Hi Scott, great review and a lot of information. You are teaching me so much about classical. Thank you so much Fabulous You are fantastic Bravo Bravo Bravo

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Aw thanks Joey, glad I am being helpful in choosing some of the greatest records in Classical. This one is a must have.

I'm surprised more people don't get into modding hi fi equipment.. A lot of people get into souping up and fine tuning their cars just to hear it purr a little nicer. With audio equipment modding, you don't get grease all over you, or put yourself in danger of a multiple ton vehicle falling on you. I guess they are too impressed & in awe of the prestigious badge and entry fee of audio equipment that's super hyped. But there's always a down to Earth reason for everything that happens on this planet of ours. Pass Labs or VTL or Krell sound as good as they do, not because of magic or fame, but for down to Earth reasons. It's surprising that more audiophiles don't try to figure it out. What some of these reasons are. The second a mod guy takes off the top cover of the equipment, he can see just how smart or not smart it's laid out. With further inspection he can see all kind of things they could have done better, usually. It's not fun parting with large sums of money, when you can greatly improve your signal integrity yourself. Even speakers. If you buy speakers that cost $1500 a pair, do you think you're getting $300 drivers inside ithem? With the cost of manufacture generally being around 1/5 of what the dealer price is, which is much lower still and often a fraction of the retail price. Do the math. There is the same kind of satisfaction in tuning or improving your stereo as there is in fine tuning an automobile. Only more so. What song whose lyrics mentions souping up cars are these lines from? "Some guys they just give up on living. They start dying little by little piece by piece." Life is short. It's not over till it's over. Look at the world with the wonder of a child to see all you're missing. And realize what a great gift life is. Go for the gusto. Even in these times where all human life could be extinguished by one press of a button by a mad man.

@Ross1966

4 ай бұрын

Well, that is what HiFi/audiophiles did in the 1950s and 1960s. There were kits to build amps, preamps, speakers and cabinets. There was much more DIY audio with that generation in the golden era of HiFi/stereo.

Missed this one somehow. Ill have to give it a listen.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Hi Leon, I think it's an essential if you love the bese two pieces. It's so vivid! I put on the old Telarc the other night and was surprised how distant the perspective was. It was like way back in the hall. The reading can't compare. Reiner's Pictures is a great one too, but this is more fun. You've got to hear it.. thanks for taking a look.

Thanks!

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

that is one I've never owned. in the early 90s I was hounding out record stores, garage sales, etc for RCA Shaded Dogs always looking for my favorites. I came away with some absolutely amazing sounding records, even compared to the best coming out today! How did they do that?! I mean Pink Panther-HS! my favorite was Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D by Jascha Heifetz , which I found several of, and cherish. Chad came out with a reissue which is fantastic. So yeah, I get it. Keep up these great videos.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Hi Dave, your comment reminded me of exactly what I was doing at that time. Hitting every possible place to find cheap records and i'd be hitting the good thrift stores a couple of times a week! That was so much fun for me (but not usually for whoever I was with, because if it was new arrival, i had to look through everything!

I have very good things about "Living Stereo" - @poetryonplastic speaks very well of them. Always nice to see a re-issue gaining some praise. Ryan K Smith is a talented engineer, representing a next generation of sorts from those skilled older generation fellas e.g., Bernie Grundman and Robert Ludwig. Nicely done, Scott. 😎

@rufus_the_cat

Жыл бұрын

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@rachelsghost

Жыл бұрын

LOL Bagheera #culture 😎

This is a truly fascinating video. Thank you.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Although Classical reviews are not my most popular, I love bringing the best to the channel for others to discover. I really enjoyed making this one. Thanks for watching and commenting.

Hi Scott, as always..another really interesting video from you. I really enjoy listening to your explanations of the different pressings. Am from the rock world (as you described) and I have yet to purchase a classical record...when I do it will most probably be one of the AP Living Stereo pressings. Dynamic sound really does it for me. All the best mate 👍🙏

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Hi Steve, I'm so glad you liked it! I really feel this is the perfect vehicle to dip your toe into classical coming from rock music, and this is one of the finest Living Stereo recordings. It would be a spectacular start to your classical journey. Night on Bare Mountain is a good one for the Halloween season - its got a spooky menacing vibe for sure.

