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Title: Mahler Recordings That Should Be Remastered to DSD/SACD
Post by: waderice on February 11, 2011, 07:28:14 PM

I'd like to launch a new topic by getting opinions from board members as to what good-sounding Mahler recordings they think ought to be remastered to Direct Stream Digital (DSD) and released on SACD.  Choices need not be originally digital-recorded.  Here is my short list of the symphonies and DLvdE:

M1 - Walter/Col. Sym. and Horenstein/LSO
M2 - Kaplan/LSO and Solti/LSO
M3 - Horenstein/LSO
M4 - My two choices for this have already been released on DSD/SACD:  Reiner/CSO and Bernstein Sony NYPO.  Others?
M5 - Solti/CSO
M6 - Solti/CSO
M7 - Solti/CSO
M8 - Solti/CSO and Horenstein/LSO
M9 - Walter/Col. Sym.
M10 - No choice.  Anyone have one?
DLvdE - Haitink/Concertgebouw

Wade

P.S. - I neglected to add the song cycles:

DkW - Szelll/LSO
LefG - Walter/Col Sym.

Title: Re: Mahler Recordings That Should Be Remastered to DSD/SACD
Post by: James Meckley on February 11, 2011, 07:51:38 PM

I'd like to see the Edo de Waart/Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Mahler set (symphonies 1–9) DSD remastered and rereleased, even just on red book CD. It would make a great candidate for the same RCA-Sony budget series that recently revived the James Levine semi-set.

James

Title: Re: Mahler Recordings That Should Be Remastered to DSD/SACD
Post by: John Kim on February 11, 2011, 08:04:49 PM

This is a good topic.

Let's see,

M1 - Solti/LSO
M2 - Mehta/VPO, Klemperer/NPO (but we know EMI will NEVER produce SACDs >:(), Solti/LSO
M3 - Haitink/RCO, Mehta/LAPO, Horenstein/LSO
M4 - Previn/PSO, Kletzki/PO
M5 - Solti/CSO
M5, M6, M9 - Barbirolli/PO, BPO
M7 - Haitink/RCO
M8 - Solti/CSO
M9 - Haitink/RCO, Solti/LSO, Karajan/BPO (I and II)
DLVDE - Ormandy/PO (how about this one?)

Plus,

the entire Levine set.

John,

Title: Re: Mahler Recordings That Should Be Remastered to DSD/SACD
Post by: barry guerrero on February 12, 2011, 12:01:45 AM

None. It's totally stupid and meaningless, at least on my equipment.

Title: Re: Mahler Recordings That Should Be Remastered to DSD/SACD
Post by: Roland Flessner on February 13, 2011, 06:06:14 AM

I'd exclude most of the Solti recordings. As a Chicagoan, it pains me to say it, but Solti had no sense of counterpoint and that is a fatal defect in Mahler.

That said, M7 is a very good performance until the finale, when the wheels fall off the bus. The orchestra plays like gods but Solti just did not know what to do with this music.

By the way, this fine-sounding recording was captured at the Foellinger Great Hall of the Krannert Center at the U of I in Urbana. Vastly superior acoustics to Orchestra Hall.

Title: Re: Mahler Recordings That Should Be Remastered to DSD/SACD
Post by: John Kim on February 13, 2011, 06:41:45 AM

Quote from: rf318 on February 13, 2011, 06:06:14 AM

I'd exclude most of the Solti recordings. As a Chicagoan, it pains me to say it, but Solti had no sense of counterpoint and that is a fatal defect in Mahler.

Agreed. That's why I put most of his LSO recordings, not the Chicago ones. Exceptions are the M5th and M8th which I still think are terrific.