CINERAMA

Music from the movies

Available in: SACD, DSD, Hi-Res Audio

Track list:

1.Three Coins In The Fountain Styne - Cahn  6’45”

2. I Will Wait For You  Micheal Legrand  8’55”

3. Love Theme From “Point Blank" Johnny Mandel  5’34”

4. Wives And Lovers Burt Bacharach  6’43”

5. On Green Dolphin Street Kaper - Washington  7’38”

6. Two For The Road Henry Mancini  7’02”

7. Close Enough For Love Johnny Mandel  8’49”

8. I Love You, Samantha Cole Porter  5’25”

9. Manha De Carnaval Luiz Bonfà  7’19”

Total Time 64’10”

Note

Scott Hamilton saxophone
Paolo Birro piano
Aldo Zunino bass
Alfred Kramer drums

Tube Processed Digital Master / natural sound recording / HiFi Reference

Conceived, recorded and produced by Giulio Cesare Ricci. No editing. All the tracks on this record are heard as they were performed.

Recorded at the Auditorium Museo Piaggio

Pontedera October 1st - 2nd, 2022

Valve microphones: Neumann U47, U48, M49

Mike pre-amplifiers, cables (line, digital, microphone, supply): Signoricci

Recorded in stereo DSD on the Pyramix Recorder using dCS A/D and D/A converters

Photos by Stefano “Steve” Girolami

The Mastering for SuperAudioCD was made by Giulio Cesare Ricci using the Signoricci’s analog and tube system.

This album is part of the recordings Giulio Cesare made during the concerts of the fonè Music Festival Piaggio 2022 edition, organized by himself.

The chosen location is the Piaggio Auditorium, located inside the famous Museum of Pontedera, the place where Piaggio was founded and where it still produces today.

In CINERAMA, the protagonists are 4 extraordinary musicians: Scott Hamilton on saxophone, Paolo Birro on piano, Aldo Zunino on double bass, and Alfred Kramer on drums.

Scott Hamilton, who for many years has graced the best stages in the world as the leader of his quartet or alongside other jazz legends, is an interpreter of extraordinarily elegant music, based on impeccable phrasing and a fascinating sound. Already in the seventies, when the widespread trend was to explore particularly aggressive sound alternatives, he stood out for the sweetness of his saxophone and his creative imagination. The album contains 9 tracks from famous films, including: Three Coins In The Fountain (1954), On Green Dolphin Street (1947), Close Enough For Love (1979) etc…

The album continues the extraordinary discographic project that Scott Hamilton wished to begin with Giulio Cesare Ricci / fonè records starting in 2012.

For this recording, Giulio Cesare Ricci brought all his equipment, both analog (Ampex ATR 102 Electronic Tube Ampex Model 351-1965, 2 tracks, ½”, 30ips modified by David Manley) and digital (Pyramix Recorder, dCS A/D and D/A converters).

Regarding microphones, he used his original collection of Neumann U47, U48, M49, as well as the Signoricci microphone preamplifier and cables. Pairs of 1947 and 1949 Neumann tube microphones (U47, U48 and M49) with a very natural timbre were used, employing bi-microphone field effect techniques.

These microphones have an important history: they are the original microphones used to record, among others, the Beatles' performances at Abbey Road Studio and by RCA for their "Living Stereo" recordings.

The sound that Giulio Cesare Ricci manages to capture with these legendary microphones is perfectly in line with his sonic taste.

No other microphone has such a true timbre and the ability to record all the nuances of sound and all the richness of harmonics.

The uniqueness of these microphones is linked to their ability to create a perfect "sound photograph" and to perfectly place the music in the sound space chosen for the recording.

This is because for each recording Giulio Cesare Ricci creates two Masters: an analog master for vinyl and a DSD digital master for SuperAudioCD as in this case. For this SACD he used the DSD format, on Pyramix using dCS A/D and D/A DSD converters.

From 1998 to today, he has recorded in DSD 64 x 44.1 bit with Signoricci ex Philips workstations equipped with Pyramix programs, dCS 904 analog-to-digital converters, and dCS 954 digital-to-analog converters, all to best produce the fonè SACD.

The mastering of the SACD was carried out using the entirely analog and tube Signoricci system.

A "state-of-the-art" system without sound manipulation, equalization, reverberation, compression, and expansion... but natural sound and true timbre to best enhance the acoustics of the Piaggio Museum Auditorium.

All this to create recordings characterized by technological refinement and aimed at recovering the original musical atmospheres. For this recording, Ricci also used the "field effect" recording technique... all to allow the listener, in their home hi-fi system, to relive the live effect as if they had been present at the performance.