Rachmaninoff : Symphonic Dances Vocalise – Donald Johanos ( 45rpm 200g 2LP)P)

Analogue Productions – AAPC 34145-45 / Turnabout TV 34145S
AAA 100% Analogue Mastered By Kevin Gray at AcosTech Mastering
Limited Edition – Pressed at QRP Quality Record Pressings

The Absolute Sound Super Disc List 2016   TAS Harry Pearson Super LP List
Michael Fremer, Musicangle Music 10, Sound 10
Cut at 45 RPM at AcousTech by Kevin Gray from the original Vox Turnabout tapes.

Here’s what one needs to know about this absolutely essential 180g 2LP set: Heralded across the world for its lifelike presence, warm and smooth balances, and spectacular low-frequency dynamics, this Analogue Productions reissue of this masterwork will challenge the limits of any system, no matter the cost.
Better still, it will bring to life the thrilling performance of a lifetime given by Donald Johanos and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as if one is sitting just ten rows back in the concert hall.

The tape recording was made at a speed of 30 inches-per-second, using a transport modified to produce exceptionally good motion: a specially developed constant-velocity recording curve was employed for improved signal-to-noise ratio.
The lacquer masters were made directly from the original tape, thus avoiding further transfer degradation.
The result is a recording of exceptional clarity, naturalness and freedom from vices prevalent generally in the art.”

“If ever there was a piece of symphonic music perfectly suited for non-classical music lovers to find a way into the genre, this would be it. The music, based on folk themes, is tuneful, accessible and rhythmically sweeping. The orchestration provides a rich, colorful palette of strings, horns, woodwinds, percussion and unusually, even a saxophone.

The recording, produced in McFarlin Auditorium at Southern Methodist University is relatively dry and intimately voiced. Dynamics are explosive and orchestral timbres remarkably accurate.
It quite simply does not get any better than this. This record has been lauded by every critic since 1967 as the closest thing to recorded perfection that exists. This is the record you put on to convince yourself that investing in that high-end system was in fact worthwhile. It will positively test the limits of any system. Dynamics, texture, colors, air, bass – everything! This one’s got it all.