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In Reply to: Leinsdorf's Daphis Suite posted by Botanico92007 on June 20, 2017 at 13:08:10:
Most of those Steinberg/Pittsburgh recordings on Capitol are really dullsville IMHO (in terms of SQ). I recently listened to one of his Wagner excerpts albums which, according to the booklet notes, was recorded in a purist, minimally microphoned way. The notes to the Leinsdorf Debussy/Ravel album suggest that this LAPO recording was not nearly as minimalist (just judging from the number of microphones listed). But to my ears, it sounds way better than the Steinberg album. Fortunately, Steinberg and the PSO were liberated from the confines of Capitol's engineering when they signed their contract with Command Classics (although those Command recordings may not qualify as completely purist, since Robert Fine's team employed seven microphones for them - unlike their earlier celebrated three-microphone efforts for Mercury). And now I'm going off on a tangent, but I'd also like to mention that there's a modern company which uses seven microphones for their symphonic recordings with great results (two-channel only): the German company, Acousence, which records second and third level German orchestras and makes them sound excellent indeed - I have almost their whole symphonic catalog in 24/96 downloads, and I really enjoy them.
I agree with you that the most frustrating aspect of many of the Capitol classical recordings was the lack of openness in the sound.
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- I was also thinking of the Steinberg/Pittsburgh recordings on Capitol - Chris from Lafayette 13:44:08 06/20/17 (0)
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