Just… since it was mentioned. I looked up Moravec’s Vox recordings, and it turns out they were recorded in RCA’s headquarters with Max Wilcox producing! That would certainly explain the fine technical quality of the recording, which I was surprised by since everything tends to be so cost compressed otherwise from budget labels.
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True, and so was the Nonesuch album with Schumann and Brahms!
https://web.archive.org/web/20120213141417/http://www.ivanmoravec.net:80/discography/discography.html
Moravec (so I’ve heard) was extremely critical in terms of both quality of the piano and recorded sound.
And wasn’t Zhukov also a recording engineer?
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I alwayz like zound on da early HO pimp recz like da fuckin PAGANIGGA #2 et
It soundz…intimate.
I almost exclusively listen in my 800s rig with the beautiful AAA789 amp and DX7s dac. This really changed my feeling about great recs. Because the hall sound isn’t just “fog” I’ve been drawn to things like volodos liszt album and gekic Rossini liszt… Its like you are in the hall. Though for stereo listening where everything is mechanically compressed by limits of speaks can’t beat da Ho’s ability project across all that with his strong personality as guiding light especially in early mid 60s recs