Thanks for this video, I’m going to pick the current 33 reissue you highlighted.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Hi, Thanks for watching! I am certain you will love it! Please let me know what you think here in the comments.

Really great video. I love these comparisons of lots of different pressings, especially from someone who knows and loves the music as well as you clearly do. I guess I'm pretty lucky. The only copy I have is the Ryan Smith AP 33. I don't know how it compares to the others, but I freaking LOVE this record - the performance is STUNNING and thrilling and beautiful. I would love a mediocre pressing/mastering of it. But the Ryan Smith on AP version is drop-dead gorgeous. I'm gonna start linking to your videos in the vinyl enthusiast internet forums I belong to. Not sure why I didn't think of this earlier. More people need to watch your channel. Warmly, Ron Kenosha WI

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Hi Ron, I just finished playing the AP 33 a few minutes ago and by the end I couldn't contain the big grin on my face. Rest assured you needed t look any further. I really do prefer this to all prior reissues and possibly even the original. The overall balance and power Ryan chose to portray here is perfection. Im really enjoying doing this series, and I have some interesting choices coming up! I'd really appreciate you sharing the videos when you feel inclined to. I'd love to reach more viewers who may be interested but just aren't aware. Thanks so much for your support Ron, it means a lot to me.

Hi, I have a clean original and all the reissues you mention, except for the Quintessence. I fully agree with your assumptions. I just want to urge people to go out and look for René Leibowitz's superb readings in general and in Readers Digest boxes in particular. One of the handful of greatest conductors of the 20th century. Check out his biography, too.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you on Leibowitz. The work that appears in the Readers Digest boxes is superb in sound and performance. I've only covered one Readers Digest box so far, but His Beethoven cycle will be covered along with Festival of Light Classical, which has an excellent Carmen and Faust, Prince Igor, sorcerers Apprentice and Danse Macabre among others. Thank you so much for your comment. I love hearing others perspectives on these records.

@trifyllos65

Жыл бұрын

Check all the RD boxes with Leibowitz records out. Also the performances directed by Horenstein in there are superb! E.g. the single best Dvorak 9 ever recorded (no mean feat...)!

More classical please, I love it. We have been singing your praises on the Rachel’s Ghost live streams so hopefully we got some more subs 😀

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Hi! Sorry so late to reply, your comment got filtered for some odd reason! Yes, I will be bring up a lot more classical, in fact a new one is up now with the Records To Die For Series! Le Cid Ballet Music in EMI. It's a must have. Thank you so much for your support and for spreading awareness of the channel. Rachel has been great in giving me some attention and who knows? You may see me there one morning on the panel!

@rufus_the_cat

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePressingMatters Michael 45 has the same issue with my comments. I’m. Not sure why it does that hahah.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

@@rufus_the_cat Your input on these records is always welcome. I love having lively discussions in the comments section, and I always respond to every comment. I appreciate others perspectives on things, and the viewers have shared some great information with all of us. Looking forward to your comments in future videos. Oh and if you'd like to see any title covered, please ask me.

The Power Of The Orchestra was the last true non-Dynagroove RCA Living Stereo to my knowledge. You just knew that RCA was going to end their Living Stereo series with a bang. They began it like that too LSC 1806 and LSC 1817 are true masterpieces of the recording art. Never found an LSC 1806 and I've found some other really rare ones 3 times each in my years.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

I like these readings very much and Kenneth Wilkinson did a superb job with the sound. There are moments when you think 'how on earth did they get so much dynamic range on a vinyl record.' It's unbelievably thrilling to hear those powerful climaxes. I do like Reiner's interpretation of Pictures as well. But nothing beats The Power of the Orchestra for sonic thrills!

@sidesup8286

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePressingMatters I have 2 original shaded dog copies. One actually without major signs of ring wear on a black cover which must be rare. The Reiner is the better interpretation I think of the two, but as you say the sonic thrills factor is higher on the other. I also have the Reiner version on SACD which is great sonically. If my memory serves me correct that is a disc that they give you so many additional Reiner tracks, some I'd never heard, and they are so good. Actually there are better interpretive versions than either of those "Pictures" but with sound quality taken into consideration those are nice choices. It seems like the RCAs recorded in England, including Pictures are on the brighter side. Surprising a bit, since most recordings made there make US pressings sound bright. The rock group Emerson Lake and Palmer did a complete version of Pictures in more of a rock style with the organ substituting for much of the orchestral instruments. Have you heard that one?

