San Francisco Symphony & Seiji Ozawa - Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"; Carnival Overture (Remastered) (2026) [Hi-Res]

Seiji Ozawa’s appointment as music director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in 1970 was later vividly described by Barack Obama: “With his mop-top hairstyle, his turtleneck jumpers and his love beads, he almost looked like a Beatle”. This recording of Dvořák’s ‘From the New World’ Symphony from May 1975 was one of the last to be recorded by Philips in quadraphonic sound and has been remixed specifically for this reissue.

For this release, Rainer Maillard of Emil Berliner Studios used the original four-channel quadraphonic master tape to create a new stereo mix, which was sent directly to the cutting head. This preserves the entire analogue signal path. The Philips engineers of the 1970s would also have mixed the four front and rear channels before cutting, but this downmix would have resulted in a two-track stereo copy for mastering, whereas here is cut directly from a ‘live’ mix in stereo from the four quad channels.

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa, conductor

Digitally remastered