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In Reply to: RE: Vaclav Neumann posted by Ivan303 on May 24, 2017 at 16:40:08
I used to own that whole set (as individual CD's), but I never was happy with the amorphous SQ which Supraphon provided. If it's a re-master, maybe the SQ is improved. When Neumann re-recorded the 3rd and 6th symphonies in conjunction with Denon (part of those early digital Denon/Supraphon efforts), the engineering gave the re-recordings a much sharper profile, even though in the Sixth Symphony, Neumann's tempos had slowed down. I still think that that Munch/BSO recording of the Sixth was pretty ideal as a combination of performance and engineering. (And this is not to say that there aren't other excellent recordings of the Martinu symphonies too.)
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You need to do a few 'downgrades' to your system. ;-)
Would that it were a remastering of his work, but perhaps the master tapes are long gone.
I don't think it is, but it's a Columbia Japan re-issue of about 2005 so it might be.
The only thing I can stream on TIDAL or QOBUZ are the 1989 re-issue on CD as above.
. . . of the original individual issues, not a re-mastering - especially since it came out not long after the original series was completed.
I think part of the problem was that this album was from Supraphon's series of Quad recordings (you can see the "stereo/quad" indication in the upper right-hand corner), which didn't impress anyone on 2-channel. OTOH, there have been Japanese re-masters of these older Supraphon quad recordings in discrete quad on SACD. I got one of them a few years ago (Mahler's Fifth with Neumann) and didn't find it to be much of an improvement.
Looks like I should sell it (i.e., the Japanese quad SACD) - it's going for $499.84 on Amazon right now! ;-)
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