Moussorgsky & Ravel - Pictures At An Exhibition - Fritz Reiner (1LP, 33 tours, 200g)
Composed by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Orchestrated by Maurice Ravel
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Fritz Reiner
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 200g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Quality Record Pressings
Label : Analogue Productions
Original Label : RCA Victor Red Seal
Recorded in 1957 at Chicago's Orchestra Hall
Engineered by Sergio Marcotulli
Remastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound
Originally released in 1958
Reissued in 2013
Tracks :
Side A:
- Promenade
- Gnomus
- Promenade
- Il Vecchio Castello
- Promenade
- Tuileries
- Bydlo
- Promenade
- Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells
- Samuel Goldenburg und Schmuyle
Side B:
- The Market Place at Limoges
- Catacombae, Sepulchrum Romanum
- Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua
- The Hut on Fowl's Legs
- The Great Gate of Kiev
Awards:
TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Classical
2015 Stereophile Magazine Record to Die For!
Winner of a Gruvy Award, chosen by AnalogPlanet's editor, Michael Fremer, for vinyl records that are musically and sonically outstanding and are also well mastered and pressed.
Reviews :
"The interpretation is lively, refined, and subtle, but bombastic when it needs to be. At times, Reiner could make the CSO swing. I hear wider dynamic contrasts, sense of drama, deeper bass, and more clearly delineated room sound... When I spun them [Analogue Productions RCA Living Stereo 200g LP reissues], I was floored. After comparing them to early shaded-dog pressings of the same recordings, I felt the only area in which the originals were still superior was the subtle, additional layer of air and sparkle in the highs (master-tape age, perhaps?). But the reissues' quality and extension of bass and high-level dynamic contrasts were superior. And the surfaces of the new pressings are so quiet they let each subtle midrange detail emerge from a "black" background. At times, the background is so silent I have to do a double take to verify that the needle is still in the groove and the platter is still turning." - Robert J. Reina, 2015 Stereophile Magazine
"Once again, as good as I've heard this record sound. Gorgeous strings, superb bass, avalanche dynamics with that same tape-like ease, sensational inner detail. The authority of the CSO is really something on fortissimo tuttis, of which there are many in Pictures." Jonathan Valin, The Absolute Sound.com, June 11, 2013.
AllMusic :
Discogs : 4.56 / 5 , The Absolute Sound : Grade: A+