Características
With over 80 albums recorded on the Telarc label, it is clear that Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra are dedicated to the dissemination of classical music. Outstandingly produced and recorded, the albums are an exception in a world of mediocre orchestras with average conductors playing down arbitrary programs.
Ravel's "Bolero," with which Kunzel opens, was scandalous in its day and is a household name to most people. Less well known today, however, is the recording's middle section, an arrangement of excerpts from the 1950s musical "Kismet" by Robert Wright and George Forrest. Although this Broadway show was rather unknown, many of the tunes are familiar to a wide audience. The finale will be two suites from Bizet's "Carmen." A captivating and exciting recording that comes remarkably close to the live performance.
Ultra-HD 32-Bit-Mastering & PureFlection
This mastering format was developed by FIM and Five/Four Productions. Five/Four Productions is made up of the former Telarc production team who wanted to be able to master the best possible sound quality without regard to lower quality equipment. The Five/Four Productions team can look back on 16 Grammys and countless other awards.
It is re-digitized with 32 bit word length and sampling frequency adapted to the source material. When possible, 192 KHz is used, but lower sampling rates are sonically advantageous for some material. The Ultra-HD 32-bit productions can be played back on any CD player in excellent sound quality.
The term PureFlection refers to the new way of producing the glass master for the latest FIM productions. This is not done in the pressing plant as part of the normal production process, but by a specialist on a specially modified machine for cutting Blu-Ray glass masters. Before the CDs are produced, the quality of the glass master is checked and the new booklets contain the test protocol of this check. The result is significantly lower jitter values and also lower error values than with usual industrial productions and the resulting sound image has an organic feel in contrast to many modern productions.
1. Ravel: Bolero
Borodin: Music popularized in Kismet
2. Part 1 (excerpts from Symphony No. 2/In the Steppes of Centra
3. Part 2 (excerpts from String Quartet No. 2/Overture to Prince
Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1
4. Prelude to Act I
5. Aragonaise
6. Intermezzo
7. Seguidilla
8. The Dragoons of Alcala
9. The Toreadors
Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 2
10. March of the Smugglers
11. Habanera
12. Song of the Torreador
13. The Changing of the Guard
14. Danse Boheme
15. Albeniz: Fete-Dieu a Seville from Iberia