Judged in its time as a straightforward coupling of
Rachmaninov's very popular Second Symphony with
Rimsky-Korsakov's extremely popular Capriccio Espagnol, this 1976 recording with
Edo de Waart leading the
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra gets a whole new lease on life in this superlative PentaTone super audio CD. Though issued in stereo on LP, the performances were originally recorded in quadraphonic by Philips and superbly remastered by PentaTone, and the four-channel sound here is breathtaking in its immediacy with astounding transparency and an enormous dynamic range. It is truly as if the listener was 15 rows back in a concert hall with ideal acoustics.