SINFONIA DA REQUIEM
FOUR SEA INTERLUDES AND PASSACAGLIA
from Peter Grimes
London Symphony Orchestra
dir : André Previn
EMI ASD 3154 stereo/quadraphonic LP [P] 1976
Individual FLAC files, scans
Offered in both standard resolution (44.1/16) and hi-res (96/24)
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 iZotope RX software.
"This is one of the richest, fullest recordings I have ever heard, setting Britten's masterly scoring against a vividly real-sounding acoustic. The Britten version of the Sinfonia da Requiem, also recorded in Kingsway Hall, was one of the most brilliant Decca offerings of a vintage period of recording, but the extra range of depth and sound of the new HMV recording is amazing. And in the first of the Sea Interludes (Dawn) for example, the pull of the brass from ppp up to mf shows very clearly the gain in vividness over the composer's own complete recording of the opera".
Edward Greenfield, Gramophone, March 1976