AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Analogue Productions - AAPC 2446 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue

Mastered By Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound 

Limited Edition - Pressed at QRP Quality Record Pressings - RCA LSC-2446

2015 Stereophile Magazine Record to Die For! 

The Absolute Sound Super Disc List     TAS Harry Pearson Super LP List

Stereophile Magazine Record to Die For! 

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

Winner of a Gruvy Award, chosen by AnalogPlanet's editor, Michael Fremer, for vinyl records that are musically and sonically outstanding and are also well mastered and pressed

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

The Scheherazade record was so overwhelming with sonic goodness 5/5 Hifedity

"...The second movement is just ravishing in the beauty of the Chicago's playing and Reiner's romantic approach; there is some staccato triple-tonguing done by trumpeter Adolph Herseth in the fourth movement that should leave you, if not him, breathless. But let it just be said that, after you hear this, no other Scheherazade will ever replace it in your affections." 

 The Golden Dozen LPs – Harry Pearson, The Absolute Sound

The jewel in the Living Stereo crown. This, like the Respighi, is considered one of the very best LPs by Reiner, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and RCA's crew. Another Mohr and Layton classic.

"...I'd have to say that the usual stumbling blocks have been sidestepped. Great care has been taken to do the right things, starting with the way the decision to remaster these RCAs was made." - Jonathan Valin, The Absolute Sound.com 

This ravishing beauty, originally released in 1960 or fifty three years ago, has been a long-time audiophile classic. It's also considering to be among the finest if not the finest performance on record or any other format. Sound 10/10 Music 10/10 Michael Fremmer Analogue Planet

• Plated by Gary Salstrom
• Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound

Musicians:
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner, conductor

Selections:
Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade 

"(Analogue Productions) has been updating LP pressings of some classic RCA recordings, using today's state-of-the-art technology found at (Quality Record Pressings)... None of (the) resurrections is more gorgeous than (the) revivication of the classic Fritz Reiner / Chicago Scheherazade, itself a knockout of a recording in its Living Stereo issue. (Except, maybe Analogue Productions new version of the Reiner,

"We compared this new 200-gram, 33-rpm LP from Analogue Productions with the original RCA Living Stereo issue, and Classic Records 33rpm version, and were surprised at the outcome. Why? Because to these ears, the new Analogue Productions version was the more relaxed and natural sounding of the bunch. The sound is as it should be, inviting the listener into the music and entirely consonant with Reiner's readings. This transfer bespeaks a confidence in the sound on the master tape, without the artificial touch-ups (a brightness) later found in the original Living Stereo pressing and the more pronounced jiggering in the version from Classic Records.

"RCA graced this recording with some of their best engineering. Rimsky's orchestration seems tailor-made for a sonic showcase and this is exactly what the RCA engineers gave Reiner's well-nigh perfect reading.  It is a reading of great subtlety and romanticism, which brings this too-often played piece to a newfound life.  And so worth getting to know again if you've drifted away from it.