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...what a remarkable recording, based upon the short sample I downloaded from HDTT on a whim. I'm glad I gave it a listen!
K Wilkinson engineered the sessions. The lush but focused string sound and wide, roomy soundstage afforded the orchestra is really tempting me to download the entire piece.
Give the sample a try. I can't think of any recents that are as transparent and 3 dimensional.
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I agree. This RCA recording on Qobuz sounds better than all others (including the latest hi-rez ones), which goes to prove it's really the original recording and the mastering that matter the most
...-like most of the other Japanese RCA Previn CDs I have (which include his RVW symphonies, among others). I got those CDs in early 2008; I wonder if the downloads available on Qobuz (and Presto) will be better, despite them being 44.1/16.
Russell
Did you download the HDTT sample? I'd be curious as to how it compares.
No, I didn't, though I'm curious as well. Call it a bias on my part, but I tend to favor downloads that come from sources closest to the master tape, which usually means ones that originate from the record labels themselves. HDTT, of course, often sources their downloads from commercial reel-to-reel tapes and the mysterious "15 ips tapes" that they have access to. That's not to say that I don't think their downloads sound good--the ones I've downloaded from them sound perfectly fine--but I'm often a little wary of their source material. (And I will happily buy from them if they have something I want that I can't get any other way.)
Russell
which gave us IMHO some pretty fantastic performances and recordings including the Walton 1st and Shosty 5th, with K. Wilkinson of Decca in the tape room.
I will likely pick up the early Previn Rach 2 just for the SQ, as well as the edge-of-seat, dark and atmospheric string playing heard in the 96/24 sample, (linked below). I can handle the cuts, though I prefer otherwise.
As for the super-duper-most-cherished performance of all time--Previn's EMI--I just. dont. get it. Seems micro-managed to me and not the most flattering recording either. I've heard both the original UK EMI LP and the download.
I had the UK EMI LP box set of all three symphonies and IMHO the 1st and especially the 3rd in the set are far better performances, (lush but tight) and more open, dynamic recordings. The 2nd was engineered by Gooch and the 1 and 3 were recorded by Bishop/Parker, fwiw
The above was released in '73, or so it says on QOBUZ.
Edits: 05/06/21
nt
But those cuts on the RCA version! Ouch!
Also, it seems to me that the EMI and Telarc performances are more similar to each other than they are to the RCA performance, even aside from the question of completeness.
exquisite dsd128).
When he wasn't messin' with the beautiful women, he was recording Rachmaninoff #2 with various English orchestras.
He lived a pretty good life!
FYI. Previn's 1973 Rachmaninov Second (no cuts) with the LSO on Warner/EMI is finally available as a 24/96 download from ProStudioMasters. I think that the sound is improved over the CD release (from 1999).
"Remastered 2011 Parlophone Records Limited" or so it says.
I used to have Previn's complete Rachmaninoff Seconds on EMI and Telarc. I'll try to listen to the cut RCA version (in the Sony box) again when I get some time. (I was hurriedly trying to get through all the discs in the box when I first obtained it!) My current faves are the Fischer/BFO on Channel Classics, and Svetlanov on Canyon/Exton, along with Valery "BO" Gergiev with the LSO on LSO Live (for my MCh "needs" - although I keep forgetting that the 2010 Jansons/Concertgebouw SACD is also available in MCh on RCO Live - I haven't heard it, but I suspect I'd like it).
at 24/96. OK, spelling of composer's name likely not to everyone's liking, but it's in my Favorites so I must have listened to it.Is this the one you are referencing?
Edits: 05/06/21
. . . my comments were mainly directed at the (cut) RCA recording which jdaniel referred to in his OP for this thread. The EMI recording as well as Previn's later Telarc recording are both uncut.
Yes, that's the one. This is the first time that it has been available for purchase/download outside of Qobuz. HDTracks gives it a date of 2021 so it may or may not have been remastered as part of the MQA conversion process (ProStudioMasters also has MQA version). Either way, I think it sounds very good and I have always enjoyed this performance.
Regardless of the performance or recording, I just find the "cut" version of the Rach Two unfulfilling, relative to the original.
Nevertheless, I occasionally enjoy the Steinberg/Pittsburgh Command Classics recording (which is also cut). But geez - some of those cuts do come as a wrench sometimes!
The best description I've come across regarding the "cut" Rach Two...... (Paraphrase)
"Comparing the cut version of Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony to the uncut is like comparing a movie trailer to the actual movie......"
until I heard Previn.
Litton has a great immediacy, but Previn has a richer sound.
Complete version.
Seems folks here believe (and seem correct as Discogs agrees) that Previn conducted the SAME Rachmaninoff symphony with the SAME orchestra a scant seven years apart.
1966 for RCA and 1973 for EMI.
Who'd a thunk it?
He conducted the uncut Rachmaninoff Two with NHK in his later years (RIP)...... Although not exactly the best performance I've come across..... The NHK Symphony seemed uncharacteristically "reserved" in this one, the performance came off as "indistinguished"......
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