Claudio Abbado / Boston Symphony Orchestra – Skrjabin: Le Poème de l’Extase; Tschaikowsky: Romeo und Julia [Stereo] (The Original Source Series Edition)

(AAA) — Lacquers cut from the original analog master tapes by Sidney Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios.

Scriabin's »Poème de l'extase« today represents everything he has produced as a composer. The oversizing of his compositions practically overwhelms the listener. The writer Boris Pasternak confesses: „I couldn't hear this music without tears“.
Tchaikovsky describes much more earthly joys and pains in his fantasy overture »Romeo and Juliet«. Balakirev had drawn the composer's attention to Shakespeare's tragedy. In gratitude, Tchaikovsky dedicated the score to him.

The audiophile vinyl series The Original Source presents outstanding recordings from the 1970s in a whole new sound quality. For this purpose, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and cut the original four- and eight-track tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA) using technologies developed specifically for the production of the series. The sonic differences from the original releases are considerable: greater clarity, more subtleties and improvements in frequency response, as well as less background noise, distortion and compression, enable an audiophile listening experience like never before.

On 180g vinyl records and in a deluxe gatefold edition with original covers and lyrics, copies of this series will be released limited and numbered, accompanied by additional photos and facsimiles of the recording logs and tape boxes.

Tracklist:

Side A:

Alexander Scriabin:
Le Poème de l'Extase /The Poem of Ecstasy, op. 54

Side B:

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
Romeo and Juliet

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado

(Above description from DeutscheGrammophon.com)