Beethoven - Septet / Members of the Vienna Octet - Super Hot Stamper

Beethoven - Septet / Members of the Vienna Octet - Super Hot StamperWe normally do not put as much effort into finding top quality pressings of chamber music as we do for the large orchestral works favored by audiophiles (or at least the audiophiles who are willing to spend the money to buy our records), works such as Scheherazade and The Planets. However, if more of them sounded as good as this one we would be more than happy to do just that. This vintage London pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that

George Massenburg went on to record the Trio album with Dolly Parton

and that makes all the difference in the world

dead and dull

which either takes the rhythmic quality out of the music

The original Riverside pressings are the best

What We're Listening For On Beethoven's Septet

If they had

As an aside

but that's precisely what makes it a work of genius

all of whom had won Down Beat awards for their respective instruments and recorded as "The Poll Winners

If you have big speakers and the room to play to play them good and loud

This took place in the Columbia 30th Street Studio in December 1964