This is of course a fantastic set of recordings, and I've owned the CDs for a long time. However...these were digital recordings made 1992-2000 and do we have any reason to ...
The situation looks a little more complicated to me.
The 'Unofficial Releases' over on Discogs seem to be only for live bootleg albums. There are also plenty of non-bootleg ...
This is a companion release to the Mehta Bruckner 9 but is rather less impressive, I fear. The Solti 7th was recorded in the Sofiensaal on 28th of October, 1965, just 3 days ...
This is a great set if you can get it at a good price and don't already own a lot of it. But it's not all high-resolution audio. It all sounds good, but the works originally ...
I've just listened to the new SHM-SACD with the EBS remastering (11/2024) and compared it to the RBCD from the Karajan 1960s DG recordings. My impressions are a bit mixed. On ...
I‘ve just bumped into the SONY CD Version (2011), and it says that this recording was remastered to 24/96.
I Wonder If this remastering/upsampling was the same used by BMG ...
We were fortunate enough to have Rudolf Barshai as Principle Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony for six years in the 1980's ('82/'88) when the Shostakovitch symphonies were ...