Bruno Walter & New York Philharmonic/Columbia Symphony Orchestra – Schubert/Beethoven: Symphonies (1999) [SACD / Sony Classical – SS 06506]

Title: Bruno Walter & New York Philharmonic/Columbia Symphony Orchestra – Schubert/Beethoven: Symphonies (1999)
Genre: Classical
Format: SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Just like the other three Bruno Walter releases in Sony Classical’s current crop of SACD reissues, this classic Beethoven/Schubert coupling benefits from the DSD transfer, which reproduces as faithfully as possible the musical content of the original reel-to-reel master tapes. The reviewers have noted elsewhere, the cost is a small amount of tape hiss, eminently preferable to the so-called “no noise” digital editing which tampers with the musical signal as it tries to remove noise. Here is a transfer which presents the original intentions of the artists in the best possible light, capturing the acoustic signature of the recording venue (American Legion Hall in Hollywood) perfectly — warm, reverberent, yet transparent, ideally matching Bruno Walter’s interpretive idiom.

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Tracklist:

01. New York Philharmonic / Bruno Walter – Schubert: Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”, D. 759: I. Allegro moderato in B minor
02. New York Philharmonic / Bruno Walter – Schubert: Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”, D. 759: II. Andante con moto in E major
03. Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Walter – Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 Op. 67 – I. Allegro con brio
04. Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Walter – Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 Op. 67 – II. Andante con moto
05. Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Walter – Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 Op. 67 – III. Allegro
06. Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Walter – Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 Op. 67 – IV. Allegro

Note:

1-2, Recorded on March 3, 1958 at St. George Hotel, Brooklyn, New York.
3-6, Recorded on January 27 & 30, 1958 at American Legion Hall, California.
First released in 1959 & 1961.

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