Richard Strauss Don Quixote and Also sprach Zarathustra

"...both of these performances to some kind of general circulation the company HDTT are to be warmly praised. Technically the transfers are beyond reproach - as fine as any live broadcast tapes from that period that I have heard."
Nick Barnard/Music Web International

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Spainish music of: Chapi · Sandizaga · Gimenez Chueca · Valverde · Luna · Vives · Serrano

"If you love Spanish Classical music rush out and get this one right away, you won't be sorry."
Teresa Goodwin/Positive Feedback Online

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Offenbach: Overtures: La Vie Pariesienne
Orphee Aux Enfers
Monsieur Et Madame Denis
La Belle Helene
La Grande Duchesse
Barbe-Bleue
Delibes: La Source

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Orchestral Favorites Conducted by Hermann Scherchen
Dukas the Sorcerer's Apprentice
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
Saint-Saens Danse Macabre
Falla - the Ritual Fire Dance
Mussorgsky - Night on Bare Mountain

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Prokofiev The Tale of the Stone Flower Op.118 Excerpts

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Ravel Daphnis Et Chloe (1961 Recording)

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Ravel
Piano Concerto in G
Ma mere l'oye (suite)
Bolero

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Ottorino Respighi Music
Feste romane
The Birds/Brazilian Impressions

"All three works are heard in clean and highly-detailed hi-res sonics. If sourcing this material from late-50s pre-recorded tapes to custom-burned CD-Rs and DVD-Rs sounds a bit loose to you, think again. I have the same Technics open reel deck recommended by the expensive new Tape Project and a number of commercial two-track tapes. And although they sound very good, the couple tapes I was able to compare with HDTTs reissues failed to come up to the fidelity level of their discs"
John Sunier/Audiophile Audition

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Richard Strauss Don Quixote

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Richard Strauss
Don Juan
Dance of The Seven Veils From-
Salome-
Till Eulenspiegel

"you'll find an excellent stage depth and a pleasing degree of ambient air and atmosphere. If you were expecting something bright and edgy from Klemperer in this time period, you won't find it here. This is very natural, unforced sound, quite easy on the ear"
Classical Candor

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Rimsky-Korsakov-Antar Composition for symphony orchestra
Ippolitov-Ivanov Caucasian Sketches, suite no. 1 for orchestra
Glière Red Poppy, ballet, Op. 70: Russian Sailor's Dance

Conductor Maurice Abravanel (1903-1995) and the cultural musical life of Utah became synonymous for many years, since the Greek-born maestro led the Utah Symphony from 1947-1979, raising its originally community status to that of international ensemble boasting one of the earliest complete recorded Mahler cycles. Raised in Lausanne, Switzerland in the same house of maestro Ernest Ansermet, Abravanel became a proficient pianist and score reader. In Germany, Abravanel studied with Kurt Weill, whom Abravanel claimed was " a terrible teacher" but who remained a powerful influence. Abravanel's exceptional talents eventually brought him to Tanglewood and to the Cleveland Institute of Music. Abravanel's style consistently communicates intense but sober musicality, clarity, and nobility of line.

Abravanel brings a decidedly dramatic and balletic touch to Rimsky-Korsakov's 1868 (rev. 1875; 1897) Antar Symphony (or Symphonic Suite), given Abravanel's association with George Balanchine in Paris, and Abravanel's innate love of exotic colors. The HDTT remastering allows Rimsky-Korsakov's natural effulgence to soar in a glowing orchestral palette; and the composer himself claimed that in this music he wished to emulate both Beethoven and Berlioz. The Utah winds, brass, and battery achieve spectacular heights in this sensational performance!

No less compelling are Ippolitov-Ivanov's four Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 (1894), based on tunes he collected around the Caucasus Mountains. In a Mountain Pass sings majestically. In a Village opens with a muezzin call and indulges in a sensuous dance for the Utah winds section. In a Mosque likewise effects the muezzin's call to prayer and proceeds in darkly dramatic figures for winds. The final piece is Procession of the Sardar, a Persian military dignitary whose pomp and ceremony Abravanel captures to perfection.

Reinhold Gliere's popular Russian Sailors' Dance from The Red Poppy--Ballet, Op. 70 (1927) achieves a magical sonority under Abravanel, who plays the piece for its exemplary brass and percussion parts, a real tour de force for a virtuoso orchestra!

