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In Reply to: RE: Andre Previn: The complete RCA and Columbia recordings posted by Chris from Lafayette on October 18, 2020 at 00:45:06
I've heard or downloaded most of this set. The Walton 1 has never been surpassed, IMO. The Shostakovich 5 is a topnotch performance that easily betters Previn's later CSO recording. The RVW symphonies are as good as or better than many later recordings (the spoken introductions are banded separately from the music and can easily be skipped on CD, or you can rip the music tracks only onto a CD-R).
The Beethoven concertos with Ax were a pleasant surprise, especially the Fourth.
Years ago, a friend who was a French horn player told me that I HAD to hear the last movement of Beethoven 7 with Previn/RPO, and she played me the LP. My jaw dropped. Those horn players just KICK IT more than on any other recording I know, including Honeck's with those Pgh superstars; Kleiber's VPO players have beautiful sound, but they are almost polite. Now, the rest of the Previn performance is fine, except that the first movement is a little draggy; but that coda at the end--wow!
[Note: this is NOT the same performance as the Previn/RPO Japanese video on YouTube, and it is not the same performance as the boring Previn/LSO version now on Warner Classic]
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From what you say, I eagerly anticipate listening to that Seventh Symphony!
The only semi-disappointment I've had so far is the Rachmaninoff Third Symphony, which in general could have used more detail IMHO (although, at the same time, there were other details Previn brought to the fore which were very interesting), and which for whatever reason didn't seem to enjoy as wide ranging engineering as the vast majority of other recordings in the set - I guess most of the LSO recordings were done by Wilkinson and Co.? I also read from some of the Amazon comments that the general dynamic level on the recordings of this set is a bit higher than it was on previous CD reissues of these Previn recordings - leading some to suppose that they had all been remastered. (And yet others say no. I'm not that familiar with these earlier CD reissues, so I can't say myself.)
It seems that it's questionable as to whether these recordings have been remastered or not. As you've probably noticed, whenever there's a big new historical CD box on Sony released, a number of the individual albums become available as hi-res downloads. This is what happened with the recent box sets of Munch, Szell, Walter, Bernstein, and others. Not so with this Previn box, which leads me to believe that they haven't been remastered. (A number of the ones from this set are available at Presto, but only at 44.1/16.) Is there any indication of "remastering" in the booklet?
Russell
I don't know if any of them have been remastered. I have copies of library CDs of Previn/LSO in RVW symphonies 1, 3, and 4. Symphony 3 sounds about the same as the 16/44.1 download, symphony 4 is a little softer on the CD-R but otherwise sounds about the same.
But the Sea Symphony sounds quite different on the CD-R, and I can't tell why. On the CD-R, the sound is muddy and muffled; I threw it out after comparing it to the downloaded version.
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