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Also Sprach and Poem of Ecstasy with Dausgaard.
Hi res available at Acoustic Sounds, otherwise only CD and 16 bit download available at Qobuz.
I didn't like Dausgaard Mahler 10th at all due to IMHO very little shaping of phrases and/or rubato.
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I skipped the opening track (i.e., the opening minute and a half) however! ;-)
Anyway, the engineering didn't seem on par with most of the better recordings being made these days (underbalanced strings for one thing - and strangely veiled too), and the performance was hardly compelling enough IMHO to make up for that. Just my two cents. (I didn't listen to the Scriabin.)
I must also point out that I'd downloaded the Seattle SO's recording of the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony (with Morlot conducting) a few years ago and I've never gotten that recording to sound right on my system. It seemed like the wrong streams were mapped to the wrong channels on that recording - weird!
On Alpha, there's a really fine performance of Also Sprach coupled with Till and Don (I'm on a first-name basis), with the NDR Elbphilarmonie conducted by Urbanski. The sound is first-rate, too. Presto has it as a CD as well as for mp3, 16/44.1, and 24/48 downloads.
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8768016--strauss-also-sprach-zarathustra-don-juan-till-eulenspiegel
My great hometown orchestra.
On Primephonic it is also offered only in 44/16. However there is an unusual bump in the frequency spectrum centered at about 19kHz.
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Believe me, I'm tempted by this new title (and Acoustic Sounds even offers it in MCh). But the Dausgaard recordings I've purchased have not been impressive to me, especially his latest on BIS: a light-weight run-through of the Bruckner 6 which trivializes the music and loses all kinds of articulation. And it's not just his rapid tempos - Janowski on Pentatone takes similarly fast speeds, but imposes enough discipline on the OSR so that they manage to maintain fairly clear articulation. Not so with Dausgaard - his Bruckner 6 is a girlie-man performance.This is certainly one case where I plan to take Ivan's recommendation and listen in stereo on Qobuz first before I commit to shelling out any money for the MCh download.
(In the meantime, I'm still working my way though the 55 discs of the complete Previn RCA/Columbia recordings. He did a surprising amount of Chamber music on those labels and, last night, we heard an absolutely super performance of the Saint-Saens Septet - the one with the trumpet - where Previn plays the piano part magnificently. This is absolutely the best recording I've heard of this work! We also liked his performance, on another volume of the set, of Schumann's wonderful Piano Quartet - even though the performance is not my top favorite, it's still extremely well done, and the same album includes a performance of ANOTHER piano quartet which Schumann apparently wrote when he was only 19. Schumann wasn't quite the prodigy that Mendelssohn was, and this early piano quartet has hardly any of the characteristics or turns of phrase we associate with Schumann's music. But the performance of the Op. 44 Piano Quartet certainly seemed marvelous. BTW, sorry for going off on a tangent here!)
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who need disciple imposed by a non-girlie-man authority figure.
Have you ever been in a professional orchestra?
You have some, to quote Homer Simpson, Crazy Ideas.
What about Manly-Girls?
"but imposes enough discipline on the OSR"
"Not so with Dausgaard - his Bruckner 6 is a girlie-man performance."
The San Jose SO - an orchestra which, although it unfortunately no longer exists, was founded even before the SF Symphony.
So I see you were triggered by my description of the Dausgaard and Janowski performances. Why do you think that some conductors (let's say Szell) consistently attain better disciplined performances than other conductors do?
Toobs and Horns in the 'casita' cares little for sample rate or bit depth.
Thankfully, as I have 3TB+ of 'tunes' on a hard drive and most of it's ripped CD plus another couple thousand CD yet to be ripped.
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Horns only go to 60 Hz :-)
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We were using the 'Casita' for storage until we got the new garage built and I could move all of my 'hoardings' out of it and set up 'toobs and horns'. Been a couple years since some of this stuff was packed up and moved to Santa Fe and it's been a job getting it going but...
Happy with the 'room filling' sound of the Edgarhorns driven by 2 watt per channel 'spud' amps.
But no 'sub' for the horns yet.
Pulsars are in a 'near field' setup in the family room a mere 7 ft apart and maybe eight feet from the listening position on a couch.
Good sound, as good as one hears in most rooms at audio shows, but not the 'organic' SET/Horns sound I prefer, with all of its flaws.
You'll get there.
Nothing worse than storing good stuff during 'big changes'
Too much is never enough
...if your speakers don't include at least an 8" woofer.
And with the Scriabin, it's finally uphill. : )
without further adieu`
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