The Save Telarc SACDs email campaign
Let's start a "SAVE Telarc SACDs" email campaign.
A lot of SACD owners were very disappointed when Paavo Järvi's new Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 was not released as an SACD, especially considering it includes the seldom recorded Overture No. 2 by Veljo Tormis.
Michael Bishop, the recording engineer told me "an email campaign couldn't hurt! Concord thinks there is insufficient demand for SACD to justify the mastering and manufacturing costs.
No one is more disappointed than I am there was no SACD on the new Jarvi release. The DSD stereo and surround programs are stunning and it's unfortunate that no one else may never hear them. I thought the Tormis Overture turned out especially good. A lot went well with that session and project, but the timing of the release coincided with all the restructuring going on at Concord."
Michael Bishop's Five/Four Productions is committed to recording all their source masters in DSD and have an on-going relationship with Gus Skinas and the Super Audio Center in Boulder, CO. They firmly believe that DSD serves their requirements and needs best in recording "future-proof" master audio recordings, regardless of release formats.
Let's all tell the Concord Music Group (Telarc's new owners) we want Michael Bishop's PURE DSD recordings in both high resolution stereo and high resolution surround and that a downsampled 44.1kHz redbook CD is NOT an acceptable alternative.
I am suggesting everyone email Concord Music Group's Mark Wexler, label manager at Telarc,
mark.wexler@concordmusicgroup.com, with a CC to
customerservice@concordmusicgroup.com.
with regards to our wishes for future Telarc SACDs.
I think "Wheatus" is the an excellent example for whole music industry.They are the real artists.I request every artist,band,group,duo to be like "Wheatus".They are offering their new album in DSD for download.If you want to save music industry than you have to support DSD and Sacd.
IMPORTANT UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION:
Just got an email from Michael Bishop and he is suggesting sending emails to Mark Wexler, label manager at Telarc, mark.wexler@concordmusicgroup.com, with a CC to customerservice@concordmusicgroup.com. As he is not so sure the customer service email at CMG is reliably monitored. I updated the original post with the new contact information.
I just forwarded the email I sent on July 19th to mark.wexler@concordmusicgroup.com and recommend everyone do the same. And for future emails send to both email addresses.
If anyone is interested here is the text of my original email:
SUBJECT: Future Telarc SACDs.
Dear Concord Music Group,
I was very disappointed when Paavo Järvi's new Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 was not released as an SACD, especially considering it includes the seldom recorded Overture No. 2 by Veljo Tormis.
I want Michael Bishop's PURE DSD recordings in both high resolution stereo and high resolution surround SACD, a downsampled 44.1kHz redbook CD is NOT an acceptable alternative. You will be losing a lot of sales as many of us will not buy the low resolution CD version even if the SACD version is not available.
Thanks,
Teresa Goodwin
Michael Bishop suggested sending emails to Mark Wexler, label manager at Telarc, mark.wexler@concordmusicgroup.com, with a CC to customerservice@concordmusicgroup.com.
Has anyone gotten a reply to their email yet?
I have gotten no replay yet and was wondering if I should email again?
Since getting the Terra Firma Lite mod on my Yamaha DVD-S1700 SACD / DVD-Audio player the sonic gap between Telarc DSD recorded SACDs and most other SACDs is even larger than before. With the mod everything does indeed sound better, however the better the original sound the bigger the improvement. Flat out nothing in my collection sounds as good as the Telarc SACDs, with the possible exception of the Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 15 - Valery Gergiev conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra on the new Mariinsky label, which just may be my best sounding SACD, especially the realism in the highest frequencies. The Exton, PentaTone and Channel Classics SACDs can come close but for me Telarc's are the SACDs I crave.
Telarc is too important of a recording company to me to have only DSD recorded CDs released in the future. If Telarc refuses to release new SACDs, I wonder if Michael Bishop and Robert Woods could offer their new DSD multichannel and stereo recordings to other labels that more enthusiastically support SACD, instead of selling them to Concord Music Group for release on Telarc?
R.I.P Telarc SACDs
You will be missed!
Telarc's Newsletter for 2010 just hit my in-box and there are six new Telarc releases all on CD only. All excellent titles, likely recorded pure DSD that we will be deprived of just because they were purchased by Concord Music Group. The world is NOT FAIR for this to happen to my favorite recording company!