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

@@sidesup8286 i have heard it (ELP), but not in many years. I'll have to revisit it. I think the Reiner's is the better as well for interpretation of Pictures, but I have lots of versions of it. Muti is a good one sonically as well. I even like the Telarc for what it is. I do It care for the Stokowski. These reviews are focused more on sound and thus I'm not comparing interpretations but picking one that meets both sound and interpretation standards.

@sidesup8286

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePressingMatters I know, and that makes sense considering your thing is called The Pressing Matters. I was just listening to the Living Stereo Gershwin American In Paris/Rhapsody In Blue. The reel tape beats the LP for sound by so much. Of my many LP versions of this music, I have one where there are 2 people (4 hands) playing the notes. Gershwin For Four Hands its called or something. Pictures is often paired with A Night On Bald Mountain, which was more frequently called A Night On Bare Mountain on really old recordings. That music is featured in far more modern settings like movies and commercials than Pictures, and is arguably the more recognized of the two pieces. Although the recurring theme of Pictures is way more hummable.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

@@sidesup8286 i have that reel tape of the Gershwin, but my deck is out of service right now.

I’ve always been disappointed that Classic Records had not reissued this with a Bernie Grundman cut. I’ve not heard the AP though. I have a very nice stereo OG and a Canadian mono pressing.

@ThePressingMatters

4 ай бұрын

I agree. Fortunately the OG is great. I love the AP too. Funny the 45 isn't my go to for this one.

Yo Scott. Good video. We got a little mic action in the frame now, do we… Those VSS dual pocket sleeves are the way to go, good choice!

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Thank you John, Yes my vintage Telefunky Broadcast Mic. Cant wait to crack open a case of VSS with you!

Hey Scott I just recived my copy of this album I order it after watching your video I am always looking for good classical music to add to my collection. Can't wait to give it a listen just need to clean it frist.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Very exciting. Set everything up perfectly and sit in the sweet spot! Let me know! I hope you love it!

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Dave, I'm dying to hear your reaction. You are keeping me in suspense!

@davesans8536

Жыл бұрын

Scott It sounds phenomenal very dynamic when it gets to the low part towards the end of a night on Bear Mountain I was just blown away so moving I don’t have a lot of classical records. Actually I have four and three of them are all the same piece. So this is a great addition. Thanks for your review of it. Otherwise, I would have never thought of picking this up.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Dave, I'm thrilled that you got to experience that powerful performance. Great fun and a good addition to your classical library.

@davesans8536

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePressingMatters I really enjoy it what a proformance it would have been to see live.

A few years ago I did think about getting an analogue production copy of this disc via Germany but despite my love of the gerhardt/KW RCA and Readers digest collaborations I just couldn’t justify the cost as I have so many great versions of Pictures and NOBM. The Maazel Teldec despite being digital is a hoot, Solti’s Night is fab and Muti’s Pictures is legendary. Also despite being Phase 4 Stokowski’s Pictures is well worth a listen too.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

I do hope you get to hear it at some point. I played the Telarc last night and was surprised how distant the perspective is. I've got all the others you mention too. Hopefully you'll find this one at a good price some day. It's become my go to.

@trifyllos65

Жыл бұрын

With all due respect, I know all of the ones you mention and the Leibowitz is much better than all of them both musically and sonically.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

@@trifyllos65 Agree there. I went through all those versions mentioned, as my original idea was to do a comparison of performances. But after hearing them recently in preparation for the video, I realized the Leibowitz truly is on another level and decided to shift the focus to individual pressings of Power instead.

@trifyllos65

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePressingMatters Another amazing one musically is the Ancerl on Supraphon. But sonically it is just OK.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

@@trifyllos65 Good to know! I've always shied away from the label because I had a few disappointments with sound or pressing quality. I will check out his reading though, on your recommendation if I can find it on streaming.

