Gérard Souzay, baritone
Jacqueline Bonneau and Dalton Baldwin, piano
Decca/Telefunken 6.48119DT - 2 mono LPs [P] 1978
Original recordings 1952, 1954
LP rip: 96 kHz, 24 bit (see details below)
FLAC files, scans
Souzay is my favorite baritone, and his Decca recordings are definitely among my desert island discs. The later Philips recordings show continuing growth and understanding of this literature, and are almost as voluptuous. All are treasures, and I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do.
The audio chain I use to rip LPs: (1) the LPs are cleaned using a VPI H!-16 record cleaning machine, using TTVJ Vinyl-Zyme Gold cleaning fluid, (2) ripped on a Nakamichi Dragon CT self-centering turntable with integral tonearm and Ortofon cartridge, (3) processed by a Korg DS-DAC-10R (RIAA setting), (4) then recorded and edited using AudioGate 4, Adobe Audition (and rarely iZotope RX) software.
Gérard Souzay: Schubert
"The Early Years"
Gérard Souzay, baritone
Dalton Baldwin, piano
Philips 438 511-2 - 4 stereo CDs [P] 1993
Original recordings 1961-1967
Currently out-of-print
FLAC image files, cuesheets, logs, scans
