Vivaldi in London (Chasing the Dragon 1/4" 15 ips Tape Double Album)

Chasing the Dragon has been releasing Direct Cut discs, HD downloads, CDs, and Reel to Reel reels for nearly 10 years and this time have cut a performance of the wonderful version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

Sound engineering the recording in the Hall was excellently operated by Jake Jackson, with the mastering engineer upstairs creating the direct cut discs on a Neumann VMS80 lathe being John Webber. In charge of the 8-track reel-to-reel recording was Petronel Butuc, renowned for his skills in rebuilding of professional reel to reel and cassette machines. Indeed, he had just serviced Mike’s aged 8-track Studer A80 reel-to reel, including bearings, electronics and tape heads.

Tape 1
- Concerto for violin, strings and harpsichord RV.386
- Concerto for violin, strings and harpsichord RV.242
- Concerto for violin, strings and harpsichord RV.383
- Concerto for violin, strings and harpsichord RV.180

Tape 2
- Concerto for cello, strings and harpsichord RV.419
- Concerto for cello, strings and harpsichord RV.421
- Concerto for violin, cello, strings and harpsichord RV.546
- Concerto for violin, cello, strings and harpsichord RV.547

PLEASE NOTE: you must have a reel to reel machine capable of playing tape at 15ips (most machines only play 3.75 and 7.5ips which is too slow) and CCIR equalisation (most machines only play NAB). We recommend a well serviced machine like Studer A810, Otari MX-5050, Sony TC880-2, Revox B77 MkIII (only this latest model plays CCIR at 15ips) etc.