Hey friend, KZread wouldn't let me reply to another one of your videos where I recommended the Empire Strikes Back Suite on vinyl. I've since fallen out of love with that record since comparing it to the Spotify version. I've ordered the Scheherazade AP45 and Witches Brew AP, which I'm sure blow my previous recommendation out of the water. Apologies for that recommendation, I'm still navigating the troubling path of classical on vinyl

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Andrew, that's cool, I have probably heard that Star Wars style music enough where a stream once in a while will do. Now you are going to love the Scheherazade for sure. Side 4 is a thrill ride, but it's all great. Witches Brew is great too, particularly Dance Macabre. You're in for a treat!

@AndrewBell

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePressingMatters the sad reality is that for clinical clarity, classical on digital seems to beat vinyl in most cases as far as I can tell. I think in the Scherezade video, you said it "restored your faith in vinyl". I agree it can be so hard to have faith! I've noticed people have been going crazy for the Royal Ballet Gala LPs from analogue productions. Did you pick that one up? What would you say is your best sounding classical record ever in general? Thanks again for your videos, I'm 32 and was an only child so watching them feels like having a wise older brother who knows what's up!

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

@@AndrewBell I agree that Classical on Digital can be very nice for the quiet distortion free sound, even on vinyl. Many Telarc records are astonishing. I collect those. In the analogue era, there are compromises, but when everything comes together it can be really good. The Scheherazade is a good example. One of the best Living Stereo records, with a superb performance, beautiful mastering and the AP 33 is very quiet. It does not have that clinical quality, but it's so good.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

@@AndrewBell The Royal Ballet Gala is one of the best too. I have a Classic 33 and two different Classic 45s. It's something you definitely should acquire. The APos getting great reviews, I don't doubt it's as good as the Classic if not better.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

One of my best sounding classical records is the EMI Klavier of Massenet's Le Cid Ballet Music. If you get any classical recommendation from me, that would be a great one for sonics, music and performance! I did a video on it you should check out. Massenet: Le Cid Ballet Music - Best Classical Records on Vinyl kzread.info/dash/bejne/ppqXj5ShpZaZoLg.html

It's nice that vinyl people who like great sound have options like that. Where are they gonna find a pristine copy of the original? And I don't think.I even ever seen that Quintessence. I used to buy those sometimes. They sounded a little solid state and squaky, but a pretty nice listen and they were cheap. I remember I had about 10 of them. An Earl Wild, a Tchaikovsky Sym.4 with Monteux, Daphnis & Chloe, before I found originals.. The Cheskys sounded too smoothed over on my system and another guys system who has Spendor speakers and real expensive top of the line B&W speakers. The 1st time I heard the classical Pictures At An Exhibition, I was new to classical music. I think it was the original Reiner pressing. Once I got into classical music more, I heard the Kubelik on Mercury in mono. It was MG 50000, so I guess its was their first classical title. The more I played it, the more I got into the music. My RCA Reiner was not in great condition. Bad condition can make you think like you don't like the music. When I heard an original Power Of The Orchestra, I could hear what all the excitement was about. The clean brass and dynamics in particular impressed me. Just the other day I see that Decca has released a half speed mastered LP of the Kubelik Pictures. In one place the info says it was recorded in 1952, in which case it would be mono. In another place it says it was recorded in 1956, where it could be stereo. The original first Living Stereo LSC 1806 Also Sprach was recorded in November 1954 in stereo, even though stereo lps were several years away yet. Reel tape people had stereo releases before LP people. Although experiments in stereo go back to the 1930s or earlier.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

That Decca reissue of the Mercury Pictures is mono. I've only bought one from that series and it is the Dorati Firebird. It's pretty good, though I prefer the Classic. It's nice that the mono Pictures is available again, after all it is the record from which the term Living Presence was coined. I have an original mono somewhere and also the Golden Import, but that one is "Electrically processed for stereo" Ugh. I have a whole group of those Quintessence - many are focused on Kenneth Wilkinson recordings for RCA or Readers Digest, and many Mohr/Layton productions as well. The RACHMANINOFF ones are good as I mentioned in my review of the Readers Digest set, The Romantic RACHMANINOFF.

