Charles Munch - Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings (1958) 24-Bit/96-kHz Vinyl Rip | Date: 10 November 2010, 05:35
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Charles Munch - Tchaikovsky: Serenade for StringsVinyl Rip in 24-Bit/96-kHz | FLAC tracks | Full Scan Covers | MU, RS | 803 MB 3% recovery 1958 | Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | LSC-2105 | US pressing circa 1970 Listed in TAS (The Absolute Sound) issue #36
As the romantic preliminary to love itself, the serenade has always posed special problems. It should not sound too ardent or too artful; it should hint at possible passions, smoldering gently without bursting into open flame. The classic serenade has an air of sadness about it, a sense of sighting. It touches the heartstrings with tender caresses rather than stormwinds of compulsion.
Nature and circumstance endowed Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky with more than usual qualifications for writing serenades. True, he addressed his serenades to everyone who cared to listen, preferring a well-filled concert hall to a single lady on balcony. But he had experienced what it is to go unrequited in love, and he became past master of the sweet complaining grievance. His lady was his muse, the inspiration which he himself personified as "she" - the "guest who does not visit the lazy but comes to those who call her." In her presence, Tchaikovsky confided to his "Beloved Friend," Nadejda von Meck, "one forgets everything, the spirit trembles with sweet excitement, and before one has time to follow the swift flight to its end, the hours pass unnoticed."
In October of 1880, Tchaikovsky reported to the admiring Madame von Meck that "recently my Muse has been benevolent. I have written two long works very rapidly - the 1812 Overture and a Serenade in four movements for string orchestra. The Overture will be very noisy. I wrote it without much warmth of enthusiasm; therefore it has no great artistic value. The Serenade, on the contrary, I wrote from an inward impulse. I felt it, and I venture to hope that this work is not without artistic qualities." Later he explained further that "the first movement is my homage to Mozart: it is intended to be an imitation of his style, and I should be delighted if I thought I had in any way approached my model."
Mozart, whom Tchaikovsky "worshipped" unabashedly, fascinated him with his "radiant genius," his "purity and distinction of style," his "exquisite handling of parts."
(Fred Grunfeld)
Strings of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Charles Munch
Track Listing:
1. Tchaikovsky: Serenade for String Orchestra, Op.48 - Pezzo in forma di Sonatina
2. Tchaikovsky: Serenade for String Orchestra, Op.48 - Walzer
3. Tchaikovsky: Serenade for String Orchestra, Op.48 - Elegie
4. Tchaikovsky: Serenade for String Orchestra, Op.48 - Finale
5. Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op.47
 Technical InfoTurntable: Roksan Radius III
Tonearm: Audioquest PT-9
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Interconnect: balanced, Belden 1813A cable with Neutrik XLR connectors
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Capture software: Goldwave 5.52
Post processing: ClickRepair, setting: 10, reverse, wavelet x3
Ripping policy: I always rip good condition vinyl so that the amount of click/pop will be almost none
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