Albeniz - Suite Espanola : Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos : New Philharmonia Orchestra - 180g LP

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Albeniz - Suite Espanola : Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos : New Philharmonia Orchestra - 180g LP
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AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Speakers Corner / Decca SXL 6355 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue

Limited Edition - Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering - Pressed  at Pallas Germany

Speakers Corner 25 Years Pure Analogue  This LP is an Entirely Analogue Production
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This is one of the crown jewels of the Decca catalog. Sumptious sound. Warm acoustic with lots of air and dimension LP Review
 
Albéniz: Suite española (Transcription by Frühbeck de Burgos)
New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
 
The Suite española, written by the piano virtuoso and composer Isaac Albéniz, is one of the most outstanding works in the history of Spanish music. Albéniz invites the listener to join him on a musical journey through eight great Spanish cities, each steeped in tradition, investing each scene with local colouring as an homage.
Albéniz made full use of musical folk idioms combined with dazzling virtuosity in many of his other works too, and deeply impressed Debussy and Ravel, as is testified by their own compositions.
 
Originally conceived for the piano, the Suite has been arranged for large orchestra by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos who makes the most of the orchestra’s tonal palette to underline the expressivity of the music. The final movement (Cuba) is replaced by Cordoba, a piano piece from Albéniz’s Cantos de España, op. 132, also arranged by Frühbeck de Burgos for orchestra. The obvious advantages of the arranger himself conducting the orchestra are well demonstrated by the present highly successful recording.
The precision of the rhythmic interjections and the melodic flow are highly impressive. The music evokes various scenes, such as the impression of a barren Spanish landscape in the shimmering heat or bustling life in the various cities of Spain.
 
 November 1967 in  Kingsway Hall, London with Kenneth E. Wilkinson / Production: John Mordlen
 
"...Isaac Albeniz was one of the most prolific composers of his era. The vast majority of his compositions are for the piano, an instrument on which he was a virtuoso, but he also wrote operas to English librettos. He began young, making his first appearance in public in Barcelona at the age of four. It is said that his playing even then was so astonishing that the audience suspected a fraud. He was only seven when he first played in Paris and also produced his first composition to gain a place in a repertory; it was a 'Pasodoble', and it was taken up by military bands in Barcelona..." - Malcolm Rayment, liner notes 
 
Musicians:
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Rafael Fruhbeck De Burgos, conductor
 
Selections:
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Suite española
1. Castilla (Seguidillas)
2. Asturias (Leyenda)
3. Aragon (Fantasia)
4. Cadiz (Cancion)
5. Sevilla (Sevillanas)
6. Granada (Serenata)
7. Cataluna (Corranda)
8. Cordoba

Albeniz - Suite Espanola : New Philharmonia Orchestra : Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos - 180g LP

 

 

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At the beginning of the ‘90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the reissue policy was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC Compact Classics, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and others, including of course Speakers Corner, all maintained a mutual, unwritten code of ethics: we would manufacture records sourced only from analogue tapes. 
 
Vinyl’s newfound popularity has led many other companies to jump on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source from which to master: CDs, LPs, digital files and even MP3s. 
 
Even some who do use an analogue tape source employ a digital delay line, a misguided ’80s and ‘90s digital technology that replaces the analogue preview head originally used to “tell” the cutter head in advance what was about to happen musically, so it could adjust the groove “pitch” (the distance between the grooves) to make room for wide dynamic swings and large low frequency excursions. Over time analogue preview heads became more rare and thus expensive. 
 
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In addition, we admit to having one digital recording in our catalogue: Alan Parsons’ “Eye in the Sky”, which was recorded digitally but mixed to analogue tape that we used to cut lacquers. 
 
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