Great Recordings, Sonically Speaking - and Why.


I think many of us would accept that artists such as Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, and Dire Straits have consistently put out music that was at least originally recorded to a high technical standard. [I'm not too sure what the loudness wars may have done to subsequent reissues, but even so, the tone and timbre thankfully tends to remain intact.]

However there must be plenty of lesser known recordings out there that could be said to be of a high sonic standard.

One such recording that I like to put on in the background whilst I'm doing other things is a piano recording that features wonderfully lush timbre and some delightful tunes.

This one is The Disney Piano Collection by Hirohashi Makiko and to me it makes a lot of other piano recordings sound a little washed out.
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Funny. I just gave up looking for a truly great LP! I have a copy, but apparently it’s rare. 1958. RCA Living Stereo, one of RCA’s first batch of brand new stereo recordings, released in March 1958. The first stereo LP was released by Audio Fidelity in November of 1957. 
Not even YouTube has a video of it.

The New Glenn Miller Orchestra. “Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue”

Its a tremendously well recorded LP despite its being made at the very dawn of stereo records.