Grainger / Rogers / Milhaud / Strauss - Winds In Hi-Fi / Fennell - Super Hot Stamper

Grainger / Rogers / Milhaud / Strauss - Winds In Hi-Fi / Fennell - Super Hot StamperHarry Pearson put this record on his TAS list of Super Discs many years ago, but, like so many amazingly good recordings from the golden age, it no longer appears to qualify for inclusion. The credit must go to Fennel along with the brilliant engineering team at Mercury. Ive been told that he was a stickler for making sure everyone was perfectly in tune and playing correctly within the ensemble. Thats exactly what you hear when you play a record like

Is that richer

" There is also a mark that plays 6 times lightly at the start of the last track

But in the case of Siren

Argybargy (1980)

(The Chabrier cover is not much either

Alto Saxophone

there are only three in our opinion that actually support their reputation as studio wizards and recording geniuses

leaving sound that was nothing less than glorious

To paraphrase The Hollies

in Columbia's glorious sounding 30th Street Studio

The process is simple enough

albums we know to have outstanding sound (potentially anyway