Greece Hotels Travel - Mozart: Concerto for Piano, KV 503; Ch'io mi scordi di te, KV 505; Symphony, KV 504 [DVD Audio]
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List Price: $18.98
greece-hotels-travel.com Price: $55.99
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Manufacturer: MD&G Records
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Binding: DVD Audio
EAN: 0760623096759
Label: MD&G Records
Manufacturer: MD&G Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: MD&G Records
Release Date: 2003-06-24
Studio: MD&G Records
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Outstanding artists and sound (for a multichannel 16/48 recording)
Comment: The performance:
This is a very good disc. Mr. Zacharias and the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne have done a magnificent job and mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink, as usual, gives an all-out extraordinary performance of a Mozart piece that is not frequently made this beautiful. I mean, Mozart wrote it as if singers were super-human entities that don't need to breathe or anything... You can't tell by listening to Ms. Fink and in occasions like this, the genius of the composer comes out loud and clear.
Dabringhaus und Grimm, the production behing the MDG label are artists in their own right. This is a definitely different and distinct approach to the art of recording.
The Sound:
The reason I did not give this CD five stars (but I did give it four!) is that I purchased this as what I thought would be a high-resolution, multichannel DVD-Audio recording. I own a few of those and they seem to be the answer to all our sound prayers; way better than SACDs from 2kHz up (Which is most of the significantly discerning part of human hearing - with a maximum intelligibility peak at about 3.5kHz which is the resonant frequency of the ear-channel and the most prominent frequency of a baby's cry - coincidence or design?). But I digress. This is a standard-resolution-CD-quality recording only it IS multichannel and the standard-rez is maintained in all channels.
MDG's approach to recording brings very good things and some other which I personally wish were slightly different.
I love the more distant overall approach they use. I mean these recordings don't sound like you are sitting on a pole above the conductor's head; they really sound like you are sitting in the fifth or tenth row of a reverberant space. Thanks for that! I am sick of hearing the saliva-gland actions of singers in typical studio recordings à la Bocelli. The problem, seems to me just from what I hear, is that they counteract this with spot mikes. So now I hear I am twenty or twenty five feet away but the consonants sound like the singer's teeth travel all the way to three feet in front of me to say the letter "s" or "t" o even "k".
With all due respect to the producers which as I said above I consider artists in their own right, I think too many microphones were used. There is a supernatural soundfield which sometimes explodes into confusing outbursts of low-midreange/upper-bass and buries the piano which overall sounds a little thinner than what one would hear in a reverberant space. (Of course I don't expect the studio piano sound in this context, please) The piano image is also fuzzier than I would anticipate in this kind of space which is a clear give-away that too many mikes are stirring the soundfield to slight confusion.
Another thing is that MDG utilizes the 2+2+2 recording technique: So one is supposed to add two more front speakers above the existing front left and right at a height of about half the distance between the existing ones. Unfortunately, for those of us who go through great pains to try to afford good speakers and accommodate them in a living space under normal family conditions, the proposition of adding two more speakers above the front "stereo" ones is not an easy one. Adding two silly little speakers against a good sound system seems like it can only damage all the good things you've been working for and adding two really good ones is a very expensive proposition. Furthermore, because the center speaker channel's signal is used for upper-front-left signal, when listened to through a normal 5.1 with the center channel in the middle, it adds ambience to the center of the soundstage which does not necessarily help fill the "whole-in-the-middle" effect which the center channel is in charge of (in music reproduction I mean).
I strongly recommend listening to this recording and wish more labels explored the terrain the way MDG does. But you need to know this is standard resolution. It took me a while to figure out why I wasn't too happy about the overall sound at first listen until I explored my player's audio selection button and saw the only choice available was LPCM 16/48. This is not written anywhere on the label or on Amazon's site or on the beautiful booklet.
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