Steve writes of the Munch Berlioz Requiem:
>Which one? He recorded it twice: once for RCA, once for DG. The
>DG (Munch's later recording) is fine, but pales (as does every other
>recording) to Munch's first effort. The RCA is hands-down my favorite
>performance of that work. Everything it should be -- wild, wooly, and
>with the scent of limelight and greasepaint. Terrific.
Great news. It's the RCA. Those of us into SACD are very lucky that
BMG is going thru the vaults and re-mastering many of the legendary RCA
Living Stereo recordings of the '50's and '60's. Each SACD contains
material from *two* original Lp's, and--of course--will play on a regular
CD player, (don't see the point of this), and 2 channel SACD stereo with
an SACD player hooked up, or 3 channel SACD, (as many were recorded),
on a multi-channel system, with the SACD player set to multi-channel.
These SACDs are also selling from $7.99 to $12.99. They're absolute
magic, even on my $200 SACD player, and *unquestionably* more seductive,
liquid, and warm than regular CD, even regular CD on a $3000 CD player.
John Smyth
Sac, CA
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