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I still have the Abbado DVD-A's and used to have the Barenboim DVD-A's too

Your comment about Abbado's 2001 performances on blu-ray is consistent with what I've heard from others previously. Somehow, I never got around to hearing those blu-ray performances. I sometimes feel that Abbado's DVD-A performances are a bit light, and DG sounds as if they were still using lots of microphones at that time - however, this impression can be somewhat mitigated with a boost to the rear channels, which adds more reverb and disperses the sound better (at least IMHO). This was one feature that really sold me on the advantages of multichannel recordings - the ability to reduce the effects of audible (and primitive-sounding) multi-microphone engineering.

I've never heard the Marriner recordings, but I do have another Pentatone recording of No. 1:



These quad recordings are also excellent, as are Davis' performances, as you might expect. I believe that there are many, many recordings from the 70's which were recorded in quad and which we'll never hear that way. Too bad - but I appreciate the fact that Pentatone has made at least some of them available in their original quad format.

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