Scriabin: Le Poème de l'extase/Tchaikovsky: Romeo und Julia (LP)

Today, Scriabin's "Poème de l'extase" is representative of everything he produced as a composer. The oversized nature of his compositions virtually overwhelms the listener. The writer Boris Pasternak confesses: "I could not listen to 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 completely new sound quality. The renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and edited the original four- and eight-track tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA) using technologies specially developed for the production of the series. The sonic differences to the original releases are considerable: greater clarity, more subtleties and improvements in the frequency response, as well as less background noise, distortion and compression make for an audiophile listening experience like never before. Released on 180g vinyl records and in a deluxe gatefold edition with original covers and lyrics, the copies in this series are limited and numbered, accompanied by additional photos and facsimiles of the recording logs and band boxes.