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

EMI / Testament - ASD 326 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue

Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering at Abbey Road - HMV EMI ASD 326

Limited Edition  - Pressed in Germany

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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

RICHARD STRAUSS Don Quixote Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Paul Tortelier Berliner Philharmoniker Rudolf Kempe

Op. 35/ Till Eulenspiegel/ Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/ Kempe

Sessions for the two works on this record took place in Grunewald Church, Berlin, during June 1958. Rudolf Kempe was famous for his Strauss Interpretations, and he made an extensive survey of this composer's works in the 1970s with the Staatskapelle, Dresden. This earlier Berlin coupling, however, is held in particularly high regard by collectors as high water mark of Kempe's art and of Strauss interpretation. InDon Quixote, the cello soloist is the renowned French artist Paul Tortelier, who had played the work under the baton of the composer himself. In his original Gramophone review, William Mann aptly described the recording as "glowing, burnished copper, effortlessly enjoyable to listen to." Testament has taken great care to reproduce the nature of the original sound in the most faithful manner possible, and pressing are on high-quality 180 gram virgin vinyl.

 

 

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.