Featured in Kalman Rubinson's Music in the Round in the March 2005 issue of Stereophile!
Enchantment awaits within! A magic carpet of Living Stereo sound conveys us to mythic Arabia and China, guided by two of Russia's greatest orchestral masters. A disc supple and sensuous performances, its clarity and definition improved by the new DSD remastering.
Newly remastered in DSD (Direct Stream Digital) from the original source tape by the award winning Soundmirror engineering team headed by John Newton. Living Stereo recordings were made with only two or three microphones, which represented the best recording techniques of that era. Today, with the advent of SACD and multi-channel sound, the listener can hear left, center and right channels exactly as the recording engineers heard them a the original recording sessions.
Features:
• Super Audio CD
• SACD 3.0 Multi-Channel SACD Layer
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
Musicians:
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Selections:
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Scheherazade
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Song Of The Nightingale