Low Cost Audiophile Classical Records...SLEEPERS
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2024
- Audiophile classical on a budget. Lets dive into some financially accessible vinyl records that cost next to nothing.
Show Notes:
Pressing Matters: Collecting Classical Records - The Readers Digest Classical Box Sets
• Collecting Classical R...
Analog Planet: WHICH BEETHOVEN?
• WHICH BEETHOVEN?
Piano Concerto in B Minor, Op. 89: I. Allegro moderato
• Piano Concerto in B Mi...
Right on the mark! The later MHS pressings are on my list to die for! It's funny but many of the chamber works covered here are also real gems of music that most overlook.
Keep up the good reviews. I look forward to them.
@samuelbruce1425 That is great to hear! I'm so happy that there is more Boccherini that I have yet to discover. everything I hear from him, I love.
Great video. If you see the box sets of Gershwin and Ravel complete orchestral music, grab those .. Excellent!!
@johnkreutz3207 I have the Gershwin (orch+piano) and Liszt Piano sets. I have been neglecting the Gershwin set for no reason at all. I just put it on, it sounds fantastic, very clean and quiet with a really nice sound stage...10min later...WOW Excellent indeed!! I should have put this in the video, I can't remember though how much it cost, a bit more I think. I would love to have the Ravel Set.
Thanks for the video. MHS especially the late ones are a great value. Library sales can be a good place to buy a bag full of MHS Readers Digest for a dollar a bag on the last day. I have some VOX box sets in quadraphonic (as well as others). The sound and dynamics are superb and encoded in QS. QS quad can be decoded with modern dolby surround. The quad in these recoding is the best implementation of quad for classical I have heard so far. Fremer has an old interview on analog planet with Marc Aubort who did a lot of vox,vanguard and nonesuch recordings. Thanks for not being a disc snob. Most of my top classical LPs are $1.
P.S. It would be extremely interesting to get a hold of these long forgotten engineers.
@TrueStereo-
Absolutely, I have been tucking away almost any Vox Quadraphonic I come across in the hopes of one day setting up a quad system. It is amazing how many are still in mint shape after all these years. Marc Aubort sadly passed away last year. He was legendary. I will check for that interview with Fremer sounds interesting. I have not had a lot of luck with library sales, the ones I come across across are coated with that hard PVC? plastic and fairly beat up. I will keep an eye out though.
@@VinylBliss Yes, the VOX sets are usually in good shape and can be found often unopened in shrink wrap. The quad releases were some of the last in the mid 80s. I find the Slatkin/St. Louis Symphony QS to be the best.
@@TrueStereo- Thank you for that. Yes I just rediscovered a VOX Gershwin Slatkin/St.Louis box set I have and it sounds quite excellent. Something about the St.Loius recording hall I think might be special.
Thanks for the great video and suggestions! I hope for more of these videos in the future.
Thank you for checking it out, I will try to make more.
Thanks for another fun informative journey through these neglected labels. It’s great to hear a more about Vox but I don’t think any MHS made it over to the UK. I agree about Hummel being wonderful and would recommend keeping an eye out for the Melos Ensemble’s Hummel Septet D minor / Quintet E flat on LOiseau Lyre which has glorious mid sixties Decca sound, wonderful performance and usually very cheap. Most of the ASMIF on Dutch Decca vinyl sounds great but the quality control was a bit iffy at times. In the UK it is fairly easy to pick up their Argo recordings on earlier English pressings with the major bonus that the legendary Ted Burkett mastered all of them around that time but the Dutch pressings despite being wafer thin are awesome value.
@analogueanorak1904 Thank you for that recommendation. After researching I do not think I have ever seen that Hummel disc. Those mid sixties L'Oiseau Lyre seem to be very rare over here. I seem to come across the more recent purple label (often in mint condition). It is a shame about the MHS not making over the pond but I suppose you guys got the UK pressed World Record Club editions which I hear can be very good.
Yes the WRC can be wonderful but do tend to have a high noise floor. As far as my latest project there is going to be a further delay, I’m going to have to reshoot as the striped shirt I chose to wear is producing weird psychedelic effects which would be fine if I was doing a Velvet Underground review but not particularly appropriate for Julian Bream!
@@analogueanorak1904 Oh my, that is a shame. Before you re shoot possibly make sure you are viewing the video at an increment of %100, %50 or %25, I have found in photos that the moire effect is sometimes alleviated when viewing at full or half ratio. Either way, no rush at all the viewers can wait. It sounds interesting!!
Thank you! 👌🏼
Looks like you have a later Dutch repress of the Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik on Argo. The earlier original British pressing to my ears is better,. As a general rule the Dutch repressings of the London/Decca and Argo records (which started when Polygram bought Decca around the 1979-80 period) are inferior to the earlier British pressings done in New Malden. You can tell the Dutch pressings which say Made in Holland and have a raised rounded ring around the outer part of the label. The MHS Hummel piano concertos come from Chandos (according to the back cover you show). Stephen Hough (pronounced Huff), is also a MacArthur fellow.
@larrytoy4235 Thank you for that, I will have to list those corrections in the next episode. I did not notice the Dutch pressing at all, I just assumed it was a UK pressing. Yes I find the Dutch Decca pressings to have a bit less bass but also be very quiet and detailed, they seem to really sing with female operatic performances but yeah for full on orchestral they don't seem to carry the weight. I have a Solti Mahler 2 on Dutch pressing and although very detailed and nuanced sometimes it lacks that ooomph that I expect from Solti.
Hi Larry, am I right in thinking you are Larry AKA Astrotoy from audio nirvana forum?
Love MHS. Thin on the ground here in Europe, though.
That is a shame, they are special especially the dark green labeled ones. The plus side is you might have access to more quality World Record Club pressings which are sparse of here :)