Johanna Martzy’s 100th anniversary edition 💎💫💎

 

These 100% made in Switzerland 🇨🇭 masterpieces are a true musical statement, a labor of love of my friend Jürg Schopper whose good taste and unique tape library are world renowned.

He was able in decades of collecting and - literally - rescuing thousands of master tapes from being trashed by recording studios, defunct labels and radios, private collections, festivals and state-owned collections.

Now these gems are kept in a temperature and humidity controlled archive and the process of evaluating ALL these recordings is a lifetime effort… many long forgotten gems are found and the best are painstakingly made available to music lovers worldwide.

Many great recordings were already issued, in a typically uncompromising Swiss fashion: ultra-limited edition 1:1 reel to reel masterdubs or extremely limited edition vinyl-discs, all with comprehensive musical and technical liner-notes, beautiful pictures and high quality Swiss-made pressings.

A Tibor Varga’s Saint-Saëns/Albinoni is a personal fave and a gem every music lover should own 💎

The volcanic Herr Schopper and his Triston label - after the awesome Yello’s reissue on tape masterdub presented at last Munchen HiEnd 2024 and almost sold-out - did it again and published - up to-date - three of four AWESOME Radio Zurich Johanna Martzy’s recordings  and they are of highest quality, a true must-have.

These the track-lists… the discs are amazing in every aspect: almost nobody (but the enthusiast and not-compromising lunatic 😏) produces records the old way, from analog master-tapes to mastering, plating and pressing… no digital gimmick!

The violin is captured at its best and Mrs. Martzy’s playing is first-rate and a truly well-kept secret among music connoisseurs, a violinist’s violinist, indeed.

I suggest everybody interested in stellar quality music and golden-ears around to believe yours truly and grab these triptych before the very limited edition goes sold-out.

Unfortunately, I had to play these amazing discs on a lesser home audio system as my Gotorama (as I extensively described) is dismantled and in storage… but I can assure these beauties will be among the first I’ll spin on my Garrardzilla, hopefully soon.