Yevgeny Mravinsky, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 4-6 (1961/2013) [Official Digital Download]

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Yevgeny Mravinsky, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 4-6 (1961/2013) [Official Digital Download]

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Yevgeny Mravinsky, LPO - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 4-6 (1961/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time - 131:23 minutes | 1,45 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

Mravinsky's accounts of the late Tchaikovsky symphonies have tremendous tension and virtuosity, a sense of spiritual commitment and emotional power that are quite out of the ordinary. Even when, as happens at one point in the first movement of the Fourth Symphony, he ignoes the dynamic markings he does so with such conviction that you are left with the feeling that he is right. These transfers seem to me as every bit as good as the originals that I played relatively recently (I have only sampled these copies) and although my allegiance to Mravinsky's earlier record-now deleted-with the Leningrad Philharmonic of the Pathetique remains unshaken (DGM18334, 2/57), this later version is still one of the most moving and thrilling accounts of the work committed to record. These performances radiate a tremendous power, a sense of truth and authenticity of experience and they remain for me at any rate among the classics of the gramophone.

Transfer note:
My aim in carrying out a 32-bit XR remastering of the recordings was to see whether a harmonic rebalancing of the recordings might serve to eliminate these reservations, and I'm pleased to report that substantial improvements have been possible. The sound of the originals was unusually boxy for 1960, with a rather constricted top end and a lack of real depth in the bass. All three of these shortcomings have been resolved here, bringing an even greater sense of immediacy and realism to these fabulous performances.

– Andrew Rose, Remastering Engineer