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Genesis: Genesis | Stephen Best - April 27, 2026

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Genesis: Genesis | EugenF - May 7, 2026

Dear Stephen Best, Indeed I will do. Thank you for telling me the contact address. Now I see the new release of Genesis: Genesis (Analogue Productions CAPA 043 SA) album is ...

Opus - Sakamoto | onenairb - April 15, 2026

For those interested in a physical format, this is also available on Blu-ray video, although the resolution is Stereo/Multichannel 24bit 48kHz. The sound is superb especially ...

Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings | Mark Werlin - May 14, 2026

From mastering engineer Paul Blakemore's website. He discusses working on the Coltrane '58 set: It was a massive project sourced only from original Rudy van Gelder master ...

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Pictures at an Exhibtion | Downunderman - April 14, 2026

A long way from their finest but at least it sounds very good.

Opus - Sakamoto | Stephen Best - April 15, 2026

Currently showing on the Criterion Channel (if not elsewhere). It's a great production.

Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings | John Bacon-Shone - April 26, 2026

Seems this is a 2019 remaster, not more recent, correct?

Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings | Mark Werlin - April 27, 2026

John Bacon-Shone: yes, this is the 2019 set from Craft. A quick search through discogs.com does not show any newer remasters of the 1958 recordings. I will write about newer ...

Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, Mephisto-Waltz No.1 etc. - Richter

Praga Digitals Reminiscences PRD/DSD 350 081

Mono Hybrid

Classical - Instrumental

Liszt: 4 of Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S173; Scherzo & March S177; Mephisto-Waltz No.1 S541; Mephisto Polka S217; Nuages gris S199; Valse oubliée No. 2 in A flat S215

Sviatoslav Richter, piano

A first volume (DSD350078) presented some among the most famous works by the Hungarian pianist-composer. This last volume proposes more mysterious pages, Mephistophelean with their dancing flavours, their satanic, doleful, gloomy, or oblivious aspects and with indelible threnodies… 2015 sees the centenary of the birth of Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, celebrated for the depth of his interpretations, virtuoso technique, and vast repertoire.

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