luketsu
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Hello everybody,
45 years ago (in October 1972) the Welsh conductor Wyn Morris and the New Philharmonia Orchestra went to the studio in London and recorded Mahler's 10th Symphony in its entirely for Philips Classics using the Cooke II version. Due to the highly emotional and passionate reading of the score the total time of the performance took as long as 84 minutes and 53 seconds (including pauses between the movements). As a result of this you will never find more dedicated approach of this version. Personally I cannot listen to the last minutes of the symphony without any tears in my eyes - the sorrowful atmosphere of the performance is so powerful!
However, during the recording sessions the audio engineers (Robert Auger, sound engineer & Gavin Barrett, recording producer) utilized the lifelike results of a 4-track (four-channel) analogue master tape. At the time this technology was in frequent use both among the artist of classical and non-classical music. Hearing music through multiple speakers gave more realistic listening experience compared to the standard 2-channel stereo listening.
Now - after the advent of Super Audio CD - there is at last a disc format which gives us a possibility to release this magnificent recording as it was originally meant to be heard: in compelling and pristine multi-channel sound. Moreover when taking the overburn feature of a (Super Audio) CD into account it is possible to fit the whole performance on a single disc instead of usual two (85 minutes of music).
Up to this day the Dutch classical music record label PENTATONE Music has released almost every quadraphonic recording of Philips Classics on SACD. Like the other releases in this series (Remastered Classics and RQR) this Mahler's 10th has never been released in surround, only in stereo as the remastering engineer Jean-Marie Geijsen explained for us during the short "behind the scenes" video on YouTube. (Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBctVE8qGEs)
I have designed a potential album cover (artwork) to this SACD release (check the attached PDF file, please). I really hope PENTATONE will give us this listening pleasure in the years to come.
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45 years ago (in October 1972) the Welsh conductor Wyn Morris and the New Philharmonia Orchestra went to the studio in London and recorded Mahler's 10th Symphony in its entirely for Philips Classics using the Cooke II version. Due to the highly emotional and passionate reading of the score the total time of the performance took as long as 84 minutes and 53 seconds (including pauses between the movements). As a result of this you will never find more dedicated approach of this version. Personally I cannot listen to the last minutes of the symphony without any tears in my eyes - the sorrowful atmosphere of the performance is so powerful!
However, during the recording sessions the audio engineers (Robert Auger, sound engineer & Gavin Barrett, recording producer) utilized the lifelike results of a 4-track (four-channel) analogue master tape. At the time this technology was in frequent use both among the artist of classical and non-classical music. Hearing music through multiple speakers gave more realistic listening experience compared to the standard 2-channel stereo listening.
Now - after the advent of Super Audio CD - there is at last a disc format which gives us a possibility to release this magnificent recording as it was originally meant to be heard: in compelling and pristine multi-channel sound. Moreover when taking the overburn feature of a (Super Audio) CD into account it is possible to fit the whole performance on a single disc instead of usual two (85 minutes of music).
Up to this day the Dutch classical music record label PENTATONE Music has released almost every quadraphonic recording of Philips Classics on SACD. Like the other releases in this series (Remastered Classics and RQR) this Mahler's 10th has never been released in surround, only in stereo as the remastering engineer Jean-Marie Geijsen explained for us during the short "behind the scenes" video on YouTube. (Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBctVE8qGEs)
I have designed a potential album cover (artwork) to this SACD release (check the attached PDF file, please). I really hope PENTATONE will give us this listening pleasure in the years to come.
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