Fritz Reiner & Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Reiner Sound

TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Collections
RCA Living Stereo 180 Gram Vinyl!
Remastered and Cut at 33 1/3 rpm by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound!
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings & Plated by Gary Salstrom!
RCA Living Stereo classical LPs - the gold standard for top quality orchestral performance and sound!
"The Reiner Sound" is an excellent introduction for all those who want to get to know Fritz Reiner's work. The recording was made on November 3, 1956 and March 2 and April 13, 1957. Together with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Hungarian-born conductor produces a clear, balanced, rhythmically precise, metrically controlled sound at the highest musical level. In doing so, he holds back as far as possible with his personal rhetoric and lets the compositions of Ravel and Rachmaninoff speak for themselves.
Rachmaninoff's "Isle Of The Dead" is an overwhelming orchestral spectacle with a beguiling dynamic range. Ravel's "Rhapsody Espagnole" is a similarly stirring experience, glamorous and painted in all conceivable acoustic colors.
Yet another giant of the Living Stereo series. The Isle Of The Dead is a truly awesome orchestral spectacular with dynamic peaks that will stun most listeners. Also included is the equally stirring version of Rhapsodie Espagnole.

Features:

• 180g Vinyl
• 33 1/3rpm
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Plated by Gary Salstrom
• Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound

Musicians:

• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Fritz Reiner, conductor

Selections:

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Rapsodie Espagnole
1. I. Prélude À La Nuit
2. II. Malagueña
3. III. Habanera
4. IV. Feria
5. Pavan For A Dead Princess
Side B
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
1. Isle Of The Dead, Op.29