Fritz Reiner – Rimsky-Korsakoff: Scheherazade (Analogue Productions)

RCA Living Stereo classical LPs — the gold standard for top quality orchestral performance and sound!

Remastered from the original master tape and cut at 33 1/3 RPM by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound

Lacquers plated by Gary Salstrom and pressed on 200-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings!

More praise from reviewer Michael Fremer in the March 2014 Stereophile

Musicians:
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Sidney Harth, violin solo

Named a 2015 Record To Die For by Stereophile magazine. http://www.stereophile.com/content/2015-records-die-page-6.

“All collectors of RCA Living Stereo LPs have their favorites, and these are mine. … I’ve been disappointed by all the reissues released over the last 20 years that have promised better sound than the originals but have fallen far short of that. I had much higher expectations of these new reissues, from Chad Kassem’s Quality Record Pressings, having been very impressed by some of QRP’s rock and jazz reissues. When I spun them, I was floored. After comparing them to early shaded-dog pressings of the same recordings, I felt the only area in which the originals were still superior was the subtle, additional layer of air and sparkle in the highs (master-tape age, perhaps?). But the reissues’ quality and extension of bass and high-level dynamic contrasts were superior. And the surfaces of the new pressings are so quiet they let each subtle midrange detail emerge from a “black” background. At times, the background is so silent I have to do a double take to verify that the needle is still in the groove and the platter is still turning.” — Robert J. Reina, Stereophile, February 2015

Format – Vinyl Record

1 LP