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We have complete* Mahler Symphony sets remastered onto Blu-ray from Haitink and Kubelik and a handful of cycles on SACD: but where oh where is the set from Solti? One Blu-ray has space for all his recordings, LSO and CSO and RCO. Are the producers determined to keep these classic performances hidden in the vaults until we are to old and deaf to hear them?
* Yes, I know, he didn't do the 10th, but the other nine will do nicely.
Dave
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The problem for a complete set in hi-res is that some of the symphonies were recorded in early digital using Decca's built in house recorders which were 18 bit and later 20 bit, both @ 44.1 . So the only way of getting a, say, 24/96k set would be by faking it in part by padding and upsampling. Not acceptable from my way of looking at things but others may find that OK. So if not then you would need to reject the post 1980 CSO recordings.
"We need less, but better" - Dieter Rams
It is worth noting that some of the early ones with the LSO were analogue surely? Wasn't that 1, 2 and 3, with 4 at the Concertgebouw?
Dave
" It is worth noting that some of the early ones with the LSO were analogue surely? ". Yes indeed. I think that I may have misinterpreted your post and thought that you meant a fully comprehensive set of all of his Mahler symphony recordings. Yes, the earlier recordings featuring LSO or RCO or CSO are analogue.
"We need less, but better" - Dieter Rams
The standards for DVD-Audio were so open-ended that lots and lots of resolutions were supported - even on the same disc IIRC.
Here's the 8th in 96/24.
Looks like it's going for a premium price already on Amazon US though.
Dave
Re Mahler's 8th in hi-res: I believe there was overloading on the master tapes, which I'd expect would be heard even more clearly (??) on an hi-res version.
I've not heard the HDTT transfers of Solti's Mahler, but I'm often shocked at what they're able to pull off a commercial tape.
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