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Steely Dan: Gaucho | Downunderman - Yesterday 07:57 pm
This was Released August 2024 and is the third version released on SACD. Previously there has been a multi-channel version released in 2003 ...
801: 801 Live | Downunderman - August 23, 2024
Released April 28, 2024, as a single disc SACD hybrid in a card sleeve. A bit surprisingly for a Japanese SACD release the disc is made/glass mastered by Sony DADC in ...
Yes: The Yes Album | aubullience - August 25, 2024
Both the SACD and 45 rpm releases of this album by AP are the hands-down winners in their respective (hi-res and analog) formats.
Beethoven: Violin Concerto - Mutter / Karajan | Contrapunctus - September 21, 2024
Even though this information about the recording format is a few years late, I still want to share it here. Both recordings, the Violin Concerto and the Triple Concerto, were ...
Paul Simon: There Goes Rhymin' Simon | EugenF - September 10, 2024
On the disc it is written: Made in Austria. On the cover it is written: disc made in Germany. Where is the true?
Van Halen: Van Halen | aubullience - August 25, 2024
I can't say it better than Downunderman did. IMO his characterization of it is accurate in all respects. And oh yes, misspent youth!
Hall & Oates: Rock'n'Soul Part 1 | Phillip Abbinante - August 25, 2024
Was out of print/stock for quite a while from MOFI. Was recently back in stock as of August 20 2024.
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 - Kertész | breydon_music - September 23, 2024
Just to clarify, as I didn't realise it wasn't mentioned in the listing itself, the disc also includes the Carnaval overture from the same cycle to make up the playing time a ...
Dvořák: Symphonies 1-9 - Kertész
Decca Classics 4830749
Stereo
Classical - Orchestral
Dvořák: Complete Symphonies, Tone Poems, Overtures, Requiem
Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Erzsébet Komlóssy (mezzo), Robert Ilosfalvy (tenor), Tom Krause (bass)
Ambrosian Singers
London Symphony Orchestra
István Kertész (conductor)
Kertesz recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra of the Dvorak symphonies are widely regarded as the definitive interpretation of the Dvorak cycle and their recording of the Requiem in 1968 is held in the same regard.
50 years since the completion of the symphonies, Decca are celebrating these unrivaled recordings and have returned to the original tapes to make this definitive transfer and present this audiophile edition on two formats: 9 traditional CDs and 1 single High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray disc, enabling true 24-bit playback of the entire audio contents on a single disc at the highest-possible audio quality.
One hardback book presenting 9 CDs in the original iconic Brueghel covers. A second hardback book, with artist photos, an introduction by musicologist Andrew Stewart, repertoire notes by Jan Smaczny and recollections of the recording sessions by producer Ray Minshall, all in English, French and German, coupled with the Blu-ray disc. Both hardback books are presented in a slipcase with the original Brueghel cover art.
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- Antonin Dvořák: Carnival, Op. 92 Overture
- Antonin Dvořák: Hussite Overture, Op. 67
- Antonin Dvořák: In Nature's Realm, Op. 91
- Antonin Dvořák: My Home, Op. 62 Overture
- Antonin Dvořák: Requiem, Op. 89
- Antonin Dvořák: Scherzo Capriccioso, Op. 66
- Antonin Dvořák: Serenade for Wind in D minor, Op. 44
- Antonin Dvořák: Symphonic Variations, Op. 78
- Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, B. 9 'Zlonické zvony'
- Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 4
- Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 10
- Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 13
- Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 5 in F major, Op. 76
- Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60
- Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
- Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88
- Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World'
- Antonin Dvořák: The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op. 109
- Antonin Dvořák: The Noon Witch, Op. 108
- Antonin Dvořák: The Water Goblin, Op. 107
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Comment by hiredfox - October 26, 2016 (1 of 12)
Still no SACD transcript of this now legendary cycle. Top class SACD players do not read Blu-Ray Pure Audio format.
Comment by Waveform - October 27, 2016 (2 of 12)
But the Blu-ray players of Sony can read SACD discs.
Comment by john hunter - October 27, 2016 (3 of 12)
No Oppo for you foxy?
Comment by hiredfox - October 28, 2016 (4 of 12)
A veritable can of worms indeed. Marantz once offered a reference level universal player with Blu Ray audio capability based on and incorporating the operating elements of the SA7-S1 SACD player which by all accounts from reviews was an outstanding piece of machinery but it came at a price (circa £6k) and was soon sold out and unavailable. The odd one crops up on e-Bay from time to time usually emanating from Germany but as I own a SA7-S1 it makes no sense to add another expensive machine to my list of ever-declining in value assets.
The Oppo is unquestionably a superb machine at it's price point, it is well-made, looks the part but is certainly not cheap; whilst it's SACD performance will not match top notch SACD players like the aforesaid Marantz it might be the best available option for Pure Audio from Blu Ray today.
We have a Sony BDP7200 for video content but at best one might describe it's SACD & Pure Audio sound quality as adequate and this is not meant in any way to be disrespectful of those who own and use Sony BDP as their main disc spinner. In audio you really do get what you pay for even well into the lower realms of megabuck territory.
Comment by Paul Hannah - December 5, 2016 (5 of 12)
Sorry I got to have my two bobs worth cause I can solve all your problems I bought after much listening a Primare universal player. A lot of my friends are as we say down under....Audio wankers..........LOL We have done several A-B comparisons with my friends ultra high end SACD players.......I mean the real gear thousands of dollar of dedicated SACD players Oppo, Macintosh Sony Yamaha would have been the cheapest we tested. And everybody's mouth dropped the Primare blew them all away........clarity detail.............in every facet.
So.........do yourself a favour !
And NO..............Primare are not paying me a commission.......but they should LOL
Comment by ubertrout - June 25, 2017 (6 of 12)
Just FYI, this one seems to be slipping out of print, for those who had been holding off.
Comment by Paul Hannah - January 17, 2021 (7 of 12)
Too late.......out of print and not available from the sellers listed : (
Comment by Athenaeus - January 18, 2021 (8 of 12)
Perhaps Tower Records will eventually release these recordings on SACD. They seem to like working by conductor. They have already released a few Kertész discs.
Comment by Mark Werlin - January 18, 2021 (9 of 12)
The 24/96 files can be purchased as downloads from Presto. Many SACD and Blu-Ray players can play 24/96 files.
Comment by ubertrout - January 21, 2021 (10 of 12)
There are copies on eBay...at inflated prices. Amazon classifies this as "popular music" instead of "classical music" and thus restricts who can sell it to businesses that buy wholesale, which means collectors who want to sell are limited to eBay.
Comment by Contrapunctus - March 17, 2022 (11 of 12)
StereoSound is going to release (in April) the 8th symphony + Scherzo capriccioso (single layer SACD + RBCD) SSHRS-058/059.
Comment by hiredfox - March 23, 2022 (12 of 12)
That is the pick of the bunch from the vinyl set. Thanks for the heads-up Contrapunctus.