“A Festival of Lesson and Carols as sung in King’s College Chapel upon Christmas Eve 1958” has become a best seller on Klassic Haus Restorations. In fact, it sold more copies after the Christmas season than before! This recording is considered by many to be superior to later versions recorded by King’s. Here is an […]
Welcome to 2011 (a bit early, I admit!) Here are 6 new titles I have posted on Klassic Haus Restorations, under the Orchestra Page 2 tab. I will have other genres to post during January 2011; I just ended up with orchestral titles dominating my restorations at the end of December, two of them (the Ristenpart-led […]
These CDs are the last of the 2010-series for Klassic Haus, and have been posted on the Klassic Haus website. Fans of Karl Ristenpart will delight in the discs of Schubert’s 1st and 2nd Symphonies (KHCD-2010-054), and Vivaldi’s 8 Concerti for Diverse Instruments (KHCD-2010-055); both of these CDs were requested by two devotees of […]
I had posted these two titles on Klassic Haus Restorations last week, but hadn’t mentioned them here yet, so I am correcting that oversight. These two discs contain some rare delights. The Scholars are one of Europe’s premier chamber vocal ensembles. The vocal ensemble formed in 1970 orginally of students at King’s College, Cambridge. The Scholars […]
I have just posted this CD on Klassic Haus Restorations. Derived from two Westminster mono LPs, these are classic performances of sensitivity and command of the early Romantic idiom, and especially of Schubert’s unique “voice”. The following are notes posted with the disc on my website. Cheers – Curt In 1823, Schubert suffered a serious […]
I ask all who purchase Klassic Haus Restorations CDs to review the discs, so I may get an impression of their listening experience of the recordings I have restored. Recently, two of my customers/e-mail acquaintances had purchased the Karl Ristenpart-led performances of Beethoven’s ‘Eroica” symphony (with Mozart’s K136 & 137 Divertimenti) on KHCD-2010-041, and Haydn’s “Morning”, “Noon”, […]
I have just posted this unique performance on Klassic Haus Restorations. This is not subtle Shostakovich, especially witnessed in this blistering account laid down by Melodiya in brash, muscular stereo, with a soundstage unique to the producer/engineer (Aleksander Grosman). Yevgeny Svetlanov-led recordings with the rough-and-ready USSR Symphony always had an “in-your-face” quality that only the Russians could […]
I have posted three new CDs on the Klassic Haus Restorations website, all recordings that I very much enjoyed restoring. The Rudolf/Cincinnati Symphony Beethoven “Eroica” is one of my favorite recordings of that revolutionary work; the recording is one of US Decca’s best in the Israel Horowitz-produced Cincinnati Symphony series, and the performance is incisive and […]
This recording of RK’s “Scheherazade” was an earlier restoration that I had bumped back releasing to accomodate customer requests for other titles. I am trying to get all the of 2010-series Klassic Haus CDs posted on my website before the end of the year. I have yet to do cover art for the remaining CDs, and some other projects have […]
I have just posted this new CD on Klassic Haus Restorations. I had actually done basic restoration work on the LP last year, but upon adding Adobe Audition as my primary noise reduction tool, I worked on the sound files once again, and was able to clean the audio up a bit more. I think […]