Hot Stamper Pressings Featuring the Violin Available Now
We described our shootout winning copy of Szeryng Plays the Music of Fritz Kreisler this way:
With INCREDIBLE Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound from first note to last, this Plum Label Mercury stereo pressing (the first copy to ever hit the site) is doing everything right.
The violin is so sweet and present, so rich, natural and real, you will forget you’re listening to a record at all.
This recording is not your typical dry, bright, nasaly, upper-midrangy Merc – the sound is rich and smooth like a good London, with a big stage and lovely transparency.
As is sometimes the nature of the beast with these early pressings, there are marks that play, but if you can tough those out, this copy is going to blow your mind.
Here are the notes that back up what we said above:
Notice that on side one, track four, we mention “not strident,” and the second track we note it’s “not too dry.”
Side has a note to the effect that it’s “kinda rich” and “not too bright.”
This tells you that practically all the other copies had these kinds of problems, something that anyone with a good selection of Mercury violin recordings is sure to know.
Our job is to find the pressings that not strident, not dry, not bright, and richer than others.
When you buy a top copy of an album from us, you don’t hear those problems because they are mostly not there.
What you hear is a side one that is:
- Much fuller and 3-D, with a
- Sweet and lively violin, one with
- The most space
On side two you hear more of the same, and that’s a good thing:
- 3-D and alive violin
- Kinda rich
- More dynamic and jumping out
- Not too bright
Probably not the best solo violin recording we’ve ever sold, but certainly one of the best.