I have noticed recently
that the Czech company, Supraphon, now has excellent recording
quality. I have also noticed that Praga Digitals, another Czech
company, does some very high quality transfer and restoration work.
The latest evidence of this is Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting the
Leningrad Philharmonic in 1961 (live recording) of Shostakovich's 8th
Symphony. Only the somewhat recessed major climaxes reveal the age
and limitations of the recording. Magnificent!
And is it my
imagination, or have the orchestral strings of the Berlin
Philharmonic under Furtwängler and the Leningrad Philharmonic under
Mravinsky not been equalled since? I certainly basked in the
Leningraders in this performance.
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