Warner Classic 翻出Maria Callas

kl122002

jeffmao 發表於 2014-10-21 11:26
我都先買隻精選聽下, 唔聽唔知以前係唱成甘風格, 老細話一日只准聽一次 ...

Callas 一生起伏, 唱功變化甚大. 不同時期有明顯的出入, 而且當時廣受讚賞.
有時可以聽以前的錄音是一件好事, 知道現在的變化, 少了hifi味, 多了一份真藝術

jeffmao

kl122002 發表於 2014-10-21 13:36
Callas 一生起伏, 唱功變化甚大. 不同時期有明顯的出入, 而且當時廣受讚賞.
有時可以聽以前的錄音是一件 ...

以前既人真係好肯下苦功花時間又專心...而家D....唉

kl122002

老世又知會我翻在貨了, 今日入手:

ant9284

kl122002 發表於 2014-10-25 22:22
老世又知會我翻在貨了, 今日入手:

買兩款咁少？
(Post76 Android 手機版送出)

kl122002

ant9284 發表於 2014-10-26 11:31
買兩款咁少？
(Post76 Android 手機版送出)

無錢嘛

kl122002

推舊post, 不好意思,
今日收到wall street journal 出的文章, 就是在大讚今次warner classic 翻出maria callas 出得太好:
Rediscovering Maria Callas in High-Resolution Audio

Rediscovering Maria Callas in High-Resolution Audio
Newly remastered Maria Callas albums—released in a 24-bit hi-res format—restore the legendary soprano’s legacy to its pre-CD grandeur
By MICHAEL HSU
Nov. 12, 2014 1:43 p.m. ET

OPERA FANATICS will probably pelt me with tomatoes for saying this, but to my ears, the revered soprano Maria Callas has always sounded a bit shrill. Or at least that’s been my impression whenever I listen to her albums on CD or over music-streaming services like Spotify. (I discovered opera in the early ’90s, after the heyday of vinyl.) I know it’s sacrilege not to venerate Ms. Callas’s performances of “Tosca” and “Norma,” but I’ve never been able to get past the brittle audio quality of these digitized recordings.

My relationship to Ms. Callas changed this fall, however, when Warner Classics began releasing remastered versions of her 38 studio albums (plus a collection of previously unreleased recordings) in “high-resolution” audio—a rarefied format favored by audiophiles for its smoother, more-open sound. The yearlong remastering process entailed, in part, playing the original reel-to-reel tapes to create a 24-bit digital recording (as opposed to lesser quality 16-bit transfers). These newly minted digital studio masters have been made available for download, in some cases for only a few dollars more than the CD version. Ms. Callas’s seminal 1953 recording of “Tosca,” for example, costs $23 on Bowers & Wilkins Society of Sound ( bowers-wilkins.com). HDTracks.com sells the collection as well. Note: Hi-res albums are huge. “Tosca” clocks in at over a gigabyte.

Even when listening on modestly priced bookshelf speakers, I found the high-resolution reissues to be noticeably easier on the ears. With the older version of “Madama Butterfly,” I would gird myself for the one-two punch at the end of the first act: Ms. Callas nailing a high note, followed by an enthusiastic cymbal crash. In hi-res, that crescendo of operatic awesomeness is less like getting bashed on the head and more like being washed over by a powerful wave—no doubt closer to the experience of hearing Ms. Callas live.

All this said, you do need some special equipment: There are iPod-like portable players, such as the FiiO X3 ($170) and the forthcoming Pono, that can handle hi-res formats. Some home-theater receivers can play hi-res files off a flash drive that you plug into a USB port. I connect my computer to my sound system using a USB dongle called the AudioQuest DragonFly ($150). Decent speakers or headphones are also required to hear the difference between hi-res and CD-quality formats.

For those who aren’t ready to make the leap to hi-res, there are two ways to enjoy “down sampled” versions of the remasters: CD and standard digital downloads, available from Amazon, iTunes and others. Although both options sound slightly harsher to me than hi-res, they’re still superior to the versions that have for so long failed give Ms. Callas her due.

cwyip

kl122002 發表於 2014-11-13 20:40
推舊post, 不好意思,
今日收到wall street journal 出的文章, 就是在大讚今次warner classic 翻出maria ca ...

http://www.hdtracks.com/classical hdtacks 出左好多24 96version

kl122002

上日本的amazon, 發現...
ビゼー:歌劇「カルメン」全曲 SACD

日本版果然好強, 仲有SACD 可以等待. 在12月24日出.
還有其他: カラス / 名盤SACDシリーズ ～アビイ・ロード・スタジオによる新リマスター使用
一只是4,500yen, 以家下65算計 = 三百多港完一張, 不入手不是人.

事賁在之前上/前年, esoteric 出過一次SACD, 是boxset裝, 不過沒有用母帶處理混音.
今次日本的warnner出SACD, 真是打了 esoteric 一巴.

剛打去熟店問過, 日本版的SCAD, 黑膠, 香港代理至昨日暫時無咩反應...等週一再看看.
List中少了立體聲版的Tosca, 而著重在之前的mono錄音, 就是有點可惜


至於CD方面, 最後的一批出場了有售了.

kl122002

另外就 <卡門> 一曲, 日本仔出全球特別order限量LP


Tower Roecrds:
Bizet: Carmen＜完全受注生産盤＞
日本HMV:
『カルメン』全曲　プレートル＆パリ・オペラ座管、カラス、ゲッダ、他（１９６４　ステレオ）（３ＬＰ）

唔知大家有無興趣?
事實頭版黑膠也可以在ebay上找到, 因為量多所以不算特別貴...
現在這張會不會CD聲就是另一個問題了.

附官方小圖....

ant9284

問過黑膠香港十二月頭出
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