Everest LP reissues
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"Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote:
On Dec 20, 3:07*pm, MiNe 109 wrote:
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*Jenn wrote:
Does anyone here have experience with Everest's original recordings or
with the Classic reissues? *I picked up three of them on a very brief
trip to San Francisco this week, but I won't get to hear them until
later today. *The only two recordings from that trip that I've heard so
far are yet another volume of Bach Cantatas by Gardiner/English Baroque
Soloists, which are really fine sounding CDs (not to mention FAB
performances), and a Classic Records LP reissue of Walter doing Brahms
4, originally a Columbia recording. *Mixed results there. *I had
forgotten how good some early Columbia recordings were, before John
McClure made all of those bad sounding Bernstein recordings. *The highs
are kind of dry, but the mids and bass are really good. *The playing is
mixed; the conducting is fantastic.
I think I have a couple of the previous reissues on Vanguard: Goossens
conducting ballet music springs to mind.
I just listened to Goossens and the LSO's "Symphonic Poems" on
Everest. While I liked the recording, I still prefer many other labels
ahead of Everest. I'd put them in the middle on my list. I don't have
any of the Classic reissues though, just originals, and only a dozen
or so.
So far, based only on the Sibelius disk, I would agree. It's good, not
great.
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