Walton Facade - Mam'zelle Angot - Fistoulari

Walton Facade; Lecocq Mamzelle Angot; Fistoulari, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden: RCA Living Stereo 200g LP Reissue from Analogue Productions

Antole Fistoulari conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden in a performance of Sir William Walton's Façade and Charles Lecocq's Mamzelle Angot. Working with the Royal Ballet Orchestra in Covent Garden under Fistoulari, engineer Ken Cross and producer Michael Williamson created another Decca/RCA masterpiece. It's hard to know where to begin with a record this good.

The top – the high end – of this recording is simply as well recorded as any RCA there is. Undeniable transparency, snap, detail and body on cymbals, bells and woodblocks. The same virtues, along with the added virtue of harmonic richness extends into the mid-range. Strings are sweet, diaphanous, transparent and a bit bright, without being irritating. Brass and woodwinds – which in this piece carry much of the thematic load – are particularly well reproduced.

Remastered from the original master tapes, pressed at Quality Record Pressings, and packaged in a tip-on jacket facsimiles that precisely duplicate the original cover art.

Musicians:
William Walton / Charles Lecocq, composer
Anatole Fistoulari, conductor
The Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden

Features:
• 33 1/3 200g vinyl
• Mastered by Willem Makkee
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Plated by Gary Salstron