Erich Kleiber - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (1955) [2017 SACD Vintage Collection]

The world's first SA-CD of DECCA's earliest stereo recordings with gorgeous singers
Historic masterpiece of Erich's only stereo session recording of his last years. (No lyrics translation)

It is a legendary masterpiece that is too famous as the ultimate "Figaro" that can be called the Vienna style. The gorgeous contest of famous singers from the past is also attractive and is one of the representative recordings of this song. This recording was the last and only stereo session recording with DECCA for Erich Kleiber, who died about six months after this recording. DECCA's recording technology, where stereo recording was just started in parallel with monaural recording at that time, has a quality that is incomparable compared to the early stereo of other labels, and even after more than 60 years, This stereo sound source is highly regarded as an excellent recording. The recording is faithfully reproduced even with the singer's breathing with the voice raised, while the orchestra is placed slightly behind, and the rich strings of the time and the unique elegant Vienna wind instrument sound beautiful and clear Was recorded, and it was a noteworthy recording for audio files since its first appearance. This reprint is since the 96/24 remaster appeared in the CD era in 1999 in the CD era (high res sound source using this master was released in 2013 and released), the original home country analog master This is the first time that DSD has been converted directly from tape. Like the previous series, the sound of the latest, DSD-mastered SA-CD layer has been revived with very crisp and amazing sound quality. This Figaro was a candidate for reprinting from the beginning, but now it is ready for production. I will reprint it in full.
In the production of this series, after maintaining and restoring the original analog master tape in the home country from the beginning, high-quality digitization (DSD) is performed, and the home-label engineer in charge of the home country in a detailed process for this series I spent a lot of time mastering. In the SA-CD layer, you can enjoy high-definition master sounds. The CD layer has also been digitized and mastered to the latest level, which is different from the sound quality of the conventional version. In addition, the original jacket design was adopted in this series, and a new preface commentary by Daisuke Hirose was published in the manual. The jacket on the front uses the stereo version, and the cover of the booklet uses the monaural version of the jacket design.



Tracks:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

DISC 1-3
Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492

Personnel:

Figaro: Cesare Siepi (Buses)
Susanna: Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Earl of Armaviva: Alfred Pel (baritone)
Countess of Armaviva: Lisa Della Kaza (soprano)
Cervino: Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Marcellina: Hilde Lessel-Maidan (Meszo Soprano), Bartolo: Fernando Correna (Buses),
Basilio: Murray Dickey (tenor), Don Curzio: Hugo Meyer Verfink (tenor),
Antonio: Harald Pregluhev (Buses), Barbarina: Annie Felbermeyer (soprano)
Vienna State Opera Choir
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Erich Kleiber


* Limited edition. The world's first SA-CD. Stereo recording
* No lyrics translation
* SA-CD hybrid board
* Using the latest mastering sound source in 2017 (In Classic Sound, perform DSD conversion and mastering directly from the original analog master tape of the country of origin, produce a DSD master for SACD layer. From this DSD master for CD layer (44.1kHz / 16bit PCM conversion to produce a CD master. Analog master tapes must be carefully repaired to the extent possible according to their aging and storage conditions, and then converted.)
* Uses original jacket design (other jackets are also included in the booklet)
* Normal package specification
* Printed surface: green