Post by zeus January 19, 2005 (1 of 8)
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How can DG have this out less than three weeks after the event? Also, the cover image taken well BEFORE the concert? You're sure it's not 2004 instead .... you know like magazines where the date is an indicator when to pull it from display? :-)
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Post by seth January 20, 2005 (2 of 8)
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zeus said:
How can DG have this out less than three weeks after the event? Also, the cover image taken well BEFORE the concert? You're sure it's not 2004 instead .... you know like magazines where the date is an indicator when to pull it from display? :-)
The VPO New Year's Concert is always one of the best sellers of the year (for any label releasing it), so labels always rush it onto CD. Few edits need to be done, so it's not like months of post production are needed.
Covers rarely contain photography from the actual day of recording, especially when you're marketing the disc before the recording has been made.
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Post by Daland January 20, 2005 (3 of 8)
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zeus said:
How can DG have this out less than three weeks after the event? Also, the cover image taken well BEFORE the concert? You're sure it's not 2004 instead .... you know like magazines where the date is an indicator when to pull it from display? :-)
The booklet also refers to the tsunami disaster (Dec. 26), which caused the organizers to drop the Radetzky March as a mark of respect.
But the greatest surprise is the magnificent sound. Although the two-disc set is based on a 44.1 kHz/24 bit PCM recording, the result is simply astonishing (see my review). I have always been sceptical of DG and Emil Berliner Studios, but this SACD offers better sound than almost any other multi-channel recording.
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Post by mdt January 20, 2005 (4 of 8)
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Daland said:
The booklet also refers to the tsunami disaster (Dec. 26), which caused the organizers to drop the Radetzky March as a mark of respect.
But the greatest surprise is the magnificent sound. Although the two-disc set is based on a 44.1 kHz/24 bit PCM recording, the result is simply astonishing (see my review). I have always been sceptical of DG and Emil Berliner Studios, but this SACD offers better sound than almost any other multi-channel recording.
Simple explanation, it was not recorded by Emil Berliner Studios. The recording was done by Teldex studios, a studio founded by former Teldec engineers, a label that provided very natural sounding recordings over many years until it became yet another victim of continuing globalization.
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Post by tream January 20, 2005 (5 of 8)
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Daland said:
The booklet also refers to the tsunami disaster (Dec. 26), which caused the organizers to drop the Radetzky March as a mark of respect.
But the greatest surprise is the magnificent sound. Although the two-disc set is based on a 44.1 kHz/24 bit PCM recording, the result is simply astonishing (see my review). I have always been sceptical of DG and Emil Berliner Studios, but this SACD offers better sound than almost any other multi-channel recording.
I read your review of this, so thanks for posting. I also watched the telecast. Based on that I decided to skip the recording-don't you find Maazel's violin playing, especially in "Tales from the Vienna Woods" out of tune, sometimes painfully so? (and I miss the zither!).
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Post by akiralx January 20, 2005 (6 of 8)
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zeus said:
How can DG have this out less than three weeks after the event? Also, the cover image taken well BEFORE the concert? You're sure it's not 2004 instead .... you know like magazines where the date is an indicator when to pull it from display? :-)
The giveaway is often the lack of timings in the booklet, which is produced in advance. Then later copies have the timings in. Not sure if this is true this year but it has been in the past.
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Post by mdt January 20, 2005 (7 of 8)
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akiralx said:
The giveaway is often the lack of timings in the booklet, which is produced in advance. Then later copies have the timings in. Not sure if this is true this year but it has been in the past.
it's so this year as well
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Post by Daland January 20, 2005 (8 of 8)
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tream said:
I read your review of this, so thanks for posting. I also watched the telecast. Based on that I decided to skip the recording-don't you find Maazel's violin playing, especially in "Tales from the Vienna Woods" out of tune, sometimes painfully so? (and I miss the zither!).
I also prefer this waltz with a zither, but the violin version appears to be an accepted alternative. Maazel is known to have perfect pitch, which means that his playing - if out of pitch - must be especially painful to him.
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