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Chapter Special: Jascha Heifetz's Recording Collection and Version Comparison — TangoSparks
5/3/ · Jascha Heifetz - The Complete Album Collection, is the largest box set ever created for a solo artist. With CDs and one DVD, this limited-edition collection features all of the violinist's recordings made by RCA Victor between and , including recordings made in England for His Master's Voice and distributed in the U.S. by RCA Red Seal as well as three LPs issued on Columbia lp_scottish-fantasy-concerto-no-5_jascha-heifetz-the-new-symphony-orchestra_1 Identifier-ark ark://t8chx Lineage Technics SLMK5 Turntable + Audio-Technica AT95e cartridge > Radio Design Labs EZ-PH1 phono preamp > Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Ocr tesseract alphag Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf Ocr_detected_script Latin 31/12/ · lp_violin-concertos_jascha-heifetz-sir-william-walton-mario-ca Identifier-ark ark://t71w65d6m Lineage Technics SLMK5 Turntable + Audio-Technica AT95e cartridge > Radio Design Labs EZ-PH1 phono preamp > Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Ocr tesseract alphag Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf Ocr_detected_script Latin
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January 23, by Frank Jin. Sincerely dedicated to my boyhood idol. Jascha Heifetz is the fiddle god in the 20th century and arguably the finest violin virtuoso of all time.
His technique and intonation are perfect; his pace and speed are faster than anyone else; his personality and stage manner are old-fashioned and extremely self-disciplined; his full mastery of showpieces and gigantic concerti will probably never be equaled.
The only music aspect of Jascha that might elicit negative review is the aloofness and superiority in his interpretation of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart repertoire.
The reason is pretty self-evident when you have a skim at his life trajectory. A classic Hollywood script starring a music hero: a born child prodigy who had dominated the throne since the debut in Carnegie Hall. Failure, weakness and sentimentality were never in his dictionary until death haunted him.
You just cannot expect an Apollonian spirit to well understand the mundane, heifetz complete album collection free download, insipid life of the mortals. Heifetz has tremendous heifetz complete album collection free download on my life path.
It all started in when I was a boy studying the violin. Visiting Chengdu with my mom, I encountered his album RCA Red Seal: Sibelius, Prokofiev No. Out of curiosity and thirst for knowledge, I bought the disc and listened to it again and again.
In the following years, I fanatically hunted for his records. He was the priest in my little world. I imitated his playing, read his biographies; his perfectionism and integrity was deeply carved into my personality.
This process went on until another life-time mentor found me in my sophomore year — which is a brand-new story that worths another chapter. I can proudly claim myself being one of the biggest Heifetz music collectors, although due to generation reason I have totally missed the LP era and my collection is narrowly focused on CD and digital releases.
There are only a few fishes that slipped the net and would be published later by other smaller brands. For serious Heifetz aficionados, this collection is an entry-level basic and the transfers are in average not bad. Later for sheer commercial purposes EMI repackaged them into the Icon 6 CDs series, with some skeptical sound engineering stunts added.
Pearl 7 CDs : Pearl is a small record label based in England specialized in rpm restoration. Their transfers are close to objective and more appealing to professional and hard-core ears as opposed to the general public, heifetz complete album collection free download.
However they are subject to the technology in the s and sometimes would over-manipulate the details. While sacrificing slim amount of music, Biddulph usually achieves amazing public review since they would take bold moves on the latest noise reduction technology by that time. In the early s, RCA remastered the stereo recordings in Hi-Fi technology, notably the Living Stereo 5 SACDs and the New Heifetz Collection CDs ; the NHC includes 3-CD content that has never been released, and the CD layers of the LS series is identical to those of the NHC.
After the major labels including BMG, DG, EMI and Decca merged into Sony, another 2-CD album was remastered as well featuring his complete Decca recordings. The result is fantastic, especially the vinyl transfers which have totally outshined the RCA ones. Fono and IDIS: Similar to their Argentine tango colleagues, these two wide-spread Italian labels are notorious for bootlegging other brands.
I list them here for alerting effect. Opus Kura 4 CDs : one of the most famous Japanese labels in record restoration, mostly rpms.
Trace amount of manipulation, pure authentic shellac sounds. Some are extremely rare. Good and bad are intermingled.
Remember the greatest musicians always perform more like themselves off record. Nostalgia 10 CDs : Radio programs in the wartime. A few gems. Grand Slam 7 CDs : a very popular Japanese label in the s specialized in reel-to-reel tape transfers paired with the cutting-edge sound restoration skills. Some output are superior than the official transfers from the master tape. In the record restoration profession, aside from equipment, there are three important aspects sound engineer have to deal with: curve issuenoise issueand speed issue see previous chapter.
Among these three, noise reduction is probably the most controversial, especially in the rpm realm. In general there are two types of philosophy in regard of noise reduction: more appealing to the general public, or more faithful to the original performance.
