I hesitated between inserting this post in the music or in the audio sections. However, considering that its exceptional music and cultural content is much beyond my words referring to it (I will use the words of Jordi Savall to summarize it - "With this work, we shall try to evoke those shameful moments in the history of humanity through a series of eloquent texts and accounts, accompanied by the emotion and vitality of the music to which the slaves sang and danced.") I will focus on the audio side.
It is not the first time that I refer to excellent sound quality of AliaVox, the Jordi Savall label, in WBF, particularly in the last 10 years. Fortunately the high musical quality is well served artistically and technically, Manuel Mohino using Merging Technologies Pyramix manages to incorporate in the recording much more than we can expect with stereo sound reproduction.
Recently I was able to attend the life performance of his last project - an exceptional rich and dynamic mix of singers and musical instruments - see :https://alia-vox.com/cataleg.php?id=138
I already owned the recording, and as expected, the reality surpasses the reproduction by orders of magnitude - also the visual aspect can not be ignored. However, I was astonished when re-listening by how much of the real is incorporated and shows in this recording and how true it is, and how some equipment shows much more truth than other. I have now listened to it in several good systems, and it is a real eye opener.
Suffice to say that this CD/SACD joins my now large pile of reference recordings, although it is a dangerous one - too good on the musical side to be taken in small portions, and also in some aspects too emotional.
I am sure that this last point will be controversial, but I have to say that none of my vinyl recordings of akin content has the the richness and the feeling of being there of "The routes of esclavage" - suffice to say that if someday I am able to listen to the WAMM's, this is the recording I want to have with me!
And yes, in the Vivaldi I prefer the SACD to the CD layer ...
It is not the first time that I refer to excellent sound quality of AliaVox, the Jordi Savall label, in WBF, particularly in the last 10 years. Fortunately the high musical quality is well served artistically and technically, Manuel Mohino using Merging Technologies Pyramix manages to incorporate in the recording much more than we can expect with stereo sound reproduction.
Recently I was able to attend the life performance of his last project - an exceptional rich and dynamic mix of singers and musical instruments - see :https://alia-vox.com/cataleg.php?id=138
I already owned the recording, and as expected, the reality surpasses the reproduction by orders of magnitude - also the visual aspect can not be ignored. However, I was astonished when re-listening by how much of the real is incorporated and shows in this recording and how true it is, and how some equipment shows much more truth than other. I have now listened to it in several good systems, and it is a real eye opener.
Suffice to say that this CD/SACD joins my now large pile of reference recordings, although it is a dangerous one - too good on the musical side to be taken in small portions, and also in some aspects too emotional.
I am sure that this last point will be controversial, but I have to say that none of my vinyl recordings of akin content has the the richness and the feeling of being there of "The routes of esclavage" - suffice to say that if someday I am able to listen to the WAMM's, this is the recording I want to have with me!
And yes, in the Vivaldi I prefer the SACD to the CD layer ...
