What Classical are you listening to?

[noob0804]

Believe it or not, I discovered only about two years ago the RCA Living Stereo recordings, and I've been buying the SACDs whenever I find them. The artists in this series are the best of their time, and I can't believe that the recording engineers from the 50"s achieved such a great sound with the technology. Why I bother to buy SACDs if I'm unable to tell the difference between them and CDs? what I can tell is that all the SACDs I own were recorded and mastered with incredible care. The CD layer sounds just as good to me.
In any case, I've been listening to:

- Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1957. RCA Living Stereo SACD
- Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3
Berj Zamkochian, organ
Munch, Boston Symphony, 1956.
RCA Living Stereo SACD

- Shostakovich Symphony no. 13, Babi Yar
Jan-hendrik Rootering, bass
Mark Wigglesworth, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, 2006
BIS SACD

- WA Mozart The Three 'Prussian Quartets'
Doric String Quartet, 2021
Chandos CD

 

[TLS Guy]

The Minnesota Orchestra live streamed their Friday night concert last night. It was a wonderful concert and sounded excellent. This time they had a live blog. To my surprise there were people watching from all round the world and every continent. There were even viewers from the UK, and it was the middle of the night there. There were lots of Asian viewers and from all over the US, especially the east coast.

This taught me that the market for high quality sound is from the classical arena and not the pop culture. In our world high audio quality is not optional. So that is were the major push for higher standards and quality has always come from.