@mwinkc thanks. Great post. |
I don't know about my turntables, usually a 1960s 1970s golden age stereo LP such as DECCA, Everest or Mercury, Teldec etc. But I certainly know what's in my CD Player at the moment : Nino Rota "Concertos" CHANDOS (CHAN 9954). I came across Rota outside his film score persona at the Le Suquet Musique Festival in Cannes. It was there on a hot August evening (tickets from the Cannes Film Festival box office) I was captivated by Rota's "Concerto per archi" playful elegant chamber music played to perfection by an ensemble led by Jean-Pierre Rampal. These concertos played by I Virtuoso Italian/Mario Conti are just as dreamy as the string concerto - and, to my ears, much better performed than I'Musici's Philips recording from 1985. The sound quality was f the Chandos CD being based on a 24 Bit SBM transfer to CD is much better than the Philips too with a tangible stereo sound stage. |
