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  • HighlandDougie
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 3081

    I've suggested this SACD before but the performances are pretty good - and the recording is what used to be described as, "demonstration quality":

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    • PJPJ
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 1461

      As reviewed this morning



      The downloads (both 16 and 24 bit) are on special offer at qobuz at the moment.

      Qobuz special offer
      Last edited by PJPJ; 25-08-14, 10:51.

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      • Dave2002
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 18009

        Sorry Jayne ....

        A new set of Callas re-releases - remastered - will be available in September - http://www.mdt.co.uk/callas-maria-re...ter-25-08-2014

        There's also some more information here - http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/int...las-Remastered

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        • teamsaint
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 25195

          don't know if this has been posted elsewhere.

          PMD Symphony #10 on itunes.

          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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          • Barbirollians
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 11669

            I see a combination given a deal of puff in Gramophone today =- Lang Lang and Harnoncourt in two Mozart concertos - sounds like my idea of a nightmare combination !

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            • Petrushka
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 12234

              Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
              I see a combination given a deal of puff in Gramophone today =- Lang Lang and Harnoncourt in two Mozart concertos - sounds like my idea of a nightmare combination !
              Mine too! It might, of course, be a great disc but there's someone in A&R thinking up some deliberately bizarre combinations in order to shift a few discs by attracting the curious.
              "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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              • mathias broucek
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 1303

                Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                Mine too! It might, of course, be a great disc but there's someone in A&R thinking up some deliberately bizarre combinations in order to shift a few discs by attracting the curious.
                Scarily, I found myself mentally drafting the press release for this....

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                • PJPJ
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 1461

                  Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                  Mine too! It might, of course, be a great disc but there's someone in A&R thinking up some deliberately bizarre combinations in order to shift a few discs by attracting the curious.
                  It might indeed. I must confess I have never understood the scorn in which some hold Lang Lang, especially in recent years.

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                  • jayne lee wilson
                    Banned
                    • Jul 2011
                    • 10711

                    Originally posted by mathias broucek View Post
                    Scarily, I found myself mentally drafting the press release for this....
                    Don't stop there mat! Sounds VERY promising...

                    Good article about these two though...
                    Lang Lang:"in Mozart, if you always play the same tempo..."
                    NH:"...he would scream and run away!"
                    Later they ponder doing Bartok together, or Gershwin... "But look at my diary", says NH. "One cannot conduct from the grave!"

                    Very amusing piece... I'm only in the market for these works (491/453), if... they get a REALLY distinctive reading... more eccentric the better!

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                    • PJPJ
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 1461

                      Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
                      Don't stop there mat! Sounds VERY promising...


                      Later they ponder doing Bartok together, or Gershwin...
                      I found Lang Lang's Bartok with Rattle quite restrained - too restrained, perhaps. I've yet to hear Harnoncourt's Porgy and Bess which seems to have been generally well received.

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                      • Barbirollians
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 11669

                        A big thumbs up here for Christian Lindberg and the RFO in Stenhammar's Serenade and Excelsior Overture on BIS - enchanting music that was new to me ,superbly played and recorded .

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                          A big thumbs up here for Christian Lindberg and the RFO in Stenhammar's Serenade and Excelsior Overture on BIS - enchanting music that was new to me ,superbly played and recorded .
                          That Serenade is delightful - a substantial work that's an utter joy.
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • Flosshilde
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 7988

                            The new box of Gluck operas reviewed on Saturday sounds rather good - I've got the recording of Orfeo, & a different recording (Minkowski) of Iphigenie en Tauride, but at £35 from a well-known on-line shop it seems quite a bargain.



                            The online reviewer goes on at great length about the packaging, & concludes that
                            Obviously the box stands out in an artistic sense. This means that Decca have put a lot of time into the design of this box set.



                            (apologies for the size of the image - it didn't look as big on A*****'s website)

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                            • jayne lee wilson
                              Banned
                              • Jul 2011
                              • 10711

                              Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                              A big thumbs up here for Christian Lindberg and the RFO in Stenhammar's Serenade and Excelsior Overture on BIS - enchanting music that was new to me ,superbly played and recorded .
                              Yeah - just gorgeous... bought it after Gramophone's review... shame it doesn't have the Reverenza, especially since there is room...(you'll find it chez Jarvi). I think I posted on this a while back on the Whatareyoulisteningto thread...? Never know where to mention these things...
                              But an A1Starred recommend!

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                              • Bryn
                                Banned
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 24688

                                Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                                don't know if this has been posted elsewhere.

                                PMD Symphony #10 on itunes.

                                https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/si...ny/id909315862
                                Hmm. No indication of whether lossy or lossless formats are on offer. If the former, the original Radio HD Sound offering from earlier this year is likely to have had superior audio quality. Perhaps a lossless version will eventually turn up on Qobuz. I hope so. Not a fan of any Apple products. Those I have bought or used have always let me down.

                                [Ah, I see that Qobus will indeed have it in lossless (standard CD definition), also from the 8th inst. Price will be €9.99.]
                                Last edited by Bryn; 05-09-14, 10:41.

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