Product Review

ORIGINALS 6-LP SET

CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No.1/LISZT: Piano Concerto No.1
Martha Argerich/London Symphony Orchestra/Claudio Abbado

GRIEG: Lyric Pieces (selection)
Emil Gilels

HOLST: The Planets
Boston Symphony Orchestra/William Steinberg

R.STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra
Berliner Philharmoniker/Herbert von Karajan

ORFF: Carmina Burana
Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin/Eugen Jochum

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.6 Pathétique
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra/Evgeny Mravinsky

This 6-LP set forms part of the celebration of 20 years of Deutsche Grammophon s CD series, The Originals, which was launched with a bang 25 releases in all in March 1995. The discs brought together here, classics of the LP era from the 1960s and 1970s, are all included in the series, but are now re-presented in their original format, without the mediation of the special The Originals remastering process, the ele¬gantly-titled Original-Bit Image-Pro¬cessing. In other words, these LPs offer direct transfers from untreated analogue sources.