@sidesup8286

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePressingMatters Is it really that we want better sound that badly? Or is it something else going on inside? Like for instance when I do a modification, the thought never even seriously occurs to me that if I really like what its does; that's it. That if I really like the sound; I'm done. That never seriously occurs to me at all. I just have to keep pushing the envelope further and further. I'm not done till I'm old and gone. Like some of these old rock stars from the sixties that just keep on going. Maybe all us audiophiles have a subconscious desire to be a rock star, or something like that, and if we can't really be that superstar, we want our audio system and sound quality to be one, to go someplace special. Somewhere out of the ordinary. Some extraordinary place where we've never been before. Maybe a place where nobody has been before. Some kind of ultimate pinnacle. Maybe we need to tell our subconscious that even if we ever do get to the point where in reality we can actually reproduce a rock concert in our living room, it won't be us at the microphone. It will be someone else. From somewhere else and from long ago. It just seems like there's something else; something underneath this overwhelming desire to attain sound glory and some kind of out of this world greatness..Not just wanting great sound, but some strong undercurrent below it. Some experts say what is going on with us in your daily lives is 90% subconscious. I keep modifying and spending my time. While others who don't know how to do what I'm doing, spend their money; lots of it, in big sums on equipment and now records. They really throw a fortune away. And it is getting even more expensive. Way expensive. Out of this world expensive. Maybe someone really wise and realistic should sit us all down and break it to us, to our subconscious and inner being, that we'll never be that rock star. Or aren't we ready to hear that yet? Will we still want to go on doing what we're doing, when our "whole" being realizes it?

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

@@sidesup8286 Wow that's deep! You are on to something there.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

@@sidesup8286 I will say I've decided to divert the money more in the direction of equipment upgrades to a reasonable point, that of diminishing returns, and stay further away from the expensive vinyl for the time being. This whole MOFI One Step thing really caused me to rethink that and while I will cover some of the more noteworthy releases for the channel, I'm skipping most of the one steps and UHQRs and such. The titles are just not that exciting.

@sidesup8286

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePressingMatters Fortunately for me its mostly an investment in my time. Thinking up new ideas to improve the signal integrity, the isolation of the equipment, the acoustics etc. But for most it's big amounts of money. I feel bad for them. At some point, prices really take advantage of people. Exotically priced phono cartridges are the most obvious example. How much expense can there be making a phono cartridge? That was the first tell tale sign that what something is priced at has little to do with what it costs to make. It stated becoming obvious that it's based on how many people out there want better sound bad enough to pay for it. It evolved into what it is today. The idea that people should pay awful big amounts of money for a company's research and development is BS. You're a company, do as much research and development as you want, but you pay for it. Audiophiles don't ask equipment companies to pay for their electric bill each month. Its crazy. With my experience in modding, I kind of know if a creative idea will work before I even try it, and I'm almost always right. The more experience, the better your predictability, by far. I'm almost never wrong on it. I just don't know to what degree it will improve things. I guess the thing that keeps the wheel spinning is that the improvements never stop; they keep coming without any end in sight. That's what's exciting. I used to do a numerical thing to estimate just where I'm at with my modified less expensive stuff compared to the sound quality of the real expensive stuff I've listened to at length. I'll write about that some day.

The best selling classical music piece of all time is supposed to be Vivaldi: The Four Seasons according to what's considered good sources. I have only found the 4 seasons LSC once; which probably makes it a rare record.Yet I can't imagine it being a better seller than something like Tchaikovskys Nutcracker, based on how many used cds and lps you see of that. Beethoven Symphony 9 is supposed to be the second best selling classical pieces of all time and that's a little hard to fathom also. Based on my knowledge of The Living Stereo catalog and what comes to mind right now, I've listed below Living Stereo titles that 2 totally different performances were released as Living Stereo records. I'm sure there are some I can't think of right now. Scott, can you add to my list below? Strauss: Also Sprach... Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne Tchaikovsky:The Nutcracker Brahms: Piano Concerto 2 Rimsky Korsakoff: Scheherazade Pictures At An Exhibition Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3 Any others?...

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Daphnis and Chloe was done twice, Symphonies Fantastique also with Charles Munch both times.

