Bela Bartok - Concerto For Orchestra

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Composer: Bela Bartok
Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
Orchestra: Houston Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Music Label: Classic Records

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Music Review: DVDA, DVDV and CD
Rating: 5 Stars

In 1960, Bert White of Everest recorded Leopold Stokoski conducting the Houston Symphony Orchestra in Bartok's CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA at Walthamstow Assembly Hall in London, on 35 MM three track magnetic film. Classic Records have release this two-disc set transferred directly from the original master. One disc is a two-channel Red Book CD. The other disc has DVD Video on one side and DVD Audio on the other; the DVD Video has a choice of three-channel Dolby AC-3 or two-channel 24 bit / 96 kHz; the DVD Audio has a choice of three-channel 24 bit / 96 kHz or two-channel 24 bit / 192 kHz. These high-resolution transfers reveal orchestral detail simply swallowed up in other recordings. A DVD Audio or universal player is required to hear the best transfer, but any DVD player can do the DVD Video side; and any CD player can do the Red Book disc. I have compared this recording with Reiner's Living Stereo SACD, which is two-channel only, and the Stokowski has so much more life and inner texture.