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In Reply to: RE: With works with so many recordings, there just can't be a "best" posted by Chris from Lafayette on August 02, 2017 at 12:19:33
I flipped a coin and bought the Vänskä cycle and only bought the Haitink 2 & 6, but I like the Haitink so much I think I'll end up buying the set. As far as I can recall the first cycles out on surround were Barenboim (Teldec) and Abbado on DVD-A and Karajan on SACD (both DG/BPO). I didn't have any strong opinions at the time, but I gravitated strongly to Abbado and perhaps like 1 & 2 even better on the 2001 performance in Rome on Blu-ray. Perhaps this preference helps to explain why I also like the Pentatone SACD by Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields of Symphonies 1&2 (although quad is hardly my preference).
Speaking of preferences in surround sound, I really like Tacet's approach with chamber music, but have no inclination to listen to symphonies that way. Anyway, I apologize in advance of any flames for my praise of these lightweight treatments.
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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.
I ordered that Sir Colin Davis disc at Presto Classical on sale for $14.80 Canadian along with the Haitink set that I already intended to order.
. . . you were a multichannel aficionado too! Probably not too many of us on these forums: you, me, Kal, Fitzcaroldo. . .
As Ivan303 is fond of pointing out I often disappear for a few years, but I've been a hi rez multichannel enthusiast since the first DVD-A discs were released circa 2000.
Us MCh guys need to stick together! ;-)
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