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Chesky Records has released two new Surround Sound SACDs this week. The new SACDs are Mambo Mongo by Mongo Santamaria and Friends and Orchestral Spectacular by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz conducted by Bernhard Klee. The Mongo Santamaria SACD was previously available on Chesky as a Stereo CD while the Orchestral Spectacular album is a new, single inventory Classical Music release available only on SACD.
Both albums are Hybrid Layer Multichannel SACDs. Each disc features Surround Sound SACD, Stereo SACD and CD Audio versions of the music on the album. The SACDs are playable on SACD, CD and SACD compatible DVD Video players. Here's more information on these two new Chesky SACD releases.
Mambo Mongo
Mongo Santamaria and Friends
Hybrid Layer Multichannel SACD
(Chesky SACD 263)
Mambo Mongo features latin jazz star Mongo Santamaria and his "friends" which include several well known jazz musicians including flute player Hubert Laws and Dave Valentin. As with last month's Chesky SACD featurting Johnny Frigo, John and Bucky Pizzarelli this album was also recorded in RCA's Studio A in New York City. According to Chesky, the album features "beautifully arranged comparsas, gua guanco, son montuno, and 6/8 rhythms adding tasteful jazz elements and brilliant solo work that turns typical to spectacular."
Album Selections
1. Dark Before The Dawn
2. Caribbean Sunrise
3. Mambo Mongo
4. Los Ninos Del Mundo
5. Cali
6. Are They Only Dreams
7. Cuco Y Olga
8. Azteca
9. La Mogolla
Orchestral Spectacular
Bruckner Orchestra Linz conducted by Bernhard Klee
Hybrid Layer Multichannel SACD
(Chesky SACD 245)
Orchestral Spectacular is a newly recorded album that features the Bruckner Orchestra Linz performing a number of well known classical music "spectaculars". The music on the SACD includes compositions by Strauss, Berlioz, Kukas, Saint-Saens, Offenbach, Glinka, Puccini, Khachaturian, Tchaikovsky and Barber. As is the case with new Chesky Classical Music SACDs, this is a single inventory SACD release.
Album Selections
1. Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op.30: Fanfare
2. The Damnation of Faust, Op.24: Hungarian March
3. The Sorcerer's Appentice
4. Bacchanal (from Samson and Delilah)
5. Barcarolle (from the Tales of Hoffman)
6. Ruslan and Ludmilla: Overture
7. Manon Lescaut: Third Act Intermezzo
8. Sabre Dance, from Suite No.3 of the Ballet Gayaneh
9. Suite No.2 (Adagio of Spartacus and Phygia)
10. Waltz of the Flowers from the Nutcracker Suite, Op.71a
11. Adagio for Strings from the String Quartet, Op.11
Availability
The new Mambo Mongo and Orchestral Spectacular Hybrid Multichannel SACDs are now available for purchase from Tower Records as well as the Elusive Disc and Music Direct web sites. The Mambo Mongo SACD is also available for purchase from the Acoustic Sounds web site.
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