Good sounding Deutsche Grammophon recordings


We have a pretty big classical CD collection and many are Deutsche Grammophon. Many of these recordings don't sound that great and I have to say that some of the Deutsche Grammophon vinyl we have is average sounding. But the performances are usually top notch. After upgrading my cartridge to an Audio Note iQ3 I took a chance on some mid 60's Herbert Von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic vinyl from Ebay. I thought I would share some of the outstanding finds I came across.

Brahms four symphonies-outstanding sound and amazing playing. These symphonies can sound thick and muddy. Not here.
Brahms Violin Concerto- Christian Ferras violin.
Beethoven Violin Concerto- Christian Ferras violin -Simply amazing sound.

Karl Bohm and the Berlin Philharmonic Schubert 5th Symphony. Elegant interpretation and excellent sound. I think from the 60's

A live performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto no1. from 1979 Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic- Sonically amazing.

I found most of these less than $15 and mint minus ratings- not bad :)
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Agree. Totally overrated. DG had ONE advantage (at their time) they paid the musicians immediately .They have a huge repertoire, but they did create "Digital Sound" (thin, flat, dead) into their pressings even when no one did know what that is. Compared to Mercury/Decca/London Standard light years below. Well, we have to go back to understand it. All companies used that stuff what was available at their time. And they had recording teams which made the best out of it. But none of them did know how good they really were (Except Robert Fine probably). We do that rating now, 40-50 years later. We can say now, they had equipment which was fantastic but no one did know that at that time. They went on with technical "progress" used more mikes, used mixing desks, used Dynagroove cutters and so on and on....
Deutsche Gramophone was simply too late. They started at their point with equipment which was at that time the "Standard". And again, now, 40 years later, we can rate that and based on that, they fail. That "Standard" is mediocre from sonics. That's it.