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Rossini Overtures
William Tell ·
La Cenerentola ·
Semiramide ·
La Gazza Ladr

"Meteors and cosmic dust strew our musical path, and rarely has a blood-thirsty opera sounded so much, dynamically stratified fun!"
-- Gary Lemco Audiophile Audition

"What we get is some of the purest sound around, demonstration material if there ever was any. You want to show off your audio equipment? These Rossini overtures (take your pick, but I'd start with La gazza ladra) will knock your listener's socks off (if that's their idea of a good time). Wonderful music; wonderful renditions of the music; wonderful sound."
Classical Candor

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Rimsky-Korsakoff Scheherazade and Le Coq D'or

 

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Sibelius Tempest Suites 1&2 and Scaramouche (Incidental Music)

  "The Scaramouche music is for chamber orchestra with piano. I’ve long found Milhaud’s Scaramouche Suite for two pianos or sax and piano one of my favorite works of French music.  I thought it was fairly optimistic and celebratory, but the original pantomine concerns a hunchbacked dwarf who has a magical viola which charms a beautiful wife into leaving her husband. The dark and bloody plot is rather different than what I expected. Sibelius’ music is dreamy, devilish and full of decadent rhythms.  The sonics are much more high quality than one would suspect from original 4-track commercial tapes."
John Sunier/Audiophile Audition

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Strauss Waltzes
The Blue Danube
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Voices of Spring
Artists life
Wine, Women and Song

  "Anyway, I wouldn't suggest the Dorati album as an absolute first choice in this material; it's a little too vigorously out of the ordinary to be the only Johann Strauss in one's collection. Yet as a choice to accompany one of the more-conventional recordings listed from the conductors at the top of the article, I highly recommend it."
Classical Candor

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Stravinsky: Jeu de Cartes and Symphony in 3 Movements

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Stravinsky Rite of Spring and Firebird Suite

"This recording is better than it sounds! On first hearing. Especially compared with the more lush and beautiful Firebird. What Monteux and RCA get across in this performance and recording is the crisp, raw passion of the music that is often subdued a little in more refined approaches. It took me two hearings to appreciate how good it is. Instruments are separated so effectively and the acoustic is so dry that it often seems we are listening to a chamber rather than a full orchestra. Even when strings play together, they barely seem to blend. Presence and immediacy are stunning. This is The Rite at its incisively brilliant best. Don't sit too close"
Bob Neill Positive Feedback Online

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Stravinsky Firebird and Petrushka

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Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini and
Hamlet Overture
Serenade for Strings

"Francesca and the Hamlet Overture definitely surpass the excellent Everest CD in all quarters.  The impact of Stokowski's dramatic approach is conveyed to the utmost in Francesca"
John Sunier/Audiophile Audition

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Wagner
Die Meistersinger
Tannhäuser Overture
Parsifal Prelude and
Triston & Isolde Prelude
plus Parsifal rehearsal excerpt

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Music of Wagner
Tannhauser Overture and Venusberg Music
Tristan and Isolde Prelude to Act III
Das Rheingold Entrance of the Gods Into Valhalla

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William Walton: Façade
Charles Alexandre: Lecocq's Mamzelle Angot

Favorite Recordings of 2011 Picked by Classical Candor

"The disc displays an excellent high-end range and extension; strong, deep bass; and exemplary midrange transparency. Additionally, one notices a modest degree of orchestra depth and superb transient response, very quick, with sometimes extraordinary impact. Despite the age of the recording, the sonics are extremely good and easily surpass probably ninety percent of what most record companies make today."
Classical Candor

"A wonderful sounding recording of charmingly beautiful music. The high percussion is amazingly clear, extended, and has lots of impact! The overall sound is beautiful. I like the Royal Opera House Orchestra's performance of Walton's Façade Suite much better than Chicago Pro Musica's on Reference Recordings and I think in most areas this even sounds better than my 180 Gram Classic Records version especially at the frequency extremes"
...At any rate this will replace my LP version as overall I prefer the sonics of the 24/96 DVD, it will always sound as great as it does now, and it is much easier to play. I highly recommend this wonderful recording!"
Teresa Goodwin/Positive Feedback Online

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