ppint, this is available on CD in Australia, in Universal Classics' Eloquence series, which is a budget-price series encompassing Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips and ABC Classics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). I don't have any of the series myself, so I can't tell you whether or not it is remastered from the original tapes. (getmusic.com.au is Universal's Australian website, by the way - this might be a better source to buy it than UK Amazon, who have it as "temporarily out of stock", and at more than twice the price).
a fine performance of britten's short-form mass, let down - only a little - by the choristers' diction, and the then-fashionable° "thin" sound of the first and second trebles' voices.
- reissued on a decca group lp - and, i trust, available on cd transfer somewhere in the deutsche grammophon group's catalogue - even, perhaps, remastered from the original tapes, dare one hope?
° - and for many years the fashion, i understand, for boys' voices in english church choirs.
a fine performance of britten's short-form mass, let down - only a little - by the choristers' diction, and the then-fashionable° "thin" sound of the first and second trebles' voices.
- reissued on a decca group lp - and, i trust, available on cd transfer somewhere in the deutsche grammophon group's catalogue - even, perhaps, remastered from the original tapes, dare one hope?
° - and for many years the fashion, i understand, for boys' voices in english church choirs.
a fine performance of britten's short-form mass, let down - only a little - by the choristers' diction, and the then-fashionable° "thin" sound of the first and second trebles' voices.
- reissued on a decca group lp - and, i trust, available on cd transfer somewhere in the deutsche grammophon group's catalogue - even, perhaps, remastered from the original tapes, dare one hope?
° - and for many years the fashion, i understand, for boys' voices in english church choirs.
a fine performance of britten's short-form mass, let down - only a little - by the choristers' diction, and the then-fashionable° "thin" sound of the first and second trebles' voices.
- reissued on a decca group lp - and, i trust, available on cd transfer somewhere in the deutsche grammophon group's catalogue - even, perhaps, remastered from the original tapes, dare one hope?
° - and for many years the fashion, i understand, for boys' voices in english church choirs.
a fine performance of britten's short-form mass, let down - only a little - by the choristers' diction, and the then-fashionable° "thin" sound of the first and second trebles' voices.
- reissued on a decca group lp - and, i trust, available on cd transfer somewhere in the deutsche grammophon group's catalogue - even, perhaps, remastered from the original tapes, dare one hope?
° - and for many years the fashion, i understand, for boys' voices in english church choirs.