6 Sealed Top Quality Import Heavy Vinyl Classical Reissues LPs + Bonus Disc
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$ 130
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Jun 26, 2012
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Factory Sealed
This is a Factory Sealed Speaker's Corner 180 gram LP. Other than some very light corner crushing due to the tight shrink, this record is in IMMACULATE condition!
Factory Sealed Decca 180 gram LP.
One of the best of the Deccas. I raved about this one years ago when it came out. If I had to pick a record to demonstrate how wonderful Decca recordings are, musically and sonically, this would be an easy choice.
Factory Sealed
Factory Sealed 180 gram import pressing.
This is one of the All Time Great London recordings. The performance by Ansermet is definitive, IMHO, and the recording itself ranks in the Top Ten Decca/ Londons I've ever heard -- if you have the right pressing.
The second symphony is a work that audiophiles should love. It has many qualities shared with Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, which you will recognize. It also has some lovely passages that remind me of the Tale of The Tsar Saltan, another work by the same composer. If you like that exotic and colorfully orchestrated symphonic sound, you will love this album.
Factory Sealed Decca 180 gram LP.
Decca's release of this fabulous title offers the kind of sound and music few modern classical recordings can hope to emulate.
Pablo de Sarasate was one of the great nineteenth century violin virtuoso-composers of whom Paganini was the archetype and Fritz Kreisler the last surviving representative. Without exception, therefore, all the many pieces written and arranged by Sarasate are virtuoso fiddler’s music, designed expressly to show off his own commanding skill. They are in the nature of effervescent trifles conceived in terms of spectacular violin technique and intended to be thrown off with faultless polish and panache. However, despite the difficulties, Sarasate was a consummate musician thoroughly versed in the classics, and his own compositions are imaginatively contrived to give genuine musical as well as performing satisfaction. In the realm of virtuoso violin music his name stood during his lifetime and remains today on the highest plane of achievement.
Much of his music has a Spanish flavour—the four books of Spanish dances exploit the rhythms and idioms of Sarasate’s native country and add to them on imaginative use of advanced violin technique.
The Havanaise is based upon the rhythm of the Habanera, the themes languid and intense except for some legitimate passages of virtuoso writing. There is a brilliant coda in which the violinist disports himself in bravura over an insistent bass Habanera rhythm. The piece ends very softly, a feature that is as welcome as it is unusual in virtuoso music.
Both this and the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso are typical products of their composer. To modern ears his music sounds easy to assimilate, and yet in his time (as is often the case) it was found revolutionary. The Danse Macabre was hissed at its first performance [!]... However, the sweetness and clarity of his musical thought have always endeared him to the public.
From the liner notes
Rimsky-Korsakov / The Tale of Tsar Saltan - Ansermet
Mint Review Copy
Minty Decca 180 gram LP.
Performed by L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande under the direction of Ernest Ansermet. This performance also includes ''May Night'' and ''Russian Easter Festival''.
Factory Sealed
Factory Sealed!
Excellent, one of the best of the Deccas. Better sound by far than the Classic with Reiner, although of course the original of that record is superb (for $500+ it ought to be!). You may get better results if you reverse your absolute phase when playing this record. It's been a while since I did it so better to check it yourself and see how you like it each way.
Speakers Corner 180g Mint Review Copy. It’s our favorite performance of Peer Gynt here at Better Records. The definitive interpretation of Grieg’s masterpiece -- with very good sound courtesy of Decca’s engineering staff -- is here achieved by Oiven Fjeldstad conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.
This record is handy for VTA setup as well...
The sound is excellent for a modern reissue, but in the loudest sections the orchestra can get to be a bit much, taking on a slightly harsh quality. (The quieter passages are superb: sweet and spacious.)
So I adjusted the VTA a bit to see what would happen, and was a bit shocked that the slightest change in VTA caused the strings to get smeary and lose all their texture. This is precisely why this is a good heavy vinyl recording for setting up your turntable. If you can get the strings to play right on this record you probably have your VTA set correctly. NOTE ON PACKING AND SHIPPING You will never receive the records from us packed in a flimsy cardboard mailer. We use HEAVY DUTY oversized cardboard boxes with cardboard protectors sandwiching the record and plenty of bubble wrap all around. After more than twenty years in the record business one thing we know is how to pack records properly, so rest assured the package will arrive at your door safe and sound.
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