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In Reply to: RE: Carlos Kleiber unreleased recordings? posted by jimbill on July 13, 2020 at 13:25:01
Yes - DG and Decca have done that with a number of their recent boxes. The blu-ray does allow for slightly higher sample rates, as well as 24 bits (vs. the 16 bits on CD). Both of the most recent reissues of the DG Karajan Beethoven Symphony sets contained blu-ray options, and, in the case of the 70's set, the blu-ray was remastered for Dolby Atmos, which brought about an almost miraculous improvement in the sound IMHO. I'm one of those who considers the engineering on the Carlos Kleiber discs pretty bad, and it might be interesting to hear what DG has wrought on this latest remastering.
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I've been comparing my DG "Masters" redbook edition vs. the blu-ray. Much more alive, less muddied bass, and better sound stage.
I've always loved his Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 7 performances. But I've always wished for better sound. This might do the trick.
I've already bought three incarnations of that C. Kleiber Fifth Symphony - the blu-ray would be the fourth. :-(
My 26 year-old daughter did an A-B test.
She preferred the blu-ray both times without knowing what was going on.
And 26-year-olds can no doubt hear better than we can!
Sometimes I'll do blind audiophile experiments with Ms. CfL - even though she claims she's not an audiophile at all, she almost always chooses the more audiophile incarnation as sounding better! (Maybe my body language is giving it away!)
On Symphonyshare, there was a download available long ago that purported to be a Kleiber/Vienna recording of Ein Heldenleben, complete with a mockup Sony(!) cover, a recording that he declined to release. Who knows if that was real?? It was a pretty good performance.
Like the 1943 broadcast of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2, with the 15-year-old Byron Janis and the NBC Symphony and Frank Black. OTOH, I moved too slowly to download the Popp/Giulini/LAPO Four Last Songs a couple of months ago - sometimes, it seems like those uploads stay up on the server for only a few days.
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