TOMITA Pictures at an Exhibition - Ultimate Edition (SACD Hybrid) Re-release

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I just had this in an e-mail saying that TOMITA's Pictures at an Exhibition - Ultimate Edition (SACD Hybrid) will be re-released in February/March, I've asked if its being released in 4.0/5.1 as its an 'Ultimate Edition'.

http://www.farsidemusic.com/acatalog/CD.html

TOMITA Pictures at an Exhibition - Ultimate Edition (SACD Hybrid)
Ref: FSD6454
Price: £24.99

Originally released in 1975, follow up to Snowflakes are Dancing. Versions of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Carefully and painstakingly constructed with a bigger sound than before. Comes with bonus track of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

1. Promenade 2. The Gnome 3. Promenade 4. The Old Castle 5. Promenade 6. Tuileries 7. Bydlo 8. Promenade 9. Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells 10. The The Two Jews 11. Limoges/ Catacombs 12. Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua 13. Baba Yaga (Hut on Fowls' Legs) 14. Great Gate of Kiev 15. Bonus track Scheherazade

There's also a Blu-ray of a performance of his latest work, Symphony Ihatov out at the same time.
 
I just had this in an e-mail saying that TOMITA's Pictures at an Exhibition - Ultimate Edition (SACD Hybrid) will be re-released in February/March, I've asked if its being released in 4.0/5.1 as its an 'Ultimate Edition'.

http://www.farsidemusic.com/acatalog/CD.html

TOMITA Pictures at an Exhibition - Ultimate Edition (SACD Hybrid)
Ref: FSD6454
Price: £24.99

Originally released in 1975, follow up to Snowflakes are Dancing. Versions of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Carefully and painstakingly constructed with a bigger sound than before. Comes with bonus track of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

1. Promenade 2. The Gnome 3. Promenade 4. The Old Castle 5. Promenade 6. Tuileries 7. Bydlo 8. Promenade 9. Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells 10. The The Two Jews 11. Limoges/ Catacombs 12. Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua 13. Baba Yaga (Hut on Fowls' Legs) 14. Great Gate of Kiev 15. Bonus track Scheherazade

There's also a Blu-ray of a performance of his latest work, Symphony Ihatov out at the same time.

Reconstructed with a "bigger sound than before"? Hmmm.....
 
Well, it's not on the original label so I'd guess it's a re-recording of some kind.
 
Could be. Unless Tomita has rights to the original recordings and the master tapes reverted to him.

I've just had an e-mail from FarSideMusic (UK Japanese specialist importer) saying its 4.0, so it might be sourced from the original tapes.
 
Tomita has already released new versions of the Planets and Snowflakes Are Dancing. I have them both and gave them both 10s. Looking forward to Pictures At An Exhibition. The first two are in 4.0. and are on the Denon label.
 
I have never heard of
Snowflakes Are Dancing in DVDA 4.1
Are you sure ?
And where did you get it?
Ron
 
I am still waiting for my Pictures at an Exhibition. I have Clare de Lune and its wonderful. I just picked up the Planets in CD-4 format for LP, and I am waiting for a decoder to come so I can hear it.
 
The new edition is a japan release and correctly use the japan title, which was "Clair de lune". Snowflakes was the USA title when released overseas.
 
It's interesting that each subsequent "Ultimate Edition" album from the 2010s is less changed than the prior one. The "Ultimate Edition Tales of Genji" was an entire new recording with added movements, though it has always been an orchestral album augmented with some synths rather than his 1970s related all synth realizations. "Planets Ultimate Edition" retained most of the Moog lead sounds and much of the Mellotron but replaced much of the backing with modern virtual analog gear. Then "Claire de Lune" contained some fixes cleanups but had much fewer obviously changed parts though some are quite apparent.

On "Ultimate Pictures" I'm only hearing technical fixes and a new mix. There may be some minor details I've not caught but I'm not hearing any additions. So it sort of harks back to the DVD-A "Tomita the Planets 2003" which was also a new mix and cleanup but did not seem to add different material like the later Ultimate SACD.

The unique bonus track in Ultimate Pictures is the opening of the first movement of "Scheherazade". Tomita apparently never completed the movement or the piece though demo-ed a mix from time to time. What is there does sound very complete, but it's only the opening if one compares it to the symphonic original. It's here on the album as is a not yet explained to me edited half as long version of "A Sea Named Solaris" (Tomita's arrangement of J.S. Bach)

I don't have the Ihatov Blu-Ray yet. It does appear to be a different live performance than the CD
 
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