Boston Symphony Orchestra & Seiji Ozawa - Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61; Alborada del gracioso, M. 43; Miroirs, M. 43; Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (2025) [Hi-Res]

During the 1970s the Boston Symphony Orchestra was an ensemble of significant refinement, having enjoyed a reputation as America’s primary “French” orchestra since the days of Serge Koussevitzky and Charles Munch. Seiji Ozawa served as the BSO’s music director from 1973 until 2002, and these Ravel recordings, taped at the very beginning of the maestro’s tenure in Boston, count among the very finest achievements of their collaboration.

This digital transfer arrives alongside the Original Source series, which presents outstanding recordings from the 1970s in a whole new sound quality. For this, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and edited the original four- and eight-track tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA) using technologies developed specifically to produce the series. The sonic differences to the original releases are considerable: greater clarity, more subtleties and improvements in frequency response, while at the same time less background noise, distortion and compression allow for an audiophile listening experience like never before.