STOKOWSKI Rhapsodies ANALOGUE PROD. LSC 2471 200g AUDIOPHILE 45 rpm 2 LP set
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STOKOWSKI Rhapsodies ANALOGUE PROD. LSC 2471 200 gram audiophile pressing
ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS AAPC 2471-45 (45 rpm 2 record set)
Tracklist
- A1 Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 In C-Sharp Minor Composed By – Franz Liszt
B2 Roumanian Rhapsody No.1 In A Op.11 Composed By – George Enescu
C3 The Moldau Composed By – Bed?ich Smetana
D4 The Bartered Bride: Ouverture Composed By – Bed?ich Smetana
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- RCA Living Stereo 200 Gram Double LP! Remastered and Cut at 45rpm by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound!
Cut from Original Session Tapes! Pressed at Quality Record Pressings & Plated by Gary Salstrom!
RCA Living Stereo classical LPs - the gold standard for top quality orchestral performance and sound!
Maestro Stokowski is at the podium and Bob Simpson is at the 3-track Ampex recorder to capture the Rhapsodies from Liszt, Enesco and Smetana that give this issue its title. This is titanic sound that will sink most speakers and amps for that matter. A must have. The original 3-track session tapes were used in mastering this LP from the Analogue Production reissue series.
"These are the best vinyl releases of RCA LPs I've yet heard." — Jonathan Valin, executive editor, The Absolute Sound
"...I'd have to say that the usual stumbling blocks have been sidestepped. Great care has been taken to do the right things, starting with the way the decision to remaster these RCAs was made." -Jonathan Valin, theabsolutesound June 11, 2013
"These records are definitive." -Michael Fremer, analogplanet
Features:
• 200g Vinyl
• 45rpm
• Double LP
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Plated by Gary Salstrom
• Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound
• Cut From Original 3-Track Session Tapes
• Meticulous test pressing evaluation and quality control
• Highest quality jackets and rice paper inner sleeves
Musicians:
Leopold Stokowski, conductor
RCA Victor Symphony
Selections:
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A, Op. 11
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
The Moldau & The Bartered Bride: Overture
- AllMusic Review by James Leonard
All taste abandon, you who listen here. The combination of some of the most banal music ever composed performed by one of the most vulgar men who ever conducted captured in some of the most vulgar sound ever recorded is enough to drive listeners with refined sensibilities to despair. But for less discriminating listeners, the disc called Rhapsodies by Leopold Stokowski on RCA Living Stereo will be just the thing to clear the air after too much Mozart and Schubert. Stokowski, whose grasp of the distinctions between good and bad music has always been dubious, tears into Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody with unrestrained gusto, rips into Enescu's First Romanian Rhapsody with unreserved panache, jumps into Smetana's Moldau with both feet, and grabs hold of the Venusberg music following Wagner's Tannhäuser Overture with undisguised passion. The Symphony of the Air, RCA's studio orchestra of the late '50s and early '60s, plays with more power than polish and more color than control, but, since that was probably what Stokowski was looking for, it only enhances the performance. RCA's Living Stereo sound was stunning in its day and staggering in our day. While certainly not for late-night listening, this disc will surely get you up in the morning. -
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