Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin by Antal Dorati London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Name: Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin by Antal Dorati London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Brand: High Definition Tape Transfers
SKU: HDTT14245
Price: 26.0 USD
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Artist(s): Conductor – Antal Dorati
Conductor – Antal Dorati
Chorus – London Symphony Chorus
Recording Info: Recorded 1956 by Mercury at – Walthamstow Assembly Hall
Engineer – C. R. Fine
Recording Supervisor – Wilma Cozart

Suite From "Le Coq D'Or"
1. King Dodon In His Palace 8:55
2. King Dodon On The Battlefield 4:05
3. King Dodon With Queen Shemakha 6:28
4. Marriage Feast And Lamentable End Of King Dodon 5:59
Prince Igor - Excerpts
5 Overture 11:17
6 Polovetsian Dances 11:20

Please Note: This release was edited in DXD PCM from a DSD256 Master
then the DXD edited master was used to generate the final DSD files using
Merging Technologies Album Publishing.
DXD (352.8KHz 24/32 bit PCM) is one of the best and least destructive formats for post-processing DSD originated digital recordings

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01/04/2023

Rob P.

United Kingdom

Excellent Performances and Sound

These performances have quite rightly always been very highly thought of, combining beautifully sprung, balletic rhythms, eloquent melodic phrasing, exceptional clarity and detail, with, when needed, power and the performers sound as though they really enjoying themselves. There are two down-sides. Dorati – and possibly the engineer – downplays the timpani parts and in the Dances the men can sound stretched and the chorus sing in English, which might have been OK back in 1956, but not today. Nevertheless, this is very distinguished conducting and the LSO were on superb form. Sound-wise, the image has depth, plenty of bass and treble extension and the typical Mercury sound signature. Compared to a Mercury SACD, which doesn’t have the Overture, the HDTT DSD256 has far more bloom, presence, space, impact and of course more analogue like timbres. Unfortunately, as is so often the case with this label, the presentation isn’t up to the same standard. If you look at the album cover, which is the Mercury LP SR90122, recorded in July 1956, the Overture is missing, because this was recorded in June 1959 and issued on SR90265 and yes, the sound in the Overture is slightly richer (possibly caused by Mercury changing the Telefunken mike used for the centre channel) but HDTT don’t mention this.

12/20/2022

Rushton

United States

Second listen, raise the rating to five stars

Second listen this morning, and today I am much more favorably impressed with the overall sound quality of this reissue. I don't hear what I thought on first listen to be some congestion in loud passages. Today, clean, clear, and detailed. Good definition in the tympani and other percussion. Do digits sound better with some playing time, like a good wine tastes better after it breathes? I think not. But still... Today the system very much likes this recording! Enough so to return with a full five star rating! (Too bad we can't edit an earlier review or I'd do that.)

12/18/2022

Rushton

United States

One of the great Mercury Living Presence recordings

One of the great Mercury Living Presence recordings by Bob Fine and Wilma Cozart. A very nice, clean, reasonably detailed transfer from what I presume was a 7.5ips tape. I don’t have another reissue to compare to this one, but I very much like what I’m hearing. The instrumental sound has very nice balance and detail, the orchestra is presented with the usual Mercury felicities of scale and breadth. I give it only 4 stars, however, in contrast to some of the best sound quality transfers that HDTT has been able to provide. The reason is because of some murkiness and lack of definition in the percussion and in the orchestral crescendos. I'm guessing Bob has extracted everything this source tape has to give, and for what it does give it is very, very nice indeed. I don't have another digital reissue of this recording to compare to what I'm hearing here, but I doubt seriously that any CD version would come close to the naturalness of instrumental timbre that this transfer delivers.

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