Once you are in Brussels, contact me. I will make you listen to some direct copies of orcherstral work played on a fully a refurbished A80 RC MK II which has been brought to higher specs thanks to a local studio pro tech.
I have five albums of classical orchestral music on SM's.
*Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste Reiner, CSO
Beethoven Symphony 5 Reiner CSO
*Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Reiner CSO
*Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Heifetz Reiner CSO
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Excerpts Fistoulari ROHCG (2 reels)
*1/2" tape
In addition I have a 5 reeler of
Puccini Turandot Leinsdorf, Nillson, Bjoerling
All were by Record Services in Alsdorf, West Germany in the late 80's using A80 and SM911 tape.
I also have several commercially available 15ips 2 track orchestral tapes.
From Tape Project:
Arnold Overtures Arnold LPO
Exotic Dances from Opera Oue Minnesota Orchesta
Respighi Church Windows/Copland Appalachian Spring Clark Pacific SO
The following two are out of print
Bruch Scottish Fantasia/Hindemith Violin Concerto Oistrakh LSO
Albeniz Suite Espagnola Fruebeck de Burgos LSO
Also
From Horch House:
StraussR Also Sprach Zarathustra Steinberg Boston SO
Mahler Symphony 1 Suitner Staatskapelle Dresden
Mozart Famous Opera Arias Hermann Prey. Suitner Staatskapelle Dresden
From Open Reel
Debussy Nocturnes Fournet, Czech PO
Brahms Double Concerto Suk, Navarra, Ancerl Czech PO
Also a few Vivaldi concertos, vocal music with orchestra
From Fone
Beethoven Violin Concerto,Romance 2 Accardo Camerata Italiana (2 Reels)
From Yarlung
Mahler Symphony 5 Schwarz Colburn SO (2 reels)
If You Love for Beauty Sasha Cooke (msop), Colburn SO (2 reels, available separately)
From Opus3
Beethoven Symphony 1,2 Stockholm Sinfonietta (2 reels)
Mozart, Larsson Clarinet Concertos, Others Fageus, Klas Royal Stockholm Orchestra (2 reels)
From ABC Intl (China)
Royal Ballet Gala Ansermet ROHCG (2 reels - contains 2/3rd of full 2 record album)
Sarasate Carmen Fantasy and others, Perlman, Foster LSO
Of the commercially available ones I would start with two from Tape Project
Arnold Overtures
Exotic Dances
Then three that I forgot about:
Acoustic Sounds
Rimsky-Korsakoff Scheherazade Reiner CSO
Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances Johanos Dallas SO
Prokofiev Lt.Kije and Stravinsky Song of the Nightingale Reiner CSO
from pics you can get an idea how the condition is of the tape , I ve looked already and played samples of the Sheffield drums , its a kind of test track .
only thing I trust is my ears.....
all my SMs and 1copies are perfect condition....
the copies are mostly made between my two A80RC on 528 or recently SM900
some from A80RC to Lyrec Frida mkII