Post by jdaniel May 30, 2011 (1 of 6)
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Finally. IMHO regarding epic sweep, moments of stillness...there is no better. An excellent late mono-era recording from Kingsway Hall to boot.
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Post by tream May 30, 2011 (2 of 6)
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Certainly a classic. Not sure if I will feel the need to replace my LPs with this issue.
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Very excited about this one!! Ordered it on CDJapan! Will be waiting anxiously for this item!!
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Would love to hear somebody compare this to the rbcd version. I have the latter as released on EMI Classics "Great Recordings of the Century" (2001 edition with the gold artwork, angel), remastered with "Abbey Road Technology" or whatever the "art" on the cover stands for. The mono sound is totally flat and lifeless. Hope the sacd is better.
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Ernani71 said:
Would love to hear somebody compare this to the rbcd version. I have the latter as released on EMI Classics "Great Recordings of the Century" (2001 edition with the gold artwork, angel), remastered with "Abbey Road Technology" or whatever the "art" on the cover stands for. The mono sound is totally flat and lifeless. Hope the sacd is better.
This one's not out yet, but I have eight other releases from this EMI Japan Furtwängler series and I am extremely impressed by the quality of the remastering in them. It's a fabulous job they've done, and these to my ears are the most successful ones of all the Japanese reissue SACDs that I've heard or own to date, so I have no reason to doubt this one, too, will offer a tremendous listening experience like never before.
The improvements from even the excellent, latest-generation 24/96 remasters from Japan (which in turn are a world apart from those overfiltered EMI "ART" remasters) are quite striking. The last couple of months have therefore become for me an extended Furtwängler session (and I'm not really that much of a fan, actually).
These are all done (restored & remastered) from the original tapes by Simon Gibson & co. at EMI's Abbey Road studios (not to be confused with those "Abbey Road Technology" based reissues in the EMI GROC series, however!), and, as I said, the results are really superlative.
Here's Gibson himself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfA61_noOQQ if you're interested (courtesy another poster who originally provided the link).
Not all SACDs coming out of there are that good; I've heard some that were basically a travesty, sounding a lot worse than the original RBCDs: for instance, /showthread/62816/67777/y#67777.
Not always sure if it's the SACD delivery, DSD coding, or simply the skills set of the remastering engineer that answers for the results in each particular case, but at least with these Furtie releases I bet you my record collection it's the last one first and foremost. It's quite amazing what modern digital tools can accomplish in skilled hands.
PT
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threerandot said:
Very excited about this one!! Ordered it on CDJapan! Will be waiting anxiously for this item!!
any observations on this release, now that you have it? I have it too, but do not have any of the RBCD releases to compare it with.
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