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Mozart: Piano Concertos 20 & 27 - Clifford Curzon / Benjamin Britten

Mozart: Piano Concertos 20 & 27 - Clifford Curzon / Benjamin Britten

Tower Universal Vintage  PROC-2012

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral


Mozart: Piano Concertos 20 & 27

Clifford Curzon (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)

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Comment by Steven Harrison - August 21, 2017 (1 of 3)

DSD Remastered by Classic Sound, November 2016. One feature of these Tower reissues is that they have the green top like the SHM and EMI single layer discs. Some of the Tower reissues are available from Amazon and some, like this one, are not. However there is a Japanese buying service called Buyee that works very well for the purchase of these discs.

Comment by PaulSARenaud - August 24, 2017 (2 of 3)

Any idea how these Tower re-issues are? Are these "official" remasters done by Universal Classics. Can we expect them to be more widely available (f.i. through CDJapan; the shop I do my buying Japan)? The Tower.jp website is only available in Japanese.

Comment by breydon_music - August 24, 2017 (3 of 3)

Just to amplify this a bit, the ones sourced from the old EMI catalogue and licensed from Warner Classics are all in Esoteric-style cases, and the boxes follow suit too, just like the Esoteric sets. These discs, however, all have normal disc labels, i.e. they are not green - again, just like the Esoterics. Those licensed from Universal, which includes the ECM remasters, are in standard jewel cases and have green non-playing surfaces. The EMI's don't (as far as I've noticed from the English bits in the largely Japanese notes) have any clue as to their provenance re-mastering wise, whereas the Universal ones are all via Emil Berliner Studios or Classic Sound, i.e. the same as Universal's own re-issues. They are all hybrid discs and there is no suggestion that they are SHM's. The best of them are excellent; like all the other Japanese and other re-issues the state of the master tapes is probably key, though with the EMI ones the original productions varied more than with the other major companies of the time, and of course this reflects as much in Warner's own reissues as in the Tower ones. The Sibelius Bournemouth discs are marvellous, as is the new Rachmaninov/Previn set, and for the more daring how about trying the Lympany/Sargent Rach PC2 - a stunning Prokofiev PC3 thrown in and 3 Rach Preludes to absolutely die for!