The Sound Of A New EraDVD Audio From EMI Classics

CD, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM... and now DVD-Audio

12-Nov-01

EMI Classics is proud to present the first nine releases on DVD-Audio, the new medium that contains a choice of two sound channels: multichannel Surround Sound or a high resolution Stereo mix. For those with a compatible home entertainment system, Surround Sound will provide the ultimate listening experience. Now you can experience legendary conductor Herbert von Karajan and his beloved Berlin Philharmonic in Wagner Overtures, AndrÈ Previn and his benchmark recording of Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, Sir Simon Rattle's Mahler 10 which won every major award in the classical music industry last year, and the unique sound of The Choir of King?s College Cambridge singing Bach's Magnificat in D like you?ve never heard them before. What is DVD-Audio?It is the most significant new music format since the Compact Disc.DVD-Audio is a new, high-resolution format that puts master-quality digital recordings into the hands of consumers, yielding a far wider dynamic range and greater clarity of image than ever previously available commercially.It provides dramatically higher quality stereo than CD, and is a huge advance on DVD-Video, used primarily as a visual medium.DVD-Audio delivers 5.1-channel surround sound and can accommodate several versions of an album on the same disc - separate stereo versions, for instance, or different stereo mixes.It also offers non-audio features displayed on the TV screen - features such as graphics, liner notes, lyrics, menus and Web links.These nine discs are among the first commercial DVD-Audio discs to be created in the UK. Two award-winning teams from Abbey Road Studios have worked together to ensure state of the art audio quality. New RecordingsMahler: Symphony No.10 - Berlin Philharmonic / RattleReleased: November 6, 2001""One of the great orchestral records of 2000, surely"" (The Sunday Times)""A remarkable performance, totally gripping from first to last"" (Gramophone)Bach: Organ works, chorales and motets - Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Academy of Ancient Music / CleoburyReleased: January 8, 2002""The solo singing is uniformly magnificent, orchestral support vivid and abundantly varied. Everything simply sparkles with new life, making this a particularly worthwhile issue in this special Bach year."" (Gramophone, July 2000)Sir Simon Rattle's internationally-praised, award-winning recording of Mahler?s Symphony No.10 (in Deryck Cooke's performing version) and Stephen Cleobury with the Academy of Ancient Music and The Choir of King's College, Cambridge in organ works, chorales and motets by J.S.Bach have been specially recorded and mixed for Surround Sound. The Surround Sound Mix is in 5.1, using the full range of five channels, with an additional low frequency channel. This offers unparalleled fidelity to the sound of the performance and the acoustic in which it was recorded. Each is on one double-sided disc, compatible with DVD-Audio and DVD-Video players (NTSC and PAL).Remastered landmark recordingsNovember 6, 2001 Releases:Wagner: Overtures ? Berlin Philharmonic / KarajanRavel: BolÈro, La Valse & Daphnis et ChloÈ - Orchestra de Paris / Choeurs du ThÈ?tre National de l?OpÈra / MartinonRichard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra & Eine Alpensinfonie - Staatskapelle Dresden / KempeHolst: The Planets, The Perfect Fool & Egdon Heath - London Symphony Orchestra / PrevinJanuary 8, 2002 Releases:Walton: Belshazzar?s Feast, Symphony No.2, Scarpino & Portsmouth Point - London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / PrevinHandel: Water Music & Music for the Royal Fireworks - Prague Chamber Orchestra & London Symphony Orchestra / MackerrasMessiaen: TurangalÓla-Symphonie - Michel BÈroff & Jeanne Loriod / London Symphony Orchestra / PrevinThese seven landmark recordings from EMI's catalogue have been digitally remastered from the original 1970s analogue originals for both Stereo and Surround Sound systems.