From The Legendary Sony Classical/CBS & Columbia Masterworks Vaults

GREAT PERFORMANCES Features Newly Remastered, Definitive Performances by Glenn Gould, Yo-Yo Ma, Leonard Bernstein, Leon Fleisher, George Szell, Eugene Ormandy, E. Power Biggs and Many More.

The Great Performances series set the standard for reissuing classic recordings when it first appeared in the LP era, and it returns now – reconceived and dramatically redesigned for the digital age – to mine the riches of the unparalleled Sony Classical/CBS and Columbia Masterworks catalogue.

Visit our new  Great Performances Series website here.

Living Stereo recordings were made with only two or three microphones, which represented the best recording techniques of that era. Today, with the advent of Super Audio Compact Disc and multi-channel sound, the listener can hear the left, center and right channels exactly as the recording engineers heard them at the original recording sessions. When remastering the original recordings, John Newton and his engineering team used only three of the available six channels (or two when the original recording was two-track) on the Super Audio CD because that was the vision of the original producers. What you hear are faithful copies of these historic performances in brilliant DSD resolution. No signal processing was used to “improve” these extraordinary tapes.

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