Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 : Wojciech Rajski - Polish Chamber Orchestra - 180g 2LP

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Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 : Wojciech Rajski - Polish Chamber Orchestra - 180g 2LP
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Tacet - L239 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue 

Limited Edition - Half-Speed  Audiophile Mastering - Pressed at Pallas

This one will stay on my shelves.  Tacet has succeeded on all fronts here, marrying pure sound with deft performances of great music Sound 5/5 The Audio Beat

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major Op. 55 ("Eroica") and No. 4 in B flat major Op. 60 - The Polish Chamber Philharmonic conducted by Wojciech Rajski

Beethoven's third, which is best known as a sound example of his 'new way', allows several explanatory approaches to their revolutionary character. The work, as a toning image, in order to praise heroism, revolutionism, and its initial dedicatee, Napoleon Bonaparte, is at least legitimate on the basis of the "Marcia Funebre," a corpse given in France. No less exciting from a technical point of view is the new approach to the thematic material, which gradually fills itself up and increases its irrepressible energy until the complete cycle of the cycle is completed. At high tempo, an orchestral co-operation ensues in a sinew, athletic competition, a narrowness, widening, and condensation of orchestral brilliance and musical material. 

 In the period between the third and the powerful fifth symphony, the fourth, in its neatly rounded formal language, holds the quiet pole to the extreme affects of its dissimilar sisters. Guided by the romantic expressive power of the weightless, opening-to-open opening, the music resonates with sanguine excitement. The second movement, which is simply called adagio, according to the tradition of the genre, slows down the rich melodious form in a reduced form to a chamber music transparency. Well-tempered as well as in a good mood, the brave finale heads forward and, through brief, contemplative phases, leads to new summits of orchestral furor. Wojciech Raisky, who always demands his highly developed tone and finely balanced phrasings, Models from the depths of the score a cheerful, contemplative yet deeply impressive reproduction which reveals unheard-of details even after repeated hearing. 
Halfspeed transcription!

Recording: 2009 in the church of "Stella Maris" in Sopot, Poland, by Andreas Spreer and Roland Kistner 
Production: Andreas Spreer

Recorded in the church of Stella Maris, Sopot, Poland in 2009, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra are conducted by Wojciech Rajski in performing Beethoven's 3rd & 4th symphonies.

Half-speed is literally half the speed. But only during the production! When being played, everything runs perfectly normally again. This record requires no special treatment at all; it simply sounds better. It is as if the craftsman had taken twice as much time for his work. Not only the tempo is reduced at half speed, but also the pitch by a factor of 2. For example, a note of 40 kHz - Tacet recordings do indeed contain such high notes! - is transferred like a 20-kHz tone of a standard recording. Through this, electronics can process higher frequencies and the cutting stylus calmly cuts all the details into the lacquer foil. 

Inspiring Tube Sound:
What is it that makes "tube sound" what it is? The advantages of tubes over transistors are difficult to describe in technical terms. Perhaps the reference to the higher and different type of distortion with tube amplifiers is most applicable, although "distortion" has a rather negative meaning: the more distortion, the worse it is. So this can't be entirely right. Besides, the distortions of these microphones of 1947 are much too slight to be really noticeable. The recording of the Partitas of Johann Sebastian Bach with Florin Paul is, for me, although meanwhile almost 23 years old, still the best example in our TACET catalogue of the special quality of tube microphones. The two U 47 microphones by Neumann made their contribution. 
For the LP, however, (except for rare exceptions, justified for musical reasons) the signal is even stored on a tube tape recorder and then mastered with valve equipment, so that one would be right in saying that for the entire production not a single transistor was used. 
 
We have always been especially pleased to receive so much feedback about our Tube Only productions. This motivates us even more to keep working with this technology and rescue it from oblivion. People have told us that the music sounds warmer, without losing any of its TACET brilliance. The timbres glow more. We have also heard that people have the impression of a more homogeneous sound, whatever that is meant to be. So let everyone listen to their own hearts and to the Tube Only recordings and feel something special! Even the sheer joy of this slightly nostalgic outstanding technology can be reason enough to like these productions. Yet what would it all be without the wonderful work of the artists! 

Now in Halfspeed!

Musicians:

Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra
Wojciech Rajski, conductor

Selections:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 4

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