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Product Description

Seiji Ozawa was just at the start of his nearly thirty-year tenure as Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1973 when Deutsche Grammophon captured the young conductors fresh take on Hector Berliozs Symphonie Fantastique, op. 14, in multi-channel sound. New developments in audio playback technology (specifically the multi-channel SACD) since then now allow for hearing this spectacularly orchestrated work as all involved in its recording conceived it to be heard thanks to Pentatones labor of love in re-mastering and re-releasing this recording to market.

Review

"One would think that a Super Audio CD player was needed to get the most out of this CD, but Pentatone assures us that "a regular CD player though only in stereo" will work pretty well too. Like most listeners, I don't have a Super Audio CD player but on my machine this Symphonie Fantastique did sound very good indeed. The dynamic range is huge, the timbres of individual instruments and sections are true, and the sound has a great presence. Coming soon are more Ozawa-BSO performances including Berlioz' La Damnation de Faust and Bernstein's Met performance of Bizet's Carmen."

"Mowrey also had the Boston Symphony in top form with such luminaries as trumpeter Armando Ghitalla, flutist Doriot Anthony-Dwyer, and oboist Ralph Gomberg in principle chairs. In Seiji Ozawa, he had one of the most gifted and charismatic conductors of his generation." --Paul E. Robinson, Musical Toronto, April 2015

36:T4c3,A splendid performance finally receives a noteworthy playback experience. For anyone wondering just how enveloping the quad recording format of years past could really be, look and listen no further than this new Pentatone release. The warm bloom of Symphony Hall provides, an ideal environment for the Boston Symphony O