HDTracks, the leading source of hi-rez digital music downloads, has added eight RCA Living Stereo classical titles to its growing list of essential golden age stereo classical recordings. These retail for $18-25 each — roughly double the cost of the SACDs from which they are presumably sourced. Each title is available in AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, or WAV formats, as either 88kHz/24bit or 176kHz/24bit files. See their “How to choose” page for help with formats. Check out the list of titles and LSC equivalents below:
Brahms & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos / Jascha Heifetz
HDTracks: 88kHz/24bit, 176kHz/24bit
Original: LSC-1903 – Brahms – Violin Concerto ~ Heifetz – Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Reiner
Original: LSC-2129 – Tschaikowsky – Concerto In D, Op. 35 ~ Heifetz – Chicago Symphony, Reiner
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta; Hungarian Sketches / Fritz Reiner
HDTracks: 88kHz/24bit, 176kHz/24bit
Original: LSC-1934 – Bartok – Concerto For Orchestra ~ Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Reiner
Original: LSC-2374 – Bartok – Music For Strings, Percussion, And Celesta – Hungarian Sketches ~ Chicago Symph., Reiner
Beethoven & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos / Jascha Heifetz
HDTracks: 88kHz/24bit, 176kHz/24bit
Original: LSC-1992 – Beethoven – Violin Concerto, Op. 61 ~ Heifetz; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Munch
Original (Mendelssohn only): LSC-2314 – Mendelssohn – Concerto In E Minor – Prokofieff – Concerto In G Minor ~ Heifetz – Munch, Boston Symphony
Chopin: Ballades & Scherzos / Arthur Rubinstein
HDTracks: 88kHz/24bit, 176kHz/24bit
Original: LSC-2368 – The Chopin Scherzos ~ Rubinstein
Original: LSC-2370 – The Chopin Ballades ~ Rubinstein
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Fritz Reiner
HDTracks: 88kHz/24bit, 176kHz/24bit
Original: LSC-2201 – Moussorgsky-Ravel – Pictures At An Exhibition ~ Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Reiner
Original: LSC-2423 – Festival ~ Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Reiner
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Fritz Reiner
HDTracks: 88kHz/24bit, 176kHz/24bit
Original: LSC-2446 – Rimsky-Korsakoff – Scheherazade ~ Reiner, Chicago Symphony
Original (Stravinsky only): LSC-2150 – Prokofieff – Lieutenant Kije – Stravinsky – Song Of The Nightingale ~ Chicago Symphony, Reiner
Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 – Debussy: La Mer – Ibert: Escales / Charles Munch
HDTracks: 88kHz/24bit, 176kHz/24bit
Original: LSC-2341 – Saint-Saens – Symphony No. 3 In C Minor, Op. 78 ~ Boston Symphony Orchestra, Munch
Original: LSC-2111 – The Sea – Debussy – Ibert ~ Boston Symphony Orchestra, Munch
Sibelius, Prokofiev, Glazunov: Violin Concertos / Jascha Heifetz
HDTracks: 88kHz/24bit, 176kHz/24bit
Original: LSC-2435 – Sibelius – Violin Concerto ~ Heifetz – Chicago Symphony, Hendl
Original (Prokofiev only): LSC-2314 – Mendelssohn – Concerto In E Minor – Prokofieff – Concerto In G Minor ~ Heifetz – Munch, Boston Symphony
Original (Glazunov only): LSC-2734 – Glazunov – Violin Concerto – Mozart – Symphonie Concertante In E-Flat ~ Heifetz – Hendl – Solomon
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