Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty (Complete Ballet) - Ansermet
Artist(s): Conductor – Ernest Ansermet
Orchestra – L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande
Recording Info: Recorded 29 March - 14 April 1959 in the Victoria Hall, Geneva
Engineer - Roy Wallace
Producer James Walker
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Simply impressive
The quality of this file is amazing. The super-high resolution in this case helps hearing the subtlenessof the orchesta's instrumkents, mainly during the piano and pianissimo movements. The music is marvelous and the orchestra masterfull. This is a MUST HAVE recording!!

Ansermet's Sleeping Beauty
Given that Decca/Universal is an absentee landlord of a custodian of its own recorded legacy, HDTT issues such as this are particularly valuable.This classic performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet has finally been issued in a remastered version that is worthy of the original recording. - And this is a relative bargain as priced. Don't hesitate.

Very good remastering of a great orchestral piece
Enjoy this very much, after remastering to DXD, a lot more details, dynamics were brought to the audience again. The musical, romantic interpretation of this great work by Ansermet can be even more better appreciated! Well done !

A delight from the first note to last
This was one of the recordings of the ballet I grew up with (the alternative for me being Previn’s polished recording with the LSO, thoroughly recommendable in a different way). The opening notes under Ansermet have real bite and the conductor misses none of the charm imo, throughout. Of particular note are the string solos: the lovely cello playing in No. 15a is uncredited. From Decca CD notes, Laurand Fenyves is the excellent violin soloist elsewhere. On a point of trivia, there are some additional trumpet notes in bar 8 of the Apotheosis that don’t seem to be in the score and which no other recording I’m aware of includes. I agree with another comment here that the closing in general isn’t perhaps as engulfing as it might be, but never mind. I prefer HDTT’s more aerated sound to Decca’s own, even though the present transfer is actually ‘second generation’, being from a commercial tape. Great stuff all round. Don’t hesitate.

Powerful and subtle
Such high resolution is more helpful in the "small" sounds than in the "big". In fact, the main differences between this sumptuous recording and my previous one in cd format is in the focus on the intruments and more gorgeous ambience. All in all, if your stereo system has a very high resolution, I think its worth buying this huge, monster file (about 13GB!!), otherwise live happy with your cd.
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