Silverline Classics has launched a series of legendary recordings in DVD-Audio format from the Vanguard Classics & Omega labels.

The series highlights include acclaimed performances by Maurice Abravanel & the Utah Symphony Orchestra, such as the beginning of complete cycles of the Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler and Sibelius symphonies by Abravanel and the orchestra, in DVD-Audio for the first time.

Among the milestones is the fact that Abravanel and the Utah Symphony Orchestra were the first conductor and orchestra anywhere in the world to record a complete, integral cycle of the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, which will be released in its entirety by Silverline Classics.

Each DVD-Audio features 5.1 Surround Sound and special features including rare interviews, archival photos, memorabilia, technical notes and behind-the-scenes commentary abou the restoration process.

Abravanel & the Utah Symphony Orchestra recorded exclusively for Vanguard Classsics. Predating the digital era, many of these recordings from the 1960s and 1970s were made with unusual, then-experimental multi-track stereo techniques, the benefits of which are enhanced by 5.1 digital "surround sound" reproduced in the DVD-Audio format. The 5.1 sound concept features left and right channels, both front and rear, as well as a front center channel, which combine to create a soundscape that completely surrounds the listener.

The result fully realizes the "surround sound" playback the Solomons sought to create and brings an even greater brilliance to a body of recordings that was always admired for its musical integrity and its uncommonly fine sound.

Click here for the press release.

Click here for information on the initial Abravanel releases.

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