Various Artists

Owner of Italy's renowned audiophile label, Fone Records, Ricci is also its chief engineer and producer. He is dedicated to the presentation of early music luminaries such as Pergolesi as well as Romantic composers (Chopin) and 20th century masters such as Scelsi. 

Booklet notes:

The aim of my work, exhausting and passionate, has always been that of bringing to the final support the maximum possible quality, all the times closer to the original master, in order to recreate with the different listening systems, the emotion that we feel when the "REAL" music is in front of us. After 25 years from the birth of the CD, I do believe that much more can be done to achieve this objective. The Signoricci cd is my contribution and is part of my evolution relatively to the digital domain, with the use of the DSD technology. I have developed this system to realize the PCM layer from DSD, the Signoricci CD has a quality enhancement of 20% with respect to the conventional CD, this is a strong incitement to continue on this path. The same technology is also used for the CD layer of the SACD. In synthesis, the Signoricci CD contains more details, more information; you can appreciate a more realistic sound environment, more correct tone colors, amore detailed reconstruction of the sound scene.

Notes About the Recording: 

One basic feature, which determines the difference between fonè and other record companies, is the recording of performances in their natural spaces, that is in the places where they were originally presented. This leads to a constant search for suitable locations, and the choice of churches, theatres, country mansions, drawing rooms and so on. The recordings are carried out with the utmost simplicity, the only way not to do violence to the music: all the equipment is high fidelity; use is made of valve-type paired microphones manufactured in the years 1947 and 1949 (U47, U48 and M49) with an extremely natural and transparent timbre and a bi-microphonic field effect; these microphones have a very important history: they were used to record the Beatles at the Abbey Road Studio and by the RCA for the "Living Stereo" recordings.