RCA Living Stereo Classical SACDs

I really enjoy the older RedBook Living Stereo's.

I also own a few of the SACD's.

I'm not sure which I prefer

I am just glad to be able to have this wonderfully recorded music in either format

 

i dont know really. i just assumed that there must be from your statement. probably an area i need to be schooled in. opera i understand. that was my major vocal emphasis stage/ opera. Classical i really am a bit weak on was too busy with vocal engagements.

 

Is this series done or what? I was really hopeing they would put out the British recordings from Kingsway Hall like Witches Brew, etc.

 

My sense is that the selection is a pretty good reflection of the classical music RCA was relasing during the 50's and early 60's. Did RCA have a significant string quartet under contract at that time? How much Bach were they releasing? Landowska, I guess. For that matter, how much Mozart were they releasing?

We are talking about the earliest days of the HiFi LP, and I think many of the large record companies wanted to get versions of the concert-going crowd 50's favorites (Tchaikovsky, Rachmoninoff, Dvorak) out in that format. The Baroque revival was in very early days. And I suspect there was relatively little Mozart heard in the concert halls (compared to today)

 

For those still collecting some of the Living Stereo SACDs, I have been adding a few here and there for about six months and I have gotten most of them through deepdiscount.com for $8.98 each with free shipping. Most of the time they are not in stock and end up shipping when new stock arrives within a few weeks. They have some of the prime movers in stock though. I really do love the sound and presentation of these discs and intend to add a few more before I'm done.

 

I think so too, it would have been nice so to have one of the Opera sets on SACD as well.

 

Almost but not quite.

 

I wonder if the old Red Book Living Stereo's are flat transfers ?

 

I suspect much of your questioning is of the rhetorical variety, but in case it's not, I don't know much about classical music from the LP era. I didn't buy my first non-movie soundtrack classical disc until CD had become the norm (it was Schubert's last piano sonata and Wanderer Fantasie by Brendel).

 

In general, I find them very good. I own about 20-25. I also have a lot of the original vinyl pressings of the shaded dogs and these SACDs stand beside them nicely.

 

And Deep Discount is having a 40% off list price sale right now. Here are some Rubinsteins for $6.99:

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Thanks Jay F, I just put in an order for 6 Living Stereo SACDs for about $40.00 shipped from deepdiscount.com. Can't beat that with a stick.