In Reply to: Actually my fav is Oistrakh Ormandy on a primitive Columbia 6 eye NT posted by jdaniel@jps.net on September 24, 2016 at 00:33:40:
To me, this is one of the better-recorded early stereo Columbia LPs I've heard. Maybe the stereo effect is too pronounced, and it lacks the coherence of the best early RCA stereo LPs, but it has great clarity and spaciousness.
You must be funning us calling it primitive. Naughty jdaniel!
As for David Oistrakh, it's uncanny how his version or versions of almost every standard from Bach and Vivaldi to Hindemith and Shostakovich turn out to be so hard to beat, despite dozens of new versions as the decades roll on. His concept is always dead on, and his execution is always dead on, whether live or studio, and regardless of where and with whom he is playing. Chamber, concerto, large scale, small scale, baroque, classical, romantic, modern, it doesn't matter.
Hi-rez is nice, but I'm not exactly pining for more versions of the Sibelius violin concerto. Edit: Hey, but I'll listen to one of the new ones this weekend. Don't get mad!!
Edits: 09/24/16
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Follow Ups
- My fav too, but "primitive"? - rbolaw 06:42:51 09/24/16 (9)
- Strangely enough, a fair number of older recordings are available in hi-rez - Chris from Lafayette 09:27:47 09/24/16 (6)
- Monteux's Boston Tchaikovsky 4 up at HDTT, very thoughtful and often charming performance - jdaniel@jps.net 13:13:17 09/24/16 (0)
- Yes, I'm not arguing with you ;-) - rbolaw 10:36:35 09/24/16 (0)
- This is not exactly Hi Rez.... - Ivan303 10:26:59 09/24/16 (3)
- Another one that isn't exactly Hi Rez.... - Doktor Brahms 21:14:19 09/25/16 (1)
- Check out the Amazon Reviews for this CD... - Ivan303 07:57:25 09/26/16 (0)
- Could be one of those Andreas K. Meyer DSD specials - Chris from Lafayette 11:35:09 09/24/16 (0)
- Sorry, joking. Was so angry at Amphissa last night that I accidentally broke one of my prized wax cylinders - jdaniel@jps.net 07:39:56 09/24/16 (1)
- Naughty! ;-) nt - rbolaw 09:33:19 09/24/16 (0)