Product Description
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ESOTERIC ESSD-90259 – KORSAKOV / MUSSORGSKY: SCHEHERAZADE / PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
Genre: Orchestral music
Rainer Küchl, Solo Violin
Wiener Philharmoniker
Conducted by André Previn
Classical masterpiece collection
The reissue of classical music masterpieces by ESOTERIC has attracted a lot of attention, both for its uncompromising commitment to recreating the original master sound, and for using hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) technology to improve sound quality. This series marks the first hybrid SACD release of historical recording selections that have been mainstays of the catalog since
their initial release.
These new audio versions feature ESOTERIC’s proprietary re-mastering process to achieve the highest level of sound quality.
Experience by yourself…
Experience the legendary performance in this new Super Audio CD/CD format. Not only for new followers, but also for well experienced followers of these recorded materials. All will be equally impressed by the “soul” hidden within the notes, but never before found in previously released recordings in any format.
ESOTERIC equipment used for re-mastering
The criterion of re-mastering is to faithfully capture the quality of the original master. ESOTERIC’s flag ship D/A converters, model D-01VU, Rubidium master clock generator model G-0Rb and ESOTERIC MEXCEL interconnect cables and power cords, were all used for this re-mastering session. This combination of
highly advanced technology greatly contributed to capturing the high quality sound of the original master.
Track List
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
»Scheherazade«, Op. 35
Symphonic suite after “A Thousand and One Nights”
- The Sea and Sindbad’s Ship
- The Story of the Calender Prince
- The Young Prince and the Young Princess
- Festival at Baghdad – The Sea –
The ship goes to pieces against a rock surmounted by a bronze warrior (The Shipwreck)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
»Pictures at an Exhibition«
(Orchestration: Maurice Ravel)
- Promenade
- Gnomus
- Promenade
- Il vecchio castello
- Promenade
- Tuileries
- Bydlo
- Promenade
- Ballet of the chickens in their shells
- Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
- The market-place at Limoges
- Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum)
- Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
- The hut on fowl’s legs (Baba Yaga)
- The great gate at Kiev
Rainer Küchl, Solo Violin (Scheherazade)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Conducted by André Previn
Original Recording
10-11 December 1981 (Scheherazade)
20 April 1985 (Pictures at an Exhibition, Live recording)
Musikvereinssaal, Wien
Re-mastering
Producer: Motoaki Ohmachi (ESOTERIC COMPANY)
Mastering Engineer: Masaya Higashino (ESOTERIC COMPANY)
Technical Engineer: Tetsuya Kato (ESOTERIC COMPANY)