This Living Stereo classic, indisputably in the top ten for performance and sound, has now been remastered from a better source. It's a worthwhile upgrade for the Redux series.

Artist(s): Conductor - Fritz Reiner
Orchestra - Chicago Symphony Orchestra*
Orchestrated by - Maurice Ravel
Recording Info: Recorded RCA Dec. 7, 1957, Orchestra Hall, Chicago
Engineer [Recording] – Lewis Layton
Producer – Richard Mohr
Sourced from a 15ips 2-track tape
Analog: Transferred using a modified Studer 810 tape deck feeding a Merrill Tape Preamp
Digital: Merging Hapi Analog to Digital Converter clocked by an Antelope Audio 10MX Atomic Clock
Power Conditioning: Shunyata Research Everest 8000 for analog components
Shunyata Research Triton and Typhon for digital components

1 Promenade 1:49
2 Gnomus 2:34
3 Promenade 1:05
4 Il Vecchio Castello 4:26
5 Promenade 0:34
6 Tuileries 0:58
7 Bydlo 3:25
8 Promenade 0:44
9 Ballet Of The Chicks In Their Shells 1:12
10 Samuel Goldenberg And Schmuyle 2:13
11 The Marketplace At Limoges 1:17
12 Catacombae, Sepulchrum Romanum 1:57
13 Con Mortuis In Lingua Mortua 1:59
14 The Hut On Fowl's Legs 3:28
15 The Great Gate At Kiev 5:16

Please Note: This release was edited in DXD PCM from a DSD256 Master
then the DXD edited master was used to generate the final DSD files using
Merging Technologies Album Publishing.
DXD (352.8KHz 24/32 bit PCM) is one of the best and least destructive formats for post-processing DSD originated digital recordings

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