that is common to most of Naxos' Lyon recordings so it may be the orchestra itself. It doesn't strike me as possessing the most sumptuous strings. Very good chorus although sounding a bit too large for my tastes in pt.1.
This also gives me a chance to ask you something. I seem to recall that before Christmas you downloaded some HDTT transfers including the Walton Symphony 1, Previn. If it wasn't you then forgive me for asking : how did you find it? As a peformance it has long been the standard to reach but this transfer came without any embedded cover art ( so it shows up in my JRiver player as " unattributed" and the sound is not what I expect from HDTT. Strangely lobed to the right channel for the first couple of minutes with excess bass. The excitement of the performance is very muted. Throughout it is a bit opaque with a somewhat rolled off treble. A rip of the CD betters it by far as does my Gold Seal LP. I would be most grateful for your comments.
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Sometimes that can be a good thing.
I have many enjoyable recordings of music originally composed for ballet that no one would ever attempt to dance to.
Agree with you on the merits of the HDTT transfer.
Russell
Thank you very much for your kind offer. However I have several images of the artwork: the HDTT offering, the original USA cover snd the UK cover. However I do not know how to embed or otherwise relate them to a .dsf file so that they automatically load into JRiver at the metadata level both for album/genre etc. selection and at track level. For FLACs this is simple using the ID tag but there doesn't seem to be something like this for .dsf. Are they, in effect, WAVs? Normally HDTT dowmloads have the image already incorporated so I need not worry over this aspect.
If you have any advice I would be thankful.
Thank you also for your remarks on the HDTT transfer of the Walton. My guess is that the original tape worked from was not in great shape.
I'm on a Mac and I use a third-party application called "Yate" to embed album artwork into my .dsf files (as well as to change/add other metadata). Very simple. I'm sure there are equivalent apps for PCs, but I don't know about them. Good luck!
Russell
Not all HDTT's are equal. Top of the heap for me was the Ansermet Petrushka, Stravinsky's Columbia Firebird, the Bernstein Columbia Gershwin.
Monteux's RCA Tchaikovsky 4th wasn't one of RCA's top class 50's recordings, but that's not HDTT's fault.
The famous Richter/Liszt piano concertos seemed a little muted on top, but I can't remember how the record sounded.
I have LP, CD and Tidal stream of Richter/Liszt piano concertos. All are somewhat bright and very vivid. Great recordings done by Bob Fine of the Mercury team and released on Phillips. Great examples of Richters art
Alan
Regarding sound though, I liked, and felt it through a little bit deeper of a soundstage than the Lp. Definitely not an upfront recording though.
nt
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(I'm going by the first two volumes in the series.)
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