@sidesup8286

Жыл бұрын

You know your RCA. I thought there was 2 Daphnis, and Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique, LSC1900 which was listed in their catalog, to the best of my knowledge the original LP has never been seen; the "re-release" by Classic Records or whoever, could have actually been the "original release" in stereo. Some well known collector from Now York was offering a $35,000 reward for an original LSC 1900, since none were known to exist. There also were a few cover changes with they shaded dog RCA LPs, but the same performance. There was a Rubinstein LSC cover of him sitting at the piano in a field, and another cover of the same record with him inside and close up at the piano. Also the titles Overture Overture and Gilbert & Sullivan Overtures had their covers changed and spruced up. There could be others that I don't know or can't think of right now. Mercury Living Presence had more creative covers, and many think they had clearer sound, but they had a hi-fi sounding peak because of the cutter head they were using. The Mercury factory recorded reel tapes show that this peak was not on the master tape. HP, the TAS editor for years considered the Mercury Living Presence SR 90000 series as the best sound ever afforded classical music. The rarer Mercury SR titles were rarer than the bigger label RCA LSC hardest to find titles. Some of the Mercury conductors took to writing their own symphonies and Mercury recorded and released their works as Living Presence titles. Do you know what conductors held in their hand to conduct their orchestra before conductors batons/wands came into use?

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

@@sidesup8286 i have both versions of the covers that were changed. I was really lucky to scoop up so many at the time I was collecting these. Another one with a cover change was the Van Cliburn LSC 2601, the Rachmaninoff Piano Cto 2, which went from a color painting of Rachmaninoff to a black and white image of Van Cliburn. There's a few others I can't think of now. Fascinating stuff!. I do not know the answer to your question. Chopsticks? Lol!

@sidesup8286

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePressingMatters I found a few German pressings of LSC titles. Same number, same cover pic as the U.S pressings, but that's where the similarities end. No dog on the label and no shaded dog sound. Bad pressings compared to the U.S. The German collectors knew it too. Not a sign of that glorious sweet, pure transparent string sound like on the US pressings. They were willing to pay 2 and 3 times as much as US collectors on many titles, many say. The actual front cover of the German LSC records were glossy like U.K. pressings. One of my favorite Living Stereos was Venice; not to be confused with another one called Vienna. Venice was so dynamic and well recorded. All things considered I enjoyed it as much or more than Power Of... With Georg Solti conducting music by Italian composers. RCA knew it was a special recording and you can tell by the the elaborate fanciful cover and many page booklet that came with it. The fancy album cover with booklet was later compromised; no gatefold, no lattice cut-out, no booklet. Very long ago, before any of us were born, conductors routinely conducted their symphony orchestra with..........a violin bow in hand.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

@@sidesup8286 yes! Venice is a favorite of mine too. Very elaborate jacket and great sound. I remembered another cover change. I think it's the Brahms Violin Cto. Went from an old style illustration of Brahms to a green cover with a photo of Heifetz. I think Fiedler's Holiday for Strings had a change too, but I only have one version. Did you know one Living Stereo album actually came with a baton?

Thanks!

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Scott, glad you liked it!

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Scott. Please let me know any Living Stereo titles you'd like to see a review of. I'd be happy to cover them in future videos.

@scottroesinger4666

Жыл бұрын

I am new to classical music and know very little about it. Just picked up a couple of vinyl albums based on your reviews. Classic Rock and 50’s/60’s Jazz makes up the majority of my collection.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

@@scottroesinger4666 Thats so great, Scott. I'm glad my journey with classical can help guide you. I am approaching the classical series with the beginner in mind. I'm focusing on the most desirable labels in terms of sound and performance, from the golden age of classical recording. That coincides with the dawn of stereo, around 1958 and moving forward into the early 80's. Labels such as RCA, Decca/London, and EMI will form a larger share of the offerings but not to the exclusion of other worthy releases. I'm also considering the most accessible Music to start out with, particularly for those coming from rock or jazz background. You'll have to let me know how you like what you've chosen to get. I'd love to have a continuing dialog with you as we go through the series.

@ThePressingMatters

Жыл бұрын

Hi Scott! There's a great classical record I'm covering tonight at 8pm. I think you'll definitely want to take a look at it!