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

EMI / Columbia Testament - 33CX1423 -180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - Limited Edition

AAA 100%  Analogue -  Mastered at Abbey Road - Pressed in Germany

Testament has revived these classic titles from the EMI catalog using only the original EMI master tapes,cut onto lacquer at EMI's Abbey Road Studios and mastered using full analog techniques throughout production.

It is hard to believe that Schubert wrote his octet in F major, one of the most cheerful and cheerful chamber music works of all, in 1824 at a time of severe health problems and great depression, fasting alone in his room. But it fits Schubert's tireless genius that he consciously fought his way out of a seven-year creative crisis with this fresh and seemingly carefree work. This recording from 1958 was made with eight accomplished Russian musicians, among whom David Oistrakh is probably the best known on the first violin. Particularly noteworthy is Vladimir Sorokin, who played the deliberately striking clarinet part (Schubert's client, Ferdinand Graf Troyer, was an amateur clarinetist himself and also played the part in the premiere) with a warm sound and dancing elegance

 

Testament has revived these classic titles from the EMI catalog using only the original EMI master tapes, cut onto lacquer at EMI's Abbey Road Studios and mastered using full analog techniques throughout production.