Thread: Pentatone: Remastered Classics - add your own wishes

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Post by Simon V. June 22, 2015 (21 of 56)
hiredfox said:

A lot of DGG stuff from about 1978/9 was recorded digitally and probably not in 16 bit so very poor material to start off a SACD project. The vinyls of this era are worth only the trash bin, truly awful (IMHO).

I don't think I've kept any DGG stuff of that vintage. Supraphon's analogue recordings from the late '70s are still sounding great, though.

Post by Claude June 22, 2015 (22 of 56)
hiredfox said:

A lot of DGG stuff from about 1978/9 was recorded digitally

I think digital recordings started in 1980 at DG.

DG LPs from around 1980 in chronological order (includes reissues):

http://www.discogs.com/label/7703-Deutsche-Grammophon?page=32&genre=All&limit=100&sort=year&sort_order=asc

The earliest digital one I could find is the Brahms 4 with Kleiber, from March 1980 (released in 1981):

http://www.discogs.com/Johannes-Brahms-Wiener-Philharmoniker-Carlos-Kleiber-Symphonie-No-4/release/3507687

It has been reissued on SACD by Esoteric

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Kleiber

Post by Cicero June 22, 2015 (23 of 56)
For what it's worth, I believe that DG's first digital recording was made in Berlin's Philharmonie in December of 1979, Gidon Kremer playing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (with Lorin Maazel conducting the Berlin Philharmonic). Later in the same month, Karajan began to record his (digital) Parsifal, also in the Philharmonie. Both still sound pretty good, though the Parsifal would benefit from a RBCD reissue in the Originals series.

As for the thread title, I don't have any particular wishes for DG titles remastered on SACD. I'd rather have more new SACDs.

Post by Iain June 23, 2015 (24 of 56)
Cicero said:

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... I'd rather have more new SACDs.

Indeed. New titles are my prime focus, but there are exceptions to consider as well.

The one title I've listed in this this thread, is simply the best performance I've ever heard of the work.

Pity that some choose to ignore performance for the sake of sound quality. They don't know what they're missing.

Post by Luukas June 23, 2015 (25 of 56)
Recorded in 1966

Post by Ubertrout June 23, 2015 (26 of 56)
Luukas said:

Recorded in 1966

...so why are you listing it here?

Post by Luukas June 23, 2015 (27 of 56)
The album is perhaps recorded with quadraphonic tapes. Sir Colin Davis' recording of Berlioz's "Requiem" was made in 1969, this is only three years older...

Post by Ubertrout June 23, 2015 (28 of 56)
Luukas said:

The album is perhaps recorded with quadraphonic tapes. Sir Colin Davis' recording of Berlioz's "Requiem" was made in 1969, this is only three years older...

The first quad recordings were made in 1969.

Post by hiredfox June 23, 2015 (29 of 56)
Iain said:


Pity that some choose to ignore performance for the sake of sound quality. They don't know what they're missing.

Nobody will argue with that Iain. Stereo and now even more so multi-channel has done us no favours

Post by Luukas June 23, 2015 (30 of 56)
OK.
But we surely need another recording of Berlioz's "Romeo and Juliet", Op. 17. Seiji Ozawa recorded the piece with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the middle of 1970s. It would be a wonderful addition to the REMASTERED CLASSICS. It also continues his Berlioz Series: Pentatone has already "Symphonie fantastique" and "The Damnation of Faust".

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