Sunday 11 January 2015

Somary / English Chamber Orchestra - Bach: Brandenburg Concertos


These recordings of J S Bach's Brandenburg Concertos were recorded from the perspective of the conductor. Most of the orchestra is heard from the front speakers, although dialogue between wind and strings alternates between front and rear.

The SACD release featured the original quadraphonic mix with a silent centre channel as required by the SACD format that I deleted from my conversion and was a two disc set. As the high resolution version of the entire recording could fit on one disc, I created separate DVD-Audio and DVD-Video (DTS & Dolby) discs rather than two hybrid DVD-Audio/Video discs.

Source: SACD

Converted to: DVD-A MLP 24/88.2 (Disc 1) & DVD-V DTS 24/48 & Dolby Digital 24/48 (Disc 2)