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The Beatles - Love |
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Things that make you go, “Hmmm.”
Hmmm.
The best I can say about this project featuring new remixes and production of favorite tracks by The Beatles is that it has some wonderful moments. The worst I can say is ... [more] |
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State Opera of South Australia (Fisch) - Wagner: Das Rheingold |
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Wagner’s ‘Ring of the Nibelungs’ is coming to multichannel SACD, and thanks to the State Opera of South Australia and Melba Recordings, it is being done right. The odds of bringing this massive tetralogy off successfully, especially with ... [more] |
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Barb Jungr - Walking in the Sun |
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English chanteuse Barb Jungr knows how to give a song a personality, even when it is a song that already has a strong one. She’s able to grab each song by the horns, and whether it is her ... [more] |
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SACD |
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Los Angeles Philharmonic (Salonen) - Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps |
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A debt has been paid. In 1938, cartoon mogul Walt Disney approached Igor Stravinsky and offered to pay to use the composer’s famous ballet ‘The Rite of Spring’ (“Le Sacre du Printemps” in its original French title) in ... [more] |
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SACD |
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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (Jansons) - Shostakovich: Symphony No.7 in C, Op. 60 “Leningrad” |
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This has proven to be a watershed year for Shostakovich, the centenary of his birth serving as gateway into the pantheon of great composers (at least for most listeners, pace Pierre Boulez). The flood of releases honoring Shostakovich ... [more] |
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Angela Hewitt - Chabrier: Dix pièces pittoresques and Other Piano Music |
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One of the great delights of exploring classical music is to discover something previously unknown to you, something which immediately makes you wonder, “How did I live without this before?” With a quarter-century of listening experience under my ... [more] |
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SACD |
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Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (Jarvi) - Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Four Sea Interludes, Elgar: Enigma Variations |
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Sheer ardor may not be Paavo Järvi’s strong suit, but he has a scientist’s precision with the sifting of orchestral textures, and his new Telarc recording reveals details almost completely lost in the murk of other performances of ... [more] |
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SACD |
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Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon |
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In 2003, High Fidelity Review trumpeted one of surround music’s best moments, the release of Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon‘ as a 5.1 SACD. While by all accounts the disc enjoyed enormous popularity among surround ... [more] |
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Minnesota Orchestra (Vanska) - Beethoven: Symphonies No.3 'Eroica' and No. 8 |
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There was a time, not so long ago, when almost every new Beethoven recording which was released had a sense of routine to it. But the last decade or so has found players and conductors of all ages ... [more] |
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SACD |
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Cincinnati Pops Orchestra (Kunzel) - Great Film Fantasies |
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In recent years, John Williams has written some concert pieces not connected with his extensive film scoring career. But if he wants concert immortality, then he need look no further than his music from George Lucas’ ‘Star Wars’ ... [more] |
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SACD |
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London Symphony Orchestra (Haitink) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Triple Concerto |
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Watch out for the quiet ones. They’ll get you when you least expect it. Bernard Haitink is a quiet one, and always has been, doing his work as conductor and orchestra builder in a straightforward, unglamorous way for ... [more] |
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SACD |
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