Phase Four Stereo Concert Series / Various by Various Artists (CD, 2014)

Decca, Dca

0028947867692

23046076295

CD

2014

Rock

Various Artists

Phase Four Stereo Concert Series / Various

5.25in

2.51lb.

5.25in

5.25in

40

1

1.1 Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever 1.2 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Arr. Grof) / An American in Paris / Variations on "I Got Rhythm" 1.3 Khachaturian: Spartacus - Ballet Suite / Masquerade - Ballet Suite/ Gayaneh - Ballet Suite 1.4 Spectacular Dances 1.5 Ravel: Bolro / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances /*Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol / Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op.45 1.6 Liszt: Piano Concerto Nos.1 ; 2 / *Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 1.7 Dvork: Symphony No.9 "From the New World" / Kodly Hry Jnos - Suite 1.8 Orff: Carmina Burana 1.9 Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Lieutenant Kij - Symphonic Suite / Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra 1.10 Rossini / Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque - Ballet Suite / Suite Rossiniana 1.11 The Magnificent Voice of Eileen Farrell 1.12 Fiedler Encores 1.13 Gershwin: Overtures Etc 1.14 Strauss II: Waltzes / Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Suite 1.15 Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Op.20 (Complete) 1.16 Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto / Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor 1.17 Music from the Great Hitchcock Movie Thrillers 1.18 Bernard Herrmann Journey to the Centre of the Earth Etc 1.19 Bizet: Carmen - Excerpts / Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 "Pathtique" 1.20 Beethoven: Symphony No.6 in F Major "Pastoral"/ Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche 1.21 R Strauss: Tod Und Verklrung, Op.24 / Tchaikovsky: Francesca Da Rimini / Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 1.22 Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D Major "Titan" / *Wagner: Tannhuser - Overture and Venusberg Music 1.23 Americana 1.24 Bizet: Carmen - Suite/ L'arlsienne - Suite 1.25 Offenbach (Arr. Rosenthal): Gat Parisienne - Ballet / Respighi Pines of Rome / Fountains of Rome 1.26 Flamenco Puro 'Live' 1.27 The Immortal Works of Ketlbey / Violin Encores 1.28 Rzsa: Music from Ben Hur 1.29 Beethoven: Egmont Overture / Symphony No.9 1.30 Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / la Damnation de Faust / Ballet Des Sylphes / Ravel: Fanfare Pour L'eventail de Jeanne" / Daphnis Et Chlo - Suite No. 2 1.31 Mussorgsky: Pictures at An Exhibition (Trans. Stokowski) / Boris Godunov (Symphonic Synthesis By Stokowski) / Night on the Bare Mountain (Orch. Stokowski) / Tchaikovsky: Overture "1812" 1.32 Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Capriccio Espagnol, Op.34 / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor - Compl/Orch. Rimsky-Korsakov ; Glazunov) 1.33 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 / Glazunov: Violin Concerto in a Minor 1.34 Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake - Selections / the Sleeping Beauty - Selections / Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture After Shakespeare/ Marche Slave, Op.31 1.35 Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Op.8 1.36 Wagner Extracts 1.37 Orchestral Transcriptions: JS Bach / Byrd / Clarke / Schubert / Chopin / Tchaikovsky / Duparc / Rachmaninov 1.38 Yellow River Concerto / Mozart Piano Concerto No.21 1.39 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.21 "Waldstein" / Schubert Fantasy in C Major "Wanderer", D760 / Stravinsky Three Movements from Petrouchka 1.40 Battle Stereo

2014 40 CD overview of some of the most sonically-spectacular classical and film soundtrack albums ever made. With 11 albums enjoying their first international CD release, Decca here celebrates a unique chapter in it's own engineering history. Created in 1961, Phase 4 used the then-new multi-mixing techniques to deliver albums of maximum immediacy, clarity of instrumentation and breadth of dynamic range. 200 classical releases were eventually released on this label, with the first major classical releases 50 years ago in 1964. This set shows Phase 4 in it's prime big classical works requiring large scale orchestras, ripe for the display of spectacular sound engineering feats. These were originally recorded using a 4 track, 20 channel console mixer built especially by Decca. Each channel (recorded independently) of the console had equalization and reverb/echo (electronic or chamber), and each channel was assignable to any of the 4 tracks of an Ampex tape recorder. For the early to mid-sixties this was state-of-the-art.