Antonin Dvorák: Symphonie Nr.9 "From The New World" (Deluxe) (180g) [LP]

Seiji Ozawa's arrival as music director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in 1970 was later vividly described by Barack Obama: "With his mop haircut, his turtlenecks and his love beads, he almost looked like a Beatle". This recording of Dvořák's symphony "From the New World" from May 1975 was one of the last to be recorded by Philips in quadrophonic format and remixed especially for this new edition. For this release, Rainer Maillard of Emil Berliner Studios used the original four-channel quadrophonic master tape to create a new stereo mix that was sent directly to the cutting head. This preserves the entire analog signal path. The Philips engineers of the 1970s would also have mixed the four front and rear channels before cutting, but this downmix would have resulted in a two-track stereo copy for mastering, whereas here the lacquer record is cut directly from a "live" mix in stereo from the four quad channels.