I note that the 1978 Musikvrein, Grosser Saal audio recording has been issued in a Blu-ray Audio + 2CDs remastering. I know there are one or two Lennie aficionados here, and wondered whether any had heard this transfer and could comment on it. I have the Beethoven Edition "Original Image Bit Processing" discs which came boxed with JEG's Leonore. Is the new transfer a significant improvement on these. Just ordered the DVD video from 1978 too. Should I throw more money at the Blu-ray Audio or not?
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I'd be interested to know too. I only have an older CD set of this performance. Speaking for myself, I think it's one of Bernstein's finest Beethoven recordings. The DVD recorded in the Staatsoper is pretty stunning.Originally posted by Bryn View Post -
I haven't listened to the Fidelio in the big box set yet of his Beethoven on DG. Looking forward to that.Don’t cry for me
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I've just bought a cheap - used - copy from La Chaumière so will report in due course. My experience of the Universal Blu-ray Audio reissues (Karajan's Strauss, Takacs's Beethoven, Böhm's Bruckner 4th, Kertesz's Dvorak et al) is that, even in 2-channel format, the sound is an improvement over the CD/SACD issues which I have heard of the same performances. But the "scrubbing-up" which takes place takes no prisoners in relation to any shortcomings - playing- or recording-wise - in the originals.Originally posted by Bryn View PostComment
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