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Holst: The Planets - Bernstein

Holst: The Planets - Bernstein

Dutton  CDLX 7393

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral


Holst: The Planets*
Britten: Four Sea Interludes

Women's chorus*
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

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Comment by Ben Leggett - March 1, 2022 (1 of 1)

This is considerably superior to the older Sony SACD release (Holst: The Planets - Bernstein) - it has the proper, original quad mix (quite aggressive - almost to the point of being rear-biased), and it doesn't have the bad/obvious tape edits present in previous digital releases of this performance.

That being said the quad mix has *a lot* of tape hiss that sometimes gets quite loud - this might be my speakers/setup but it's more noticable in the quad mix IMO.

The recent BIS/Litton disc is still, for my money, the best balance of performance and recording quality I've found for this work, especially in multi-channel - and that's still true, but this is a solid #2, and it's lovely to have a "proper" version of this performance so many years after Sony botched the original SACD.