Good sounding Deutsche Grammophon recordings

Another recommendation for a DG orchestral recording that sounds very good is the Stravinsky Violin Concerto, with Ozawa, Boston Symphony, and Perlman. 2531 110

DG seemed to use entirely different groups of engineers for their chamber music recordings and a much simpler miking philosophy. As a result, many of their chamber music recordings are very good, particularly the recordings with the Boston Symphony Players. Some examples:

Berg, Chamber Concerto for Pf & Vn with 13 winds instruments, 2531 007

Messiaen, Quatuor pour la Din du Temps (Qt for the End of Time), 2531 093

Stravinsky, Concertina for 12 Instruments / Ragtime for Eleven Instruments, 2530 551

Stravinsky, L'Histoire du Soldat, 2530 609

Carter, Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsicord, 2530 104

Schoenberg, Suite Op. 29, 2531 277
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Fabsound, some suggestions in response to you request for
vinyl recommendations:

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Beethoven String Qts - opinions will be all over the
place. And different performing ensembles bring differing
strengths in the various period quartets (early, middle,
late). I recommend the following LPs for their excellent
sound quality coupled with very good overall performances:

Vegh Quartet on the French Valois label, reissued on
Telefunken. The Valois pressings sound a bit better but
the Telefunken pressings are good and very reliable.

Talich Quartet on Calliope 1631, 1634, 1637, 1638, 1639
1640

Julliard String Quartet on RCA (sound quality will vary
with pressing)
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Mozart String Quartets
The Amadeus Quartet on Deutsche Grammophon are very good
across the board.

The Salomon String Quartet on Hyperion are nice for a more
historically informed performance quality.
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Bach Cantatas
I continue to enjoy the Telefunken complete Cantatas
series with Harnoncourt and Leonhardt conducting. It is
one of the earliest efforts to bring some greater
historically informed performance practices to record.
While the choices made sound a bit dated in comparison to
where the HIP efforts evolved, the singing is quite
marvelous and all are nicely captured in the recordings.
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Mozart Oboe Quarter K370
The Boston Chamber Players makes a fine effort on this
piece in RCA LSC 6167
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Bach Cello Suites
Janos Starker, Mercury SR3-9016 - reissued in great sound
by Speakers Corner and still currently available new

Frans Helmerson on BIS LP 5, LP 25, LP 65
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Good luck in your search!
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For those who may be reading this thread and who are interested in some similar additional information, here are two other threads to spark your interests:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1205460173

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1083989129&openfrom&13&4#13
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