RCA Living Stereo Mastered for SACD

[HD Library]

This series has been kicking around audiophile circles for a long time and is well renowned for their tube mastering at the time providing nice warm tones through out.


Living Stereo Hybrid SACD Reissue Series
Release Date: September 14
Newly remastered in DSD (Direct Stream Digital) from original source tape by the Grammy award winning Soundmirror engineering team headed by John Newton.

Plays back on both SACD and standard CD players.

Legendary performances from RCA Red Seal's greatest artists including Arthur Rubenstein, Van Cliburn, Jascha Heifetz, Leontyne Price, Fritz Reiner, Charles Munch and more.

Original cover art updated with a contemporary new look.

Packaged in a "super" jewel box - the new industry standard for classical SACD releases.

Includes original liner notes as well as a brochure explaining the SACD technology and listening experience.

Living Stereo recordings were made with only two or three microphones, which represented the best recording techniques of that era. Today, with the advent of SACD and multi-channel sound, the listener can hear the left, center, and right channels exactly as the recording engineers heard them at the original recording sessions. When remastering the original recordings, John Newton and his engineering team used only three of the available six channels (or two when the original recording was two-track) on the SACD disc because that was the vision of the original producers. What you hear are faithful copies of these historic performances. No signal processing was used to "improve" these extraordinary tapes.


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RCA Classics SACD Set #1
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Saint Saens: Symphony No.3 ''Organ'/Charles Munch'
Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloe/Charles Munch
R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra/Fritz Reiner
Bartok: Concerto For Orchestra/Fritz Reiner
Beethoven: Violin Concerto In D/ Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor/Jascha Heifetz,violin/Charles Munch
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1/ Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2/Fritz Reiner
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition & Other Russian Showpieces/Fritz Reiner
Verdi & Puccini Arias/Leontyne Price
Chopin: Ballades/Arthur Rubinstein
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 ''Pathetique''/Pierre Monteux

RCA Classics SACD Set #2
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Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue/Concerto In F/American in Paris/Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops Orchestra
Offenbach: Orch. Rosenthal/Gaite Parisienne/Rossini-Respighi: La Boutique Fantastique/Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops Orchestra
Morton Gould & His Orchestra - Brass & Percussion
Jascha Heifetz - Sibelius/Prokofiev/Glazunov Violin Concertos
Berlioz: Requiem/Charles Munch/BSO (two discs)
Ravel: Bolero/La Valse/Rapsodie Espagnole/Debussy: Images/Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony
Dvorak: & Walton/Cello Concertos/Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony
Dvorak: New World Symphony/Carnival Overture/Smetana/Bartered Bride Overture/Fritz Reiner/CSO
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade/Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale/Fritz Reiner/CSO
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1/Arthur Rubinstein/Fritz Reiner

RCA Classics SACD Set #3
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Van Cliburn - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3/ Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops Orchestra - Hi-Fi Fiedler
Jascha Heifetz - Brahms & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos
Pierre Monteux - Franck: Symphony in D minor/ Stravinsky: Petrouchka
Charles Munch - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
Fritz Reiner - Strauss: Scenes from Elektra & Salome
Fritz Reiner - Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Arthur Rubinstein - Chopin: Piano Concertos
Leopold Stokowski - Rhapsodies
Anna Moffo - Opera Arias