REFERENCE RR 35 Audiophile NOJIMA Plays RAVEL Professor Johnson VIRTUOSO PIANO
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NOJIMA Plays Ravel
VG+/EX Used Audiophile Vinyl Record
Record Label: Reference Recordings RR 35
Original Reference Recording release. A Prof. Keith Johnson recording.
"Undoubtedly one of the world’s foremost players of Ravel." – Record Geijutsu
For over 30 years Reference Recordings have been making some of the greatest sounding recordings on Earth. Engineer Prof. Keith O. Johnson, renowned for his more than 50 pioneering years of recording and equipment design, has always been at the forefront of high-resolution audio. He has engineered nearly 150 classical and jazz albums, including seven that have been nominated for and two that have won Grammys for Best Engineered Classical Recording.
Gatefold sleeve and vinyl look brand new. No flaws or blemishes. There are no spindle marks on the label. Vinyl looks like new and plays beautifully.
Side 1
1. Miroirs: Noctuelles
2. Miroirs: Oiseaux tristes
3. Miroirs: Une barque sur l'océan
4. Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso
5. Miroirs: La valée des cloches
Side 2
6. Gaspard De La Nuit: Ondine
7. Gaspard De La Nuit: Le gibet
8. Gaspard De La Nuit: Scarbo
Review: Minoro Nojima plays these two demanding Ravel suites with all the fluency and color you could ever want to hear, running the range from an eerie Le Gibet to a really thrilling Alborada del Gracioso. The piano sound is outstandingly rich, also.
Note for audiophiles: I compared this performance of Gaspard de la nuit with Vladimir Ashkenazy's on Decca/London, also a digital recording. Ashkenazy, who is of course a world-famous, much-recorded virtuoso, is one of my favorite pianists, and of the major classical labels, Decca/London has long been my favorite for sound quality. But in this comparison, not only does Nojima provide by far the more impressive performance, but the Decca/London recording is not even close in engineering quality. Which prompts this reasonable audiophile question: if Keith Johnson, working for the small audiophile label Reference Recordings, can capture the immediacy, brilliance, depth, and richness of piano tone that we hear here, why can't the major classical labels, with all their resources, engineer recordings of comparable excellence?
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