Overtures appears on the site for only the second time ever, here with INCREDIBLE Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) grades or close to them on both sides of this original British EMI pressing
Both of these sides are exceptionally big, clear and dynamic with an abundance of Tubey Magical richness to rival the best recordings you may have heard
The notes for side one of our best copy, with sound similar to this side two, read: breathy and rich flutes / fully extending up high / very weighty and powerful and tubey / so fun / spacious
If that sounds like the kind of record you might want to hear for yourself in your very own listening room, this one is currently available for just that purpose
This shootout has been many years in the making – we’ve been trying to do these wonderful overtures for about five years, which just goes to show how hard it is to find these kinds of records in audiophile playing condition nowadays
We also just debuted a recording with Ansermet at the helm for Decca which features two of the pieces found here that’s every bit as good
Which one is better is probably a matter of taste as they are both head and shoulders better than any other recordings we have come across in the last five or more years
