4 titles available for pre order now with release around 2nd June (it appears some have already sold out and they were only listed yesterday I think!!!), apparently 12 will be issued over this year.
It’s interesting that they all completely miscalculate the first time.
The consolation is that classical recordings from almost every other label sound better (recording wise) than DG recordings, with very few exceptions, and that there are enough good or better interpretations available.
Some of my most listened to albums (now digital only) are on DG recorded from the 1960’s forward and a majority sound bright, over-miked, hard and even brittle) Same era recordings from Decca and EMI, for example, are startlingly good.
Well after I listened to several symphonic DG reissues I have and saw that at least 2-3 of them sounded very good, I pulled the trigger to try 3 of the new ones (leaving out the trout quartet which I don’t like).
I’ve ordered these. I remember discussing them with Jimmy Hughes, I recall him saying they were the first recordings DGG did in the USA and the went all out to do the best they possibly could, BSO in Symphony Hall was an obvious choice, and they pretty much succeeded. The Hindemith disc is an exceptional recording.
The Gilels sonatas are on the Devialet issue of live recordings at the Concertgebouw. Ironically his last recording of his incomplete cycle was the op. 106, a digital recording released simultaneously on CD and vinyl. I went to the London recital and bought the CD. I was already a convert! So it won’t be in these reissues. I think there was at least one other digital recording in the cycle.
