Hi JHWalker:
Are the Deutsche Grammophon recodings that you mentioned above, LP or CD?
If they are CD, are the any better sounding than the vinyl DGs?
Bear with me, while I try to straddle the fence here on the issue of sound versus performance.
I pass up DG labels all the time, no matter what the performance because their LP sound is so tepid.
Forgive me, if this seems like I'm picking a scrap, but if I'm told that I will be allowed into a concert hall's hallway (I know this exagerates a bit) to listen to a to-die-for maestro's performance, I'll take a pass.
Certainly, with the great number of commendable Mahler performances and the several excellent labels to choose from, we can have our cake and eat it too.
Of course, this may be just from my perspective in vinlyland where the plethora of choices seem to fall out of a cornicopia.
- Mario
Are the Deutsche Grammophon recodings that you mentioned above, LP or CD?
If they are CD, are the any better sounding than the vinyl DGs?
Bear with me, while I try to straddle the fence here on the issue of sound versus performance.
I pass up DG labels all the time, no matter what the performance because their LP sound is so tepid.
Forgive me, if this seems like I'm picking a scrap, but if I'm told that I will be allowed into a concert hall's hallway (I know this exagerates a bit) to listen to a to-die-for maestro's performance, I'll take a pass.
Certainly, with the great number of commendable Mahler performances and the several excellent labels to choose from, we can have our cake and eat it too.
Of course, this may be just from my perspective in vinlyland where the plethora of choices seem to fall out of a cornicopia.
- Mario