Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Golden Cockerel" - suite
I: King Dodon in his Palace ~ II: King Dodon on the Battlefield ~ III: King Dodon with Queen Chimaka ~ IV: Marriage Feast & Lamentable End of King Dodon
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Capriccio Espagnol", op.34
I: Alborada ~ II: Variazioni ~ III: Alborada ~ IV: Scena e canto gitano ~ V: Fandango asturiano
2 files zip 16/44 FLAC Mega Download 2 files zip 24/48 XR FLAC Mega Download
Suisse Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet
Decca ACL 43 (LXT 2769) 1959 pressing/matrices: ARL1421 -1DR / ARL1422 -1DR). Recorded: c.October 1952 - Victoria Hall, Geneva
The 2008 'Eloquence' CD of 'Coq d'Or' apparently sounds 'defective': from the 1970 Decca Eclipse (ECS 543) 'Electronic Stereo' copy tape. Slight re-edits Dec.2020
I'll check - as saw a '99%' reading - which should've been 100% for zipped FLAC's..,,but as I get very few comments.......
ReplyDeleteThe above isn't the best 'demonstration' for 24/96 (even amongst Ansermet/SRO - early recordings) but as Foobar only seems to go to 22kHz I don't exactly know what sort of extension they will provide (in terms of harmonics) - and these matrices weren't ideally free of small 'blips'.
Haven't checked the downloads (the RVW 9/Sargent got quite a lot) but I've a 400MB limit on uploads - and so not sure 24/96 can be used for mucho stereo - though overtures are OK (may do 'Overtures in HiFi' - Paris/Wolff - one of the first SXL Decca's)..
Oh - i had completely missed that RVW upgrade, nice! And i see you have an exchange there with mr. P* also...
DeleteAnd i'll have to figure a way to properly listen to these played thru the computer SC on big speakers. Many thanks for this problem ;)
Sorry - i didn't mean converted to FLAC (should have been clearer) but conversion of the bitrate; either of the files wasn't fully converted to 16/44 - it was either 16/96 or 24/44, or something like that.
DeleteJust checked it and the culprit was 'Coq d'Or' - it's 16/96. Since no comments, maybe no one cares or even listens, but it might cause problems to someone who does.
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