MK Sound Monitors Selected for Trans-Atlantic, Multi-Year Classical Recording Project
In an ambitious, international recording project scheduled to run over several years, leading Danish classical label, Dacapo Records have contracted with Timbre Music of Denmark to record the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert in performances of the complete six symphonies and three concertos of Carl Nielsen, widely acknowledged as Denmark’s greatest composer.
Four discs will be released separately, beginning in the fall of 2012, with all four assembled in a box set for release in the fall of 2015, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the birth of Carl Nielsen.
In advance of the recording sessions, a fullscale test production with the NYPO and chief conductor Alan Gilbert was carried out in October 2010 when Webern’s Passacaglia, Opus 1, Brahms’ Violin Concerto (with Zukerman) and Nielsen’s Fourth Symphony were recorded with a complete MK Sound system.
In the words of Mikkel Nymand, Timbre Music, “MK speakers seem to “disappear” in the production flow. With MK, we can focus on the performance and getting it right on track.”
Recording in stereo and surround with MK 2510P monitors and MX350 subwoofers, the Carl Nielsen project will employ the most advanced high resolution audio format, DXD (24-bit, 352.8 kHz sampling rate) captured via the finest DPA condenser microphones in an innovative surround array. The recordings will be available as Super Audio CD, Pure Audio Blu-ray and high resolution downloads.
Carl August Nielsen (9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) created a body of work which has enjoyed steadily growing appreciation and is now frmly established in the international repertoire.
His early experiments with progressive tonality and later bold deviations from standard compositional structure lend his works exceptional freshness and modernity.