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I bought the Reiner Strauss, the Munch Schubert and the Heifetz discs. I love the Munch (great performance of Schubert 8th and 9th and good sonics), the Heifetz which has good sonics but not the Strauss disc. While the Reiner / Strauss performance is great it sounds like a bad transfer especially on Don Quihote. It sounds congested and as if it has digititus.
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I also loved the Munch/Schubert, which has terrific sound quality and a really fleet and crackling performance of the 9th. Reiner's 'Spain' was great as well. And I didn't find the
'Don Quixote' bad-sounding at all; quite the opposite, in fact. It's the best I've ever heard this recording sound--very open and three-dimensional. The 'Don Juan', however, does sound cloudy and congested--nowhere near what the RCA engineers achieved in Chicago several months earlier with the 'Heldenleben' and 'Zarathustra'.
It appears by your description that one cannot go wrong with this, especially given the price. It being in three channel would only further ice the cake for me.How do you feel about it versus other recordings you have of the 9th? TIA!
Hey Robert--The Munch/Schubert is indeed very worthy. Performance-wise, it's right up there with the best I've heard; it has a propulsion and dynamism that, if not especially 'Germanic', are very exciting nevertheless. (Munch always liked to move things along!) As I mentioned below, the 9th is in 3-channel and the 8th is 2-channel. I listen only in 2-channel, but I get a very strong phantom center-channel image with the right recordings, the Munch 9th being one of them.
Bream on guitar fine sounding on my portable speakers. Don Quixote sounded the best I've heard it on my big rig. The Heifetz seems a bit substandard in sound, still, I'm listening to it now on my powered partners. Have to try it on the big rig. I only heard part of the Schubert Unfinished, but it sounded fine on the powered speakers. Much better than the Walter SACD version. Perhaps Walter's interpretation is better.Will have to give these all a play on my main system when I get the time.
I haven't heard the new SACDs. The Don Quijote wasn't one of RCA's best recordings in Chicago. I have loved the performance for decades, but never liked the sound. I suspect it is the mastertape. Most of the transfers in this series have been very well done. The Reiner Dance of the Seven Veils, for example, is very close to the sound on the original 2-track tape issue, which received an outstanding transfer 50 years ago when the mastertape was much fresher.
If not, I'll be passing on it.
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