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Yoshi,

it is well known that Japanese collecting-recording culture is well more developed and very frequently the quality of this CD pressing is way more interesting then we have in States. I quite regularly buy at HMV Japan CDs. Some of them never available anywhere outside of Japan. Evan the Mravinsky's 1961 recordings in London, that were released and mastered by many people are much better by DG of Tokyo. They are expansive like hell but worth each single penny as their quality way better then regular DG or DG’s Originals. I do not think that you should be very pound for being a Japanese as a good quality of Japanese CD mastering is not because the Japanese are so good but because they have no “HP recommended lists” not cretins like Lars Fredel, Stive Rohlin, John Marks, Michele Fremer and not other US marketing whores who created an army of “pleased by frequencies” audio-Morons who satisfied with a primitive mastering surrogate.

Anyhow, about the Mravinsky's movie. The video fragment I described about was phenomenal. The entire film was very poor. The “Classical Record Collector” magazine a few years ago published a complete issues dedicated to Mraviansky and it was way more interesting. Still, there was a astonishing episode in the movie describing Mraviansky canceled his the only performance of Bruckner’s Seventh after a transcending result his orchestra reached at their last rehearsal. Mraviansky desided do not tempt fate as he felt the THAT result might not be reached twice… An amazing legend!!!

The Cat

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