The problem is that the music in the records is always saturated in the background noise and it is impossible to completely separate those two, even with the most cutting-edge technology. Thomas Beecham, LPO, as an case study:. legit headphone or sound system needed hereafter with high screen brightness. Version oneRCA The Heifetz Collection Vol.
From the spectral frequency display we can see that only above 12k hertz a slight low pass eq curve was applied and 18k above is heifetz complete album collection free download. Most of the information on the record was kept.
Juicy and earthy, a little bit noisy as it could be. Version twoBiddulph Lab a strong low pass curve along with an antique noise reduction technique in the s was applied, heifetz complete album collection free download. Version threeEMI Icon Vol. EMI used such softwares extensively, and the output is almost free of any noise while the music was kept at a very high extent. It is apparently designed for the general public the most of whom have historical-recording-phobia, heifetz complete album collection free download.
However, it inevitably sounds extremely dull. Version fourNaxos Historical 8. The upper 8k part that has very low signal-to-noise ratio was boldly taken out, noise reduction is used at trace amount, yet the hiss above 17k is kept to avoid dullness.
It is a very smart move in my opinion. Version fivePearl Concerto Recordings Vol. I: a faithful transfer with slight noise reduction 7kk, as well as some EQ at 3k to weaken the sharpness in shellac records. To me it is also kind of over-manipulating. Version sevenEMI References: this transfer is done before the Icon version, and the condition of the source rpm is superb. However there is noise reduction and several over-manipulated notches at 7k, 9k and 10k.
I do not want to make this chapter too lengthy and dreadful to read so I skipped the curve issue and speed issue. After all, this article is only a tribute to my year fanaticism on this man, and a reflection process of relentlessly collecting his records.
If you have a second opinion, please feel free to PM me. The version comparison will be limited to concerto recordings. arpm Era Collection Guide.
Best Version: Pearl Jascha Heifetz Concerto Recordings Vol, heifetz complete album collection free download. Best Version: EMI References, sounds fantastic after fixing the notches; Pearl has slight noise reduction.
Best Version: The Philadelphia Orchestra Centennial Collection - Instrumentalists Vol. Best Version: EMI References, need to fix the notches in frequencies; HC Vol.
Best Version: EMI References, need to fix the notches; HC Vol. Acceptable Version: Immortal Performances, Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Toscanini Brahmsthe only existed version.
Best Version: EMI References, again need to fix some details and it sounds fantastic after; HC Vol. Acceptable Version: Pearl Jascha Heifetz Concerto Recordings Heifetz complete album collection free download. Best Version: Opus Kura; RCA has access to test pressings however the post-restoration is awful.
Acceptable Version: RCA The Heifetz Collection Vol. Acceptable Version: HC Vol. Acceptable Version: Cembal d'amour Vol. Best Version: Pristine, pirate recording, mike was placed too remote. Best Version: Naxos, superb LP transfer, but I suspect the curve is wrong; all the rest labels are rpm transfers.
Best Version: Doremi Vol. Best Version: HC Vol. Best Version: Naxos, decent LP transfer; RCA also uses LP with noise reduction. Best Version: Naxos; no idea why RCA also uses LP source; maybe the masters were lost.
Best Version: YSLwho has access to reel-to-reel tape source. Best Version: RCA Living Stereo SACD, note that the CD layer is identical to the New Heifetz Collection. Best Version: GrandSlam and GrandSlamthe tape condition in is better.
Best Version: Pristine and RCA Living Stereo. I suspect that the masters were lost and reel-to-reel tape copies are the best source available.
Best Version: GrandSlama bit dry; RCA Living Stereo SACD is not bad either. Intro About Sparks Agenda, heifetz complete album collection free download. Chapter Special: Jascha Heifetz's Recording Collection and Version Comparison.
Other Live Recordings and Re-transfers:. Thomas Beecham, LPO, as an case study: legit headphone or sound system needed hereafter with high screen brightness Version oneRCA The Heifetz complete album collection free download Collection Vol. Best Version: RCA The New Heifetz Collection Vol. Best Version: Opus Kura. Best Version: Naxos, severe speed issue.
Best Version: Naxos.
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23/1/ · Heifetz Collection (HC, 65 CDs) + Rediscover (1 CD): an almost complete collection of his commercial recordings in CD format released in , with the EMI and Decca masters included. There are only a few fishes that slipped the net and would be published later by other smaller brands. For serious Heifetz aficionados, this collection is an entry-level basic and the transfers are in average not View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of "The Complete Album Collection" on Discogs lp_scottish-fantasy-concerto-no-5_jascha-heifetz-the-new-symphony-orchestra_1 Identifier-ark ark://t8chx Lineage Technics SLMK5 Turntable + Audio-Technica AT95e cartridge > Radio Design Labs EZ-PH1 phono preamp > Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Ocr tesseract alphag Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf Ocr_detected_script Latin
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