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Where can I find modernly mastered, high audio quality recordings of classical music, e.g., like the Vivaldi symphony scene in House of Cards Season 1, Episode 1?

  • Especially baroque- and classical-era symphonies and operas. In contrast, all my classical music from over the years sounds bland and shallow, even -- especially? -- when played on a high-end home theatre. Another example: , there's a scene in the beginning where Nightcrawler is rampaging the White House, set to the glorifying and goose bump-inducing choir of Dies irae from Mozart's Requiem. So, question: where can I find new, modern audio recordings of some of the greatest operas and symphonies of the 18th and 19th centuries?

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    I think that you confuse "dynamic depth and range" with "loudness". Classical music on CD often has a dynamic range of at least 30db or so, from a single harp playing softly to the whole orchestra going full out. Electronic house music has almost no dynamic range: everything is loud. Find a friend with some audio software, and have him compress the shit out of a piece of classical music, probably add some subbass and put an exciter on it, and you may find what you're looking for.

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Curiosity You are searching for audio quality to compare to  sound tracks heard in movies or TV shows. Have you heard those pieces live.? You edited the question but originally mentioned specific  Baroque pieces that are pretty standard fare . You are in a major metropolitan area, too. Somebody is usually doing Vivaldi somewhere in Chicago so I assume they are also doing it in the Bay Area.

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